Citations:downtread
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English citations of downtread
- 2011, James Herbert, Others[1]:
- You debased the worthy and downtrod the already downtrodden.
- 1860, Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn.), Autumnal leaves, elegiac and other poems[2], page 18:
- Thy Saviour has downtrod the thorns, Which choked thy path to God
- 1905, John Van Buren, Politician: A Novel of To-day[3], page 36:
- There is representatives of every downtrod and oppressed people, and some of them so used to being downtrod and oppressed that it's the only way to treat them.
- 2014, Amy Sue Bix, Gary Downey, Matthew Wisnioski, Girls Coming to Tech!: A History of American Engineering Education[4]:
- Brainzella graduated magna cum laude For her it was victory, she'd not been downtrod
- 1883, George Stephens, Prof. S. Bugge's Studies on Northern Mythology Shortly Examined[5]:
- Lower still, the Divine Hart victoriously downtreads the Northern Hell-wolf freke
- 2008, Seth Lerer, David R. Slavitt, transl., The Consolation of Philosophy[6], translation of original by Ancius Boethius:
- Corrupted men sit throned on high; By strange reversal wickedness Downtreads the necks of holy men
- 2014 June 2, Jonathan Jones, “The Thai protesters' Hunger Games salute shows a lack of political thought”, in The Guardian:
- A daft fictional evil regime that is a monstrous blend of Terry Gilliam's Brazil and The X Factor downtreads its noble innocent victims until they fight back
- 1934, Bertrand Russell, Freedom and Organization[7]:
- James Mill was a democrat, not because he felt himself downtrodden (for who would have dared to downtread such a man?)
- 1972, Clifford Rhodes, The necessity for love: the history of interpersonal relations[8], page 246:
- I would gladly have challenged anybody to downtread her.
- 2000, Shyam S. Agarwalla, The African fiction[9], page 49:
- His new world is one which allows the stronger to downtread the weaker with impunity.