martyrize
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South African authorities had no desire to martyrize anybody with his name.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Senator Watson was too good a tactician to martyrize Senator Johnson and friends with this ex-treme parliamentary measure.
From Time Magazine Archive
She felt too sore and too sick for the aid that comes veiled with inscrutable symbolism, and seems to martyrize when it seeks to save.
From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell
I martyrize her, I know I do," he said to Isaacson; "but I don't believe it's my fault.
From Bella Donna A Novel by Robert Smythe Hichens
They martyrize themselves by sacrificing everything; they spoil them and convert them into ungrateful lovers.
From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by William Hassell Overton
Archie and Adelle were hungry at this period for more money and felt themselves martyrized by the whim of an ill-natured old man who had arbitrarily made them wait to be wholly happy.
From Clark's Field by Robert Herrick
Sebastians both, they were martyrized by the poisoned arrows of vulgar wit, shot at them from all sides and especially from the lofty thrones of hansom-cab drivers.
From The Roll-Call by Arnold Bennett
We should be very foolish if we let ourselves by martyrized by that pair of lovers, who live on poetry!
From Colomba by Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson) Loyd
"By the way," said Hilda, seized by a sudden impulse, which had its origin in Sarah's tone at once martyrized and accusing,--"by the way, who is it that's been talking scandal about me and George?"
From Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett
His tie and socks were en suite and his gouty feet were martyrized to this scheme of camouflage by being pressed into a pair of tight brown and white shoes.
From Who Cares? a story of adolescence by Cosmo Hamilton
She thought of how these men, these Brodricks, behaved to genius wherever they met it; how, among them, they had driven poor Jinny all but mad, martyrizing her in the name of fact.
From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair
Oh, no," the doctor shook her head; "young couples are always martyrizing themselves for these events.
From The Nest Builder by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
I don’t want to stop you martyrizing yourself in making a mountain out of a mole-hill.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
When he thought of her in his monstrous shop, wilting in the heat, bowing deferentially to fools, martyrizing her soul for less than two pounds a week, he thought of kings' daughters sold into slavery.
From Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Arnold Bennett
She would be capable of martyrizing the whole world to her sense of duty, her damnable, insane sense of duty....
From The Roll-Call by Arnold Bennett
