martyrize

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

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

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

But he’d martyrize himself, I knew, by refusing it, even though I made it.

From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher

"I am supposed to be left to myself in the mornings," said Peter senior, martyrized.

From Winnie Childs The Shop Girl by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson

So, wrapped in oblivion to all earthly considerations save that of her Own inward gloom, the one person who might have responded merely swayed back and forth, in martyrized silence.

From Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life by Alice Brown

The bark contained the miracle working body of a Corsican Christian martyrized by the Romans.

From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez

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

Hubbard was martyrized by the lumber trust's determination "to let the men in uniform do it."

From The Centralia Conspiracy by Ralph Chaplin

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

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 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

I have a plot to prevent you from martyrizing yourself.'

From Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot

For some reason—perhaps because they thought their case against him absolutely secure and wanted to avoid any appearance of unfairness or of martyrizing him—this restriction had not yet been laid upon him.

From The Air Trust by George Allan England