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  • Only—now I was a pariah?†   (source)
  • I'm going to hide out long enough to watch Lance Nicholas Dunne become a worldwide pariah, to watch Nick be arrested, tried, marched off to prison, bewildered in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs.†   (source)
  • I recalled when I first entered school in Watts, how I had been virtually written off, pushed into a corner with building blocks and treated like a pariah; how in Garvey I had been heaved out of classes and, later in high school, forced to drop out and labeled a failure!†   (source)
  • "Or better," I continued, the pent-up annoyance flowing freely now, "say that person also did a wide range of bizarre things — from saving your life under impossible circumstances one day to treating you like a pariah the next, and he never explained any of that, either, even after he promised.†   (source)
  • A man could become a zampolit and be a pariah among his peers.†   (source)
  • People treat her like a pariah, so she becomes depressed.†   (source)
  • In 1966, I was a pariah.†   (source)
  • He had planned to return to his pariah after the wedding, but he was appalled at the hardness of the inhabitants of Macondo, who were prospering in the midst of scandal, subject to the natural law, without baptizing their children or sanctifying their festivals.†   (source)
  • On Monday, April 22, a day after returning from Camp Two to Base Camp, Andy Harris and I hiked over to the South African compound to meet their team and try to gain some insight into why they had become such pariahs.†   (source)
  • What he didn't expect was to be treated like a pariah.†   (source)
  • She's helpless, she's voiceless.... The reason these women are pariahs is because they are women.†   (source)
  • All he knows is that, here, no one wants to be with an honor student-a pariah— except maybe LaTisha, who has few alternatives.†   (source)
  • They gave him lists that detailed the locations of abandoned cars along the Bronx River, a major dump site for stolen, joyridden, semistripped, gas-siphoned and pariah-dog vehicles.†   (source)
  • Even if they were society's pariahs, they were going to be angels in a marble white heaven and sit on the right hand of Jesus, the Son of God.†   (source)
  • Associate with a pariah, you become an outcast too.†   (source)
  • It was people like the chaplain, he concluded, who were responsible for giving religion such a bad name and making pariahs out of them both.†   (source)
  • You're not a pariah.†   (source)
  • He still felt like a pariah, but he was such a legend, for all the wrong reasons, that people wanted to say hello.†   (source)
  • You've turned him into a pariah.†   (source)
  • Natalie was the second of two people who refused to treat me like a social pariah because of the gossip flying about me at school.†   (source)
  • She was pariah, then, and knew it.†   (source)
  • Hell, no. My father and mother were as agnostic as any two people could be without being branded godless pariahs.†   (source)
  • For me, they sat uneasily beside the fact that Rwanda's government had become a pariah in several quarters.†   (source)
  • The conversation is pretty one-sided, but it's better than being scowled at, insulted, and generally treated like a pariah, which is what I'm used to from Sarah.†   (source)
  • I had this image that the Ondaatjes were absolute pariahs.†   (source)
  • Just across the street, Ford's Theatre has instantly gone from a Washington cultural hub to a pariah; the good fortune of having Lincoln attend Our American Cousin will soon put the theater out of business.†   (source)
  • A dog with an experience like that could become a pariah in the truest sense of the word.†   (source)
  • Kali, night of destruction at Worldsend, who walketh the world by night, protectress, deceiver, serene one, loved and lovely, Brahmani, Mother of the Vedas, dweller in the silent and most secret places, well-omened, and gentle, all-knowing, swift as thought, wearer of skulls, possessed of power, the twilight, invincible leader, pitiful one, opener of the way before those lost, granter of favors, teacher, valor in the form of woman, chameleon-hearted, practitioner of austerities, magician, pariah, deathless and eternal ...Ã,ryatarabhattarikanamashtottarasatakastotra (36-40) From Hellwell to Heaven he went, there to commune with the gods.†   (source)
  • Her name was Maria (rhyming in the Southern fashion with "pariah") Hunt, and at fifteen I had been so feverish in my infatuation for her that it seems in retrospect a small-scale madness.†   (source)
  • Especially when he's a pariah in the community.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he made as if to chase her away, bending down to pick up an imaginary stone, the way people did here when they wanted to frighten away a pariah dog.†   (source)
  • Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard.   (source)
  • I feel like a pariah when I walk through the streets.†   (source)
  • If I find you on my property tomorrow I'll have you castrated like the pariah dog that you are!†   (source)
  • And it wasn't like I was a pariah, I was just...insecure, for sure.†   (source)
  • Anyone who attempted to expose him would become a pariah.†   (source)
  • He identified himself, begged them to give him refuge in that house which during his nights as a pariah he had remembered as the last redoubt of safety left for him in life.†   (source)
  • "Or better," I continued, the pent-up annoyance flowing freely now, "say that person also did a wide range of bizarre things — from saving your life under impossible circumstances one day to treating you like a pariah the next, and he never explained any of that, either, even after he promised.†   (source)
  • Pariah kites dropped into nearby trees, to supervise the supervision of the last rites of the dead elephant.†   (source)
  • "You'd be my pariah, and I'd love you no matter what, and I'd shield you from everything," Desi said.†   (source)
  • I'd be the biggest pariah in the world.†   (source)
  • Quite apart from the claims against us, we would become a pariah in the eyes of much of the civilized world.†   (source)
  • Cecily and her lot have never treated Ann as more than a servant, but since our unfortunate attempt to pass her off in society as a duke's daughter of Russian blood last Christmas, Ann has become a complete pariah.†   (source)
  • He knew he was a pariah, a no-good Cole who'd killed not only the Bennetts' son-in-law but the town's only doctor, and the guilt he felt was overwhelming.†   (source)
  • I am a pariah, at church, at school.†   (source)
  • One of Zainab's friends at school was the daughter of a senior official who was dragged out of a meeting on television and then executed; the daughter became a pariah.†   (source)
  • Like a crow swimming in milk,
    like a nose being hit by a mango
    like the crowd at the Royal-Thomian match,
    a womb full of twins, a pariah dog
    with a magpie in its mouth
    like the midnight jet from Casablanca
    like Air Pakistan curry,
    a typewriter on fire, like a spirit in the gas†   (source)
  • Except, of course, Morris Panov, but Mo was a pariah in the eyes of the government; he had called the official killers by their rightful names: incompetents and murderers.†   (source)
  • At the end of the examination, the pariahs were made to stand before the class while Nurse gave a lecture about how filthy those little girls were and how they had to be shunned.†   (source)
  • was concomitant with the money and the sheen on the dollars was not from gold but from blood—a spot of earth which might have been created and set aside by Heaven itself, Grandfather said, as a theatre for violence and injustice and bloodshed and all the satanic lusts of human greed and cruelty, for the last despairing fury of all the pariah-interdict and all the doomed—a little island set in a smiling and fury-lurked and incredible indigo sea, which was the halfway point between what we call the jungle and what we call civilization, halfway between the dark inscrutable continent from which the black blood, the black bones and flesh and thinking and remembering and hopes and desires†   (source)
  • Everyone knew his affections lay with Carreen, so the news that he was to marry the neighborhood pariah instead sat ill upon them.†   (source)
  • So it was four of them who rode the two horses through that night and then across the bright frosty North Mississippi Christmas day, in something very like pariah-hood passing the plantation houses with sprigs of holly thrust beneath the knockers on the doors and mistletoe hanging from the chandeliers and bowls of eggnog and toddy on tables in the halls and the blue unwinded wood smoke standing above the plastered chimneys of the slave quarters, to the River and the steamboat.†   (source)
  • He admitted now that so long as he stayed in Gopher Prairie he would remain a pariah.†   (source)
  • What do you mean by saying you're a pariah?†   (source)
  • But Kim had danced off ere the end of the sentence, dodging pariah dogs and hungry acquaintances.†   (source)
  • He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights.†   (source)
  • Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, Clyde might appear to be a pariah, one who had been from the first a drifter and a waster and was now purposely being avoided by all who knew him.†   (source)
  • I'm what they call a pariah, I guess.†   (source)
  • For along with her recovery to some extent from her original shock and horror, she was now thinking somewhat differently of him—that after all it was for love of her, perhaps, that he had slain Roberta and made himself the pariah and victim that he now was.†   (source)
  • Miles Bjornstam, the pariah "Red Swede," had brought his circular saw and portable gasoline engine to the house, to cut the cords of poplar for the kitchen range.†   (source)
  • I would lay a wager, that amongst the castes of India there are amazing variations of language, and that there is almost as much difference between the language of the pariah and that of the Brahmin as there is in their dress.†   (source)
  • Grave and obscure questions, to the last of which every physiologist would probably have responded no, and that without hesitation, had he beheld at Toulon, during the hours of repose, which were for Jean Valjean hours of revery, this gloomy galley-slave, seated with folded arms upon the bar of some capstan, with the end of his chain thrust into his pocket to prevent its dragging, serious, silent, and thoughtful, a pariah of the laws which regarded the man with wrath, condemned by civilization, and regarding heaven with severity.†   (source)
  • Let us look,' said the lama, and he led from the white road across the fields; walking into a very hornets' nest of pariah dogs.†   (source)
  • All over the plain, cattle and buffaloes were grazing, and when the little boys in charge of the herds saw Mowgli they shouted and ran away, and the yellow pariah dogs that hang about every Indian village barked.   (source)
    pariah = despised
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