Word: martyrizing
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...pushed his-noble work which took eight centuries and a Luther to undo. He became arch-bishop and papal legate. From his home in Britain came zealous men and women to aid him in his work. At last he fell a victim to his ideal and died a martyr's death, killed by the men he was attempting to save...
...would soon force Yale to give up her opposition. As long, therefore, as Princeton keeps to her purpose of not allowing the nine to play with professionals, Harvard should do the same. But, if Princeton yields and Harvard is left alone, it is evident that she is making a martyr of herself to no purpose...
...trousers without stopping for bibs, pinafores and knee-breeches. The latter is the case, and Mrs. De Sorosis was Boston's wet-nurse. She it was who gleaned from St. Beuve's "Portraits de Femmes celibres" the secret of being fascinating without beauty, and determined to make herself a martyr in the cause of antiquated gas-bags and dyspeptic hierophants. And many is the versified heart-throb she is obliged to listen to in her capacity of mother to all the intellectual neophytes whose only excitement is her weekly reception, where they hang upon the lips of Asphyxia...
Schuyler Colfax will deliver a lecture on "Our Martyr Presidents" at Yale March...
...martyr. So, lead...