What they never admitted was that they -- we -- were self-banished from mainstream institutions, not only because the Evangelicals' political views on social issues conflicted with most people's views, but also because Evangelicals and other conservative religionists found themselves holding the short end of the intellectual stick. ❋ Frank Schaeffer (2011)
What they never admitted was that they were self-banished from mainstream institutions, not only because the Evangelicals' political views on social issues conflicted with most people's views, but also because Evangelicals and other conservative religionists found themselves holding the short end of the intellectual stick. ❋ Frank Schaeffer (2011)
Although Oskar's custody is shared by parents whose affection for their only child is clear elliptically glimpsed, the pair of them, Mom seems to be stuck in a service trade rut while Dad is banished or self-banished to the hinterlands, the destruction of the marriage has damaged the boy. ❋ Arbogast (2009)
Cardenio and the wronged Dorothea, both self-banished to the wilderness through the perfidy of the same false friend and faithless lover. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She also had lived amidst the gaslights, and now she was self-banished into absolute obscurity. ❋ Unknown (2004)
When returned to our dear mother England, from whose bosom we are self-banished, yet whom, with filial reverence, we love, we trust that you will not forget your brethren in the wilderness. ❋ John Turvill Adams (N/A)
Straits of one self-banished outlaw are not dreamed of this night. ❋ Carson Jay Lee (N/A)
From a normal link in the endless Atta chain, he had become an outcast -- snapped at by every passing ant, self-banished, wandering off at nightfall to die somewhere in the wilderness of grass. ❋ William Beebe (1919)
“And her that is driven out,” the child of exile, the self-banished son or daughter, the outcast by reason of sin; they shall all be home again! ❋ 1817-1893 (1905)
As with the self-banished Geddie, it was nothing less than the artful smiles of lovely woman that had driven Johnny Atwood to the desperate expedient of accepting office under a despised Federal Government so that he might go far, far away and never see again the false, fair face that had wrecked his young life. ❋ Unknown (1904)
The first exiles from it were not self-banished for conscience 'sake, like those at a later date when the Puritans went both to Massachusetts where they revolted further, and to Virginia where they ultimately conformed. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
In the forests about befell all those adventures with the mad Cardenio and the wronged Dorothea, both self-banished to the wilderness through the perfidy of the same false friend and faithless lover. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
Nor, how, in compassion for his distress, his sister had, long ago, revealed the truth to him by slow degrees, and brought him to the knowledge of the heart of his self-banished daughter, and to that daughter's side. ❋ Unknown (1876)
The poignancy of his grief having been softened by time, his thoughts turned from the dead to the living son, self-banished through fear of the just punishment of his crime. ❋ Ellen Gould Harmon White (1871)
A week passed, and then another; and as he could say nothing about riding, he was in a measure self-banished from Arctura's company. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
She remained quiet, shy, silent, dreamy, even in the gayest society, as in the Highland solitudes, with one worship in her soul -- the worship of that self-devoted son -- that self-banished prince, whose "counterfeit presentment" she had seen in the tower at Lone, and who had become the idol of her religion. ❋ Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1859)
"They, at least, shall not forcibly eject us," said she; "no, no, we will go of our own free will, self-banished!" ❋ Nathaniel Greene (1843)
