In the street, vans roared past him; brutality blared out on placards; men were trapped in mines; women burnt alive; and once a maimed file of lunatics being exercised or displayed for the diversion of the populace (who laughed aloud), ambled and nodded and grinned past him, in the Tottenham Court Road, each half apologetically, yet triumphantly, inflicting his hopeless woe.

Cheap produce from Europe is inflicting damage on Algeria.

An interesting record is still preserved of the inhuman cruelties which were inflicted on this admirable young woman in the secret of the prison house where no eye pitied her and where no friendly hand composed her aching limbs.

My master inflicted hard work on me.

What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

A sadist likes inflicting pain; a masochist, receiving it.

Beavers rarely inflict damage on people.

Was it necessary to inflict such a punishment on him?

His head had been shattered by a savage blow from some heavy weapon, and he was wounded on the thigh, where there was a long, clean cut, inflicted evidently by some very sharp instrument.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.