But let me tell you, ingratitude also is an offence known to the law; an action will lie against a person who fails to recompense his benefactor.
Then in Megara we have Nisus, his daughter Scylla, and his purple lock; the invasion of Minos, and his ingratitude towards his benefactress.
The mere thought of this ingratitude Makes me suffer from a torture so crude .
In short, this king was revolted to see His ingratitude to you and disloyalty; To his other crimes, he has joined this one And has only allowed it so everyone Could see his audacity's evil ends And then see him required to make amends.
For myself, I don't believe it's possible; His ingratitude would be too visible.
His country was at that time oppressed by Lygdamis, and he was exiled to Samos; but though he soon after rose in arms to overthrow the tyrant, the ingratitude of his fellow-citizens obliged him to return into exile.
This ingratitude and faithlessness overwhelmed the aged man; his health, already so much impaired, did not improve, and grief carried him to the grave.
Would you not be guilty of the blackest ingratitude if you would suffer the capabilities with which he has gifted you to remain uncultured in your soul?
The world's ingratitude and hatred towards that just man effected his betrayal.
Prayerful ingratitude How empty are our conceptions of Deity!
Ingratitude and persecution filled it to the brim; but God pours the riches of His love into the understanding and 5:18 affections, giving us strength according to our day.
Ingratitude and denial The progress of truth confirms its claims, and our 94:18 Master confirmed his words by his works.
Students' ingratitude Where were the seventy whom Jesus sent forth?
We Javanese are reproached as born liars, wholly untrustworthy, and we are called ingratitude personified.
We told him that if he were distressed at the ingratitude of the people, it was his own fault.
The natural carelessness and luxurious indolence of Edward's temper did not however permit him to see all the ingratitude of the course he was about to adopt.
She had "walled" her eyes and pulled her mouth down in the most approved facial expression of one who, proffering help to the unfortunate, realizes that ingratitude is to be her portion.
And ingratitude and pride are the failings which I always made it my particular business to correct.
Nor should I, perhaps, have been led to suspect her of duplicity, had she not acted with ingratitude at a time when sorrow and misfortune had fallen upon the house that had nurtured her from infancy.
Mr. Hazeldean, who was indeed rarely offended at the boy's obstinate refusal to make the amende honorable to Randal Leslie, at first only bestowed a hearty curse or two on the pride and ingratitude both of mother and son.
It is the height of ingratitude, and ingratitude includes all sins.
His ingratitude was as dangerous as his revengeful fanaticism.
The ingratitude of King Charles towards the heroine who had won him his crown is the subject of common historical remark.
Mankind have always felt a strong sentiment of indignation at the ingratitude which could requite such love with such selfishness and cruelty.
Mr. Webster's friends, offended by what they considered the ingratitude of Southern Whigs, persistently refused to go over to Fillmore, though by so doing they could at any moment secure his nomination.
But there--ingratitude is only to be expected, in fact nothing else could be under all the circumstances.
Should she ever see him again--ever look upon that loving presence--to whom she had been all in all for the whole of her young life, and whom she had met with ingratitude and repulsion?
I will be a—second mother to you, in return f«r the little affection you can bestow on me without ingratitude to her to whom you owe your life.
Here again he was met with the ingratitude of the cotton States.
He had rendered good and admitted service to the Democracy, but was to experience the ingratitude for which political organizations are proverbial.
For several days his swollen hand reminded him of his ingratitude and folly.
Would you perceive the ingratitude and folly of squandering so precious a deposit?
Let her proclaim aloud to her own ignorant masses, and to the world at large, the ingratitude she has displayed, and the eternal debt she owes to the Islam she no longer despises.
Is it possible that Europe is unmindful of, and has the ingratitude to ignore, the splendid services of the scientists and philosophers of Arabia?
Having gone through this part of the prisoner's recriminatory charge, I shall close my observations on his demeanor, and defer my remarks on his complaint of our ingratitude until we come to consider his set-off of services.
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