Surely he could feel naught for her but the rancor she had earned!
That rancor against a frivolity of feminine fashion that holds a menace to health or safety, so characteristic of the utilitarian masculine mind, was a touch of his old individuality, and it made him seem to her more like himself of yore.
The rancor which possessed her father, the kicking against the pricks, was possessing her.
There was a slight echo of rancor in his own voice, still it was patient, with the patience of a man with a woman and her unreason.
They strove with heart and soul to establish the teachings by which divergent people might be brought together and no strife, rancor or hatred prevail.
They were at "God's green caravansarie," and the rancor that had poisoned their hearts was gone.
Perhaps it was jealous rancor that impelled him to protest against the victory of life which the whole farm around him proclaimed so loudly.
There's a pretty lot of curses still flying about, and stiff settled rancor inherited from the times of persecution.
He saw a very easy descent into mean unreasoning rancor and triumph in others' frustration; and being determined not to go down that ugly pit, he turned his back on it, clinging to the kindlier affections within him as a possession.
What was wanted was not the ineptitude of feeble humor, but the rancor and venom of a Gillray, the stinging irony of a Daumier, the grim dignity of a Tenniel.
Hayes was willing to indulge Osborn's rancor and derived a rather malicious satisfaction from seeing him annoyed.
He had none of the rancor that often leads us wrong.
His rancor against Askew had by degrees become a blind, illogical hate that made it impossible for him to see anything Kit did in its proper light.
Owing to the magistrate's harsh reception the idea delighted him; and, indeed, letting his rancor have the upper hand, Goguet actually offered up a prayer that the prisoner might get the better of the fight.
Thus reminded of the present situation of affairs, the young detective smiled; all his rancor was forgotten.
We quote from General Hill, who alludes, at length, to the alleged rancor of Mr. Davis toward his opponents.
The people of the South alone know how steadfastly he opposed the indulgence of vengeance; how he strove, until the last moments of the struggle, to restrain the rancor and bitterness so naturally engendered under the circumstances.
These men could not forget, even when their allegiance had been avowed to the sacred cause of country and liberty, the rancor engendered in the old contests of party.
A seed of rancor had been sown in his mind which had grown to a great size, and must presently burst into a dark flower of vengeance.
It was a morning little made for deeds of rancoror of blood.
She remembered them now with a curiosity, which had no rancor in it, to know why he really took them back.
He felt no rancor toward her for this; he knew that she had a tender regard for him, and that she believed she was considering him first in her most selfish arrangements.
The most discontented, the most irritated, the most trembling, saluted it; whatever our egotism and our rancor may be, a mysterious respect springs from events in which we are sensible of the collaboration of some one who is working above man.
The academical military school excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable rancor of the old Caesarism against the new; of the regular sword against the flaming sword; and of the exchequer against genius.
Your pride and your rancor are stronger than your love.
She only recognized her impotence, and myriads of hateful impressions were thus accumulated in her heart, to be summed up in one of those frenzies of taciturn rancor which bursts on the first opportunity with terrifying energy.
On both sides the principal rancor arises from the fact that each place hates its neighbor's gods,[1081] and believes those only ought to be held as deities which itself worships.
Some of the utterances upon sexual morality are penetrated with the rancor of rebellion.
There is sufficient rancor in Griffarosto's portrait to justify the belief that Folengo meant in it to gratify a private thirst for vengeance.
With rancor unsatisfied, when Henry died, in 1379, and his son Juan I came to Burgos to be crowned, they obtained from him an order to his alguazil to put to death a mischief-making Jew whom they would designate.
From this time forth was infused a certain rancor into his foster-mother's spirit toward him.
No man, however meek, or however bowed down with sorrow, will bear unmoved a gratuitous mention of his debts; it seems to wound him with all the rancor of insult, and to enrage him with the hopelessness of adequate retort or reprisal.
Madame D'Arblay tells the story thus: "A similar ebullition of political rancor with that which so difficultly had been conquered for Mr. Canning foamed over the ballot box to the exclusion of Mr. Rogers.
Libels on the court, exceeding in audacity and rancor any that had been published for many years, now appeared daily both in prose and verse.
The whole letter is one long cry of rage; it is rancor of this stamp which is to fashion Joseph Lebons and Fouchés.
Footnote 4242: A victim of religious rancor against the protestants, whose cause, taken op by Voltaire, excited great indignation.
Notwithstanding the most rigid censorship of the press France has ever known, the Government was assailed in various ways, continuously and mercilessly, with rancor which could scarcely be surpassed.
