My pride was wounded to the quick, and those cruel, unjust words still rankle in my heart.
A broken pillar, not uncouthly hewn, But which neglect is hastening to destroy, Records Ravenna's carnage on its face, While weeds and ordure rankle round the base.
Any one may fancy how such an event as this would rankle in Charlotte's mind.
Let the careless reader who never had his memory rankle in hot weather, pass this by.
When the abnormal sobber is suddenly corked up, these sobs rankle in the system and burst forth in the shape of vituperation.
Things that pass little noticed in the heat of argument, sometimes rankle afterwards; and, when she came to go over all that had passed, she was offended at Gerard's thinking she could ever forget the priest in the sometime lover.
He had one son whose name was Meliant, and he had not forgotten his father's death; rather, thereof did wrath rankle in his heart.
Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more Than when he bites, but lanceth not the sore.
Again I had that bitter laugh which was to rankle afterward in memory.
Tis a shameful thing to speak of, but the thought of it rankles and willrankle till I have begged you to add it to the things forgotten.
Some vague resentment mixes with his pride of paternity, and his wife's sufferings rankle in his memory when she has herself forgotten them.
Instinct told him that though she would probably be sweet and sympathetic over it, yet it would rankle in her mind and poison her thoughts.
A broken pillar, not uncouthly hewn, But which Neglect is hastening to destroy, Records Ravenna's carnage on its face, While weeds and ordure rankle round the base.
If a man wound you with injuries, meet him with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar.
Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more / Than when it bites but lanceth not the sore.
If they are nettled by it, the thing will rankle in people's minds, and the Government will lose its hold on the masses.
The mere personal injury may be slight, and there may be no fear of its repetition, and yet there is a wrong done that may rankle deeper than a wound.
The wrong is a wrong, one and immortal too, And that you bore it those five hundred times, Let it rankle unrevenged five hundred years, Is just five hundred wrongs the more and worse!
A slight smile that followed upon his lip she considered as excessively malicious; but she was one who never suffered wrath torankle in her bosom, but, in her way, revenged herself always on the spot.
Ay, there was the sting, which never could be removed; which might rankle in the boy's heart for life.
It had never been left to rankle in that warm heart, which had room for every living child, while it cherished, in tenderness above all sorrow, the child that was no more.
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