For years they had done none of the work that their feudal tenure required of them, and the village bailiff plainly told Anton that the community would resentany return to old customs.
I can love those who please me, and can, I believe, be a true friend; I can also resent insolence.
Ehrenthal, ready to resent the speech, if it had not been made by the baron himself.
I am sure I may trust to your delicacy what, were it to be spoken of by others, I should resent as a liberty taken with me and my friend, Mr. Wohlfart.
Vic, watching open-mouthed, actually forgot to resent the implication that Pat had left him hopelessly behind in the art of handling goats.
It may be," said Sommers judgmatically, "that he has been taught toresent strangers coming in close proximity to the animals he has in charge.
For the first time she gloried in its bigness and its wildness, and did not resent its barrenness.
As generally managed, they are a terror to every one, and above all to gentlemen, who resent it from beginning to end.
But he would not resent her return, she knew that, he would probably treat her decently for at least a fortnight.
The poor gentleman's mood led him to resent each fresh defection on the part of his guests as personal wounds inflicted by old friends at a time when charity would have been sweet.
The devotee of feminine fashion will doubtless resent the intimation that she is deformed, or is likely to become so.
Thus nature seems to resent any interference with her normal functions.
It must be confessed that often it is very hard to do anything else, since brethren act with so much independence andresent any effort to show them a better way.
Men who are dull enough in listening, who will sleep through any sermon, are quick to resent a personal reflection or an imagined wrong.
She even forgot to think it strange that she, Lucinda Druce, should not resent being made love to unprofessionally, that is to say without an eye to the camera, by a man with rouge on cheeks and lips and eyelashes beaded with mascaro.
Consciously or unconsciously you resent it, dear, you're driven to look for something different, some excitement to lift you out of the deadly rut.
So this once I won't resent your calling my friends adventurers.
If another man dared ask me that question, I think even you would resent it.
But Lucinda was feeling much too kindly minded toward all the world, that morning, to resent his nonsense, though by no means unaware of its cause and aim.
Violet, perceiving that she was powerless to resent an outrage so utterly incomprehensible, confronted him in silence, only the cold lightnings from her eyes telling of her anger.
I never do," rejoined the girl, omitting to pretend to resent the use of the once familiar nickname.
That Violet wouldresent his conduct and despise him for it he could not help.
So, with disrespect, do the boys to whom the nation entrusts its mosquito fleet speak of the little spitfires they love--a disrespect which they would swiftly and haughtily resent if it was evinced by any but themselves.
He accepted failure with good grace, and did not resent scorn, abuse, or even violence from intended victims.
Nickie had a thought of lifting his mask and letting his humanity be known to the crowd, but there were many present who had paid to see the show, and these might take it into their heads to resent the imposition.
But, contrary to expectation, Fred did not resent the attack.
He laughed in a way that disconcerted her, and an impulse came into his mind to try her, for he began to resent the assumption of possession which she had assumed.
It is in fact a kind of theft, an injustice to the parents; for while paying for a bride may be evidence of savagery, it is the custom among Indians, and parents naturally resent its violation, though ultimately they may forgive the elopers.
The Nez Percés so bitterly resent elopements that they consider the bride in such a case as a prostitute and her parents may seize upon the man's property.
In these respects it was the animals who had cause to resent his theory.
It made her resent his own sense of fatality, his own belief that he would be in darkness all his days.
For an hour you will hate me; for a day you will resent me, and then you will begin to love me.
She began to resent everything Justine did and said, as one human being shut up in the same house with another is very apt to do.
She kept Marthe, because the colored woman did not resent constant supervision, and an almost hourly change of plans.
You keep wondering why smart girls won't go into housework, and yet, if you get a girl who isn't a mere stupid machine, you resent every sign she gives of being an intelligent human being.
Neither considering Will's peculiarities, nor suspecting that his silence was only, the result of a whim or project, she began to resent it.
Will, as may be imagined, proved not slow to resent such an attack with heart and voice.
Chance threw us here, and I'll never speak to you again if you resent it.
She did not resentthe remark, which was made with an almost naïve gravity and directness.
In him not only did she not resent it, but she was attracted by it.
Far be it from me," he presently continued in a voice that marked his displeasure, "to resent the behaviour of your daughter.
She might naturally resent such negligence and ingratitude and punish them by forbidding the seed to sprout, just as she did at Eleusis when she mourned the loss of her daughter.
As in the world of civilization there is jealousy, sharp and keen, between the schools of medicine, so do the Havasupai medicine-men resent any innovations upon their time-honored customs.
It is seldom that your courteous advances will be repelled, though they are very ready to resentunwelcome intrusions.
Accordingly, that Marshal was lavish in his regrets and apologies, but ordered his columns to defile past the battalions and squadrons of Prussia, that were powerless to resent the outrage.
No North Queenslander will resent records of high temperatures.
At one particular gate, which is opened and shut many times a day, it has been noticed that the ants never seem to resent interruptions or to be vexed by them.
The protector did not appear to resentthe close company of the fish, which remained perfectly motionless.
What increased it ten-fold was the man's utter impotence to resent or punish what had been done.
She had not the spirit to resent anything to-night, unless it were that God had made and suffered to live a being so wretched and useless as herself.
I assured them that I did not resentthe fact that it was winter, that I knew the thing had happened before, and that no forethought on their part could have averted this blow of destiny.
It is strange that we should resent people differing from ourselves; we should resent much more violently their resembling ourselves.
He might be the wisest of men, or the most powerful--I should equally rebel and resent his interference I imagine this is a stronger feeling in the North of England that in the South.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "resent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: begrudge; envy; grudge; hate; mind; smart
