Forney was a great enthusiast, and had intense hatred of the Southern leaders who had hindered his advancement when Buchanan was elected President, and he was bubbling over with resentment against them.
Mrs. Vivian's manner had been entirely sincere, but she felt the same sort of resentment that a prisoner might feel if the executioner made sarcastic remarks to him.
Jack was conscious of a keen resentment at Dodo's words.
There was much joking and derisive laughter but beneath this was a sense of resentment that grew day by day.
Judith watched him with less perhaps of anger than of resentment in her deep gray eyes.
The nation prompted by ill will and resentment sometimes impels to war the government contrary to the best calculations of policy.
To think of her hand being pressed by every other hand down on his, was almost too much for a lover to bear, but I swallowed my resentment as best I could, and joined my own hand to the tower.
His lips were compressed under the pain of my clasp, and an angry resentment steadied his gaze.
A cheap resentment at learning that I had been unnecessarily tricked must have betrayed itself, for the dear girl took my hands.
For a second he floundered between resentment and irrepressible good-nature, and then with a laugh threw a handful of sand at Christopher.
He had been not so much defining her position as defending his own, and although he could see the futility of his principle of resentment as applied to her case, it was not in his nature to preach the pleasing gospel of sentimental optimism.
Wallis retained his grip on the girl, and the sight of his hands upon her stirred a savage resentment in Jim.
Done stood over the body of Macdougal, and felt for a moment a resentment against the Fates that had robbed him of his revenge.
For the rest, he was conscious of a strong resentmentagainst the man.
Her smoldering resentment against the girl grew steadily stronger, until it threatened to prove dangerous on opportunity.
Her resentmentat what I have done is very bitter--apparently insurmountable.
Lucy's tone expressed that instinctive resentmentwhich the Puritan feels against a ruling and dominant Catholicism.
But as she spoke the force imparted by resentment died away.
And with regard to the meeting, which had apparently roused so sharp a resentment in Ferrier, Marsham maintained simply that he was not responsible.
It filled him with a curious resentment against Juliet Sparling herself, which left him still more out of sympathy with Diana's horror and grief.
The genial banter of his tone softened her resentment to curiosity.
And one felt assured, without trying the experiment, that her resentmentat such a liberty would be expressed only by a gentle and deprecatory withdrawal.
In spite of her tragic mood, his glare of resentment aroused within her an inclination to laugh.
He appreciated the fact that the other's sensitiveness and resentment could not be put aside at once, and that his own change of front could not draw forth immediate confidences.
He could not wonder that the man's head was slightly turned, and now that he was gone, Leigh felt no personalresentment on that score.
His age, the kindness of his manner and tone, were disarming, and his listener entertained no more personal resentment toward him than if he were an ancient sibyl uttering of necessity the will of the Fates.
The resentment which she had scarcely acknowledged to herself had grown during the weeks of unmerited neglect, and its expression had given her an advantage, had filled him with strange pleasure.
The change in her mood seemed to flow into him like a solvent that broke up his resentment and suspicion.
In his eyes smouldered a dull glow, as of resentmentat the limits of the human stomach and the volubility of wives.
Something of disappointment and resentment seemed to show itself in his manner, as he took the chair the bishop indicated; and now he waited, with the instinct of the politician, for his opponent to show his hand.
Her gratitude vanished, to give way to implacable resentment at his attitude of virtuous superiority.
He was impressed by a hint of passion and resentment in his guest's voice, restrained as by one not entirely sure of his hearer.
And now Archelaus took possession of his ethnarchy, and used not the Jews only, but the Samaritans also, barbarously; and this out of his resentment of their old quarrels with him.
To know that his guns are not replying adequately and that every time one of his planes appears it is driven to cover takes the edge off initiative, courage and discipline, in the resentment that he is handicapped.
Germans in clean uniforms coming out of their dugouts blinking in surprise at their undoing and in disgust, resentment and suppressed rage!
She could not grasp the real sense of what she was telling me, and her resentment filled me with pity for her--for him too.
My heart was freed from that dull resentment which had existed side by side with interest in his fate.
The ignorant man's resentment toward superiority, or "highbrowism," is thereby vindicated.
If this is the origin of the resentment of spirits, it is self-evident that the nearest and formerly most beloved survivors have to feel it most.
The resentment is in no wise abated by the fact that in some cases this suggestion may be true.
She could not help feeling a little resentment at Jim for following his own fads and fancies so far.
Mrs. Bronson's heart was filled with resentment that she also could not be enrolled among Jim Irwin's supporters.
Ishmael had had, perforce, to live as far as his mental life went in a world of books, and with a vague resentment he felt that books had not played him fair.
If Killigrew had died when they were both young, Ishmael would have felt a more passionate grief--an emptiness, a resentment that never again would he see and talk with him; but part of himself would not have died too.
Ishmael she still regarded as a superior being whom she admired, but the touch of Archelaus's casual hand had power over her that was more intensified than stilled both by her resentment and her distrust.
Only Archelaus was immune, and in his presence she maintained a sullen silence, so marked that a third person with them could, if he were sensitive, feel her ever-deepening resentment emanating from her.
They are bold and impetuous; and when differences do arise among them, they are more apt to give vent to their resentment at once, than to brood over their wrongs, or to seek legal redress.
The girl did not feel any of the little pique or resentment that might have been very natural.
He felt no resentment at the things that she had said.
He was filled with an insane and unreasoning resentment against this man whose words were biting into his conscience.
The newcomer showed no resentment at Francis' little outburst.
He wished to reform abuses which had been introduced into the Church; but had no private resentment to gratify.
What, Sir, if he debauched the ladies of gentlemen in the county, will not there be a general resentment against him?
On a provocation, exercised a dumb resentment for two days, instead of scolding.
In the same manner a certain degree of resentment is necessary; but if we see that a man carries it too far, we pity the object of it, and are taught to moderate that passion.
He never at any time expressed the least murmuring or resentment at any one; but entirely and calmly gave himself up to the will of God.
Sir, you cannot be sure how a contest will end; and no man has a right to engage two people in a dispute by which their passions may be inflamed, and they may part with bitter resentment against each other.
This is the resentment of a narrow mind, because he did not find every thing in Northumberland.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "resentment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
