The best men in the country were thrown into prison, and thousands of families had to mourn for dear ones who had fallen victims to the implacable vindictiveness of the Austrian government.
One feeling alone held the mastery over his soul, shrouded in darkness—that of vindictiveness against those who had robbed him and his father of the light of day.
And with the petty vindictiveness we have seen him employ on more than one occasion, is it probable that he was at all the sort of man to behave in the hour of his own triumph with magnanimity towards a fallen foe?
There is but one consideration which makes such a proceeding wholly inexcusable--namely, that the Justice should have nursed his vindictiveness for a period of so many months.
With best wishes to you I still remain, as always, for the good of the race, By only those whose anger and vindictiveness warp their judgment is Robert Charles a desperado.
Unable to vent its vindictivenessand bloodthirsty vengeance upon Charles, the mob turned its attention to other colored men who happened to get in the path of its fury.
The selection was a striking instance of the utter absence of vindictiveness which so distinguished Mr. Lincoln, who, in fact, was simply insensible to personal feeling as an influence.
And he looked at me with such jubilant vindictiveness that I turned and faced De Berquin, saying: "Monsieur the Vicomte, I have made up my mind that your visage is more pleasant to look on than that of your friend.
He looked at me with mingled vindictiveness and wonder, as if it were remarkable that I had uttered the thoughts that any one in his position must have had.
Did he apprehend any danger to me from the vindictiveness of Madame?
It is remarkable that the gentlemen who were Brown's prisoners displayed little or no vindictiveness towards the man who had subjected them to so much danger.
When he died, at an age over eighty, in his vindictiveness against his daughter, because she had refused him the three thousand pounds, he left everything of which he was possessed to the bailiff then in his house.
Both inherited the self-will, strength of character, and vindictiveness of the mother, but the younger assuredly in double measure.
When tears of pious vindictiveness had closed the reading, Colonel McLane spread his pongee handkerchief on the bare floor, and knelt in silent and comfortably assured prayer.
There is unquestionably a smack ofvindictiveness about the proclamation, prima facie, which the country will be quick to feel.
The catastrophe in the City again brought father and son together somewhat, and the vindictiveness of both was roused by Barnes's treason.
Vindictiveness on the part of a man so simple and generous, so fair and noble in all his dealings as Thomas Newcome, appeared in my mind unworthy of him.
That she was ashamed of herself for her action, and that it was only a passing spirit of vindictiveness which impelled it, did not make the letter as a document any the less poignantly indicting.
Vindictiveness came into her voice again, and Val's heart gave a little weary sigh, for she was dead beat, and this was her legitimate time of rest, hard wrung from the day.
He ought to take it hard," said Constance, with as near an approach to vindictiveness as the heart of compassion would sanction.
There's no such vindictiveness in the world as that which dates back to benefits forgot.
The vindictiveness of war would have trampled the very earth out of sight, had such a thing been possible.
But now, so far from vindictiveness being there, it was rather pity, pity deep and sincere, that filled it.
There was no sweeter and kinder soul in this world than she, and even now, when her heart bled for her son, no vindictiveness or desire for revenge on those who had made him suffer so had place in her mind.
Yes: he must act—if he would not die in that dreadful place, where the vindictiveness of Old Death would be sure to leave him!
Discontent, heart-burning, grief, cupidity, vindictiveness are all indications of the state of Passion.
This, however, is no solution of the problem, which derives all its absurdity from the fact that punishment has been conceived as vindictiveness or vengeance, not as correction, has been conceived after the fashion of barbarous peoples.
It was very cruel for Philip that he should be shrunk from, because of an unjustifiable vindictiveness toward his father,--poor Philip, whom some people would shrink from only because he was deformed.
Such things give a completeness to prosperity, and contribute elements of agreeable consciousness that are not dreamed of by that short-sighted, overheated vindictiveness which goes out its way to wreak itself in direct injury.
A horrid, but too natural vindictiveness had interwoven the hate of arbitrary power into every fibre of his brain.
Bitter as was the feeling against the Northern soldiers, it did not approach in vindictiveness and malignant hatred, that which existed against Southern men who fought upon the Union side.
For Trelawny that she was beautiful sufficed; let it satisfy the vindictiveness of virtue that she suffered horribly.
In one year I have seen vindictiveness come into this struggle—yes, I’ll grant you vindictiveness on both sides—but you say that theirs is the winning side!
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