but God can see the former; the latter lies open to every carelessly spiteful, surface-judging eye.

Verily, Legitimacy is childishly spiteful!

An exceedingly spiteful account of him, in which it is asserted that 'most of his rarest books are miserable copies' (how book-collectors can hate one another!), ends with the reluctant admission: 'He was eminently a gentleman, however, and his manners were even courtly, yet virile.'

That Carthaginian Severus, for instance, is invariably spiteful to the men who do him favors.

" Now this being manifestly only spiteful, I took no notice of her work.

" Outside the walls the islanders were shouting and calling to each other; rifles were cracking, far and near, voicing, in their peculiarly spiteful way, the rage that reigned supreme.