47 collocations for spites

By all means let those who have faith in the Government help to sustain it, but let no Indian worthy of his birth cut off his nose to spite the face.

I knew he'd done that to spite mehe'd disliked me from the first.' 'John never painted a portrait to spite anybody in his life,' cried Phoebe.

" Before he had entered the city his anger was further provoked by the Beni Ganim, who had erected a mosque, ostensibly out of piety, really to spite the Beni Amru ibn Auf and to make them jealous for their own mosque at Kuba, whose stones he had laid with his own hands.

Miss Burney said that 'Mr. Cumberland is notorious for hating and envying and spiting all authors in the dramatic line.'

" "You are very jealous-minded, and you try hard to spite Cordelia Running Bird," said the recent comrade.

He's got some game of his own which I don't quite clearly see, and my father is doing this for me simply to spite my brother.

'Tis likely enough, that spite her caution, many a word and sign escaped Moll, which an enemy would have quickly seized on to prove her culpable; but we do never see the faults of those we love (or, seeing them, have ready at a moment excuse to prove them no faults at all), and at this time Mr. Godwin's heart was so full of love, there was no place for other feeling.

" Instantly a fresh volley of laughter rattled from the landingsuch clear, hearty laughter that it infected me, spite my chagrin.

Of course he spited the poor young chap, and how could the fact be denied when the poor ghost had come back to ask for his blood?

Since my love has humbled me, Tyrant-like has troubled me, 'Spite my cries.

"And yet, 'spite thy cunning and all thy warring, thy purse goeth empty!

his min' dat he wuz a slabe en had ter wuk en min' de w'ite folks, spite er de fac' dat Ole Nick gun

And I at the appointed hour Watched them arrive before the muted dwelling And heard some speeches full of pith and power And saw them turn and go with anger swelling; Save only one who, spite his rude dismay, Like a whipped Hun, made traffic of his sorrow And shouted, "Taxi, Sir?"

He got the Review and its editor into a scrape which shook the world at the time (1834), by betraying Cabinet secrets to spite Lord Durham.

Whereon, half to spite Elsley, and half to show her own right to chat with whom she chose, she made Lucia ask Frank to tea; and next contrived to go to the school when he was teaching there, and to make Elsley ask him to walk with them; and all the more, because she had discovered that Elsley had discontinued his walks with Frank, as soon as she had appeared at Penalva.

So jus' to spite' em, she married de ditch digger's son.

As if to spite her overwrought emotions, she turned on him sharply.

Riccius the Jesuit,) "if they be in despair of better fortunes, or tired and tortured with misery, to bereave themselves of life, and many times, to spite their enemies the more, to hang at their door."

his min' dat he wuz a slabe en had ter wuk en min' de w'ite folks, spite er de fac' dat Ole Nick gun

Happening to be present, and fearing the effect of this ill-bred visitor's remark, we drew near the bedside to hear the prostrate invalid whisper out that he was determined to live, if only to spite the old fellow.

I think that the white people somehow feel that colored people who have education and money, who wear good clothes and live in comfortable houses, are "putting on airs," that they do these things for the sole purpose of "spiting the white folks," or are, at best, going through a sort of monkey-like imitation.

But, whatever were his motives (and let us hope that he could never have been actuated by so malignant a spirit as that of sacrificing the happiness of forty thousand persons for the next year to spite the gratification of an individual), his opposition had a mischievous effect, on account of the high situation in which he stood.

She went with Willis, not to please him, not to please herself, but to spite Ted Holiday.

"I am sorry," said she: "I did it to spite my husband; he went out of his way to tell me not to give you the heads of the fish and the dust of tobacco, and so I picked out nothing but heads for you and gave you all the tobacco dust I could collect because I was so angry with him."

I wish to God I had a disconsolate wife, or a child, if only to spite Jenkins.

47 collocations for  spites