Do we say rancor or ranker

rancor 123 occurrences

Doubtless the woman, the wife, the mother within her, bled even as she herself acknowledged, but she sacrificed everything to her rancor; she would drive the stranger away even if in doing so her own flesh should be lacerated.

And still others entertained towards him the passion of envy,that which gives rancor to the odium theologicum, that fatal passion which caused Daniel to be cast into the lions' den, and Haman to plot the ruin of Mordecai; a passion which turns beautiful women into serpents, and learned theologians into fiends.

One other detail in the accounts of Marie Antoinette's conduct, which from time to time reached Vienna, had also vexed the empress, and it should be kept in mind by any one who would fairly estimate the truth of the charge brought against her, and urged with such rancor after she had become queenof postponing the interests of France to those of her native land, of being Austrian at heart.

Yet did she inly fret and felly burne, And all her blood to poysonous rancor turne: [* Overlaid, overcome.]

It would be interesting to describe the animosities of the Federal and Republican parties, which have since never been equalled in bitterness and rancor and fierceness, but I have not time.

Ninon had no rancor in her heart toward any one, much less against an unsuccessful suitor, hence she only laughed at Chapelle's effusions and all Paris laughed with her.

No portion of the address contains a phrase or word denunciatory of the Federal Government, or of the motives of the opponents of Virginia; and this moderation and absence of all rancor characterized the utterances of Lee, both oral and written, throughout the war.

Old Asia, with her rancor and despotic traditions, recognizes in the Russian imperial rule a congenial rallying-point against the progressive and hated Anglo-Saxonism and Protestantism of the West.

Any of the elder Christian martyrs had not much to fear of personal rancor.

He had none of the rancor that often leads us wrong.

" Hayes was willing to indulge Osborn's rancor and derived a rather malicious satisfaction from seeing him annoyed.

Osborn had been led by personal rancor, and there was no use in Kit's pretending he did not resent it.

Old ocean groans at the dreadful conflict; for, as in the warring of two hostile armies on the domains of a neutral, the neutral suffers most severely, so the neutral ocean seemed doomed to bear the weight of all their rancor.

He would fight with double rancor if Monohan were his adversary.

Greater than any craving to possess a woman would be the measure of his rancor against a man who humiliated him, thwarted him.

The bitterness of the conflict had for a long time ceased; and in the general hope that peace was at hand, the rancor of Cavalier against Roundhead softened down, A great many of the adherents of Charles returned quietly to their homes, and here they were allowed to settle down without interruption.

Buchanan's criticism had a rancor and breath of personality in it which had no excuse; it was a savage, wanton attack on the poet which he felt not only as poet and artist but as personal; for, to Rossetti, the two were the silver and golden sides of the shield.

The weakest of the allies was the first to experience the miseries of that war so frivolously and gratuitously entered upon, from covetousness, rancor, or weakness, those fertile sources of the bitterest sorrows to humanity.

The assaults of the philosophers had borne their fruit in the public mind; the olden rancor of the Jansenists imperceptibly promoted the severe inquiry openly conducted by the magistrates.

Con lo sdegno e col rancor.

For the discovery that I had been mistaken in my idea of Dicky's luncheon engagement made me so ashamed of myself that I had no more rancor against my husband's beautiful protégé.

Religious rancor was added to racial hate.

The word had reached there that love had conqueredthat, despite all hard words, and rancor, and positive injury, the Grandissime handthe fairest of Grandissime handswas about to be laid into that of one who without much stretch might be called a De Grapion; that there was, moreover, positive effort being made to induce a restitution of old gaming-table spoils.

But were it not that Time their troubler is, All that in this delightful gardin growes Should happy bee, and have immortall blis: For here all plenty and all pleasure flowes; And sweete Love gentle fitts emongst them throwes, Without fell rancor or fond gealosy.

The father's spasms of acrimonious judgment steadied in the son to a constant rancor always finding new objects.

ranker 15 occurrences

To lie and dream here by your side Were pleasant, but the crowd Of officers will soon retire; Draw not on you and me their ire!" ~The Folly of Useless Effort~ The weeds will but the ranker grow, If fields too large you seek to till.

" "I am only a ranker," said Dawson humbly, "with very temporary stars; not a pukka officer and gentleman like you.

mong the ranker grass Cull each salubrious plant, with bitter juice 210 Concoctive stored, and potent to allay Each vicious ferment.

[Sidenote: ranker,] For in the fatnesse of this pursie times, [Sidenote: these] Vertue it selfe, of Vice must pardon begge, Yea courb, and woe, for leaue to do him good.

Boggy places were full of blue iris (the common Iris versicolor of New England, but of ranker growth), and here and there a pool was yellow with bladderwort.

This was the preparatory fumigation, in order to remove the ranker seeds of plague, after which the milder symptoms will of themselves vanish in the pure air of the place.

To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it; Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee," Act iv.

2. But, secondly, this savors of something ranker than Socinianism, even the tenants of the fifth monarchy, and of sovereignty founded only upon saintship, and therefore fitter to be answered by the judge than the divine, and to receive its confutation at the bar of justice than from the pulpit.

"Yes, he was that rare bird a gentleman-ranker who remained a gentleman and a rankerand became a fine soldier.

Wherever we thplathed it about, Thir, a bit, it'th thet everything growing ranker, Thir, than I ever thought anything could grow.

Gentleman ranker.

Gentleman ranker.

We also noticed that the vegetation was ranker and no doubt the soil was very rich.

There Faunus and Sylvanus keep their courts, And thither all the horned host resorts To graze the ranker mead; that noble herd On whose sublime and shady fronts is rear'd Nature's great masterpiece; to show how soon, Great things are made, but sooner are undone.

'I toohavemuch to forgive!'that, he knew well, would be the only reference involving personal reproach that he would ever hear from her lips, either to his original deceit, or to those wild weeks at Versailles (that so much ranker and sharper offence!)when, in his loneliness and craving, he had gambled both on her ignorance and on Phoebe's death.

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