" There was an unpleasant curl of the lip as he spoke the words almost vindictively, as though with intent to put Kelson in the wrong.

During the rest of that day Martin sulked by himself behind a great tussock of grass, refusing to eat with the others, and when one of the women went to him and offered him a piece of meat he struck it vindictively out of her hand.

"Well, that Vermejo crowd has got a hundred of mine," Chuck said vindictively, "but I don't give a darn for thatI'd be willing to lose twice that much again just to set that Thunderbolt horse of theirs back in second place!"

The laws of Nature do not act vindictively; and through all theological formularies and traditional interpretations let us realize that what we are dealing with is the supreme law of our own being; and it is on the basis of this natural law that we find such declarations as that in Ezek.

Racey Dawson glared vindictively after the departing deputy.

Mr. Lorimer turned upon him vindictively, and soundly smacked his head, Mrs. Lorimer covered her face and wept, and Avery, with Gracie close behind, hurried to remedy the disaster.

Does not that argue a better state of feeling in the European Community; and do not you think that it is for the benefit of the Ryots, that their interloping landlords should not be in a humour to employ vindictively the vast powers which, whether you disallow Contract Laws or not, they, as proprietors, possess over them?

He will not be disposed to pursue you vindictively any longer.

But suppose the Day of Judgment which Fate reserves for us were fundamentally this: the appraisement of one's life and characternot by the all-seeing Eye of Heaven (before which I would bow), but by the vindictively unjust verdict of the people one has tried to servethe judgment not of God, but of public opinion.

MARTHA (vindictively).

" The girl laughed vindictively.

Next door to Fool's Paradise, Max Hempel hoped somewhat vindictively.

Becky does not pursue any one vindictively; she never does gratuitous mischief.

"Now, then, we'll trouble you and your man to get out of here, Mr. M'Tosh," said the captain of the junto forces, vindictively.

Again, vindictively, Mrs. Rickett wiped her eyes.

Many of them, he thought, had been vindictively punished for their peculiar opinions.

Dave Cowan ate his bread and cheese with relish and invoked another stein of beer from Minna, who vindictively flung her jest at him again as she brought it.

"Anyhow," he broke out vindictively, "every ant in dat cuberta!I will burn dem alive!

I think that nothing will ever give permanent peace and security to this continent but the extirpation of Slavery therefrom, and that the occasion is nigh; but I would do nothing hastily or vindictively, nor presume to jog the elbow of Providence.

He will be conquered, and perhaps convinced; but he won't be used vindictively, whatever happens.

Lieutenant Cockerell whistled softly and vindictively through his teeth.

Although Clara's rejection of his suit left him vindictively and desperately eager for a catastrophe of some sort, a week elapsed before he dared take his mad plunge into the northern desert.

"And a good job, too," she said vindictively.

He was also heard, by the shopman at Rutherford Street, to use a very shocking expression in reference to Mrs. Yatman; and was seen to clinch his fist vindictively, as he ran round the corner of the street.

Was this the woman who only four months ago was almost vindictively eager to pursue her husband's paramour!