113 Verbs to Use for the Word enmity

It was generally understood that Rumania could not afford to incur the enmity of Germany by active interference in behalf of Serbia, even though the Serbians and Rumanians were natural allies against Bulgaria.

Galileo, on his transfer to Padua, began to teach the doctrines of Copernicus,a much greater genius than he, and yet one who provoked no enmities, although he made the greatest revolution in astronomical knowledge that any man ever made, since he was in no haste to reveal his discoveries, and stated them in a calm and inoffensive way.

'But will not the farmer bear some enmity to poor Luke?' 'I will answer for him, girl, I have known him longer than he has known himself.

But they were joined by a band of the Mohicans, a hardy race inhabiting the valleys of the Connecticut, and who had been alienated from the Pequodees by the oppression and arrogance that had excited the enmity of so many other tribes.

He no more mistook me for Handy Solomon than he felt any real enmity for that person.

Disposed in this manner originally himself, and strengthened by the documents with which I had furnished him, Mr. Grenville contracted an enmity to the Slave Trade, which was never afterwards diminished[A].

He might sell a million copies of his paper, but he would create an enmity which in the end, I think, would swamp him.

As little Hannibal vowed eternal hatred to Rome at the altar of a false god, so do you vow eternal enmity to slavery at the altar of the true and living Jehovah.

" Byron at first objected to allow the new poem to be published with his name, thinking that this would bring down upon him the enmity of his critics in the North, as well as the venom of the southern scribblers, whom he had enraged by his Satire.

In this way he displayed his enmity toward the masses, and as for his mother he was already openly at variance with her.

This address gave much satisfaction to all the assembled chiefs, and most especially to the lord of Repelim, who entertained a rooted enmity against the rajah of Cochin, who had dispossessed him of an island called Arrnuul.

In doing so, the aim of the author is to measure out full justice to allnot to arouse old enmities, which should be allowed to slumber, but to treat his subject with the judicial moderation of the student of history.

Hamilcar's greater son, Hannibal, was compelled by his father to swear eternal enmity to Rome.

The international entente already establishing itself among the manual workers of all the European countriesand which has now become an accepted principle of the Labour movementis a guarantee and a promise of a more peaceful era; and those who know the artisans and peasants of this and other countries know well how little enmity they harbour in their breasts against each other.

But as Marie Antoinette grew up, the Empress-queen's ambition, ever on the watch to maintain and augment the prosperity of her country, perceived in her child's increasing attractions a prospect of cementing more closely an alliance which she had contracted some years before, and on which she prided herself the more because it had terminated an enmity of two centuries and a half.

She was beginning to understand the enmity there is between the soulless factory and the human tide that feeds its life.

Louise insisted upon warding off her enmity, or at least establishing a truce, and Beth, however suspicious and ungracious, could find no way of rejecting the overtures.

I also had the distinguished honor to be the stake in some such game, and that becauseindirectly becauseI had won the enmity, the suspicions at leastwell, we will say, of persons high in authority in this land.

It was, after his usual style, verbose, involved, and obscure, sprinkled with quotations from Scripture to refresh the piety of the saints, and seasoned with an affectation of modesty to disarm the enmity of the republicans.

You should abolish altogether their enmities and rivalries among themselves and not authorize them to create any empty titles or anything else which will breed differences between them.

She would be cowed, and when once she was away from him he would probably feel averse to increase our enmity by taking strong measures for her recovery.'

There was only one prospect left, and he went to a rich money lender, and in response to his request for relief in money difficulties, was met with this reply of irony and sarcasm from one who loved to indulge his enmity to the Christian faith.

But I shall not cherish enmity on that account.

To attack him anew would only mean exposure, and perhaps awaken the enmity of the crew.

In other cases, Russians and Englishmen had already laid aside their enmity, and were exchanging drinks from their water-bottles.

113 Verbs to Use for the Word  enmity