20 Verbs to Use for the Word rancour

Becky bore Dobbin no rancour for the part he had taken against her.

The fact was clearly borne in mind that the abuses of the guardia civil had not been forgotten and the new force was designed to meet existing conditions, to allay as rapidly as possible the existing just rancour against the similar organization established under the Spanish régime, and to avoid the evils which had contributed so much toward causing the downfall of Spanish sovereignty.

But his gesture betokened extreme rancour.

We are all agreed as to the fundamental cause of the Balkan trouble: the hate born of religious, racial, national, and language differences; the attempt of an alien conqueror to live parasitically upon the conquered, and the desire of conqueror and conquered alike to satisfy in massacre and bloodshed the rancour of fanaticism and hatred.

He left always a confused impression, so that no one really knew whether he cherished rancour against Percy Darrow or kindly feeling.

It was the submission of churchmen, accustomed from their seminary to an apparent humility which covered rancours and hatreds of an intensity unknown in ordinary life.

But instead of going to an hotel they went to their apartment, where carpets were up and curtains down, and a care-taker prepared primitive food at uncertain hours; and Undine's first glimpse of Hubert's illuminated windows deepened her rancour and her sense of helplessness.

"She wants everybody to get married, but she wishes I hadn't," Dwight threw in with exceeding rancour.

Vitalis, p. 501.] While he was making these mighty preparations, the duke, that he might increase the number of Harold's enemies, excited the inveterate rancour of Tosti, and encouraged him, in concert with Harold Halfagar, King of Norway, to infest the coasts of England.

No, Eleonora, I have known Mrs. Poynsett's rancour for many years, and I would wish no one a worse lot than to be her son's fiancee, except to be his wife.

You may fight him as hard as you like, and when the fight is over you will find that it has left no rancour behind it.

When they had gone and laid before the patricians the message of the commonswhile the other decemvirs, since, contrary to their own expectation, no mention was made of their punishmentraised no objection, Appius, being of a truculent disposition and the chief object of detestation, measuring the rancour of others toward him by his own toward them, said: "I am not ignorant of the fate which threatens me.

When she came to tea her face was formidably expressive, nor would she attempt to modify the rancour of those uncompromising features.

And so France maintains in effective force too large an army and nourishes too great a rancour.

I lived in myself and on myself, nursing grief, nursing a rancour against fate, nursing an involuntary shame....

' The most trifling incidents divided the world of fashion and produced the bitterest rancour.

Of ups and downs, of ins and outs, Of the're i'th' wrong, and we're i'th' right, I shun the rancours and the routs, And wishing well to every wight, Whatever turn the matter takes, I deem it all but ducks and drakes.

The conferring of these titles stirred the rancour of a considerable number of ambitious Signori, and intrigue and plots to upset the rising fortunes of the Medici were rife.

But for Heaven's sake, young Sangrado, be a little more sparing of extenuatives and soporifics in your practice than you have been in your poetry.' Even the death of Keats, in 1821, did not abate the rancour of Blackwood's Magazine.

At its worst the subject race pays the penalty in tormenting rancour, undying hatred, and the savage indignation that tears the heart.

20 Verbs to Use for the Word  rancour