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  • ...remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.   (source)
  • In him the man and the wolf did not go the same way together, but were in continual and deadly enmity.   (source)
  • There was now no doubt about my uncle's enmity; there was no doubt I carried my life in my hand, and he would leave no stone unturned that he might compass my destruction.   (source)
    enmity = hostility (hatred)
  • The eyes looked even harder in death, the loathing and enmity rising to the surface.†   (source)
  • The mountain clans cared nothing for the enmities of the great houses; they would slaughter Stark and Lannister with equal fervor, as they slaughtered each other.†   (source)
  • But though my dad disliked Dorothy enough, his chief enmity was for Grandpa Decker: a tall, fat, frightening-looking man with ruddy cheeks and black hair (dyed, I think) who wore lots of waistcoats and loud plaids, and believed in belt beatings for children.†   (source)
  • There has long been enmity between dwarves and dragons-before the elves came and made peace, dragons made a regular habit of eating the dwarves' flocks and stealing their gold-and the dwarves are slow to forget past wrongs.†   (source)
  • I bear none of you any enmity, but I won't go up against James.†   (source)
  • The United States and Germany fought against each other twice in the twentieth century, but the enmity between them has often seemed less visceral than other national rivalries.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, all our smoldering enmity was renewed in those few minutes.†   (source)
  • As long as enmity continues between Atreides and Harkonnen we cannot be too careful.†   (source)
  • Oldest son of the Miyamotos, great-grandson of a samurai, and the first of his lineage to become an American in name, place, and heart, he had not given up on being who he was; he had never given up on his family's land or the claim they had to it by all that was right, the human claim that was bigger than hate or war or any smallness or enmity.†   (source)
  • And, as the years went on, they and others would protect him from the enmities and rules of academia.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was a question of chemistry, but the foundation had been laid there for a lifelong enmity.†   (source)
  • She was beginning to understand the enmity there is between the soulless factory and the human tide that feeds its life.†   (source)
  • There's the fundamental historical enmity, and the Russians seem to forget that the Poles are Polish first, Communists second.†   (source)
  • He was just about to forbid him to set foot on the property when Clara convinced him that this was hardly the time to place his political enmities before the peasants' Christian fervor.†   (source)
  • Nately reacted on sight with bristling enmity to this wicked, depraved and unpatriotic old man who was old enough to remind him of his father and who made disparaging jokes about America.†   (source)
  • The End And I will put enmity and hate and hostility between you, the serpent, and the woman; between your seed and hers.†   (source)
  • The fight quickly turned fierce, with "biting and gouging on the one part, and knockdown on the other part with as much apparent fury as the most deadly enmity could create," according to Trask.†   (source)
  • Perhaps things would relax a bit and long-standing enmities fade into a once hostile horizon.†   (source)
  • "Then consult one," she said without enmity.†   (source)
  • But now, the UK and Ireland as two modern countries, we can try to put our histories behind us, try to forgive and forget those age-old enmities.†   (source)
  • And since he has been so helpful to me I don't want him to incur the enmity of our people.†   (source)
  • Now, just what is the nature of your enmity with Cadet Alexander?†   (source)
  • And yet it seemed everything fell away whenever Captain Ono addressed me, all my carefully built-up perception of things, and in the sorry depletion I could feel the searing, rising surges of what must be pure enmity.†   (source)
  • Bitter enmity and a desire for revenge became the consuming passion of many Confederate soldiers—motives that, like defense of home and hearth, operated much more powerfully for them than for Union soldiers.†   (source)
  • All neighboring nations face peace and war, friendship and enmity.†   (source)
  • Yet the task of bringing together dozens of tribes and bending their natural enmity into a common cause of servitude to him was far more challenging.†   (source)
  • This time, their task was to undo what they had done before, to flush Natalie's system of Palestinian enmity and Islamic zeal, to turn her into an Israeli again.†   (source)
  • Was it enmity?†   (source)
  • We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare; More substance in our enmities Than in our love; O honey-bees, Come build in the empty house of the stare.†   (source)
  • At a convention held in Milan, arguments raged for a week, lifelong enmities were created, families divided, blood spilt.†   (source)
  • I want to emphasize that we would have expressed our enmity toward Jews even if our family had not suffered a terrible calamity.†   (source)
  • It is known, however, that he petitioned the gods on behalf of the world, obtaining the sympathy of some, the enmity of others.†   (source)
  • Turns on Edmund with a hard, accusing antagonism-almost a revengeful enmity.†   (source)
  • His overbearing and merciless roughness, personal vindictiveness and uncompromising enmity drove away many whose support he might otherwise have won by conciliation.†   (source)
  • ATTENDANT (Looking about) "Thus it is to incur the enmity of a King."†   (source)
  • I had scarcely arrivedbefore I had earned the enmity, which was extraordinarily ingenious, of all my superiors and nearly all my co-workers.†   (source)
  • The enmity between Harry and Malfoy was at its highest point ever.   (source)
    enmity = hatred
  • We were even after all, even in enmity. The deadly rivalry was on both sides after all.   (source)
    enmity = hatred (toward each other)
  • Avoiding her gaze, he clapped cheering Ron on the back instead as, all enmity forgotten, the Gryffindor team left the pitch arm in arm, punching the air and waving to their supporters.   (source)
    enmity = hatred
  • Sure, he wanted to share everything with me, especially his procession of D's in every subject. That way he, the great athlete, would be way ahead of me. It was all cold trickery, it was all calculated, it was all enmity.   (source)
    enmity = hostility or hatred
  • Ill deeds have been done here; but let now all enmity that lies between you be put away, for it was contrived by the Enemy and works his will.   (source)
    enmity = hatred
  • The Elvenking was very powerful in those parts and the Master wished for no enmity with him,   (source)
  • He said his "gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great.†   (source)
  • I have no enmity for the wandering tribes, nor have I any special love for them.†   (source)
  • "If your father supposes I bear him some enmity for that, it's only because he never knew Rodrik."†   (source)
  • We have won some stones and trees and trinkets, and the enmity of House Tyrell.†   (source)
  • What troubled him most, he said, was the mounting enmity between public men.†   (source)
  • I placed a very high premium on my enmity with Snipes.†   (source)
  • It was never my wish to sow enmity between us.†   (source)
  • The enmity ran deep between Shakaz and the king, and the girl was clever enough to know that.†   (source)
  • Lannister enmity means little to Bolton.†   (source)
  • He panted, staring at Sam with eyes wide with fear and enmity.†   (source)
  • He stares at Edmund with increasing enmity.†   (source)
  • Yet the air of the valley was heavy with fear and enmity.†   (source)
  • Neither of the others answered; all three of them knew that Snape and Harry's mutual enmity had been absolute from the moment Harry had set foot in Hogwarts.†   (source)
  • However, I hold no enmity toward you.†   (source)
  • The enmity is rooted too deeply.†   (source)
  • Daenerys had sent missions to Tolos and Mantarys, hoping to find new friends to the west to balance the enmity of Yunkai to the south.†   (source)
  • The spokesman had stayed on the wall throughout the cold night, examining the campsites to determine how much of the natural enmity between the unruly tribes remained.†   (source)
  • Mace Tyrell bears me no enmity that I know of, and I flatter myself that I am not unskilled in negotiation.†   (source)
  • I never attempted to mark them, and soon enough we passed on to the upper school and there were plenty of others to befriend, both cause and enmity mercifully fading from my mind.†   (source)
  • Jaime knew that the enmity between Edwyn and Black Walder ran deep, but cared not a fig which of them succeeded their great-grandfather as Lord of the Crossing.†   (source)
  • I was a senior and he was a freshman, and only the passage of time could free us from the recognition of our enmity.†   (source)
  • Neither had changed his views on the Revolution, nor his enmity for the side the other had chosen, though apparently nothing of this was said.†   (source)
  • Ghost was the only protection Jon needed; the direwolf could sniff out foes, even those who hid their enmity behind smiles.†   (source)
  • From his eyes I could tell that Pearce recognized the subtlety and tenuousness of both our connection and our enmity.†   (source)
  • I bear no malice, I cherish no enmity.†   (source)
  • The enmity had waned a bit after Dome had become part of the Seven Kingdoms …. until the Dornish prince they called the Red Viper had crippled the young heir of Highgarden in a tourney.†   (source)
  • "In her children our two ancient houses will become as one," he said, "and the long enmity between Stark and Bolton will be ended."†   (source)
  • He turned to spot me coming through the door, and the demons of a long fine enmity flapped their leathery wings as we faced each other in the damp atmosphere of that room.†   (source)
  • He had visited Volantis, Lys, and Qarth, had kin in Tolos and Elyria, and was even said to wield some influence in New Ghis, where the Yunkai'i were trying to stir up enmity against Dany and her rule.†   (source)
  • But Adams expressed no enmity toward Jefferson; and in private correspondence, he and Abigail both said they preferred—and expected— Jefferson to be the one chosen.†   (source)
  • By breaking the rules of diplomatic convention—by embarking on his own on what he called "militia diplomacy"—he was, he knew, risking ridicule and enmity, and, in the event that things went sour, disgrace.†   (source)
  • The public stage that Jefferson said he wished to avoid, the growing enmity between public men that Adams abhorred, had made them in the public mind symbols of the emerging divisions in national politics.†   (source)
  • --why she had to destroy all her husband's name meant, why she'd gotten Stony Hill and sold it to the Billingses, why she'd mocked him and tormented him and tried to stir up enmity between him and his brothers.†   (source)
  • This provided enough comic relief to enable me to change the subject, but that day I saw the seed of an enmity so profound that I did not realize the nature and magnitude of the beast until it was almost too late.†   (source)
  • Bennington agreed, but there was something in his eyes that told me I had earned the enmity of a man who would never forget my impertinence, a man who would not rest until the wolves cut my flanks from behind.†   (source)
  • Nor was he willing to discard the Compromise of 1850, which he had supported despite the enmity of Texas fire-eaters who called his vote "the damnedest outrage yet committed upon Texas."†   (source)
  • In Poland and the South the abiding presence of race has created at the same instant cruelty and compassion, bigotry and understanding, enmity and fellowship, exploitation and sacrifice, searing hatred and hopeless love.†   (source)
  • Neither Pickering nor Adams entertained any illusions about the former's bitter enmity toward the entire Adams family, and John Quincy realized that as a well-knownand powerful Federalist, Senator Pickering would be able to channel upon his young colleague all the dislikes and suspicions which the remaining Federalist Senators had harbored for the independence shown by the senior Adams as President.†   (source)
  • I heard myself groan, clearly audible above the harangue, and it occurred to me that this dreadful assault on Sophie had weirdly identical resonances to those of the fracas in which I had first glimpsed him acting out his implacable enmity, the scenes distinguished one from the other mainly by the tone of voice—fortissimo that evening weeks ago, now singularly level and restrained but no less sinister.†   (source)
  • The enmities of the past should remain there, would you not agree, my lord?†   (source)
  • The scarcities, inflation, taxes, and profiteering, the incessant worries and enmities of war, were all ever-present.†   (source)
  • I find it also in the triangle of forces held in equilibrium by the triple rhyme of "fantasies" and "enmities" and "honey-bees", and in the sheer in-placeness of the whole poem as a given form within the language.†   (source)
  • However, we had our bottle of wine, and under that seduction lost our enmity, and stopped comparing.†   (source)
  • On his arrival he found amity instead of enmity awaiting him.†   (source)
  • The enmity that never knew friendship Can sooner know accord.†   (source)
  • Is it not possible that he bore an especial enmity towards this particular play because he was aware, consciously or unconsciously, of the resemblance between Lear's story and his own?†   (source)
  • But it was an enmity controlled from above—by nobles who were not sincerely anxious for each other's blood.†   (source)
  • He was among the bitterest of the anti-Catholic party, and it was certain that on his accession to power, he would have to face violent enmity.†   (source)
  • Those are the enviable people who live at enmity with unreality; and those are the pitiable who are knocked on the head by the thing done without knowing or caring.†   (source)
  • Sooner shall enmity turn to alliance.†   (source)
  • No. He said weakly, 'I have nothing at all,' and imagined he could feel enmity fuming up all round him.†   (source)
  • He remembered her readiness to swear eternal enmity against anyone who hurt him, and he remembered his own child enticing him by the rubbish-dump.†   (source)
  • O western wind, you are at enmity with my mahogany table and spats, and also, alas, with the vulgarity of my mistress, the little actress, who has never been able to speak English correctly— O western wind, when wilt thou blow ….†   (source)
  • Love and confidence had changed of a sudden to hate and deadly enmity and the neighbors saw me go with pitying scorn.†   (source)
  • One existed simply and solely to harm the other, and when there are two in one blood and in one soul who are at deadly enmity, then life fares ill.†   (source)
  • But it was exactly the same when Harry felt and behaved as a wolf and showed others his teeth and felt hatred and enmity against all human beings and their lying and degenerate manners and customs.†   (source)
  • There is God and the devil in them; the mother's blood and the father's; the capacity for happiness and the capacity for suffering; and in just such a state of enmity and entanglement towards and within each other as were the wolf and man in Harry.†   (source)
  • "You don't understand what friendship is, Harry," he murmured—"or what enmity is, for that matter.†   (source)
  • For some years I had been at enmity with this young Bachmatoff, at school.†   (source)
  • This enmity, however, had apparently expired in a renewal of friendliness between the two women.†   (source)
  • He learned that both outlaws and Mexican raiders had long been at bitter enmity with these ranchers.†   (source)
  • He eyed her now with patronizing enmity.†   (source)
  • That fierce foe had no enmity toward the lone hunter.†   (source)
  • —I believe the knave took that name to show his enmity to the race of blacks!†   (source)
  • All this enmity and passion had Pearl inherited, by inalienable right, out of Hester's heart.†   (source)
  • It will prove her guilty, by showing that it is her habit to nourish enmity.†   (source)
  • But I, alone, would shun these shallow matters, Since all that's coarse provokes my enmity.†   (source)
  • My heart riseth against him, said Mr. Enmity.†   (source)
  • And I think enmity and hatred are wicked.†   (source)
  • I have no enmity against M. Franz, and promise you the punishment shall not fall on him.†   (source)
  • It's no little shame to me, Elder Tull, that through my friendship he has roused the enmity of my people and become an outcast.†   (source)
  • Probably, the Master-at-arms' clandestine persecution of Billy was started to try the temper of the man; but it had not developed any quality in him that enmity could make official use of or even pervert into plausible self-justification; so that the occurrence at the mess, petty if it were, was a welcome one to that peculiar conscience assigned to be the private mentor of Claggart.†   (source)
  • Enmity was thus established and it seemed to be Pruitt's natural mental attitude, and to suit Catlee better than friendliness.†   (source)
  • Perhaps they sensed his wild-wood breed, and instinctively felt for him the enmity that the domestic dog feels for the wolf.†   (source)
  • He took no part in the conversation for a long while, but listened, with an air of calm enmity, while his friends discussed the Jesuits.†   (source)
  • The gaiety with which they had set out had somehow vanished; and yet there was no enmity or malice between them.†   (source)
  • The book was an old one—thirty years old, soiled, scribbled wantonly over with a strange name in every variety of enmity to the letterpress, and marked at random with dates twenty years earlier than his own day.†   (source)
  • That explains Willetts's enmity.†   (source)
  • You see, my good engineer, there you behold the mind's enmity toward nature, its proud mistrust of her, its greathearted insistence on the right to criticize her and her evil, irrational power.†   (source)
  • As she exhausted the amusement of spending the money these complications became more pressing, and Lily, whose mind could be severely logical in tracing the causes of her ill-luck to others, justified herself by the thought that she owed all her troubles to the enmity of Bertha Dorset.†   (source)
  • Yes, this work, too, was absurd, but when one stopped and considered the matter, one could, in his opinion, call absurdity an intellectually honorable position, and so the absurd enmity toward nature in Gothic art was ultimately as honorable as the gesture of a Plotinus or a Voltaire, for it expressed the same emancipation from facts and givens, the same proud unwillingness to be enslaved, the same refusal to submit to dumb powers, that is, to nature.†   (source)
  • He could not wait for the Norbloms to make up their minds, though they had become to him dread and eternal figures whose enmity would crush him; prodigious gods shadowing this Wheatsylvania which was the only perceptible world.†   (source)
  • Helen had considered this man an annoyance, and later a menace, and now she must declare open enmity with him.†   (source)
  • Not only was there no trace of her former irony, of her old hatred and enmity, and of that dreadful laughter, the very recollection of which sent a cold chill down Totski's back to this very day; but she seemed charmed and really glad to have the opportunity of talking seriously with him for once in a way.†   (source)
  • The enmity of our parents gave a piquancy to you in my eyes that was intenser even than the novelty of ordinary new acquaintance.†   (source)
  • His fame in this country appears to hang on his matchless gun-play and his enmity toward outlaw chiefs.†   (source)
  • Next day the weather was bad, but she trudged on, the honesty, directness, and impartiality of elemental enmity disconcerting her but little.†   (source)
  • A companionship did exist between White Fang and the other dogs, but it was one of warfare and enmity.†   (source)
  • But he knew, further, that the comfort of the fire would be his, the protection of the gods, the companionship of the dogs—the last, a companionship of enmity, but none the less a companionship and satisfying to his gregarious needs.†   (source)
  • — When they had nothing else to say, it must be always easy to begin abusing Miss Woodhouse; and the enmity which they dared not shew in open disrespect to her, found a broader vent in contemptuous treatment of Harriet.†   (source)
  • "Thy daughter?" replied the Black Knight; "a proper cause of enmity, and followed up to a bloody issue!†   (source)
  • Two little spotless flags were abroad, the one on a salient angle of the fort, and the other on the advanced battery of the besiegers; emblems of the truth which existed, not only to the acts, but it would seem, also, to the enmity of the combatants.†   (source)
  • And I promised, with my hand on my heart, that if all who felt no enmity toward me would come forward and pass before me they should see that only those who remained behind would be struck dead.†   (source)
  • It was well known that the victim had recognized the bitterness of personal enmity in his persecutor's conduct towards him, and that he declared himself hunted to death for his spoil.†   (source)
  • And thus out of error enmity grew.†   (source)
  • There is a method, however, of getting away from the enmity of even these Mingos; and if you choose to take it, no one will more willingly point it out than myself, without a charge for my advice either.†   (source)
  • I see you to tell you that everything separates us—the depths of the sea, the enmity of kingdoms, the sanctity of vows.†   (source)
  • But the mysterious something could only be the devil, and he was accordingly seized with an intense personal enmity to this impertinent force.†   (source)
  • He for his own part knew that if his personal prospects simply had been concerned, he would not have cared a rotten nut for the banker's friendship or enmity.†   (source)
  • "Certainly not," said Hammond, "but when the transgressions occur, everybody, transgressors and all, know them for what they are; the errors of friends, not the habitual actions of persons driven into enmity against society."†   (source)
  • Yet the drinkers of ale otherwise said they; That folk-bales, which were lesser, she framed forsooth, Lesser enmity-malice, since thence erst she was Given gold-deck'd to the young one of champions, She the dear of her lineage, since Offa's floor Over the fallow flood by the lore of her father 1950 She sought in her wayfaring.†   (source)
  • Yet there is no enmity between these men; they have never seen each other before, and each believes the other to be a respectable person.†   (source)
  • Fly to a brother's aid whoever he may be, exhort him who goeth astray, raise him that falleth, never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother.†   (source)
  • "I care not in this moment sweet, Though all I have rushed o'er Should come on pinion, strong and fleet, Proclaiming vengeance sore: "Though haughty Hate should strike me down, Right, bar approach to me, And grinding Might, with furious frown, Swear endless enmity.†   (source)
  • The same guards which protect us from disaster, defect, and enmity, defend us, if we will, from selfishness and fraud.†   (source)
  • He told himself that it was the enmity of man, and not the vengeance of heaven, that had thus plunged him into the deepest misery.†   (source)
  • But if you'd like to call it in, don't do it in a hurry now, and breed more enmity in the family, but wait till there's a pretty mortgage to be had without any trouble.†   (source)
  • Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.†   (source)
  • Ralph, having died intestate, and having no relations but those with whom he had lived in such enmity, they would have become in legal course his heirs.†   (source)
  • The President therefore attacks the establishment which they represent with all the warmth of personal enmity; and he is encouraged in the pursuit of his revenge by the conviction that he is supported by the secret propensities of the majority.†   (source)
  • "As one community, without distinction of class, without enmity, united by brotherly love—let us pray!" thought Natasha.†   (source)
  • His quality was such that he could have annihilated them both in the heat of action; but to accomplish the deed by oral poison was beyond the nerve of his enmity.†   (source)
  • He reflected that Valentin's friendship was older than Urbain's enmity, and that at a funeral it was easy to escape notice.†   (source)
  • So soon and so deeply did this simple hunter impress those who knew him with a conviction of his unbending honesty, that all he uttered in commendation was as certain to please, as all he uttered in the way of rebuke was as certain to rankle and excite enmity, where his character had not awakened a respect and affection, that in another sense rendered it painful.†   (source)
  • Though ready to slay, and not over regardful of the means, he is commonly content with the scalp, unless when blood is hot, and temper up; but after spirit is once fairly gone, he forgets his enmity, and is willing to let the dead find their natural rest.†   (source)
  • He neither courted their assistance, nor dreaded their enmity, and he now proceeded to the business of the hour with as much composure, as if the species of patriarchal power, he wielded, was universally recognised.†   (source)
  • …confusion, as respects friends and enemies; so that the Hurons and the Oneidas, who speak the same tongue, or what may be called the same, take each other's scalps, and the Delawares are divided among themselves; a few hanging about their great council-fire on their own river, and fighting on the same side with the Mingoes while the greater part are in the Canadas, out of natural enmity to the Maquas—thus throwing everything into disorder, and destroying all the harmony of warfare.†   (source)
  • Life meanwhile—real life, with its essential interests of health and sickness, toil and rest, and its intellectual interests in thought, science, poetry, music, love, friendship, hatred, and passions—went on as usual, independently of and apart from political friendship or enmity with Napoleon Bonaparte and from all the schemes of reconstruction.†   (source)
  • Newman watched their genuflections and gyrations with a grim, still enmity; they seemed aids and abettors of Madame de Cintre's desertion; they were mouthing and droning out their triumph.†   (source)
  • This had happened before the affair of Fred Vincy's illness had given to Mr. Wrench's enmity towards Lydgate more definite personal ground.†   (source)
  • And I don't believe there is any enmity in my own father's mind; I think he has proved the contrary."†   (source)
  • He must have come prepared for a journey when he first arrived in the yard, unsuspecting enmity; and he must have driven off (though in a changed direction) without saying a word to any one on what had occurred between themselves.†   (source)
  • The old religion then excites enthusiastic attachment or bitter enmity in either party; some leave it with anger, others cling to it with increased devotedness, and although persuasions differ, irreligion is unknown.†   (source)
  • Having aroused the enmity of the Sultan, he was proscribed and put to death by treachery in 1822, at the age of eighty.†   (source)
  • We see that he was bearing enmity and silly misconception with much spirit, aware that they were partly created by his good share of success.†   (source)
  • She was the widow of the Marquise de Castellane when she married de Ganges, and having the misfortune to excite the enmity of her new brothers-in-law, was forced by them to take poison; and they finished her off with pistol and dagger.†   (source)
  • On Hawkeye he cast a glance of respectful enmity; on Duncan, a look of inextinguishable hatred; the shrinking figure of Alice he scarcely deigned to notice; but when his glance met the firm, commanding, and yet lovely form of Cora, his eye lingered a moment, with an expression that it might have been difficult to define.†   (source)
  • I mean your extending the enmity to a helpless girl, who has too much sense and goodness to share their narrow prejudices.†   (source)
  • But his fears were such as belong to a man who cares to maintain his recognized supremacy: the loss of high consideration from his wife, as from every one else who did not clearly hate him out of enmity to the truth, would be as the beginning of death to him.†   (source)
  • My father might see the letter—and—he has not any enmity, I believe, but he views things differently from me; he thinks a great deal about wealth and position.†   (source)
  • Besides," Philip went on, with all the inventive astuteness of love at one-and-twenty, "if there is any enmity between those who belong to us, we ought all the more to try and quench it by our friendship; I mean, that by our influence on both sides we might bring about a healing of the wounds that have been made in the past, if I could know everything about them.†   (source)
  • Then went the jury out whose names were Mr. Blindman, Mr. No-good, Mr. Malice, Mr. Love-lust, Mr. Live-loose, Mr. Heady, Mr. High-mind, Mr. Enmity, Mr. Liar, Mr. Cruelty, Mr. Hate-light, Mr. Implacable, who every one gave in his private verdict against him among themselves, and afterwards unanimously concluded to bring him in guilty before the judge.†   (source)
  • But between us personally no enmity arose; we were often together; he was a man of letters, had seen much of the world, and was very entertaining and pleasing in conversation.†   (source)
  • And then he kneeled down unto Sir Launcelot, and to Sir Gawaine, and prayed them of forgiveness of his enmity that ever he had against them.†   (source)
  • As the action of the poem is about to be resolved, the poet lines up Troy's main antagonists and explains the so-far-unstated cause of the goddesses' enmity.†   (source)
  • Then I went to one man after another, being not unconscious of the enmity which I provoked, and I lamented and feared this: but necessity was laid upon me,--the word of God, I thought, ought to be considered first.†   (source)
  • She hung the stormcloud shield with raveled tassels ominous from her shoulder: all around upon it in a garland Rout was figured,' Enmity, Force, and Chase that chills the blood, concentered on the Gorgon's head, reptilian seething Fear—a portent of the stormking.†   (source)
  • …and observed him--his name I need not mention; he was a politician whom I selected for examination--and the result was as follows: When I began to talk with him, I could not help thinking that he was not really wise, although he was thought wise by many, and still wiser by himself; and thereupon I tried to explain to him that he thought himself wise, but was not really wise; and the consequence was that he hated me, and his enmity was shared by several who were present and heard me.†   (source)
  • He was a proud, angry man, and as I had occasionally in the answers of the Assembly treated his papers with some severity, they being really weak in point of argument and haughty in expression, he had conceived a mortal enmity to me, which discovering itself whenever we met, I declin'd the proprietary's proposal that he and I should discuss the heads of complaint between our two selves, and refus'd treating with any one but them.†   (source)
  • My answers were to this purpose: that my circumstances, thanks to God, were such as to make proprietary favours unnecessary to me; and that, being a member of the Assembly, I could not possibly accept of any; that, however, I had no personal enmity to the proprietary, and that, whenever the public measures he propos'd should appear to be for the good of the people, no one should espouse and forward them more zealously than myself; my past opposition having been founded on this, that…†   (source)
  • …faced with a serious operation which she became convinced she would not survive, at a time when her nearest female kin was a woman between whom and herself there had existed for years one of those bitter inexplicable (to the man mind) amicable enmities which occur between women of the same blood, whose sole worry about departing this world was to get rid of a certain brown dress which she owned and knew that the kinswoman knew she had never liked, which must be burned, not given away…†   (source)
  • At once they formed themselves into groups and families, games and battles, friendships and enmities, making a small world.†   (source)
  • I saw beneath the surface of the various alliances and enmities and by degrees (though I had been such an entire stranger to this world) I was drawn in and treated with confidence.†   (source)
  • But she also discovered that business women may have friendships and enmities as frankly as men and may revel in a bliss which no housewife attains—a free Sunday.†   (source)
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