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ingrate
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  • "You insufferable ingrate!" whispered the voice behind the confessional screen.†   (source)
  • There's one of the thieving ingrates!†   (source)
  • "She's an ingrate," Auntie Lizbet rages.†   (source)
  • Ingrates.†   (source)
  • And now he was paying the price; his own son had turned out to be an ingrate, too.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, you ingrate, you'll find your weapons in your bedside table drawers.†   (source)
  • "Psychopathic ingrate," mumbled Panov.†   (source)
  • He says he has nursed a blasphemer and an ingrate.†   (source)
  • Ingrates, that's what you are!†   (source)
  • If I refused, I was placing myself not only in the position of a horrible infidel but of a hardhearted ingrate.†   (source)
  • Oh, yes, monsieur, oh, yes; and I hope to prove to you that you have not served an ingrate.†   (source)
  • Ingrate! a woman who laughs is such a good thing!†   (source)
  • "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather.†   (source)
  • Oh! thou art not an ingrate!†   (source)
  • If your wife were a hundred times the ingrate that she is, and if I were a thousand times more hopeless than I am of inducing her to be silent if this man is silenced, I would tell it myself, before I would bear the torment of the hearing it from him.'†   (source)
  • "Speak the truth, you ingrate!" cried Miss Havisham, passionately striking her stick upon the floor; "you are tired of me."†   (source)
  • You are an ingrate!†   (source)
  • Ingrate that you are!†   (source)
  • Unwilling, even under this discomfiture, to resign the ingrate and leave her hopeless, in case of her better dispositions obtaining the mastery over the darker side of her character, Mr Meagles, for six successive days, published a discreetly covert advertisement in the morning papers, to the effect that if a certain young person who had lately left home without reflection, would at any time apply to his address at Twickenham, everything would be as it had been before, and no…†   (source)
  • And he says to me the ingrate, to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks!†   (source)
  • That gentleman is a knave, a wretched scoundrel, a vain little ingrate, a heartless, soulless, haughty, and wicked man!†   (source)
  • You are an ingrate, Enjolras.†   (source)
  • …eyes and a severe air, "was a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who lived in the bivouac for a quarter of a century, beneath grape-shot and bullets, in snow and mud by day, beneath rain at night, who captured two flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and who never committed but one mistake, which was to love too fondly two ingrates, his country and myself."†   (source)
  • Bloody ingrate!†   (source)
  • Now his claims are well-armed; and the ingrate Seeks to become master of your estate.†   (source)
  • But don't you recall how my charity Raised you, you ingrate, from your misery?†   (source)
  • From what you have just now sung I gather that yours spring from love, I mean from the love you bear that fair ingrate you named in your lament.†   (source)
  • What! to perverseness? you uncivil lady, To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars My soul the faithfull'st offerings hath breathed out That e'er devotion tender'd!†   (source)
  • If it be so, sir, that you are the man Must stead us all, and me amongst the rest; And if you break the ice, and do this feat, Achieve the elder, set the younger free For our access, whose hap shall be to have her Will not so graceless be to be ingrate.†   (source)
  • "Do you believe," said Candide, "that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?"†   (source)
  • Whose but his own? ingrate, he had of me All he could have; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.†   (source)
  • Zounds, I will speak of him; and let my soul Want mercy, if I do not join with him: Yea, on his part I'll empty all these veins, And shed my dear blood drop by drop i' the dust, But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer As high i' the air as this unthankful King, As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke.†   (source)
  • Aren't you the bigger ingrate ….†   (source)
  • Words which no ear ever to hear in Heaven Expected, least of all from thee, Ingrate, In place thyself so high above thy peers.†   (source)
  • My good squire Sancho will relate to thee in full, fair ingrate, dear enemy, the condition to which I am reduced on thy account: if it be thy pleasure to give me relief, I am thine; if not, do as may be pleasing to thee; for by ending my life I shall satisfy thy cruelty and my desire.†   (source)
  • …steeds in haste to rise betimes and come forth to see my lady; when thou seest her I entreat of thee to salute her on my behalf: but have a care, when thou shalt see her and salute her, that thou kiss not her face; for I shall be more jealous of thee than thou wert of that light-footed ingrate that made thee sweat and run so on the plains of Thessaly, or on the banks of the Peneus (for I do not exactly recollect where it was thou didst run on that occasion) in thy jealousy and love.†   (source)
  • I only tell you that I shall preserve for ever inscribed on my memory the service you have rendered me in order to tender you my gratitude while life shall last me; and would to Heaven love held me not so enthralled and subject to its laws and to the eyes of that fair ingrate whom I name between my teeth, but that those of this lovely damsel might be the masters of my liberty.†   (source)
  • Ingrate!†   (source)
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