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  • It was also, in my opinion, one of the things that a John Proctor would rebel against, for the time of the armed camp had almost passed, and since the country was reasonably—although not wholly—safe, the old disciplines were beginning to rankle.†   (source)
  • Now, I like war, and I love doing my job, but it rankled me that the Navy wasn't keeping its word.†   (source)
  • The remark both humiliated and rankled her.†   (source)
  • The advice that rankled most came from Ward McAllister, factotum and chief slipperlick to Mrs. William Astor, empress of New York society.†   (source)
  • As Kvothe spoke, his expression twisted, as if each word he spoke rankled him more and more.†   (source)
  • But still he did not know what this Fremen wanted and this rankled.†   (source)
  • Returning to the Varden was Eragon's primary concern, and it rankled him to plod along like a common vagabond.†   (source)
  • It rankled in him, the way Dick mouthed those two words, as though they solved every problem; it was stupid not to admit that there might be a witness they hadn't seen.†   (source)
  • This injustice rankled, and at that moment I saw Dr. Kerr less as a benefactor than as a not-altogether-benign dictator.†   (source)
  • I tried to stay calm, but the way he spat the word out—Blue—rankled my already frayed nerves.†   (source)
  • It rankled to realize over and over again how much I owed Jacob when I just wanted to be mad at him.†   (source)
  • Maybe it rankled that Sophos was the son of a duke and he wasn't.†   (source)
  • He knew he had become a poor second in Lorena's affections to the man just in front of him, and the knowledge rankled.†   (source)
  • A depth in her eyes that she dared her sons to interpret—the gnaw, the rankling pain that sits inside the good-natured telling.†   (source)
  • Chloe made a face at her, but it wasn't a mean one, more just rankled irritation.†   (source)
  • Seeing Stone in the hallowed place between a woman's legs that was reserved for the obstetrician rankled Hema.†   (source)
  • Reb Saunders had stopped inserting deliberate errors into his Shabbat evening talks the week We had entered college, but the memory of it still rankled.†   (source)
  • I was proud of my sister, but that year, something began to rankle beneath the pride.†   (source)
  • The affair of the Dakers' cat rankled.†   (source)
  • 'Don't let it rankle!†   (source)
  • Max had done some good since he'd arrived in Blys, but he was no closer to vengeance, and the point rankled whenever he weighed his father's razor.†   (source)
  • I wasn't against the order itself, which seemed in fact a good idea, to examine the girls regularly, with an eye toward prevention (if we were truly attempting to avoid the trouble with venereal outbreaks that had debilitated whole units of the Imperial Army), but what his order rankled against, which was the very code of all our association, and community.†   (source)
  • "Hate rankled in their breasts," he wrote his wife.†   (source)
  • As the nurse climbed into the vehicle, she scowled back at her charges, the confrontation of the day before obviously still rankling her.†   (source)
  • It is rankling, too, to be encouraged to buy all of one's goods in white stores and then be refused soda-fountain or rest-room service.†   (source)
  • He was still rankling when a nurse came in.†   (source)
  • The injustice and humiliation of being beaten rankled so powerfully that I deliberately accepted the worst she could deliver to show my contempt.†   (source)
  • That phrase had stuck in her mind all these years, and still rankled.†   (source)
  • This is what rankles, what pollutes Mama's kindness, her rescues and her acts of courage.†   (source)
  • But it rankles Laila, what Tariq is saying.†   (source)
  • The memory of the rejection still rankled, even after all these years.†   (source)
  • The memory of Fair Isle still rankled in the iron captain's memory.†   (source)
  • It has always rankled him that older houses look down on the Freys as upstarts.†   (source)
  • What rankled most was that Rudy had once been one of my best friends.†   (source)
  • I'm looking at a security memo that's a little, actually, rankling.†   (source)
  • IT CAME TO RANKLE CALL that Gus had left his half of the cattle herd to the woman.†   (source)
  • I detest that man and it rankles that he got so much of you and I got so little.†   (source)
  • It rankled him that the man was being so little help.†   (source)
  • It rankled him continually that Gus had all of Lorena's company, day after day.†   (source)
  • But it rankles.†   (source)
  • Littlefinger had concealed Catelyn and helped Ned in his inquiries, yet his haste to save his own skin when Jaime and his swords had come out of the rain still rankled.†   (source)
  • She felt rested after the long journey up from the south, but still rankled that Paul would not yet permit them to use the captured ornithopters.†   (source)
  • I expected Kilvin might have padded the price a little, which rankled my pride a bit, but I was in no position to look a gift horse in the mouth.†   (source)
  • Halleck stirred, said: "I think what rankles, Sire, is that we've had no volunteers from the other Great Houses.†   (source)
  • Yet it rankled, to sit here and make a mummer's show of justice by punishing the sorry likes of Janos Slynt and Allar Deem, while his sister continued on her savage course.†   (source)
  • Soothing as those sounds were, a thorn of unease still rankled him, for the place reminded him of Dempton's mill in Therinsford, where he had gone to work the day the Ra'zac had burned down his home and tortured his father, mortally wounding him.†   (source)
  • The next morning light came slowly to the gorge, and I was well rested by the time our day started, but the conversation of the night before still rankled, and I took care to chew with my mouth open at breakfast until the magus winced and looked away.†   (source)
  • Manx found himself running in the '43 riot and he probably had that same look on his face, conscious of being caught up in something he shouldn't be doing but doing it anyway, running past Orkin's where Ivie bought a sample coat, a coat a dummy used to wear, on sale cheap, and it rankled his mind all right, and all the Orkin's dummies were on the sidewalk now, torsos tumbled in the gutter, and heads without bodies, and slim necks and pale hair, and dummies armless like famous statues.†   (source)
  • Yet a new hate had come to take the place of the rankling racial hate.†   (source)
  • That taunt about the whip still rankled.†   (source)
  • When Rieux next met Castel, the Prefect's remark was still rankling.†   (source)
  • Why do you always act like God Almighty," he continued with rankling bitterness.†   (source)
  • He had made a bad impression and it went on rankling.†   (source)
  • His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever, rankled in unspoken hate and crackled out in bitter humor.†   (source)
  • "Any son who will talk that way to his mother," said Eliza with rankling bitterness, "is bound to come to a bad end.†   (source)
  • Her words and her actions rankled in too many hearts for many people to care whether this scandal hurt her or not.†   (source)
  • "I don't know why you're so happy this morning," said Suellen crossly, for the thought still rankled in her mind that she would look far better in Scarlett's green silk dancing frock than its rightful owner would.†   (source)
  • We can easily picture, at this stage, the consequences of that feeling of separation which had so long rankled in the hearts of so many of our townsfolk.†   (source)
  • Thus, whereas plague by its impartial ministrations should have promoted equality among our townsfolk, it now had the opposite effect and, thanks to the habitual conflict of cupidities, exacerbated the sense of injustice rankling in men's hearts.†   (source)
  • His feelings were pent-in, bound, but at the bottom something rankled.†   (source)
  • Yet the knowledge imparted to him by the chambermaid was rankling in his mind.†   (source)
  • But thet low-down trick rankled in my breast.†   (source)
  • This affront of Cleve's would rankle in him.†   (source)
  • … Jane, forgive me—I'm sore within and something rankles.†   (source)
  • He shut up after this, and went in to his paper, but the retort rankled in his mind.†   (source)
  • But the snub which the waitress had inflicted on him rankled.†   (source)
  • 'It rankled in your baby breast,' he said.†   (source)
  • For even that first meeting has rankled in her heart as an insult—that's what her heart is like!†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, it can do no harm to say that kind words never rankle, while bitter words do.†   (source)
  • The latter allusion struck deep, and the injury rankled.†   (source)
  • Do the Pawnees wish the wounds they give their game to rankle?†   (source)
  • A feeling of hatred was rankling in his heart, as though he meant to avenge himself on some one.†   (source)
  • Something very deep down seemed burning and rankling in his soul.†   (source)
  • Some slighting phrases she had used still rankled in his memory; she had once spoken of Gretta as being country cute and that was not true of Gretta at all.†   (source)
  • A deep and unchangeable consciousness of his own lack of talent, combined with a vast longing to be able to persuade himself that he was original, had rankled in his heart, even from childhood.†   (source)
  • Leaving this Parthian shaft to rankle in Anne's stormy bosom, Marilla descended to the kitchen, grievously troubled in mind and vexed in soul.†   (source)
  • The dimensions of the Brys' ball-room must rankle: you may be sure she knows 'em as well as if she'd been there last night with a yard-measure.†   (source)
  • It was that which rankled with Philip: he could not bear the humiliation of apologies, which were wrung from him by pain greater than he could bear.†   (source)
  • One quill he had carried away in his muzzle, where it had remained for weeks, a rankling flame, until it finally worked out.†   (source)
  • The suggestion was horridly unpleasant, and it rankled in his mind so much that instead of entering his own cottage when he reached it he flung his basket inside the garden-gate and passed on, determined to go and see his old aunt and get some supper there.†   (source)
  • Such a recoil is like that of a hair, made to grow out from the body, turning unnaturally upon the direction of its growth and growing into the body—a rankling, festering thing of hurt.†   (source)
  • She suspected that her rejection rankled among the most unforgettable of his rebuffs, and the fact that he knew something of her wretched transaction with Trenor, and was sure to put the basest construction on it, seemed to place her hopelessly in his power.†   (source)
  • "Paying for what she doesn't get rankles so dreadfully with Louisa: I can't make her see that it's one of the preliminary steps to getting what you haven't paid for—and as I was the nearest thing to smash, she smashed me to atoms, poor dear!"†   (source)
  • Philip had a fiendish instinct for discovering other people's raw spots, and was able to say things that rankled because they were true.†   (source)
  • Then the language he had held to her rankled in her heart; she who was always 'love,' and 'darling,' and 'queen,' and 'angel,' with everybody at the Grange, to be insulted so shockingly by a stranger!†   (source)
  • You've rankled the heart of an old man, that has never harmed you or your'n, with bitter feelings toward his kind, at a time when his thoughts should be on a better world; and you've driven him to wish that the beasts of the forest, who never feast on the blood of their own families, was his kindred and race; and now, when he has come to see the last brand of his hut, before it is incited into ashes, you follow him up, at midnight, like hungry hounds on the track of a worn-out and…†   (source)
  • The base and nasty desire to vent that spite on its assailant rankles perhaps even more nastily in it than in L'HOMME DE LA NATURE ET DE LA VERITE.†   (source)
  • It would have rankled in me more than it did, if I had not regarded myself as eliciting it by being so set apart for her and assigned to her.†   (source)
  • But that bonny-cheeked lass was blessed with an elasticity of spirits that secured her from any rankling grief; and by the time the grand climax of the donkey-race came on, her disappointment was entirely lost in the delightful excitement of attempting to stimulate the last donkey by hisses, while the boys applied the argument of sticks.†   (source)
  • In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvellous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.†   (source)
  • At length Asa, in right of his years, and moved by the rankling impulse of the recent quarrel, took on himself the office of interrogator.†   (source)
  • She did not betray fully what still rankled in her mind as Tom's great offence,—the insults he had heaped on Philip.†   (source)
  • Its remembrance rankles still in the bosoms of millions of the countrymen of those brave men who lost the day.†   (source)
  • A distinguished personage happened to visit the school that morning, and Amy's beautifully drawn maps received praise, which honor to her foe rankled in the soul of Miss Snow, and caused Miss March to assume the airs of a studious young peacock.†   (source)
  • Thus they rejoined their friends: each with causes of dislike against the other rankling in his breast: and the young man haunted, besides, with thoughts of the vindictive retaliation which was threatened against Nicholas, and the determination to prevent it by some strong step, if possible.†   (source)
  • This caused the unfortunate discovery that she had played the waiting-maid in the town of which he was Mayor to rankle in his mind yet more poisonously.†   (source)
  • I bore with his cousin's praising him to my face, and with her pretending to think that it pleased me, but full well knowing that it rankled in my breast; for his sake.†   (source)
  • The interval was, consequently, spent in inaction; his grief only became more deep and rankling when he had leisure for reflection, and at length it took so fast hold of his mind that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of sickness, incapable of any exertion.†   (source)
  • Lady Bareacres and the chiefs of the English society, stupid and irreproachable females, writhed with anguish at the success of the little upstart Becky, whose poisoned jokes quivered and rankled in their chaste breasts.†   (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)
  • Blasted as thou wert, my agony was still superior to thine, for the bitter sting of remorse will not cease to rankle in my wounds until death shall close them forever.†   (source)
  • But the chief grievance that rankled in her soul, and gave an excuse for her unfriendly conduct, was a rumor which some obliging gossip had whispered to her, that the March girls had made fun of her at the Lambs'.†   (source)
  • Pearl felt the sentiment, and requited it with the bitterest hatred that can be supposed to rankle in a childish bosom.†   (source)
  • Why, to tell long stories, showing how I have spoiled my life through morally rotting in my corner, through lack of fitting environment, through divorce from real life, and rankling spite in my underground world, would certainly not be interesting; a novel needs a hero, and all the traits for an anti-hero are EXPRESSLY gathered together here, and what matters most, it all produces an unpleasant impression, for we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or…†   (source)
  • You burrow and rankle in his heart!†   (source)
  • The old woman withdrew, but the hunter well understood that he was to be the subject of all her means of annoyance, if not of positive injury, so long as he remained in the power of his enemies, for nothing rankles so deeply as the consciousness that an attempt to irritate has been met by contempt, a feeling that is usually the most passive of any that is harbored in the human breast.†   (source)
  • Indeed, when Miss Crawley quitted the world, and that money for which all her relatives had been fighting so eagerly was finally left to Pitt, Bute Crawley, who found that only five thousand pounds had been left to him instead of the twenty upon which he calculated, was in such a fury at his disappointment that he vented it in savage abuse upon his nephew; and the quarrel always rankling between them ended in an utter breach of intercourse.†   (source)
  • While there was an appearance of a personal conflict, between him and his colossal nephew, his mien had expressed the infallible evidences of engrossing apprehension, but now, that the authority as well as gigantic strength of the father were interposed between him and his assailant, his countenance changed from paleness to a livid hue, that bespoke how deeply the injury he had received rankled in his breast.†   (source)
  • And the vain boy began by degrees to have a rankling fear that Alyosha was silent because he despised him, and thought he was showing off before him.†   (source)
  • But she has no great tenderness even in her best of moods, and, sooner or later—oftener soon than late—is apt to fling off her nestlings with a scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak, or a rankling wound from her barbed arrows.†   (source)
  • …at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done, I see in low life the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate, I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women, I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid, I see these sights on the earth, I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and prisoners, I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who shall…†   (source)
  • Therefore I, where thou seest, am lost, and going thus robed I rankle.†   (source)
  • CHORUS Rumors bred unjust suspicious and injustice rankles sore.†   (source)
  • So when the watchful shepherd, from the blind, Wounds with a random shaft the careless hind, Distracted with her pain she flies the woods, Bounds o'er the lawn, and seeks the silent floods, With fruitless care; for still the fatal dart Sticks in her side, and rankles in her heart.†   (source)
  • They were indignant at the random slur Cast on my parentage and did their best To comfort me, but still the venomed barb Rankled, for still the scandal spread and grew.†   (source)
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