All 13 Uses of
wrath
in
War and Peace
- He was evidently pleased at his own display of anger and walking up to the regiment wished to find a further excuse for wrath.†
Chpt 2 *
- But before Pierre could decide what answer he would send, the countess herself in a white satin dressing gown embroidered with silver and with simply dressed hair (two immense plaits twice round her lovely head like a coronet) entered the room, calm and majestic, except that there was a wrathful wrinkle on her rather prominent marble brow.†
Chpt 4
- Suddenly, on one of the officers' saying that it was humiliating to look at the French, Rostov began shouting with uncalled-for wrath, and therefore much to the surprise of the officers: "How can you judge what's best?" he cried, the blood suddenly rushing to his face.†
Chpt 5
- His father received his son's communication with external composure, but inward wrath.†
Chpt 6
- That's it, come on!" said he, panting and looking wrathfully around as if he were abusing someone, as if they were all his enemies and had insulted him, and only now had he at last succeeded in justifying himself.†
Chpt 7
- After Metivier's departure the old prince called his daughter in, and the whole weight of his wrath fell on her.†
Chpt 8
- I'm only sorry for her father!" thought she, trying to restrain her wrath.†
Chpt 8
- "I don't know about that, eh?" said Anatole, growing more confident as Pierre mastered his wrath.†
Chpt 8
- But the Emperor and Balashev passed out into the illuminated garden without noticing Arakcheev who, holding his sword and glancing wrathfully around, followed some twenty paces behind them.†
Chpt 9
- Balashev began to feel uncomfortable: as envoy he feared to demean his dignity and felt the necessity of replying; but, as a man, he shrank before the transport of groundless wrath that had evidently seized Napoleon.†
Chpt 9
- "Caps off, traitors!" shouted Rostov in a wrathful voice.†
Chpt 10
- When Eykhen, the officer of the general staff whom he had summoned, appeared, Kutuzov went purple in the face, not because that officer was to blame for the mistake, but because he was an object of sufficient importance for him to vent his wrath on.†
Chpt 13
- His wrath, once expended, did not return, and blinking feebly he listened to excuses and self-justifications (Ermolov did not come to see him till the next day) and to the insistence of Bennigsen, Konovnitsyn, and Toll that the movement that had miscarried should be executed next day.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(wrath) extreme anger or angry punishment