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  • But Laila was thinking of Mammy, as obstinate and uncompromising as the Mujahideen, the air around her choked with rancor and despair, and she was thinking of Babi, who had long surrendered, who made such a sad, pathetic opponent to Mammy.†   (source)
  • If a passing Protestant felt inclined to show the statue some small gesture of disrespect, the vigilant nuns would exit their guardhouse on the fly— their black habits flapping with the defiant rancorousness of crows.†   (source)
  • The wonder was the depth of the girl's rancor, her persistence with a story that saw him all the way to Wandsworth Prison.†   (source)
  • "You buried the elf," he said, sounding unexpectedly rancorous.†   (source)
  • Klaus kept a close eye on the atlas and made sure they weren't heading off course to the Wicked Whirlpool or the Rancorous Rocks.†   (source)
  • The people living above them on the third floor weren't married, and while that didn't bother her, their constant, rancorous fighting did.†   (source)
  • I walked back down to the beach where Id first learned the realities of life as a Navy SEAL and what was expected and what I must tolerate; the cold, the freezing cold and the pain; the ability to obey an order instantly, without question, without rancor, the bedrocks of our discipline.†   (source)
  • The work of turning Holmes's building into a hotel proceeded slowly, with the usual bouts of rancor and delay.†   (source)
  • I remembered that day at Abbey Road Studios, when my envy led me to set rancor in the hearts of John and Paul and break up the Beatles.†   (source)
  • Young men traded in gold and notes, fighting bitter and rancorous battles over battered watch-cases, the ends of chains, or worn and dirty dollar bills that they held up to the light, announcing that they were flawed and worth almost nothing, although the sellers insisted passionately that they were 'almost like new'.†   (source)
  • Yesterday he bought a chicken from a rancorous crone in the market, but not until he got it home did he discover that although it had been plucked, it had not been cleaned.†   (source)
  • I hold no rancor toward you.†   (source)
  • …and found herself surrounded by men who looked like her brother and her cousins and her father and her uncles, except that they were angry, they were furious, and they were staring at her and at her badges with undisguised hostility, and the rancor of perceived betrayal, and they started to shout at her, and push her, that she felt fear, a basic, animal fear, terror, and thought that anything could happen, and then the next station came and she shoved through and off the train, and she…†   (source)
  • She seemed to hold no rancor against the baby-sitter, nor for her just God who allowed the accident.†   (source)
  • Saphira had then pointed out, in the most diplomatic of terms, that if Nasuada asserted her authority as Eragon's liegelord and forbade him from participating in the sortie, it would poison their relationship with the sort of rancor and dissent that could undermine the Varden's cause.†   (source)
  • Well, she was unloved in the deeper senses of the word but that was fine, she'd had enough love of the deeper types, painful and ever echoing, the rancorous marriages that make it hard for you to earn a dependable solitude.†   (source)
  • And the photographer Galen Rowell, a member of the expedition, wrote a book about the group's travails, documenting one of the most rancorous high-altitude failures in history.†   (source)
  • But when I looked up to her, Claudia was standing there as if transfixed and lost in thought, all rancor and bitterness gone from her face, so that she had the blank expression of that doll.†   (source)
  • Instead, he opened his arms and the two men said goodbye in a tight knot, free at last of the hatred and rancor that had poisoned their lives for so many years.†   (source)
  • In the spring he had longed to plant begonias and zinnias in a narrow bed around his tent but had been deterred by his fear of Corporal Whitcomb's rancor.†   (source)
  • There was no rancor in her voice.†   (source)
  • "You've cleaned me out, Breq from the Gerentate," Strigan said, without rancor.†   (source)
  • Salander had listened in astonishment to this rancorous bickering, which all of a sudden ended with something that sounded like a slap in the face.†   (source)
  • But he was also deeply troubled by the rancor within the American commission.†   (source)
  • Her lack of commitment is a source of great rancor between them.†   (source)
  • Alec said, but it was without rancor; after a moment he smiled a little, that Lightwood smile that lit up his face and made Simon think of Izzy.†   (source)
  • The rancor I showed you in the Merman's Court was a mummer's farce put on to please our friends of Frey."†   (source)
  • He had pronounced the words aloud, in a tone of rancorous sarcasm directed at whoever had made him say it.†   (source)
  • This would be a magic child, inspirited with the wisdom and cunning of sea life—and none of the old silent rancor of Charleston.†   (source)
  • What has been said is forgotten, but the bitter rancor remains, and they eye each other warily.†   (source)
  • Our talk back then was in fact one long and grave contention, an incessant quarrel, though to hear it now would be to recognize the usual forms of homely rancor and still homelier devotion, involving all the dire subjects of adolescencemy imperfect studies, my unworthy friends, the driving of his car, smoking and drinking, the whatever and whatever.†   (source)
  • Well, in that same spirit, I say to President-elect Bush that what remains of partisan rancor must now be put aside, and may God bless his stewardship of this country.†   (source)
  • She reflected, with apparent rancor.†   (source)
  • I was relieved to see that the expression on Nathan's face had softened somewhat, no longer quite the rancorous mask it had been only moments before.†   (source)
  • And for Daniel Webster, the arrogant, scornful giant of the ages who believed himself above political rancor, Whittier's attack was especially bitter.†   (source)
  • The first idea was acceptance, the acceptance, totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are: in the light of this idea, it goes without saying that injustices is a commonplace.†   (source)
  • They deposited the papers and recording crystals on his desk and departed hastily but without rancor.†   (source)
  • she seemed completely exhausted by her rancor.   (source)
    rancor = deep and bitter anger or hatred
  • "The Four Great Vows," he said, and, with rancor, closed his eyes.†   (source)
  • Their faces had a look of rancorous anxiety.†   (source)
  • No. 'In that case, you have us over a barrel —' said Colonel Korn without rancor.†   (source)
  • But I was really astounded at the words she spoke about Nathan, the blunt rancor in her voice.†   (source)
  • Without rancor, three such groups-Todd Burleson's Alpine Ascents International expedition, David Breashears's IMAX expedition, and Mal Duff's commercial expedition-immediately postponed their own summit plans in order to assist the stricken climbers.†   (source)
  • An eruption of rancor.†   (source)
  • Chamberlin had planned the meeting as a trap to try to shatter Holmes's imperturbable facade, and was impressed with Holmes's ability to maintain his insouciance despite the rancor in the room.†   (source)
  • She could not avoid a profound feeling of rancor toward her husband for having left her alone in the middle of the ocean.†   (source)
  • Los Angeles Unified School District psychologist Bradley Pilon believes only one in ten immigrant students ultimately accepts his or her parent and puts the rancor he or she feels toward the parent in perspective.†   (source)
  • Besides, his brother's widow had died the year before, still smarting from rancor but without any heirs.†   (source)
  • On the night of the vigil for her husband, it not only seemed reasonable for him to be there, but she even understood it as the natural end of rancor: an act of forgiving and forgetting.†   (source)
  • He found a glimmer of hope in the ruins of disaster, for it seemed to him that Fermina Daza's misfortune glorified her, that her anger beautified her, and that her rancor with the world had given her back the untamed character she had displayed at the age of twenty.†   (source)
  • But after her quarrel with her daughter, embittered by the insults to her father, by her rancor toward her dead husband, by her anger at the hypocritical duplicities of Lucrecia del Real, whom she had considered her best friend for so many years, she felt herself superfluous in her own house.†   (source)
  • The only possible explanation for her decline was the rancor she felt because her husband had knowingly sacrificed himself for a black rabble, as she used to say, when the only fitting sacrifice would have been to survive for her sake.†   (source)
  • Resentments stirred up other resentments, reopened old scars, turned them into fresh wounds, and both were dismayed at the desolating proof that in so many years of conjugal battling they had done little more than nurture their rancor.†   (source)
  • They had never exchanged another word since their disagreeable breakfast of anise in the previous century, and Florentino Ariza was certain that even after he had obtained for his daughter the successful marriage that had become his only reason for living, Lorenzo Daza remembered him with as much rancor as he felt toward Lorenzo Daza.†   (source)
  • …and his imagination went after her, followed her through the night that had just descended in the house as she lit the lights in the corridor, fumigated the bedrooms with the insecticide bomb, uncovered the pot of soup on the stove, which she was going to share that night with her father, the two of them alone at the table, she not raising her eyes, not tasting the soup, not breaking the rancorous spell, until he was forced to give in and ask her to forgive his severity that afternoon.†   (source)
  • "She did throw me in a cell and put me on trial for my life," he pointed out, with a certain amount of rancor.†   (source)
  • Helen asked without rancor.†   (source)
  • Indeed, she was there, and always there, and had they looked remotely like each other, had they anything physical in common, I'm sure they would have seemed like all the other mothers and daughters, but even more so, arriving and departing together hand in hand, with hardly a sign of rancor.†   (source)
  • My mind went in three directions: that last night in the Hotel Saint-Gabriel, which seemed a year ago, when she talked of love with rancor; my reverberating shock at Armand's revelations or lack of them; and a quiet absorption of the vampires around me, who whispered in the dark beneath the grotesque murals.†   (source)
  • The two older wildlings looked at Jon with ill-concealed rancor as Jarl said, "You heard, we ride at daybreak.†   (source)
  • Still, the battle continued, and at the same time that the location of the capital—the "residence" issue—had become a subject of equal rancor.†   (source)
  • And it was up close, eyeball tight, a combat space without maneuvering room or finer points, a certain amount of acted rancor filling the visual field, a scowl and glare, or a hooded look, a sort of sleepy killer thing, lidded and dumb.†   (source)
  • That conversation, the biting rancor that he felt against his father, and the imminent possibility of wild love inspired a serene courage in him.†   (source)
  • She looked at the faces of the four men in the soft twilight of Mulligan's living room: Galt, whose face had the serene, impersonal attentiveness of a scientist-Francisco, whose face was made expressionless by the hint of a smile, the kind of smile that would fit either answerHugh Akston who looked compassionately gentle-Midas Mulligan, who had asked the question with no touch of rancor in his voice.†   (source)
  • He made a sound, a harsh guttural produced at the back of the mouth, rattling and metallic, filled with rancor, and at first she thought he had the card printed because he did not want people to make the mistake of thinking he was German and then she thought he had the card printed because he did not want people to know he was a Jew.†   (source)
  • He stood speechless, lanky and gawking, with a scuffed basketball in his long hands as the seeds of rancor sown so swiftly by Colonel Cathcart took root in the soldiers around him who had been playing basketball with him and who had let him come as close to making friends with them as anyone had ever let him come before.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the rancor disappeared much sooner than she herself had expected, and then she continued sending the food out of pride and finally out of compassion.†   (source)
  • He was weary of the demands of office, weary and disheartened, Washington said, by party rancor and a severely partisan press that had taken to calling him the American Caesar.†   (source)
  • Yet given all that Jefferson was doing, and the combustible atmosphere of the moment, Adams's rancorous comments were remarkably few and mild.†   (source)
  • He said, not looking at Rearden, his mouth drawn tightly into an expression of rancorous dignity: "After all, you can't order people to come running to your office any time you please.†   (source)
  • When she heard it, Amaranta thought of Pietro Crespi, his evening gardenia, and his smell of lavender, and in the depths of her withered heart a clean rancor flourished, purified by time.†   (source)
  • He saw defensively belligerent men and tastelessly dressed women-he saw mean, rancorous, suspicious faces that bore the one mark incompatible with a standard bearer of the intellect: the mark of uncertainty.†   (source)
  • Anxious for solitude, bitten by a virulent rancor against the world, one night he left his bed as usual, but he did not go to Pilar Ternera's house, but to mingle is the tumult of the fair.†   (source)
  • Still wounded by the way Congress had treated him, he imagined that in the rancorous atmosphere of Philadelphia, with controversy swirling about the Deane affair and the hatred between Franklin and Arthur Lee, his own reputation was suffering.†   (source)
  • But from Elbridge Gerry he had learned that the appointment had come only after rancorous dispute in Congress, and that the central issue, as Gerry reported with blunt candor, was Adams's vanity, his "weak passion.†   (source)
  • He wrote so many during the first months that at that time they felt closer to him than when he had been in Macondo, and they were almost freed from the rancor that he had left behind.†   (source)
  • The question of where to locatethe national capital had been a topic of rancorous discussion since the summer before, and was again at the forefront, along with a proposal for the federal government to assume some $25 million in debts incurred by the states during the Revolution.†   (source)
  • She felt reborn in her heart the rancor that she had felt in other days for Rebeca, and begging God not to impel her into the extreme state of wishing her dead, she banished her from the sewing room.†   (source)
  • The rancor was aggravated six months later when Gaston wrote again from Leopoldville, where he had finally recovered the airplane, simply to ask them to ship him the velocipede, which of all that he had left behind in Macondo was the only thing that had any sentimental value for him.†   (source)
  • The hatred that she noticed one night in Memes words did not upset her because it was directed at her, but she felt the repetition of another adolescence that seemed as clean as hers must have seemed and that, however, was already tainted with rancor.†   (source)
  • Every time they passed the rundown house she would tell her about an unpleasant incident, a tale of hate, trying in that way to make her extended rancor be shared by her niece and consequently prolonged beyond death, but her plan did not work because Remedios was immune to any kind of passionate feelings and much less to those of others.†   (source)
  • Amaranta, on the other hand, never did overcome her rancor against Rebeca, even though life offered her a satisfaction of which she had not dreamed: at the initiative of Ursula, who did not know how to repair the shame, Pietro Crespi continued having lunch at the house on Tuesdays, rising above his defeat with a serene dignity.†   (source)
  • I was only aware that I was suffering exactly in the same way that my mother had and that my deserts could scarcely be more fitting; no malefactor ever endured his punishment with less rancor.†   (source)
  • And so totally immersed was Nathan in this rancorous message he was imparting to Sophie, so single-minded did he seem at that moment, that I was able to stand waiting by the table long minutes, listening in miserable discomfort while Nathan bullyragged and tore at her, quite oblivious that I was there.†   (source)
  • We are speaking here of central truths about Sophie, and I think it is testimony enough to the nature of her sensibilities that exposed for so many years to the rancorous, misshapen, discordant strains of her father's obsession, and now immersed like a drowning creature in the very midst of the poisonous wellspring of his theology, she should have retained the human instinct to respond with the shock and horror that she did, clutching the atrocious bundle to her breast and hurrying…†   (source)
  • May God requite me if I came here frying to meddle, to stir up rancor.†   (source)
  • He with his naked head and reddened nose and rancor of the mouth.†   (source)
  • Her feeling toward him had, for the moment, gone rancorous and bitter.†   (source)
  • She hunted them grimly; she faced them with wide-eyed admiration and spoke of her own insignificance, of her humility before achievement; she shrugged, tight-lipped and rancorous, whenever one of them did not seem to take sufficient account of her own views on life after death, the theory of relativity, Aztec architecture, birth control and the movies.†   (source)
  • Eugene never forgot: even when he had reached manhood the deception of "Little Jimmy" returned to him, without rancor, without ugliness, only with pain for all the blind waste, the stupid perjury, the thoughtless dishonor, the crippling dull deceit.†   (source)
  • And as the admission was made, albeit belatedly and with some ambiguity of inflection, the slight cloud which had gathered upon Mr. Duffy's brow was dissipated with no trace of rancor left behind.†   (source)
  • There were the Einhorns then, in the ballroom, the old man with a sort of military cloak, gray, looking like the former possessor of a splendor just as good as this who, without special rancor but understanding how it all comes about, watches it change hands.†   (source)
  • His nose was straight, his mouth was held in with tender rancor, and he had black, continuous, illustrious brows.†   (source)
  • Anson's queries were bitter and rancorous.†   (source)
  • A rancorous and terrible cry leaped to his lips.†   (source)
  • Gulden spoke without rancor or fear or feeling of any kind.†   (source)
  • At every step he bellowed his rancor in speech mostly curses.†   (source)
  • "Carley, I'm bitter," he said, "but I'm not rancorous and callous, like some of the boys.†   (source)
  • "Your woman has stacked the deck on us," went on Follonsbee, without rancor.†   (source)
  • He had long since wearied of discussing the rancorous subject.†   (source)
  • Remembering Jane's accusation of bitterness, he tried hard to put aside his rancor in judging Tull.†   (source)
  • He even referred to Sergey Ivanovitch without rancor.†   (source)
  • All cherished some rancor against him, some for his malice, others for his ugliness.†   (source)
  • It might be the last time that he would see her alone, and today he could leave her without rancor, without bitterness.†   (source)
  • His teachers were asked to state their respective charges against him, which they did with such a rancor and aggrievedness as evinced that this was not a usual case, Disorder and impertinence were among the offenses named, yet each of his instructors felt that it was scarcely possible to put into words the real cause of the trouble, which lay in a sort of hysterically defiant manner of the boy's; in the contempt which they all knew he felt for them, and which he seemingly made not the…†   (source)
  • The bandit leader eyed Smith with awakening rancor, as if a persistent hint of inevitable weakness had its effect.†   (source)
  • He did not seem to have a deliberate intention to rouse Duane; the man was simply rancorous, jealous.†   (source)
  • You know best what satisfaction you would have, beyond that of gratifying a ridiculous rancor worthy only of wandering savages.†   (source)
  • But now his sense of outrage was deep, rancorous, and ever present; he felt that he was a good fellow wronged.†   (source)
  • "You are very generous, gentlemen of the Guards," said Athos, full of rancor, for Jussac was one of the aggressors of the preceding day.†   (source)
  • On the 18th of June, 1815, that rancor had the last word. and beneath Lodi, Montebello, Montenotte, Mantua, Arcola, it wrote: Waterloo.†   (source)
  • But the Parisians cherish little rancor; and then, having forced the beginning of the play by their authority, the good bourgeois had got the upper hand of the cardinal, and this triumph was sufficient for them.†   (source)
  • The former does not exhibit any of those rancorous or irregular passions which disturb men long after they have shaken off an established authority; the latter feels none of that bitter and angry regret which is apt to survive a bygone power.†   (source)
  • "Bah!" replied the rancorous harpooner.†   (source)
  • This was very grand; but still Mrs. Penniman, who felt that she had exposed herself, was faintly rancorous.†   (source)
  • I have seen men of good brains and breeding, and of good hopes and vigour once, who feasted squires and kept hunters in their youth, meekly cutting up legs of mutton for rancorous old harridans and pretending to preside over their dreary tables—but Mrs. Sedley, we say, had not spirit enough to bustle about for "a few select inmates to join a cheerful musical family," such as one reads of in the Times.†   (source)
  • And Hetty must be one of them: it is too painful to think that she is a woman, with a woman's destiny before her—a woman spinning in young ignorance a light web of folly and vain hopes which may one day close round her and press upon her, a rancorous poisoned garment, changing all at once her fluttering, trivial butterfly sensations into a life of deep human anguish.†   (source)
  • And the consciousness that the insult was not yet avenged, that his rancor was still unspent, weighed on his heart and poisoned the artificial tranquillity which he managed to obtain in Turkey by means of restless, plodding, and rather vainglorious and ambitious activity.†   (source)
  • Some of the very peasants who had been most active in wrangling with him over the hay, some whom he had treated with contumely, and who had tried to cheat him, those very peasants had greeted him goodhumoredly, and evidently had not, were incapable of having any feeling of rancor against him, any regret, any recollection even of having tried to deceive him.†   (source)
  • The ambassador, at all events, had passed a bad night, and his faultlessly careful toilet only threw into relief the frigid rancor in his eyes and the mottled tones of his refined complexion.†   (source)
  • The academical military school excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable rancor of the old Caesarism against the new; of the regular sword against the flaming sword; and of the exchequer against genius.†   (source)
  • Ridiculous rancor!†   (source)
  • The most discontented, the most irritated, the most trembling, saluted it; whatever our egotism and our rancor may be, a mysterious respect springs from events in which we are sensible of the collaboration of some one who is working above man.†   (source)
  • He asked himself: "What has that convict done, that desperate fellow, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has had me under his foot, and who could have avenged himself, and who owed it both to his rancor and to his safety, in leaving me my life, in showing mercy upon me?†   (source)
  • On entering he bowed to M. Madeleine with a look in which there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness of a man who has never been gentle and who has always been patient; he waited without uttering a word, without making a movement, in genuine humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with eyes…†   (source)
  • …gentleman, but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly cold, dominated by immediate interest, always governing at the shortest range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of superiority on mediocrity, clever in getting parliamentary majorities to put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his…†   (source)
  • This dispute should not leave rancor afterward between us.†   (source)
  • Rancor within him deepened against Zeus.†   (source)
  • While he appealed to them, Queen Hera tossed with rancor and indignation in her chair, making mighty Olympos quake, and said into Poseidon's ear: "Oh, what a pity!†   (source)
  • Athena held her peace toward Zeus, though a fierce rancor pervaded her; Hera could not contain it, and burst out to him: "Fearsome as you are, why take that tone with goddesses, my lord?†   (source)
  • Ai! let strife and rancor perish from the lives of gods and men, with anger that envenoms even the wise and is sweeter than slow-dripping honey, clouding the hearts of men like smoke: just so the marshal of the army, Agamemnon, moved me to anger.†   (source)
  • …generous blindness; curiosity, the taste for change, the thirst for the unexpected, the sentiment which causes one to take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, the prompter's whistle, at the theatre; the vague hatreds, rancors, disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted it; discomfort, empty dreams, ambitious that are hedged about, whoever hopes for a downfall, some outcome, in short, at the very bottom, the rabble, that mud which…†   (source)
  • Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke   (source)
    rancorous = showing deep and bitter anger or hatred
  • Because he said how the terrible pan of it had not occurred to him yet, he just lay there while the two of them argued inside of him, speaking in orderly turn, both calm, even leaning backward to be calm and reasonable and unrancorous: But I can kill him.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrancorous means not and reverses the meaning of rancorous. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • "Aye," he agreed without rancor, "always have been.†   (source)
  • This disdain tends to pursue an immigrant with extraordinary rancor when he bears a name that is unmistakably foreign and hence difficult to the native, and open to his crude burlesque.†   (source)
  • Worcester, who had begun his lexicographical labors by editing Johnson's dictionary, was a good deal more conservative than Webster, and so the partisans of conformity rallied around him, and for [Pg255] a while the controversy took on all the rancor of a personal quarrel.†   (source)
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  • In the past I have bee proved his rancorous enemy.†   (source)
  • Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy.†   (source)
  • No, child, it was envy, the worst and most rancorous kind of envy, the envy of superiority of understanding.†   (source)
  • Fortune may tempt men of no very bad dispositions to injustice; but insults proceed only from black and rancorous minds, and have no temptations to excuse them.†   (source)
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