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  • Instead of a poor vindictive festering one, namely myself.†   (source)
  • It can be tainted by power plays, jealousy, resentment, vindictiveness, and even abuse.†   (source)
  • Professor Snape, who seemed to have attained new levels of vindictiveness over the summer, gave Nevihle detention, and Neville returned from it in a state of nervous collapse, having been made to disembowel a barrel full of horned toads.†   (source)
  • Always there is the sense of a tide behind them, rising, gathering mass, carrying with it a slow and vindictive rage.†   (source)
  • I found myself feeling slightly bad for Jason—it wasn't his fault he had a micropenis and a brilliantly vindictive girlfriend.†   (source)
  • If Rufus was vindictive enough, he could surely have the man killed.†   (source)
  • Vindictive perhaps, but totally justified considering what Artemis Fowl had put her through.†   (source)
  • Straight from the shoulder, yes, but it would not be written vindictively, in any effort to get back at Al or Stuart Ullman or George Hatfield or his father (miserable, bullying drunk that he had been) or anyone else, for that matter.†   (source)
  • She also has a destructive, vindictive side.†   (source)
  • Still, remember that Nila is a vindictive woman.†   (source)
  • To Josh the goddess suddenly seemed like a vindictive child.†   (source)
  • She's not vindictive like that, is she?"†   (source)
  • Her lies, her vindictiveness, her score-settling.†   (source)
  • She felt herself the victim of a grave injustice, but her reaction was not vindictive.†   (source)
  • He flinched again when my cold skin touched his, and I smiled with slightly vindictive satisfaction.†   (source)
  • That Krupp's-private-shim fantasy gratified me for a while, but then it wore off and I saw it was just being vindictive.†   (source)
  • Whether you admit it or not, I believe you also had other, baser motives in wanting to separate her from Roran: anger …. hate …. vindictiveness …. and your own hurt.†   (source)
  • But he felt rough hands on him and he looked down into Rufus' distorted and vindictive face.†   (source)
  • Van Rensburg was vindictive in large ways and small.†   (source)
  • Although he had decided on his own initiative to arrest Bigwig, he had not the reputation of being vindictive.†   (source)
  • Vindictive?†   (source)
  • …as the riders came up to the street, how she'd stood in a subterranean chapel in a Capuchin church and could not take her eyes off the skeletons stacked there, wondering about the monks whose flesh had once decorated these metatarsals and femurs and skulls, many skulls heaped in alcoves and hidey-holes, and she remembered thinking vindictively that these are the dead who will come out of the earth to lash and cudgel the living, to punish the sins of the living—death, yes, triumphant.†   (source)
  • He could be petty and vindictive and callous and unfair, brutal and unyielding.†   (source)
  • She was what they called a meteorologist and what my mother called the Weather Pet, but only when she was feeling vindictive.†   (source)
  • She's still hateful and mean and vindictive.†   (source)
  • 'Let go of me, you idiot!' he cried out furiously, glaring with vindictive approval as Nately leaped upon Yossarian's back and pulled him away.†   (source)
  • This seemed more vindictive and more personal.†   (source)
  • Ask another and she was vindictive, calculating.†   (source)
  • As a child, I lived with Mother for only twelve years, while my brothers had to endure her vindictiveness until they were at least eighteen.†   (source)
  • Other than the temperature, there was a really good atmosphere, a little bit like the Louisiana State game but not quite as intense or personally vindictive.†   (source)
  • His wife hadn't been cruel, she hadn't been vindictive.†   (source)
  • But of course she was mean and vindictive in a way Grandpa wasn't.†   (source)
  • My father wrote one and a half pages of vindictive prose about the Bandaranaike family, dropping hints of madness and incest.†   (source)
  • His name was Alfred Gillette, an expert in personnel screening and evaluation, and was considered by the Pentagon to be bright, vindictive, and with friends in high places.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the ultimate in vindictiveness was expressed by an officer in an artillery battery defending Charleston, who was cheered by news of the burning of Chambersburg.†   (source)
  • Men are ambitious, vindictive, and greedy.†   (source)
  • While not a vindictive man, U. S. Grant does not suffer slights easily.†   (source)
  • The monster, seeking only its own safety, tried to scramble away, but Guenhwyvar pounced upon it vindictively, as if to punish it for attacking Drizzt.†   (source)
  • But there was no vindictiveness in this pronouncement, any more than there was in the remarks Lotte made when—short of breath one morning, panting and pausing with Sophie on the first-floor landing as they ascended to their labors—she sniffed that ambient odor of the Birkenau funeral pyre and murmured that those Jews deserved it.†   (source)
  • He was a vicious male gossip, insatiably curious and vindictive without malice.†   (source)
  • He was not a vindictive man.†   (source)
  • She broke from him and with an almost vindictive sense of violation sat heavily at the edge of the bed, just where it was turned down, next the plumped pillows.†   (source)
  • If she'd had to take care of me all by herself, and had that to occupy her mind, maybe she'd have been able— TYRONE Goaded into vindictiveness.†   (source)
  • His overbearing and merciless roughness, personal vindictiveness and uncompromising enmity drove away many whose support he might otherwise have won by conciliation.†   (source)
  • You see, it becomes complicated, full of vindictiveness.†   (source)
  • His own face was curious: it showed a kind of triumph, a guarded vindictiveness, and fear.†   (source)
  • (While he is speaking the faces of the gang have lighted up vindictively, as if all at once they saw a chance to revenge themselves.)   (source)
    vindictively = with revenge or malice (desire to harm)
  • Snape was in a particularly vindictive mood these days, and no one was in any doubt why.†   (source)
  • Harry felt a kind of vindictive pleasure; he had not, of course, dreamed anything of the sort.†   (source)
  • She might be that vindictive if she knew of her husband's temporary interest in Tess.†   (source)
  • What must it have been like for her, growing up with a rich, vindictive, festering old woman?†   (source)
  • Neither of these advisers was by nature vindictive and Phaedrus felt what they said was true.†   (source)
  • Malicious, grudging, vindictive, implacable.†   (source)
  • It has been my experience that children are every bit as cruel and vindictive as adults.†   (source)
  • How easily they can be influenced, how vindictive they are.†   (source)
  • Ida looked into his eyes with an unreadable smile, which yet held some hint of the vindictive.†   (source)
  • Then in a vindictive tone she hissed, "You of all people, you have no right.†   (source)
  • Patsy broke in with a vindictive tone, "Oh, Mr. Perfect, Mr. Control, Mr. Self-righteous—"†   (source)
  • In a heartbeat Grandmother's tone changed from utter despair to cold vindictiveness.†   (source)
  • Her years of vindictiveness had left her a broken and lonely person.†   (source)
  • She was filled with vindictiveness and a feeling of a victory.†   (source)
  • In a light, vindictive voice he told them, "He says it was just a chance in a million.†   (source)
  • "Filthy savages!" she thought vindictively.†   (source)
  • They are behindhand at the prison with the men's uniforms, as more and more criminals keep being admitted, especially in the dog days of summer when tempers are short and folks run to vindictiveness; and so they must use my extra pair of hands.†   (source)
  • "Gerremoffme!" he yelled, but with one last look of vindictive fury, Hermione wrenched open the door and disappeared through it.†   (source)
  • She is astonishingly vindictive.†   (source)
  • If Anna is collecting evidence that I am vindictive and obsessive, this could be a key piece in her dossier.†   (source)
  • Try as Harry might, he couldn't get his Confusing Concoction to thicken, and Snape, standing watch with an air of vindictive pleasure, scribbled something that looked suspiciously like a zero onto his notes before moving away.†   (source)
  • He said there was no point in antagonizing the newspapers unduly, because reporters were vindictive little vermin who would hold a grudge for years and pay you back later, when you were least expecting it.†   (source)
  • Houses cracked open like eggs, their contents torched or stolen or stomped vindictively underfoot; refugees strafed from airplanes.†   (source)
  • But I don't want to be vindictive.†   (source)
  • The only thing lacking was the gloating desire I'd seen on the faces in my dream—the smiles of vindictive joy.†   (source)
  • She tossed off some typical cliche about Pandora being sorry, but she looked more miserable than vindictive.†   (source)
  • Grant digs his spurs into his horse, named Jeff Davis after the Confederate president, in a gesture uncharacteristically vindictive of Grant, who is usually polite and respectful even to his enemies.†   (source)
  • The Constitution protects each State against the ambitious and vindictive actions of more powerful States.†   (source)
  • He swept through the spacious, echoing lobby of the building in a temper of scalding and vindictive resentment.†   (source)
  • 'Calling me crazy,' he shouted in a sputtering rage, 'is a typically sadistic and vindictive paranoiac reaction!†   (source)
  • And laughter rang down the street behind this call, the suppressed, bawdy laughter of the Italians—for, after all, Vivaldo was one of them, and a male, and apparently, a gifted one—and the delighted, vindictive laughter of the Negroes.†   (source)
  • But many others were still visible, had turned into lushes or junkies or had embarked on a nerve-rattling pursuit of the perfect psychiatrist; were vindictively married and progenitive and fat; were dreaming the same dreams they had dreamed ten years before, clothed these in the same arguments, quoted the same masters; and dispensed, as they hideously imagined, the same charm they had possessed before their teeth began to fail and their hair began to fall.†   (source)
  • Men like Hungry Joe glowered at him with blameful hatred, and Appleby subjected him to vindictive discourtesy now that he had established himself as a hot pilot and a ping-pong player who never lost a point.†   (source)
  • There were many strange things taking place, but the strangest of all, to Clevinger, was the hatred, the brutal, uncloaked, inexorable hatred of the members of the Action Board, glazing their unforgiving expressions with a hard, vindictive surface, glowing in their narrowed eyes malignantly like inextinguishable coals.†   (source)
  • Yossarian responded to the thought by slipping away stealthily from the police and almost tripped over the feet of a burly woman of forty hastening across the intersection guiltily, darting furtive, vindictive glances behind her toward a woman of eighty with thick, bandaged ankles doddering after her in a losing pursuit.†   (source)
  • Back then I had believed the stabbing would jolt Mother out of her vindictive madness and make her see how insane she had become.†   (source)
  • Let him stay that way, the colonel decided vindictively, just to show him who was boss and to safeguard himself against any loss of dignity that might devolve from his acknowledging the omission.†   (source)
  • From the books I was studying on psychology and human development, I could only assume that Mother's drinking, vindictive behavior, and her treatment of me were somehow linked to her past.†   (source)
  • I could not help but think if what Mother said was true, she had in turn done the exact same things to me, but for far longer durations and in such obsessive, vindictive ways.†   (source)
  • While someone like my mother, a cold, vindictive person who hated everyone and everything, whose passion seemed to be destroying anything close to her as if it were some kind of sport, lived on while never having to lift a finger.†   (source)
  • Even though the person in front of me was my relative, an elder whom I respected, I truly detested her vindictiveness.†   (source)
  • It was clear that he felt their very presence in his home to be a violation: this was conveyed by his carriage, almost ludicrously stiff, and by his voice, harsh and vindictively polite.†   (source)
  • John saw now what he had never seen there before, except in his own vindictive fantasies: a kind of wild, weeping terror that made the face seem younger, and yet at the same time unutterably older and more cruel.†   (source)
  • There came into his mind the beginning of a new way of telling the story of Saul and the harper: "There was a king full of wrath and vindictiveness, the Bible says, and he was what you'd call a man with a demon in him.†   (source)
  • "And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil, and here their mother left her hands where they dwelt with her children, but bowed her head: "For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, she said with almost vindictive certitude, "forever and ever.†   (source)
  • And his reactions were as Charlie's had been: vindictiveness towards the murderer, emotional pity for Dick, and for Mary, a bitter contemptuous anger: Sergeant Denham had been in the country for a number of years.†   (source)
  • "Look!" she commanded vindictively, and jabbed her fingers into the flesh, hard.†   (source)
  • And now you've made up your mind I must obviously be a selfish vindictive creature.†   (source)
  • The children were silent, hostile, vindictive, continuously complaining of hunger.†   (source)
  • My voice may sound vindictive when I say: Make the defendant pay the highest penalty for his crimes!†   (source)
  • "Getting as grey as a badger," I added vindictively.†   (source)
  • "Not at all," Aunt Bertha said with vindictive cheerfulness.†   (source)
  • I do this vindictively, while Betty and Clara are on their knees.†   (source)
  • Cruel and vindictive as we are, we are not bad to that extent.†   (source)
  • "Now yuh god it!" said one of the onlookers vindictively.†   (source)
  • LARRY—(seizing on this with vindictive relish) Ha!†   (source)
  • "I know," said Aunt Bertha vindictively.†   (source)
  • (vindictively) I think it was something you drove someone else to do!†   (source)
  • And I'll get a better one!" she added vindictively.†   (source)
  • She had heard Ashley say that the South was being treated as a conquered province and that vindictiveness was the dominant policy of the conquerors.†   (source)
  • On her return from her journey, with rents in arrears, or with some other violation of the contract as an entering wedge, Eliza would surge triumphantly into battle, making a forced entrance with police, plain-clothes men, warrants, summonses, writs, injunctions, and all the other artillery of legal warfare, possessing herself forcibly, and with vindictive pleasure, of her property.†   (source)
  • In his anguish, the patient can, of course, be encouraged to revenge himself by some vindictive feelings directed towards the German leaders, and that is good so far as it goes.†   (source)
  • To them, Miss Rosa must not have been anything at all now: not the child who had been the object and victim of the vanished aunt's vindictive unflagging care and attention, and not even the woman which her office as housekeeper would indicate, and certainly not the factual aunt herself.†   (source)
  • "It will enable the jury to determine the exact manner of the death of Mary Dalton, who was slain by the man who slew Bessie Mears!" the coroner said in a scream that was compounded of rage and vindictiveness.†   (source)
  • …avoid work which his old man called his mind—the image not of ambition nor glory, not to see his son better himself for his own sake, probably not even some blind instant of revolt against that same house whose roof had leaked on probably a hundred families like his which had come and lived beneath it and vanished and left no trace, nothing, not even rags and broken crockery, but was probably mere vindictive envy toward one or two men, planters, whom he had to see every now and then.†   (source)
  • …in which Miss Rosa's childhood (that aged and ancient and timeless absence of youth which consisted of a Cassandra-like listening beyond closed doors, of lurking in dim halls filled with that presbyterian effluvium of lugubrious and vindictive anticipation while she waited for the infancy and childhood with which nature had confounded and betrayed her to overtake the precocity of convinced disapprobation regarding any and every thing which could penetrate the walls of that house…†   (source)
  • Sadie said, and leaned toward him with what seemed to be a vindictive and triumphant intensity glittering in her eyes and ringing in her voice.†   (source)
  • He laughs with a sneering, vindictive self-loathing, staring inward at himself with contempt and hatred.†   (source)
  • It would spread outward and outward from the point of vindictive concentration, raveling and thinning away, drawing away the central fact of the stain until nothing at all was visible.†   (source)
  • …entered that, along with Ellen's death, on the day when she entered Mr Coldfield's own and Charles Bon's and even Sutpen's) had been duly entered in his neat clerk's hand, until a detachment of troops would pass: whereupon he would open the bible and declaim in a harsh loud voice even above the sound of the tramping feet, the passages of the old violent vindictive mysticism which he had already marked as the actual picquet would have ranged his row of cartridges along the window sill.†   (source)
  • (He pauses—vindictively) I don't give a damn what he done to his wife, but if he gets de Hot Seat I won't go into no mournin'!†   (source)
  • And as the girl retreated to the rear of the store, her mother nodded at her vindictively— "And you had to tell him, ha?†   (source)
  • And on the four or five occasions during the year when Ellen would bring the children in to spend the day at her father's, the aunt (that strong vindictive consistent woman who seems to have been twice the man that Mr Goldfield was and who in very truth was not only Miss Rosa's mother but her father too) cast over these visits also that same atmosphere of grim embattled conspiracy and alliance against the two adversaries, one of whom—Mr Coldfield—whether he could have held his own or…†   (source)
  • There it all was—all of Mortimer Lonzo—the confusion, weakness, piety, self-pity, small-time sharpness, vindictiveness, all of it in the neat, spidery, old-fashioned bookkeeper's sort of hand a little shakier than ordinary perhaps, but with all the t's crossed and the i's dotted.†   (source)
  • …anybody or even thinking about them, by someone because that someone was bigger than you, stronger than you, and being held for a minute or five minutes under a kind of busted water pipe or incomprehensible fury and fierce yearning and vindictiveness and jealous rage was a part of childhood which all mothers of children had received in turn from their mothers and from their mothers in turn from that Porto Rico or Haiti or wherever it was we all came from but none of us ever lived…†   (source)
  • (vindictively) Listen to me, you Cecil!†   (source)
  • …the son-in-law had parted) who had entered hers and her family's life before she was born with the abruptness of a tornado, done irrevocable and incalculable damage, and gone on—a grim mausoleum air of puritan righteousness and outraged female vindictiveness in which Miss Rosa's childhood (that aged and ancient and timeless absence of youth which consisted of a Cassandra-like listening beyond closed doors, of lurking in dim halls filled with that presbyterian effluvium of lugubrious…†   (source)
  • [Vindictively] Then I'm goin to Kennintahn arter her.†   (source)
  • The firing dwindled from an uproar to a last vindictive popping.†   (source)
  • Snap Naab's wife was vindictive, and called Mescal "that Indian!†   (source)
  • "Why are you so vindictive towards me?" he said.†   (source)
  • "He can be so vindictive, you see," said the businessman.†   (source)
  • The old man said, vindictively— "Let him bless God an' he fare no worse.†   (source)
  • Regardless of the vindictive threats of the bullets, he went about coaxing, berating, and bedamning.†   (source)
  • Her lips were set in a vindictive smile.†   (source)
  • His face quivered and immediately assumed a vindictive expression.†   (source)
  • My disposition is not so bad as you think: I am passionate, but not vindictive.†   (source)
  • I see that they were nothing else than the stipulated price for that vindictive old man's will.†   (source)
  • This, for Newman was putting it very vindictively.†   (source)
  • The belief that he repented his marriage, and suffered from it, only aggravated her vindictiveness.†   (source)
  • 'No!' returned Bray, urged by a vindictive impulse he could not repress.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, Mr F.'s Aunt rubbed her esteemed insteps with her umbrella, and vindictively glared.†   (source)
  • "She is lying," he thought to himself, biting his nails vindictively.†   (source)
  • The temper of the Americans is vindictive, like that of all serious and reflecting nations.†   (source)
  • "My mother is not vindictive," said Clym, his colour faintly rising.†   (source)
  • D'Artagnan at once perceived the ground which the vindictive creature wished to reach.†   (source)
  • "Oh, well, then I shall die," she answered, quite vindictively, and she made a quick movement.†   (source)
  • Do you see now, Alyosha, what a violent, vindictive creature I am?†   (source)
  • I am broken!" she cried with vindictive despair, and her head fell heavily back on the pillow.†   (source)
  • Bogdanich is vindictive and you'll pay for your obstinacy," said Kirsten.†   (source)
  • She seemed to be quivering with hatred, and there was a vindictive note in her voice.†   (source)
  • Natasha cried, and her eyes glittered coldly and vindictively.†   (source)
  • There were numbers of severe, frowning, even vindictive faces.†   (source)
  • What about the inheritance?" said Smerdyakov sarcastically, and, as it were, vindictively.†   (source)
  • What joy he would have in refusing, in drawing up that vindictive reply, the terms of which he amused himself by selecting and declaiming aloud, as though he had actually received her letter.†   (source)
  • "I am sorry to see a pupil of mine displaying such a temper and such a vindictive spirit," he said in a solemn tone, as if the mere fact of being a pupil of his ought to root out all evil passions from the hearts of small imperfect mortals.†   (source)
  • He was yet to learn that for size and weight the weasel was the most ferocious, vindictive, and terrible of all the killers of the Wild.†   (source)
  • A vague terror seized Gabriel at this answer, as if, at that hour when he had hoped to triumph, some impalpable and vindictive being was coming against him, gathering forces against him in its vague world.†   (source)
  • Her mouth was set in the same lines of vindictive hatred that it had, perhaps, borne during the fight.†   (source)
  • A black frown settled down upon the hermit's face, and he clenched his bony hands with a vindictive energy.†   (source)
  • She roused up, now, with a vindictive cast in her eye, and gave her plaited tails a shake and said she knew what SHE'D do.†   (source)
  • "Have you ever earned a dollar by your own labour?" he demanded, certain of her answer, a triumphant vindictiveness in his voice.†   (source)
  • I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid, sordid headmasters—turn infallibly to the vindictive.†   (source)
  • …only obstinate; not masterful, only domineering; not self-controlled, only obtuse; not self-respecting, only vain; not kind, only sentimental; not social, only gregarious; not considerate, only polite; not intelligent, only opinionated; not progressive, only factious; not imaginative, only superstitious; not just, only vindictive; not generous, only propitiatory; not disciplined, only cowed; and not truthful at all—liars every one of them, to the very backbone of their souls.†   (source)
  • John Claggart, the ship's Master-at-arms, discovering that some sort of plot was incipient among an inferior section of the ship's company, and that the ringleader was one William Budd; he, Claggart, in the act of arraigning the man before the Captain was vindictively stabbed to the heart by the suddenly drawn sheath-knife of Budd.†   (source)
  • I was surprised, for she is a vindictive, resentful woman—but then I thought that perhaps she despised me too much to feel any resentment against me.†   (source)
  • She remembered how her mother, after they had lost their money, used to say to her with a kind of fierce vindictiveness: "But you'll get it all back—you'll get it all back, with your face."†   (source)
  • He was pitching the chill abominations into the bath-tub, pleased by the vindictiveness of that desolate flapping sound; and in the midst his wife serenely trotted in, observed serenely, "Why Georgie dear, what are you doing?†   (source)
  • Grandmother murmured something in embarrassment, but the Bohemian woman laughed scornfully, a kind of whinny-laugh, and, catching up an empty coffee-pot from the shelf, shook it at us with a look positively vindictive.†   (source)
  • His teachers left the building dissatisfied and unhappy; humiliated to have felt so vindictive toward a mere boy, to have uttered this feeling in cutting terms, and to have set each other on, as it were, in the gruesome game of intemperate reproach.†   (source)
  • As the great day approached, all the tyranny that was in him came to the surface; he seemed to take a vindictive pleasure in punishing the least shortcomings.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I must plead, for I have an affectionate partiality towards the rector's memory, that he was not vindictive—and some philanthropists have been so; that he was not intolerant—and there is a rumour that some zealous theologians have not been altogether free from that blemish; that although he would probably have declined to give his body to be burned in any public cause, and was far from bestowing all his goods to feed the poor, he had that charity which has sometimes…†   (source)
  • If she had only lived, I could have been angry and cruel towards her with some justification; but to be vindictive towards a poor dead woman recoils upon myself.†   (source)
  • The human soul moves in many channels, and Mr. Casaubon, we know, had a sense of rectitude and an honorable pride in satisfying the requirements of honor, which compelled him to find other reasons for his conduct than those of jealousy and vindictiveness.†   (source)
  • But his friend's face struck him as so vindictive—there was such menace in grim earnest in the smile that distorted his lips, and in his glittering eyes, that he felt instinctively afraid.†   (source)
  • He was an undersized weakly boy with a thin pale face, with large dark eyes that gazed at him vindictively.†   (source)
  • The artist nature is a sensitive and therefore a vindictive one; and masterful players have a way with recalcitrant audiences of rubbing a play into them instead of delighting them with it.†   (source)
  • Both might be called without restraint; the one being above, the other beyond the reach of the law—brave, because they were inured to dangers—proud, because they were independent, and vindictive, because each was the avenger of his own wrongs.†   (source)
  • He complained so seldom, indeed, of such stirs as these, that I really thought him not vindictive: I was deceived completely, as you will hear.†   (source)
  • It is to be observed, in the first place, that in the United States the tribunal which passes sentence is composed of the same elements, and subject to the same influences, as the body which impeaches the offender, and that this uniformity gives an almost irresistible impulse to the vindictive passions of parties.†   (source)
  • If Mr. Tulliver had ever seriously injured or thwarted the attorney, Wakem would not have refused him the distinction of being a special object of his vindictiveness.†   (source)
  • In short, everything wore rather the appearance of a day of pleasure, than of an hour stolen from the dangers and toil of a bloody and vindictive warfare.†   (source)
  • The man followed to the chariot door, uttering the wildest imprecations and curses all the way; but as Mr. Losberne turned to speak to the driver, he looked into the carriage, and eyed Oliver for an instant with a glance so sharp and fierce and at the same time so furious and vindictive, that, waking or sleeping, he could not forget it for months afterwards.†   (source)
  • The face of each child, as the amount of his contribution was mentioned, darkened in a peculiarly vindictive manner, but his was by far the worst.†   (source)
  • The guests were still at table, and the heated and energetic conversation that prevailed betrayed the violent and vindictive passions that then agitated each dweller of the South, where unhappily, for five centuries religious strife had long given increased bitterness to the violence of party feeling.†   (source)
  • Conscious of his impotence, and pessimistic, he often becomes bitter and vindictive; and his religion, instead of a worship, is a complaint and a curse, a wail rather than a hope, a sneer rather than a faith.†   (source)
  • Hutter growled out his dissatisfaction, for the act led to no advantage, while it threatened to render the warfare more vindictive than ever, and none censure motiveless departures from the right more severely than the mercenary and unprincipled.†   (source)
  • This done, he went away, muttering, and uttered the cry of his trade next door, in a vindictive shriek.†   (source)
  • Yet, with the vindictive memory proper to offended pride, especially when combined with conscious want of desert, John had hardly proceeded three paces, ere again, turning around, he fixed an eye of stern resentment upon the yeoman who had displeased him in the early part of the day, and issued his commands to the men-at-arms who stood near—"On your life, suffer not that fellow to escape."†   (source)
  • To all inquiries made him as to how he felt, he made the same answer with an expression of vindictive reproachfulness, "I'm suffering horribly, intolerably!"†   (source)
  • It would seem, there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares, even into the wild poesy in which the human fancy attempted to make bold holiday, and to shake itself free of the old laws,—this back-stroke, this kick of the gun, certifying that the law is fatal; that in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold.†   (source)
  • He had been subjected to fearful proofs; no violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed with all vindictiveness and all social scorn, had taken him for her prey and had raged against him.†   (source)
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