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  • His wrath is stirred against you.†   (source)
  • THE WRATH OF ROSA†   (source)
  • Sinful acts like these had caused the earthquake, Fazlullah thundered, and if people didn't stop they would again invite the wrath of God.†   (source)
  • He stands there with such wrath in him he feels the earth itself will split from his anger.†   (source)
  • Most of the time, he was the wrathful god of Omori.†   (source)
  • Snape shot a look of pure venom at Harry and Ron as he allowed himself to be swept out of his office, leaving them alone with Pro fessor McGonagall, who was still eyeing them like a wrathful eagle.†   (source)
  • In the eternal words of Sir William Ernest Henley: Beyond this place of wrath and tears
    Looms but the Horror of the shade,
    And yet the menace of the years
    Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
    It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll,
    I am the master of my fate:
    I am the captain of my soul.†   (source)
  • Bezu Fache despised many things… but few drew more wrath than the U.S. Embassy.†   (source)
  • I follow the other initiates to the edge of the room, and they inch in front of me, eager to see what makes my stomach turn: Al, facing Eric's wrath.†   (source)
  • Afraid to untie or untape her sister for fear of incurring—a word which here means "bringing about"—Count Olaf's wrath, Violet stroked Sunny's hair and murmured that everything was all right.†   (source)
  • And you, Percy Jackson, would be the first to feel Zeus's wrath.†   (source)
  • I'll be on the trouble list for leaving early, but Jesus Christ, what's worse, the wrath of Mother or the wrath of Hilly?†   (source)
  • Then one night I experienced the soldiers' wrath firsthand.†   (source)
  • "I'll go," he said at last, stopping himself from wondering if he could actually risk it—risk his father's and Chaol's wrath, and what might happen if he decided to damn the consequences.†   (source)
  • Nails were popping off tin roofs, and they flew, landing on nearby thatched roofs, increasing the wrath of the fire.†   (source)
  • This girl doesn't seem to fear the crowd's wrath.†   (source)
  • Yes, it's true: I should "leave off from wrath, and let go displeasure."†   (source)
  • They were standing together on the sideline staring straight ahead, hard-eyed, totally focused, like the wrath of God.†   (source)
  • The story of a prince who could not be killed, a priest who warned of a goddess's wrath, a French prelate who believed he'd bought the same stone centuries later.†   (source)
  • Lapses and failures could carelessly accrue over several days: a broom improperly stowed, a blanket folded with its label facing up, a starched collar in infinitesimal disarray, the bed castors not lined up and pointing inward, walking back down the ward empty-handed—all silently noted, until capacity was reached and then, if you had not read the signs, the wrath would come down as a shock.†   (source)
  • She had always been prone to jealousy, rage, and bitter hatred, but now she had fuel for all three to last a lifetime, and she cultivated them until— Abandoning herself to her wrath, she slipped into her mother's dressing room.†   (source)
  • She would use a water treatment to soothe the wrath of Chu Jung, the three-eyed god of fire.†   (source)
  • But his mother hardens, and the prince backs down, knowing her wrath and power as well as I do.†   (source)
  • When the train pulls out of the station, one of these boys lights a match, invoking the wrath of Mr. Curran, who boxes him about the head and shouts, for the whole car to hear, that he's a worthless good-for-nothing clod of dirt on God's green earth and will never amount to anything.†   (source)
  • It was truly biblical; a fog I could imagine God, in one of his lesser wraths, cursing the Egyptians with.†   (source)
  • Toward the end of his time the descent of the Devil in Wrath upon the World will produce more woful effects than what have been in former Ages.†   (source)
  • "Upon whom we are going to rain our mighty wrath," I corrected her, and she shook her head in disgust.†   (source)
  • Ned knew better than to defy him when the wrath was on him.†   (source)
  • And risk Levana turning her wrath against his entire country?†   (source)
  • Let you counsel among yourselves; think on your village and what may have drawn from heaven such thundering wrath upon you all.†   (source)
  • Mary followed Margaret's sterilizing rules meticulously to avoid her wrath.†   (source)
  • At long last Mr. Dussel' s fury was spent, and he left the room with an expression of triumph mixed with wrath, his coat pockets bulging with food.†   (source)
  • Dreading his anger (for Hobie, though good-natured and slow to wrath, definitely had a temper) I'd had all kinds of justifications and excuses prepared but faced with his eerie composure it was impossible to defend myself.†   (source)
  • The blistering intensity of the collective wrath over Everest-and the fact that so much of that wrath was directed at her-took Pittman completely by surprise and left her reeling.†   (source)
  • His wavering sight fell on the timer and the sense of triumph returned, along with a cresting wave of righteous wrath.†   (source)
  • THE WRATH OF THE CAFETERIA LADIES†   (source)
  • I held my breath, waiting for her wrath.†   (source)
  • He drew the stone closer, as if to protect it from Sloan's wrath.†   (source)
  • I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook.†   (source)
  • Was she trying to deter Szpirglas from harming us, thinking he'd fear incurring the full wrath of the police?†   (source)
  • It roars, pure wrath in its eyes.†   (source)
  • It was about the unthinking hubris of a race which dared to murder its homeworld through sheer carelessness and then carried that dangerous arrogance to the stars, only to meet the wrath of a god which humanity had helped to sire.†   (source)
  • It is the story of a single, rather lengthy action: the wrath of Achilles.†   (source)
  • She was still in shock from the shark's digestion of the turtle, from its dull-eyed wrath, and she found she had no voice, no strength to say Kalden's name.†   (source)
  • When mention of the NSBers no longer brought on a volley of self-righteous wrath, I knew the person's healing was not far away.†   (source)
  • I guess he had such a fierce reputation at the mine they didn't want any part of his wrath.†   (source)
  • "The people up on the Enterprise operate in kind of a wrath-ofCod mode," Eliot says.†   (source)
  • This earned him the wrath of the Chinese Communist Party.†   (source)
  • During my cancer treatment, when I was told that only 4 percent of pancreatic cancer patients live five years, a line from the Star Trek movie The Wrath of Khan came into my head.†   (source)
  • Groans and moans of despair and fury spat through his lips as he beat his wrath into this terrible place.†   (source)
  • I couldn't go after Andie—a worse risk than her wrath—so I finally phoned her.†   (source)
  • Part Three — Day of Wrath.†   (source)
  • He realized that he had slept without knowing it, dreaming that he could not sleep, in a dream that had been disturbed by the wrathful face of Fermina Daza.†   (source)
  • And if so, I'll give you my father's answer to those who act without thinking: 'A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.'†   (source)
  • I was all braced for the wrath that was going to put grizzlies to shame, and this is what I get?†   (source)
  • What saved him from the wrath of everyone around him was partly an unwillingness to give any support to the enemies of the college, but also partly a begrudging understanding that all of his troublemaking was ultimately motivated by a mandate they were never free from themselves: the mandate to speak the rational truth.†   (source)
  • Those who harmed seagulls risked the wrath of ship ghosts, for gulls were inhabited by the spirits of men who had been lost at sea in accidents.†   (source)
  • From around 750 B.C. various prophets began to come forward preaching God's wrath over Israel for not keeping his commandments.†   (source)
  • Black men, white men, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Jews, Poles, whatever—all were inadequate and weak, all came under their jaundiced eyes and were the recipients of their disinterested wrath.†   (source)
  • What's more, she invites the wrath of the woman who runs her okiya.†   (source)
  • In the way of those thirsty for power above all else, he intimidated, terrorized, punished, banished, and used as his visible weapon, the wrath of his chosen god.†   (source)
  • Using the old brain he was born with (those were his words later on that day) he gave his information to Grandmother Baxter, and Mr. Freeman was arrested and was spared the awful wrath of my pistol-whipping uncles.†   (source)
  • The daily national anthem ceremony in front of the presidential palace, where by decree everyone had to stop and face the tinny music or suffer the wrath of the macoutes.†   (source)
  • I knew his wrath could turn on any one of us.†   (source)
  • You stay right exactly where you are or risk my wrath, which, I must tell you in advance, is considerable.†   (source)
  • However, the defense reckoned without the defendant's religious counselor, the tireless Reverend Mr. Dameron, who appeared at the trial as the chief witness for the prosecution, and who, in the overwrought, rococo style of a tent-show revivalist, told the court he had often warned his former Sunday School pupil of God's impending wrath: "I says, there isn't anything in this world that is worth more than your soul, and you have acknowledged to me a number of times in our conversations that your faith is weak, that you have no faith in God.†   (source)
  • Moody immediately turned his wrath upon me, screaming at the top of his lungs, spitting out every English obscenity he could recall.†   (source)
  • Daagoo's mouth twitched in amusement at Ch'idzigyaak's wrath.†   (source)
  • We suspected his previous independence had brought down the wrath of the government and pressure had been applied.†   (source)
  • "AND ALL BECAUSE OF THAT STUBBORN WRETCH AZAZ," roared the Mathemagician, completely overwhelming the bug, for now his sadness had changed to fury and he stalked about the room adding up anger and multiplying wrath.†   (source)
  • Her lips purse, and she tilts her head as if to say, Do you wish to interfere and bring my wrath down upon yourself?†   (source)
  • Then the wrath, the sense of personal injury, which had been simmering in him ever since he saw her sitting beside Stoddard in the young mill owner's car, broke forth.†   (source)
  • There seemed insufficient substance to him to be the object of men's wrath.†   (source)
  • He knew this question would draw Artkin's wrath—Artkin always discouraged needless conversation in operations—but Miro was disturbed.†   (source)
  • Narmonov's hands flew up in the air, his hopeful demeanor gone in an instant, replaced with palpable wrath.†   (source)
  • Maybe they didn't want to chance Dad's wrath either.†   (source)
  • He had been required to hunt Mexican women himself during that period, and had come close to feeling the wrath of a couple of Mexican husbands.†   (source)
  • But for now he didn't want to deal with the wrath of Lana or Alec.†   (source)
  • The new roommate, Wen Lok, was a sixteen-year-old who had run away from home after the family's motorcycle was stolen from her; she couldn't bear to face her father's wrath and fled.†   (source)
  • I dialed Jess's number and bit my pinky nail, awaiting the inevitable wrath.†   (source)
  • I think he preferred Ben's wrath be directed at anybody but him.†   (source)
  • She made sure I felt the frill measure of my lack of consideration for her and that I understood that if anything happened to me, she would be the one dealing with the wrath of my mother, a five-foot-three woman who could strike fear in a berserker.†   (source)
  • She hadn't raised her voice, but it was suddenly filled with the power of a High Priestess and I shivered in fear, even though her wrath was not directed at me.†   (source)
  • A fact which partly explains young Frodo's long expeditions to the renowned fields of the Marish, and the wrath of the injured Maggot.†   (source)
  • If you were to try, would that not incur the wrath of the dragons yet again?†   (source)
  • It was on every newsstand: bold headline reading, —GROOM'S FATHER MAY HAVE TRIGGERED RUSSIAN WRATH."†   (source)
  • 'I am in danger, danger,' Claudia said with that smoldering wrath.†   (source)
  • Major — de Coverley swept it away with mighty displeasure the moment he recognized what it was, his good eye flaring up blindingly with fiery disdain and his enormous old corrugated face darkening in mountainous wrath.†   (source)
  • The movie, a Martin Lawrence vehicle called A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, is the story of how Martin, a womanizing, hip-hop brother, manages to seduce the wealthy, corporate executive (Lynn Whitfield), then betrays her and feels her titanic wrath.†   (source)
  • And, if she survived her own set of parental wrath, he'd leave Meredith his favorite hoodie and every last one of his books.†   (source)
  • Her wrathful eyes bored into him, angry and dissatisfied: Had he been had once again?†   (source)
  • But more often than not, it's like killing one bee and inviting the swarm's wrath.†   (source)
  • Senor del Refugio was angry, but it paled in the face of his daughter's wrath.†   (source)
  • If it be determined in thy Providence that thousands of our fellow creatures shall this day be slain, let thy wrath be appeased, and in mercy grant that victory be on the side of our suffering, bleeding country.†   (source)
  • We worried her to death, and made her chase us through the hills and fields with a hickory in her hand and the wrath of God in her eyes.†   (source)
  • Bublanski had had doubts about Andersson at first, but after six months he had encountered nothing to provoke his criticism or wrath.†   (source)
  • Perhaps wrath could rouse him where charity had not.†   (source)
  • Just turned fourteen, Judith was nearly a year older than Grace and in decisions as weighty as risking the ever-ready wrath of Mrs. Dyer, Grace was happy to defer.†   (source)
  • His mouth twisted into such a wrathful grimace that his chapped lips split, and threads of blood unraveled from the cracks.†   (source)
  • He'd have fought the same way against an earthquake or an eagle: I had nothing to fear from his wrath but that twisting horn.†   (source)
  • He went on muttering, looking like an ancient and wrathful prophet of doom.†   (source)
  • The next few teams we played were going to have to suffer some wrath.†   (source)
  • It was no barbarian king that rose above the cliffs, but a great red dragon with seven crowns set atop seven human heads, each slavering with wrath and fury.†   (source)
  • Weary was filled with a tragic wrath.†   (source)
  • "My friends call me Wrath," says Raffe.†   (source)
  • He would fight the looters, but the wrath and fire were gone.†   (source)
  • He was asking me to help him, to deliver him in some way from the wrath of the cadre and the fury of the system.†   (source)
  • But much of it has managed to survive the wrath of the fire and the years of neglect.†   (source)
  • Lewis Tappan, for his part, had made a few well-timed yawns and sighs during the openings, not at a volume to draw the wrath of Judge Thompson, but certainly loud enough to make his presence, and his views toward specific points, well known.†   (source)
  • Or, "I look like the wrath of God."†   (source)
  • Of course I always thanked them, was appropriately pleased and proud, not saying otherwise, but I also wished secretly that for once I'd hear about Sunny speaking insolently, that they had had a terrible row in front of everyone, that once and finally Mary Burns had been most cross and vehement and had scolded her with great wrath.†   (source)
  • Years later, Theodore Parker incurred the wrath of the pro-slavery forces in the country.†   (source)
  • I have to meet Shari at the pool or face her wrath.†   (source)
  • Secretary of State William H. Seward, whose oppressive policies toward the South have long made him a target of Confederate wrath, is on the list as well.†   (source)
  • Torga and Grock had entered Cryshal-Tirith, each searching for a way to kill the other without bringing on the wrath of the wizard.†   (source)
  • He was a man who adored women, and understood their wrath.†   (source)
  • Some wrath.†   (source)
  • The impious individual was seen as a contaminant who, if not controlled or punished, might bring upon the city the wrath of the gods--Athena, Zeus, or Apollo--in the form of plague or sterility.†   (source)
  • Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord.†   (source)
  • "Cutting a vampire will only earn you their wrath," he continued, reaching up for another stake.†   (source)
  • It was a still photo, snapped a thousand years ago, after his return from Operation Wrath of God.†   (source)
  • "The people who are incurring the wrath of the Horvath are the people in that region," the NSA said.†   (source)
  • The leader of the brigands, after collecting the mail sacks, had pulled Blobb from the coach and addressed him in perfect English: "Messer, you have witnessed the wrath of Trystero.†   (source)
  • KELLER [IN A WRATH]: Katie, will you come outside with me?†   (source)
  • But I know that a dozen or half a hundred towns will rise up in injured wrath to denounce me with claims and figures for having much more dreadful weather than Fargo.†   (source)
  • Kill one of their fairy-tale notions, and they call down the wrath of God, Brady, and the state legislature.†   (source)
  • It would he foo! ish to risk Eric's wrath.†   (source)
  • His wrath?†   (source)
  • The grandmother was curled up under the dashboard, hoping she was injured so that Bailey's wrath would not come down on her all at once.†   (source)
  • If it was true that Alec had robbed the Circus, he would take the wrath of Personnel with him to the grave—and Personnel would not so much as pay for the shroud.†   (source)
  • The people of that region Paid this tribute to save Their wretched huts and hovels From the great worm's wrath.†   (source)
  • "If there were you would be the better for it," said I wrathfully, "for then your values would be true."†   (source)
  • TYRONE Wrathfully.†   (source)
  • When he was young, John had paid no attention in Sunday school, and always forgot the golden text, which earned him the wrath of his father.†   (source)
  • Of these, only Daniel Webster was to share with Benton and Houston the ignominy of constituent wrath and the humiliation of political downfall at the hands of the states they had loved and championed.†   (source)
  • Miriam spoke of going for Sobel, but sick as he was, Feld rose in wrath against the idea.†   (source)
  • Long he had hunted in vain till the dawn chilled his wrath...   (source)
  • Grey Beaver's wrath was terrible; likewise was White Fang's fright.   (source)
  • She stood shivering beneath the torrent of her mother's wrath.   (source)
  • But some of the students who had come later did not want to deface the gods and tempt their wrath.†   (source)
  • Before Langdon could reply, Sato directed the remainder of her wrath at Katherine.†   (source)
  • I visited my wrath upon Britney Spears at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards.†   (source)
  • She is the incarnation of the sun's wrath.†   (source)
  • Earthquakes and tidal waves were the wrath of Poseidon.†   (source)
  • Leave off from wrath, and let go displeasure: fret not thyself, else shalt thou be moved to do evil.†   (source)
  • He comes down to Giles, who awaits his wrath.†   (source)
  • We will show them an Emperor's wrath, then.†   (source)
  • As they watched, the tempest's wrath struck them like a hammer blow.†   (source)
  • We'll channel His wrath and deliver His forgiveness.†   (source)
  • His labor's fruit a Holy wrath incurred.†   (source)
  • Curiosity got the better of her then, as she imagined a tirade thrown down from the wrath of Rosa.†   (source)
  • Day of wrath, that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning, All the world to ashes turning.†   (source)
  • I had been busy hiding from Zeus's wrath at the time, which was a perfectly legitimate excuse.†   (source)
  • "And what of my wrath, Lord Stark?" she asked softly.†   (source)
  • God's wrath had laid waste to cities, it had flooded the whole earth.†   (source)
  • Evangeline gasps and turns her wrath on me.†   (source)
  • I expect the beast's wrath to fall any second, expect its teeth and claws to rip me to shreds.†   (source)
  • "What's stoner boy done to deserve your wrath?"†   (source)
  • And of course divine wrath is the order of the day at the beginning of Sophocles' play.†   (source)
  • As the winter of 1943 began, Goeth's wrath intensified.†   (source)
  • This was the second time this morning that her uncle's wrath had descended on her head.†   (source)
  • Now you just pick who we're going to rain our mighty wrath down on."†   (source)
  • In the photograph he was only sixteen years old, but he already looked wrathful and fierce.†   (source)
  • He wanted to say no, but that would bring down the wrath of the new therapist.†   (source)
  • "The orb from which Eve partook," Langdon said coolly, "incurring the Holy wrath of God.†   (source)
  • The Varden had just destroyed three brigades in the south, and his wrath was out in full force.†   (source)
  • His labors produced new sciences that incurred the wrath of the Church.†   (source)
  • I think they would be sorely dismayed if they ever faced a dragon's wrath.†   (source)
  • His labor's fruit a Holy wrath incurred.†   (source)
  • His wrath exploded like a volcano, fueled even more by his pent-up fury at the slaves' plight.†   (source)
  • This knight obviously did something that incurred the Holy wrath of the Church.†   (source)
  • Murtagh seemed perplexed by Eragon's wrath.†   (source)
  • His labor's fruit a Holy wrath incurred.†   (source)
  • He himself had "ever borne testimony to Mr. Adams's personal wrath," he assured her.†   (source)
  • They took out their wrath upon my two favorite sons—Vali and Narvi.†   (source)
  • For I am the Hound of my people, and the day of my wrath is coming.†   (source)
  • But it was clear; by the pure fact of not being pregnant, I'd escaped the worst of her wrath.†   (source)
  • Those are the fires of god's own wrath, and no human flame can match them.†   (source)
  • Leave me and mine, or you will feel my wrath.†   (source)
  • His wrath will be horrible, and I cannot hide you forever.†   (source)
  • Eragon distanced himself from Glaedr's consciousness, wary of the dragon's wrath.†   (source)
  • It was no wrathful spirit that might disappear into the void.†   (source)
  • Whatever happened, the wrath of the prime minister was not going to come down on him.†   (source)
  • Summon one, and you're likely to find yourself blasted with divine wrath.†   (source)
  • The queen of the heavens has fled Olympus to escape the wrath of her family.†   (source)
  • You won't live long enough to meet her, but your friends below will soon face her wrath.†   (source)
  • And you will be wanting to sail to Cape Wrath, I know, to see your wife and your two little ones.†   (source)
  • "Well, you can back me up when Armansky's wrath hits me like a bolt of lightning."†   (source)
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