All 11 Uses of
wrath
in
Go Tell It on the Mountain
- 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.†
Chpt 1.1 *wrath = extreme anger
- His father's face, always awful, became more awful now; his father's daily anger was transformed into prophetic wrath.†
Chpt 1.1
- He waited for this darkness to be shattered by the light of the second coming, for the ceiling to crack upward, revealing, for every eye to see, the chariots of fire on which descended a wrathful God and all the host of Heaven.†
Chpt 1.1wrathful = full of extreme anger
- For all that they were so beautiful, and took their ease, she knew them, and she pitied them, who would have no covering in the great day of His wrath.†
Chpt 2.1wrath = extreme anger
- And he felt that this silence was God's judgment; that all creation had been stilled before the just and awful wrath of God, and waited now to see the sinner?†
Chpt 2.2
- She turned at his step, and he stared at her, and at the glass she held, with wrath and horror.†
Chpt 2.2
- to fold her in him, and hide her until the wrath of God was past.†
Chpt 2.2
- And Gabriel, scarcely believing that John could have become so brazen, stared in wrath and horror at Elizabeth's presumptuous bastard boy, grown suddenly so old in evil.†
Chpt 2.2
- It was for this deliverance that she wept tonight: that he might be carried, past wrath unspeakable, into a state of grace.†
Chpt 2.3
- And she, she knew today that door: a living, wrathful gate.†
Chpt 2.3wrathful = full of extreme anger
- But he could never go through this darkness, through this fire and this wrath.†
Chpt 3.1wrath = extreme anger
Definition:
extreme anger or angry punishment