All 10 Uses of
wrath
in
Sea Wolf
- A tangled mass of women, with drawn, white faces and open mouths, is shrieking like a chorus of lost souls; and the red-faced man, his face now purplish with wrath, and with arms extended overhead as in the act of hurling thunderbolts, is shouting, "Shut up!†
Chpt 1wrath = extreme anger
- In fact, though this strength pervaded every action of his, it seemed but the advertisement of a greater strength that lurked within, that lay dormant and no more than stirred from time to time, but which might arouse, at any moment, terrible and compelling, like the rage of a lion or the wrath of a storm.†
Chpt 2
- The dark sun-bronze of his face went black with wrath, his eyes were ablaze.†
Chpt 9 *
- "I think that he is a better man than you are," I answered, impelled, somehow, with a desire to draw upon myself a portion of the wrath I felt was about to break upon his head.†
Chpt 12
- He ran the gamut of denunciation, rising to heights of wrath that were sublime and almost Godlike, and from sheer exhaustion sinking to the vilest and most indecent abuse.†
Chpt 12
- And then, where a vagrant shaft of sunlight struck the ocean and turned its surface to wrathful silver, I caught a small black speck thrust skyward for an instant and swallowed up.†
Chpt 17wrathful = full of extreme anger
- Again the tiny point of black projected itself through the wrathful blaze a couple of points off our port-bow.†
Chpt 17
- At such moments I felt strangely alone with God, alone with him and watching the chaos of his wrath.†
Chpt 17wrath = extreme anger
- No wrathful Macedonia broke its surface nor blackened the sky with her smoke.†
Chpt 25wrathful = full of extreme anger
- It was in such a storm, and the worst that we had experienced, that I cast a weary glance to leeward, not in quest of anything, but more from the weariness of facing the elemental strife, and in mute appeal, almost, to the wrathful powers to cease and let us be.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
extreme anger or angry punishment