All 6 Uses of
wrath
in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- A murmur of wrath and contempt went round the group of ill-clad wretches, who crowded round Citoyen Bibot.†
Chpt 1 *wrath = extreme anger
- It was unfortunate for Sally and her flirtation that this remark of hers should have occurred at the precise moment when Mr. Hempseed was collecting his breath, in order to deliver himself one of those Scriptural utterances which made him famous, for it brought down upon her pretty head the full flood of her father's wrath.†
Chpt 2
- What the Vicomte thought and felt at that moment, when that long-limbed Englishman treated him with such marked insolence, might fill volumes of sound reflections....What he said resolved itself into a single articulate word, for all the others were choked in his throat by his surging wrath— "A duel, Monsieur," he stammered.†
Chpt 6
- In your position here in England, Madame," she added, turning a wrathful and resolute face towards the Comtesse, "you cannot afford to put on the hoity-toity airs you French aristocrats are so fond of.†
Chpt 10wrathful = full of extreme anger
- She could not sit still; she wanted to go and hear the worst at once; she wondered even that Chauvelin had not come yet, to vent his wrath and satire upon her.†
Chpt 15wrath = extreme anger
- "Confound the brute!" said Sir Andrew, with native British wrath, as Brogard leant up against the table, smoking and looking down superciliously at these two SACRRRES ANGLAIS.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
extreme anger or angry punishment