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  • My brief burst of animosity, lasting only a second, a part of a second, something which came before I could recognize it and was gone before I knew it had possessed me, what was that in the midst of this holocaust?†   (source)
  • When the door shuts behind Maven, leaving me with Cal, I can't help but feel a little less animosity toward the princes.†   (source)
  • I sense in him none of the animosity I used to sense in men, even in Luke sometimes.†   (source)
  • Fortunately the animosity lasted only a few days out of the year, and generally in Narewka, Jews and gentiles existed peacefully alongside each other.†   (source)
  • He wondered for a moment if she was the same moose that had attacked him earlier in the summer and tried to feel that she was, tried to feel some animosity toward her.†   (source)
  • There was an unfriendly feel in the air, an animosity that resisted intruders.†   (source)
  • Jacob didn't like the reminder; the pain in his eyes hardened into animosity.†   (source)
  • No animosity.†   (source)
  • There is no animosity between us.†   (source)
  • I didn't have any animosity toward the fellow who caused the opposition, because he strongly believed that surgery was the wrong thing to do.†   (source)
  • Its eyes glared at them with steady, sunken animosity.†   (source)
  • It's to cover the business empire over many decades, but it will also discuss why the empire is in difficulty and it will touch on the animosity that exists within the family.†   (source)
  • More animosity?†   (source)
  • Caroline did not like Leo March—he was not likable—but whatever animosity she held for him was complicated by compassion.†   (source)
  • When the others find out about Mink's latest caper, there is a period of prolonged controversy, animosity, litigation and disgrace.†   (source)
  • It may be the cause of our animosity.†   (source)
  • There are strong indications that he was acting out some personal animosity toward the teacher in question for reasons unknown.†   (source)
  • Even frozen in time, they disarmed all animosity.†   (source)
  • If there was any animosity, it came from their side, not ours, for reasons they know better than I. Our attitude was, Hey guys, good work.†   (source)
  • Perry's cell adjoined Dick's; though invisible to each other, they could easily converse, yet Perry seldom spoke to Dick, and it wasn't because of any declared animosity between them (after the exchange of a few tepid reproaches, their relationship had turned into one of mutual toleration: the acceptance of uncongenial but helpless Siamese twins); it was because Perry, cautious as always, secretive, suspicious, disliked having the guards and other inmates overhear his "private business"—especially Andrews, or Andy, as he was called on the Row.†   (source)
  • The old king, however, who knew nothing of his sons' animosity, was very happy in the twilight of his reign and spent his days quietly walking and contemplating in the royal gardens.†   (source)
  • All were urgently needed, but they also compounded the threat of regional animosity and discord, which Washington still feared might tear the army and the country apart.†   (source)
  • The animosity Clayton felt for him was dangerous and unpredictable.†   (source)
  • These two groups were obliged to work side by side in the war plants, and their animosities festered and opened like boils on the face of the city.†   (source)
  • The foreigners hammering out the details of the loan harbored many animosities.†   (source)
  • When he turned to his teammates, he encountered a reef of curious, reflective faces all gazing at him woodenly with morose and inscrutable animosity.†   (source)
  • Jackie hasn't made a campaign appearance since 1960, but her presence in Texas might deflect some of the animosity surrounding the president's visit.†   (source)
  • The festivities that night had been more dissension than celebration-a strange mix of exuberance by those who believed that Justin was indeed destined to deliver them from the Horde with this peace of his, and animosity by those who argued vehemently against any such treasonous betrayal of Elyon.†   (source)
  • Not because she's older than I thought or because of her fierce animosity, but because on her neck, I see a tattoo of a closed fist raised high with a flame behind it.†   (source)
  • Sedgwick and Baldwin did not feel any animosity toward Staples for this.†   (source)
  • These tensions and animosities would brew and simmer for many decades, and eventually they would result in urban unrest on a grand scale in the twentieth century.†   (source)
  • There still existed some hostility toward amaMfengu, but in retrospect, I would attribute this more to jealousy than tribal animosity.†   (source)
  • Relaxing might be out of the question, she mused, watching him take clever, compact cooking utensils out of the pack, but animosity wouldn't help, not with a man like Hunter.†   (source)
  • Racetrackers in that era had a peculiar animosity for given names.†   (source)
  • Maybe, somehow, I thought, a few minutes alone might wash away the years of animosity.†   (source)
  • With no animosity, Rose said, "That's a nice way of saying you try to penetrate computer security systems, hack your way in, break encryptions."†   (source)
  • My brother, Asher, and I used to bicker with the best of them, but our animosity threshold was several levels lower than theirs.†   (source)
  • Plato's Meno offers a possible clues as to the animosity between Anytus, a politician coming from a family of tanners, and Socrates.†   (source)
  • I save my personal animosity for important people.†   (source)
  • People who support the right side of a question can also have ulterior motives like ambition, avarice, personal animosity, and party opposition.†   (source)
  • 20 An Ohio captain serving with West Virginia Unionists expressed awe at their animosity toward Rebels.†   (source)
  • He had experienced the beginning of contempt, but now the childhood fear and respect and animosity came back to him, so that he seemed a little boy testing his father's immediate mood to escape trouble.†   (source)
  • I looked through the window to see a pleasant young man who showed no hint of animosity.†   (source)
  • I said that despite your profound animosity toward the South, you at least retained a little sense of humor about it, unlike many people.†   (source)
  • I want people everywhere to know I bear no personal animosity toward Henry Drummond.†   (source)
  • But oddly, after I had been invited here, none of them showed any desire to talk to me, leaving me alone with Belle, who seemed almost as much an outsider as I. Why the strange feeling of animosity?†   (source)
  • She lets him take it, regarding him from somewhere far away within herself, without recognition, without either affection or animosity.†   (source)
  • It was a yell at everything— including death, not leaving it out-and he did not mind taking his present animosity out on Virgie Rainey; indeed, he chose her.†   (source)
  • He well knows what snares are spread about his path, from personal animosity ....and possibly from popular delusion.†   (source)
  • Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.   (source)
  • ...a look of animosity appeared on his face...   (source)
  • Don't arouse this man's animosity.   (source)
  • This indifferent, if not hostile, attitude on William's part made it impossible to break off without animosity...   (source)
  • You seem to think that I have some animosity against young Mr. Tom; whereas I have none at all.   (source)
  • None of them, not even Buckingham, seemed to feel any personal animosity toward me.   (source)
  • He accepted her animosity with equanimity; it was to be expected, considering her loss.†   (source)
  • Roran stared at her for a moment, trying to determine the source of her animosity.†   (source)
  • Excitement was high, animosity toward the French intense.†   (source)
  • When I went in to see him I explained the situation evenly and without animosity.†   (source)
  • During an emergency, envy and animosity could slow down or even block important government actions.†   (source)
  • Animosity between them had reached the point where they could hardly bear to be in the same room.†   (source)
  • Envy and animosity often cause bitter disagreements.†   (source)
  • Animosity or cabal might cause them to do the latter rather than the former.†   (source)
  • This would create animosities and probably end in violence.†   (source)
  • Had the animosity erupted again?†   (source)
  • His animosity was all for Snape, but he had not forgotten the fear in Malfoy's voice on that Tower top, nor the fact that he had lowered his wand before the other Death Eaters arrived.†   (source)
  • One of these clients still consulted Bjurman in his role as advokat, so there did not seem to be any animosity there either.†   (source)
  • Belinda continued: "These practices only create more animosity between people of color and the police.†   (source)
  • At the time, neither Owen nor I were capable of putting into words the correct description of the kind of sexual bully Mrs. Lish was; maybe even Randy White would have understood our animosity toward a woman who lorded her sexual sophistication over us so cruelly—over Owen, in particular.†   (source)
  • DUDEN DICTIONARY MEANING #2: Verzeihung—Forgiveness: To stop feeling anger, animosity, or resentment.†   (source)
  • But in the South it generated even more contempt for the national press, and that animosity has lingered beyond the Civil Rights Era.†   (source)
  • He seemed amused by the prospect of getting even with Wennerström, and Blomkvist wondered again what the origin was of the animosity between those two.†   (source)
  • To this day, I still engage in debate with Noah and Simon regarding whether Hester was "created" by her environment, which was almost entirely created by Noah and Simon—which is my opinion—or whether she was born with an overdose of sexual aggression and family animosity—which is what Noah and Simon say.†   (source)
  • Her lawyer objected to the crude questions posed to Walter by the husband's attorney about the nature of his friendship, sparing him from providing any details, but when he left the courtroom the anger and animosity toward him were palpable.†   (source)
  • The accusation had been aired openly for more than thirty years, and it had coloured the family gatherings and given rise to poisonous animosities that had contributed to destabilising the corporation.†   (source)
  • Johnson's vengeful policies toward the South were in direct contrast with what Lincoln had hoped for, and despite their earlier animosity toward each other, Stanton was keen to see Lincoln's wishes put in place.†   (source)
  • Because if it's about some personal animosity you hold toward me, perhaps you should consider recusing yourself from this case and let her enter her plea in front of an impartial judge:' Glass was a bully, and like all bullies, he became angry and confused when people stood up to him.†   (source)
  • But Pollard's animosity still burned.†   (source)
  • As the Japanese disappeared, soundlessly and without protest, the Negroes entered with their loud jukeboxes, their just-released animosities and the relief of escape from Southern bonds.†   (source)
  • Indeed, there is evidence that Philip Malloy's acts were indicative of some personal animosity he feels toward the homeroom teacher, Miss Narwin.†   (source)
  • The legislator and prosecutor, the zealous proponent and some would say manipulator of the law, the man who had repeatedly told representatives from the press that he was a reasonable person, one with no animosity toward the black race but simply a man who believed deeply in natural laws as God and the founding fathers of this great country had intended, was Andrew T. Judson, now a federal district judge appointed by President Martin Van Buren.†   (source)
  • On November 2, when Howe's army was still at White Plains, an American staff officer named William Demont (whom Mackenzie referred to as William Diamond), turned traitor, defecting to the British from Fort Washington and bringing with him copies he had made of plans of the fort and the placement of cannon, as well as accounts of the mounting discontent and animosity between the rebels from New England and those from the South.†   (source)
  • And to prove to Yossarian that they bore him no animosity, they even assigned him to fly lead bombardier with McWatt in the first formation when they went back to Bologna the next day.†   (source)
  • Some of the newsroom boys returned Riddle's animosity, but the fact that he owned some of the fastest and most noteworthy horses on earth led to a certain uneasy détente.†   (source)
  • Who would shield him against animosity and deceit, against people with ambition and the embittered snobbery of the big shot's wife, against the squalid, corrupting indignities of the profit motive and the friendly neighborhood butcher with inferior meat?†   (source)
  • Vicious animosity of a kind previously confined to newspaper attacks broke out in the first physical assault to occur in Congress.†   (source)
  • Beneath the polite English surface lay burning animosity, surmised Abigail, who, like John, felt she was taking part in an elaborate stage play.†   (source)
  • However deep-seated his animosity toward Franklin, Adams did truly treat him with decency and managed to work effectively with him as he had in times past.†   (source)
  • If nothing else, he could take his new reduced status as peace commissioner gallantly, put a good face on the matter, show no anger or disappointment, no animosity toward Congress or toward Franklin, and he urged Abigail to do the same.†   (source)
  • If it is a public trust or office, where they have equal rank and authority, there is a real danger of personal envy and even animosity.†   (source)
  • He berated Adams in nearly every way possible—for his "great intrinsic defects of character," his "disgusting egotism," weaknesses, vacillation, his "eccentric tendencies," his "bitter animosity" toward his own cabinet.†   (source)
  • Plural Executive: Animosity Inevitable†   (source)
  • No superior powers from other parts of the globe will ally with her rival nations, inflaming their mutual animosities.†   (source)
  • Yet party spirit and animosities were as alive as ever, as Adams had been shown in the bluntest of terms in little more than twenty-four hours since taking office.†   (source)
  • When a group of men appoint people to offices, all private and party friendships and animosities felt by the people in the group effects the choice.†   (source)
  • Ambitious leaders, human passions and diverse interests divide mankind into parties and inflame animosities.†   (source)
  • If someone tried to define the line between mental ability and inability, personal and party attachments and animosities would probably influence them more than the interests of justice.†   (source)
  • First, the convention must have been free from the destructive influence of party animosities—the disease of deliberative bodies that contaminates their proceedings.†   (source)
  • If a State retroactively changed the relative value of its money, it would injure the citizens of other States, kindling animosities among the States themselves.†   (source)
  • She said, "An entire and perfect union will be the solid foundation of lasting peace: It will secure your religion, liberty, and property; remove the animosities amongst yourselves, and the jealousies and differences betwixt our two kingdoms.†   (source)
  • When Faye came down from Sacramento and opened her house there was a flurry of animosity from the two incumbents.†   (source)
  • I know for once that I have done her good ....that I have awakened sympathies where before existed animosities.†   (source)
  • Alas, she came to realize that it was this perfectly innocuous fondness, containing no romantic overtone whatever, that Nathan misconstrued, adding fuel to his seething animosity.†   (source)
  • All of them eyed me with animosity.†   (source)
  • The bitter animosities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line which had engulfed Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton and Sam Houston continued unabated for some two decades after the war.†   (source)
  • He kept that apart from his family, though obviously through the early years of her adolescence she could not remain completely oblivious of his animosity toward Jews.†   (source)
  • But even if such narrowly focused animosity against an Oriental foe had not been real, most people could scarcely have known about the Nazi death camps, and this makes Steiner's ruminations all the more instructive.†   (source)
  • But his absence and his whereabouts did not seem to matter; in the same way, his devastating attractiveness made it seem of small importance that he had recently reviled Sophie and me in such an outpouring of animosity and spite that it had made us both physically ill.†   (source)
  • This was quietly done by Flora; Mr F.'s Aunt offering no resistance, but inquiring on her way out, 'What he come there for, then?' with implacable animosity.†   (source)
    animosity = hostile feeling
  • 'Do not, if you please, papa,' urged Fanny, 'call it animosity, because I assure you I do not consider Mrs General worth my animosity.'†   (source)
  • 'I am so unfortunate as to have awakened a strong animosity in the breast of that lady,' said Clennam.†   (source)
  • When the lion is awakened—that is to say, when I enrage—the satisfaction of my animosity is as acceptable to me as money.†   (source)
  • In a paroxysm of animosity and rapidity, Mr Pancks then caught the broad-brimmed hat out of the astounded Patriarch's hand, cut it down into a mere stewpan, and fixed it on the Patriarch's head.†   (source)
  • 'Fanny,' returned Mr Dorrit, 'I am amazed, I am displeased by this—hum—this capricious and unintelligible display of animosity towards—ha—Mrs General.'†   (source)
  • She now underwent a violent twitch, calculated to produce a startling effect on the nerves of the uninitiated, and with the deadliest animosity observed: 'You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it.†   (source)
  • An evil star occasioned Madame Rigaud to advert to her relations; I reasoned with her on that subject, and remonstrated on the want of duty and devotion manifested in her allowing herself to be influenced by their jealous animosity towards her husband.†   (source)
  • Because such a declaration as Clennam's, made at such a time, would certainly draw down upon him a storm of animosity, rendering it impossible to calculate on forbearance in the creditors, or on unanimity among them; and exposing him a solitary target to a straggling cross-fire, which might bring him down from half-a-dozen quarters at once.†   (source)
  • The Bishop had let the parish alone, giving their animosity plenty of time to cool.†   (source)
  • Or is his animosity impersonal-directed against a foreigner?†   (source)
  • She gives him a hug, forgetting all animosity, as do the other girls.†   (source)
  • With the exception of Hugo and Parritt, all their eyes are fixed on him with bitter animosity.†   (source)
  • His one eye met hers with an impersonal animosity.†   (source)
  • Two rangy shepherd dogs trotted up pleasantly, until they caught the scent of strangers, and then they backed cautiously away, watchful, their tails moving slowly and tentatively in the air, but their eyes and noses quick for animosity or danger.†   (source)
  • But she turned always into the South—the North for her was a land which she threatened often to explore, but which secretly she held in suspicion: there was in her no deep animosity because of an old war, her feeling was rather one of fear, distrust, alienation—the "Yankee" to whom she humorously referred was foreign and remote.†   (source)
  • The sight of that happy possessive gesture had aroused in Scarlett all the jealous animosity which had slumbered during the months when she had thought Ashley probably dead.†   (source)
  • She thrust it away again, but with less animosity.†   (source)
  • Duane divined that no sudden animosity was driving Bosomer.†   (source)
  • What was the meaning of the subtle animosity toward the bandit leader?†   (source)
  • If life's long enough," I muttered through my teeth with unreasonable animosity.†   (source)
  • She was aware that she had Lily to thank for it; and dull resentment was turned to active animosity.†   (source)
  • There was no longer a centre; everywhere there was competition and animosity.†   (source)
  • He resented Mrs. Cruncher's saying grace with particular animosity.†   (source)
  • These are opportunities for animosity which occur the oftener the more frequent elections become.†   (source)
  • Those huge creatures attacked each other with the greatest animosity.†   (source)
  • You seem to think that I have some animosity against young Mr. Tom; whereas I have none at all.†   (source)
  • Are division and animosity your natural terms, Richard?†   (source)
  • You, who have suffered so from the French, do not even feel animosity toward them.†   (source)
  • He bore an animosity towards the deceased gentleman.†   (source)
  • ] The Bank of the United States is nevertheless the object of great animosity.†   (source)
  • It was clear last night that this barbed the point of Provis's animosity.†   (source)
  • Freedom engenders private animosities, but despotism gives birth to general indifference.†   (source)
  • Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another when you do differ.†   (source)
  • In the only place where she was known she was surrounded by indifference or animosity; and what chance had she, inexperienced and untrained, among the million bread-seekers of the cities?†   (source)
  • And did not this animosity also play a role in the two dialecticians' attitude toward Pieter Peeperkorn?†   (source)
  • Yet Snap seemed greatly changed; the red flush, the swollen lines no longer showed in his face; evidently in his absence on the Navajo desert he had had no liquor; he was good-natured, lively, much inclined to joking, and he seemed to have entirely forgotten his animosity toward Hare.†   (source)
  • But Claggart's conscience being but the lawyer to his will, made ogres of trifles, probably arguing that the motive imputed to Billy in spilling the soup just when he did, together with the epithets alleged, these, if nothing more, made a strong case against him; nay, justified animosity into a sort of retributive righteousness.†   (source)
  • The deadly animosity of contemporary logic and vision towards so much of what he held in reverence was not yet revealed to him.†   (source)
  • They were wretched in themselves; the old animal hate moved them to trouble one another; the Law held them back from a brief hot struggle and a decisive end to their natural animosities.†   (source)
  • I know little of the facts, but I gather that a great noble (whom we will call, if you like, the D. of A.)* has some concern and is even supposed to feel some animosity in the matter.†   (source)
  • let this be constantly in mind, that, while from representations in these buildings of the product of field, of forest, of mine, of factory, letters, and art, much good will come, yet far above and beyond material benefits will be that higher good, that, let us pray God, will come, in a blotting out of sectional differences and racial animosities and suspicions, in a determination to administer absolute justice, in a willing obedience among all classes to the mandates of law.†   (source)
  • She began to remind him of his medicines, but he turned his eyes towards her with such a look that she did not finish what she was saying; so great an animosity, to her in particular, did that look express.†   (source)
  • Don't arouse this man's animosity.†   (source)
  • The real reason for his animosity toward me is that he loves Florence, and Florence is going to marry me.†   (source)
  • She is ready prey to any man who knows how to play adroitly either on her affectionate ardor or her Quixotic enthusiasm; and a man stands by with that very intention in his mind—a man with no other principle than transient caprice, and who has a personal animosity towards me—I am sure of it—an animosity which is fed by the consciousness of his ingratitude, and which he has constantly vented in ridicule of which I am as well assured as if I had heard it.†   (source)
  • "The bounty," returned the other, looking up at his attentive companion in a cool, sullen manner, in which, however, heartless cupidity and indifference to the means were far more conspicuous than any feelings of animosity or revenge.†   (source)
  • They formed a motley and heterogeneous admixture;—some petulant animosity, which was not yet hatred, some esteem, more respect, much fear, with a world of uneasy curiosity.†   (source)
  • Then, in darting at the monster, knife in hand, he had but given loose to a sudden, passionate, corporal animosity; and when he received the stroke that tore him, he probably but felt the agonizing bodily laceration, but nothing more.†   (source)
  • 'Why, there's Copperfield, mother,' he angrily retorted, pointing his lean finger at me, against whom all his animosity was levelled, as the prime mover in the discovery; and I did not undeceive him; 'there's Copperfield, would have given you a hundred pound to say less than you've blurted out!'†   (source)
  • For anything I knew, his animosity towards the man might otherwise lead to his seeking him out and rushing on his own destruction.†   (source)
  • Upon issuing forth from his subterranean retreat at the expiration of five minutes, he found the abbe seated upon a wooden stool, leaning his elbow on a table, while Margotin, whose animosity seemed appeased by the unusual command of the traveller for refreshments, had crept up to him, and had established himself very comfortably between his knees, his long, skinny neck resting on his lap, while his dim eye was fixed earnestly on the traveller's face.†   (source)
  • Not knowing his secret it was cruel mockery that she should for the first time excite his animosity when she had taken his surname.†   (source)
  • Prince Andrew did neither: a look of animosity appeared on his face and the other turned away and went down the side of the corridor.†   (source)
  • He had done this with so much unrelenting animosity that the inscription, ~Eduensis episcopus~, had become almost effaced.†   (source)
  • They repeatedly endeavoured to single out each other, spurred by mutual animosity, and aware that the fall of either leader might be considered as decisive of victory.†   (source)
  • He did not know how much of an old boyish repulsion and of mere personal pride and animosity was concerned in the bitter severity of the words by which he meant to do the duty of a son and a brother.†   (source)
  • The reputation of those hardy and powerful white adventurers, who so often penetrated the wilds inhabited by his people, was well known to him; but while he drew nigher, with the respect and caution that a brave enemy never fails to inspire, it was with the vindictive animosity of a red man, jealous and resentful of the inroads of the stranger.†   (source)
  • In the midst of the darkness of that gloomy night, and floating in an element so dangerous to man when engaged in deadly strife, they appeared to forget everything but their fell animosity and their mutual desire to conquer.†   (source)
  • He adopts its likings and its animosities, he hastens to anticipate its wishes, he forestalls its complaints, he yields to its idlest cravings, and instead of guiding it, as the legislature intended that he should do, he is ever ready to follow its bidding.†   (source)
  • As the animosity of fate would have it, there was a great influx of custom in the course of the afternoon.†   (source)
  • I swore to her, if ever it crossed my path, to hunt it down; never to let it rest; to pursue it with the bitterest and most unrelenting animosity; to vent upon it the hatred that I deeply felt, and to spit upon the empty vaunt of that insulting will by draggin it, if I could, to the very gallows-foot.†   (source)
  • Immediately eight swords glittered in the rays of the setting sun, and the combat began with an animosity very natural between men twice enemies.†   (source)
  • It was devilish awkward, as he said, and he felt a lively animosity for Catherine's aunt, who, as he had now quite formed the habit of saying to himself, had dragged him into the mess and was bound in common charity to get him out of it.†   (source)
  • The roach necessarily abhors the mode in which the pike gets his living, and the pike is likely to think nothing further even of the most indignant roach than that he is excellent good eating; it could only be when the roach choked him that the pike could entertain a strong personal animosity.†   (source)
  • Chingachgook arose, and for a single instant the ancient animosity of tribes was forgotten, in a feeling of colour; but he recollected himself in season to prevent any of the fierce consequences that, for a passing moment, he certainly meditated.†   (source)
  • Not improbably he was the best workman of his time; or, perhaps, the Colonel thought it expedient, or was impelled by some better feeling, thus openly to cast aside all animosity against the race of his fallen antagonist.†   (source)
  • Dorothea was not only the "preferred" woman, but had also a formidable advantage in being Lydgate's benefactor; and to poor Rosamond's pained confused vision it seemed that this Mrs. Casaubon—this woman who predominated in all things concerning her—must have come now with the sense of having the advantage, and with animosity prompting her to use it.†   (source)
  • Milady began to have doubts of the issue of this terrible duel, in which her enemies showed as much perseverance as she did animosity.†   (source)
  • Of a strong and fearless character, of shrewd sense and readiness, of great determination, of that kind of beauty which not only seems to impart to its possessor firmness and animosity, but to strike into others an instinctive recognition of those qualities; the troubled time would have heaved her up, under any circumstances.†   (source)
  • But when the field became thin by the numbers on either side who had yielded themselves vanquished, had been compelled to the extremity of the lists, or been otherwise rendered incapable of continuing the strife, the Templar and the Disinherited Knight at length encountered hand to hand, with all the fury that mortal animosity, joined to rivalry of honour, could inspire.†   (source)
  • The bill paid, and the waiter remembered, and the ostler not forgotten, and the chambermaid taken into consideration,—in a word, the whole house bribed into a state of contempt and animosity, and Estella's purse much lightened,—we got into our post-coach and drove away.†   (source)
  • "May Heaven forgive you, Hepzibah," said Judge Pyncheon,—reverently lifting his eyes towards that high court of equity to which he appealed,—"if you suffer any ancient prejudice or animosity to weigh with you in this matter.†   (source)
  • As unbelief appears to them to be a novelty, they comprise all that is new in one indiscriminate animosity.†   (source)
  • Looking at them Pierre realized what contempt and animosity they all felt for the Rostovs, and that it was impossible in their presence even to mention the name of her who could give up Prince Andrew for anyone else.†   (source)
  • They every instant impress upon his mind the notion that it is the duty, as well as the interest of men, to make themselves useful to their fellow-creatures; and as he sees no particular ground of animosity to them, since he is never either their master or their slave, his heart readily leans to the side of kindness.†   (source)
  • "I hope," said Mr. Kenge, "that the genial influence of Miss Summerson," he bowed to me, "may have induced Mr. Jarndyce," he bowed to him, "to forego some little of his animosity towards a cause and towards a court which are—shall I say, which take their place in the stately vista of the pillars of our profession?"†   (source)
  • An aristocracy seldom yields without a protracted struggle, in the course of which implacable animosities are kindled between the different classes of society.†   (source)
  • He himself is full of animosity and alarm; he finds that he is as a stranger in his own country, and he treats his subjects like conquered enemies.†   (source)
  • Democracy leads men not to draw near to their fellow-creatures; but democratic revolutions lead them to shun each other, and perpetuate in a state of equality the animosities which the state of inequality engendered.†   (source)
  • It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.†   (source)
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