revengefulness

Example Sentences

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His injustice, His revengefulness, His partiality were merely effects produced in your mind.

From The Hearts of Men by Fielding, H. (Harold)

The last thing of which he was conscious was the satanic revengefulness of her eyes.

From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)

My dear young lady," said Mr. Lavender soothingly, "you are not—you cannot be revengeful; for every great writer and speaker tells us that revengefulness is an emotion alien to the Allies, who are merely just.

From The Burning Spear by Galsworthy, John

And Auriole with the disposition to like him better than any man of her acquaintance suffered an entire reversal of feeling and went headlong to the other extreme in a spirit of unbecoming revengefulness.

From Men of Affairs by Pertwee, Roland

The whole Corsican character, with its stern love of justice, its furious revengefulness and wild passion for freedom, seems to be illustrated by the peculiar elements of grandeur and desolation in this landscape.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes