revengefulness

Example Sentences

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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

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

It is scarcely possible for them to deal with the hypocrisy and jealousy, revengefulness and cant that broke a man's life and a nation's cause.

From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Warren, Arthur

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)