wrath

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For he, his parents' fear and hope confest, With whom thou first wast made a mother blest, He wraths and swords designs, courageous grown; Now more his father's is, and more his own.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

But Louis Raincy nourished no historical wraths nor feudal jealousies.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Old carvers in the stone have cut   Forests and wraths and herds, And these are gold: the dials tell   The sun in golden words; The very jackdaws, from the towers   Wheeling, are golden birds.

From Preludes 1921-1922 by Drinkwater, John

There were deaf wraths within him, frenzies of interior rage, black and brooding flames unseen; he was a smoke-consuming man of passion.

From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor

Go through Paul's long and dismal catalogue of "the works of the flesh": "Fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, heresies, envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like."

From The Teaching of Jesus by Jackson, George