Use enmity in a sentence
Sentences starting with enmity
- Enmity or hatred seems also to be a highly persistent feeling, perhaps more so than any other that can be named. [1]
Sentences ending with enmity
- He well knew who had brought all these stories to the others, and answered Xaver's malicious spite with open enmity. [10]
- I am forbidden to return to the British Isles or to the land of my birth, forbidden free traffic as a citizen, hammered out of recognition by the strokes of enmity. [11]
- It is harder to fight against cunning weakness than against honest enmity. [10]
- The mutilated dignity of his manhood, the broken pride of a lifetime, the bitterness in his heart need not be held in check in dealing with the man who waited to give him a last thrust of enmity. [11]
- The war cannot last for ever, and if Mena returns the reconciliation of to-day will turn to all the more bitter enmity. [10]
- The prince--what roused his enmity. [10]
- He had shown her nothing but kindness and yet how unhesitatingly, how openly she had displayed her enmity. [10]
- Honora had not been able to raise her voice against the purchase, and she seemed powerless now to warn her husband of the man's enmity. [9]
Short sentences using enmity
- It roused his enmity now. [11]
More example sentences with the word enmity in them
- And I promised, with my hand on my heart, that if all who felt no enmity toward me would come forward and pass before me they should see that only those who remained behind would be struck dead. [5]
- Both had crossed this threshold for the first time for four years, that is since the marriage of Mena with Nefert, and the old enmity seemed now to have given way to heartfelt reconciliation and mutual understanding. [10]
- The enmity of this man must be regarded as a long credit mark to Smith. [4]
- The climax to their enmity at school had come one day when Terry was seized with a cramp while bathing, and after having gone down twice was rescued by Jopp, who dragged him out by the hair of the head. [11]
- Most important was the enmity of the Jesuits, whose hatred of Puritanism cried out for sacrifice. [11]
- I must leave the country which has become my home, the city where prejudice and enmity greeted me, and where I have now obtained the position that befits me. [10]
- It's no little shame to me, Elder Tull, that through my friendship he has roused the enmity of my people and become an outcast. [13]
- The old man seemed to measure her height in a glance which struck to her heart with its fierce enmity, and then he said deliberately: "On the morning of the nuns' flight the accused, Paula, went to the convent and there tolled the bell. [10]
- He came frankly repenting his old enmity, and though Philip did not quite believe him, some perverse temper, some obliquity of vision which overtakes the ablest minds at times, made him almost eagerly accept his new partisan. [11]
- There was no reason why he should provoke the enmity of the parish unnecessarily; and up to this-point Pomfrette had shifted for himself after a fashion, if a hard fashion. [11]
- This pleased the minister of war, but procured the enmity of all the mothers in the land; for they said their precious ones must now find bloody graves in the fields of war, and he would be answerable for it. [5]
- For, underneath her kindest words,--and they are kind sometimes,--I can detect the note of enmity, of calculating scorn. [11]
- The other mendicants, however, treated her so roughly, and the cruel enmity with which they tried to crowd her out of her place seemed so unbearable, that she could not hold out. [10]
- The enmity they have driven out, seems to leave as it were a freshly-healed wound which must be touched with caution; and Setchem is of thy own blood, and kind-hearted. [10]
- At first he had tried neither to speak to nor look at her, but that morning, while raising a refreshing cup to his parched lips, he had cast at her from the one eye whose lid still moved a glance whose enmity still haunted her. [10]
- At first he had shown a positive enmity to her, and even asked Sister Hildegard for another nurse; but no suitable substitute for Eva could be found. [10]
- For myself, I feel his enmity on every hand. [11]
- There was no enmity shown the Frenchmen, for many remembered what had once made Iberville popular in New York. [11]
- I have been educated to enmity toward every thing that is Catholic, and sometimes, in consequence of this, I find it much easier to discover Catholic faults than Catholic merits. [5]
- He can have cherished no enmity, on personal grounds at least. [6]
- Or shall you cherish enmity against me? [11]
- Fly to a brother's aid whoever he may be, exhort him who goeth astray, raise him that falleth, never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother. [2]
- Afterwards came the benediction upon this buccaneering expedition, behind which was one man's personal enmity, a merchant company's cupidity, and a great nation's lust of conquest! [11]
- She sat gazing at the floor with a freezing gaze, and bitter enmity towards her sister, hatred towards Pollux, contempt for her father's miserable weakness, and her own utter blindness, rang wild changes in her soul. [10]
- The wife of an oyster-fisher from Rozel Bay, who lived in hourly enmity with the oyster-fishers of Carteret, gashed his cheek with the shell of an ormer. [11]
- All in all, a handsome, haughty, calculating man, whose friendship would hardly benefit the heart, but from whose enmity may the immortals guard all we love! [10]
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