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Sentences starting with resentment

Resentment was easier when the distance between Mohair and Asquith separated us,--impossible on a yachting excursion. [9]
Resentment against the Swiss, hatred, and jealousy, had made him a knave, and at the same time the most shortsighted of fools. [10]
Resentment and wrath suddenly flamed in my soul, and before he could detain me I had left the room. [10]
Resentment showed in his face now. [11]
Resentment burned in her breast, she became suddenly blinded by tears: she might never see him again, and if only she were "educated" she might know him, become his friend. [9]
Resentment seized her. [11]

Sentences ending with resentment

She strove still to hide her resentment. [9]
Yet she felt that caution must mark her words, and that nothing but danger lay in resentment. [11]
One thing was present, however, at times, and when it rushed over her in its fulness, it shook her as the wind shakes the leaf on a tree--a sense of indignation, of anger, or resentment. [11]
Contempt had been poured upon him, his feelings had been outraged, and there was no way in which he could show his resentment. [4]
She was conscious of a slight resentment. [9]
In the past long year he had nursed resentment. [13]
He had isolated himself in a lazaretto of self-reproach and resentment. [11]
But as Hodder glanced from the derelict beside him a wave of comprehension passed through him that swept him clean of indignation, of resentment. [9]
They had emerged from their isolation to tempt popular favour, had contrived many designs and ambitions, and in the midst of their largest hopes were humiliated, and were followed by resentment. [11]
These were presently followed by a more disciplined fusillade; which presently, in turn, was met by hisses and some raucous cries of resentment. [11]

Sentences containing resentment two or more times

True, resentment did stir within me as it does in every woman whose lover scorns her; but the misfortune that befell you speedily transformed resentment into compassion, and fanned the old flames anew. [10]

More example sentences with the word resentment in them

True, he had yielded reluctantly to this arrangement of his parents' old friend, and neither she nor Daphne had hitherto succeeded in soothing the fierce resentment against fate which filled his soul after the loss of his sight and his dearest friend. [10]
Her face flushed with a resentment far greater than that of Rudyard's, and it was heightened by a humiliation which overwhelmed her. [11]
Shorter," said Honora, whose surprise had given place to a very natural resentment, since she had not the honour of knowing Mrs. Grainger. [9]
Would the resentment which, since the day before, had again filled her soul have permitted her to prevent it had she possessed the power? [10]
Self-will and resentment were in his tone. [11]
Indignation and resentment were good things to stiffen a man's back. [11]
When, before their wedding day, he gave his nieces the diadems which Jammtzer had made for them, his resentment concerning the ornament sold by Barbara again awoke. [10]
Whether this change was wrought by their great approval of the assault upon Sumter, or their great resentment at the government's resistance to that assault, is not definitely known. [7]
Another resentment, however, was steadily rising in him. [11]
Then every reproach was forgotten, and resentment was transformed into doubly ardent longing. [10]
No, his resentment was against one he had never seen, but was now soon to see. [11]
Deep resentment seized upon her, but she soon succeeded in conquering it; only the question what she had to give her suitor in return for his loyal love could not be silenced. [10]
Well, I didn't understand, I had no pity, in that hour I felt a resentment almost amounting to hate; I could see only unreasoning superstition in the woman I wanted above everything in the world. [9]
She bore the trial as long as she could; she used pride and resentment against it; but at last she could not bear it, and with Mela's help she wrote a letter, bantering Beaton on his stay in New York, and playfully boasting of Saratoga. [8]
When he came to that point his resentment went higher. [11]
Gradually she began to realize, however, that her resentment of the lack of confidence of her husband was by no means the only cause of the feeling that took possession of and overwhelmed her. [9]
I am grateful to him still, for it is due to this kindness that I can think without resentment of those whose severity robbed me of six months of my life. [10]
Sobbing aloud, she threw herself at his feet, confessed that she was guilty, and remorsefully admitted that fear of his resentment, which seemed to her more terrible than death, had induced her to deny what she had done. [10]
What marvel if they should choose him for the target of their resentment and revenge? [10]
So bitter was the resentment which filled his soul that he could not bring himself to seek her on the following day; but she awaited him with the sorrowful fear that she had saddened the return of her best and truest friend. [10]
On first receiving the news, under the influence of indignation and resentment the Emperor had found a phrase that pleased him, fully expressed his feelings, and has since become famous. [2]
She looked at the money awhile with a steady rising resentment, then she burst out with: "Dad blame dat revival, I wisht it had 'a' be'n put off till tomorrow! [5]
It was, however, the hardness of resentment, and not of cruelty. [11]
And what between the foul air and my resentment, and apprehension lest John Paul would come hither after me, I was in prodigious discomfort of body and mind. [9]
March wore through the day gloomily, but he had it on his conscience not to show any resentment toward Watkins, whom he suspected of wishing to supplant him, and even of working to do so. [8]
It is natural that you should have a resentment against me after everything that has happened. [9]
Under the open taunts of his colleagues, a deep resentment had taken possession of him that his work, so hard to do, so important and critical, should have been circumvented by the indiscretions of his wife. [11]
Deep resentment had taken possession of him. [10]
She resented the subterfuge in him, but she made no comment because his perplexity, his embarrassment were gratifying to her resentment, were restoring her self-possession, giving her a sense of power. [9]
Summoning all her strength of will, she silenced the bitter resentment which filled her heart, and a sunny glance told Duke Maurice how much his escort pleased her. [10]
He might have softened the growing resentment by a change of manner, but his intellectual arrogance had control of him for the moment; and he said to himself that he had mastered the House before, and he would do so now. [11]
So completely was she mistress of herself that presently he felt a certain faint resentment rising within him,--yet he asked himself why she should not have been. [9]
It was when she asked herself what his intentions were that her resentment burned, pride and a sense of her own value convinced her that he had deeply insulted her in not offering marriage. [9]
Confused with her shame was the memory of a delirious joy, yet no sooner would she give herself up, trembling, to this memory when in turn it was penetrated by qualms of resentment, defiling its purity. [9]
But if I see aright, the resentment will not last when you, like the man, go out of the cave and your darkness also passes away. [10]
Ay, she was roused to fury, and yet she felt how completely this passionate resentment contradicted her whole nature. [10]
It was a resentment whose origin was not a mere personal wrong to him, but the betrayal of all that invaded his honour and the honour of his country. [11]
It roused a resentment that could not find any words to give it expression. [6]
Her bitterness, her resentment had its origin in the fact that he did not understand--and yet in his crude big way he had really understood better than Ian Stafford. [11]
Patty felt no resentment for my miss's haughty conduct, but only a tearful penitence for having been the cause of a strife between us. [9]
He had a resentment against the crime which had been committed. [11]
He bore no resentment after the first tingling moments were-past; he rather admired her for it; and he would have been ready to go back half an hour later and accept pardon and be on the footing of last summer again. [8]
It was, therefore, rather with resentment than otherwise that the approaching arrival of Mr. Cooke and the guests he was likely to have at Mohair were looked upon. [9]
A hot resentment ran through her at the thought. [9]
Some tremor of pity for her entered into my consciousness, without mitigating greatly the wildness of my resentment, of my forebodings. [9]
It was a petty resentment, but George Fournel had set his heart upon playing the grand-seigneur over the Frenchmen of Pontiac, and of ultimately leaving his fortune to the parish, if they all fell down and worshipped him and his "golden calf. [11]
A strange sensation, partly pleasure, partly resentment, passed through the crowd. [11]
Like a flash of lightning, Kuni, whose kind heart cherished resentment against few and wished no one any evil, suddenly felt an ardent desire to drive the little witch from Lienhard's side, even by force, if necessary. [10]
Whenever he thought of it, his pulses beat faster with indignation, and a deep resentment possessed him. [11]
Honora was conscious of conflicting emotions: astonishment, resentment, and--most curiously--of relief that the little woman knew it. [9]
The sorrowful feeling of being misunderstood and unjustly condemned, mingled with fear of the terrible fate to which she might be sentenced by the omnipotent sovereign, whose clear intellect was clouded by jealousy and the resentment of a mother's wounded heart, paralyzed her tongue. [10]
With the assistance of a bad cook and a constant spleen caused by resentment against the intervention of his priest, good Father Roche, he finished his career with great haste and without either becoming a nuisance to his neighbours or ruining his property. [11]
Her speech did not reveal all the pain and resentment she felt. [9]
But she felt no resentment now, only a fierce exultation at having dared. [9]
And some of my old resentment rekindled. [9]
Little by little my anger at what I had now become convinced was her weakness cooled, and--though paradoxically I had continued to love her in spite of the torture for which she was responsible, in spite of the resentment I felt, I melted toward her. [9]
Mrs. Plimpton had moved towards her, as if to speak, but Alison hurried past, her exaltation suddenly shattered, replaced by a rising tide of resentment, of angry amazement against a materialism so solid as to remain unshaken by the words which had so uplifted her. [9]
From resentment to me she cured the man whom I hated. [10]
The injuries Mr. Marmaduke had done me were the first to collect, since I was searching for the cause of my resentment against him. [9]
This heightened Mrs. March's resentment toward both Lindau and Dryfoos, who between them had placed her husband in a false position. [8]
As for Mrs. March herself, the thought of his mutilation made her a little faint; she was not without a bewildered resentment of its presence as a sort of oppression. [8]
He was a man of strange whims and vanities, and his resentment at his exclusion from the Seigneury of Pontiac had become a fixed idea. [11]
Holder, as he looked at her, had a flash of fierce resentment that now, of all times, she should suddenly have flung herself across his path. [9]
Probably the resentment lies in the recognition of the truth that it is much easier to be charitable than to be just. [4]
Too much kindness leads to false paths scarcely more surely than the contrary, and the Emperor's cruel decision destroyed and hardened many of the best feelings in Barbara's heart, and prepared a place for resentment and hatred. [10]
Or did the lad cling to his kindred, and was it wrath and resentment at hearing them so bitterly reviled which made his color vary from red to pale and roused such a tumult in his soul that he was scarcely capable of speech? [10]
He entered fully into March's sense of the joke latent in Mr. Hubbell's proposition, and he tried to make Mrs. March believe that he shared her resentment of the indignity offered her husband. [8]
His pensiveness passed into gloom, and was degenerating into sulky resentment when he went away, after several failures to get back to the old ground he had held in relation to Alma. [8]
She is not influenced by awe of their greatness, or fear of their resentment, in the assistance she affords them. [4]
The very manner in which Iras and Alexas whispered together, without heeding her presence, boded peril, for courtiers show such contempt only to those whom they know are threatened with the indifference or resentment of the sovereign. [10]
She was thorough in all that she said or did; yet so open and fair in dealing with a subject, or contending with an opponent, that instead of rousing resentment, she merely convinced her hearers of her earnest zeal for the truth and right. [14]
He felt the implication; he knew that, without realizing his difficulties, and carried on by a feeling long pent up, she had measured him unjustly, and yet he felt no resentment, and no shock. [9]
I had encountered him occasionally in court corridors or on the street; he did not seem to change much; nor did he appear in our brief and perfunctory conversations to bear any resentment against me for the part I had taken in the Galligan affair. [9]
Inexperience had led her to belittle them, and the absorbing nature of her work, the excitement due to the strange life of conflict, of new ideas, into which she had so unreservedly flung herself, the resentment that galvanized her--all these had diverted her from worry. [9]
The failure of her expectation of seeing her rival trampled in the dust had transformed her jealous resentment into hatred, and though she was her niece, she even transferred a portion of it to Charmian, who had placed herself between her and her victim. [10]
And for my help, a sharp resentment rises in me when I reflect that he who committed that odious crime is the only one who has not suffered by it. [5]
She knew that he was right, and listened with pleasure, deeply as resentment and disappointment burdened her soul. [10]
The resentment which he thought he had conquered again awoke. [10]
With fierce resentment he grasped her hand, which lay on the rope, pressed it violently in his strong clasp, and exclaimed, "Stop, mad woman, that I may not be forced to think of you as a poisonous serpent and repulsive spider! [10]
In any case, he felt justified in cherishing resentment against Barine, and with the number of goblets which he drained his jealous rage increased. [10]
On the other hand, a resentment boiled within her his masculine mind failed to fathom. [9]
Why, after she had summoned up courage and approached Lienhard to restore his gift, had she felt such keen resentment and bitter suffering when the landlord of The Blue Pike stopped her? [10]
Some of these had grievances against Mr. Worthington or Mr. Flint; others, in more prosperous circumstances, might have been moved by envy of these gentlemen; still others might have been actuated largely by righteous resentment at what they deemed oppression by wealth and power. [9]
If, however, he had been told that another man was thinking of his wife, he would have believed it, as he believed now that David had done; and he cherished that belief, and let resentment grow. [11]
Temptations to conspiracy had been few since the day George Fournel, wounded and morose, left the Manor House secretly one night, and carried back to Quebec his resentment and his injuries. [11]
This great, pure grief had come just at the right time, flowing, like oil upon the storm-lashed waves, over hatred, resentment, and all the passionate emotions by which she had previously been driven to the verge of despair. [10]
But gradually, as from time to time she glanced covertly at Hannah's face, her resentment gave way to apprehension. [9]
The dog looked foolish, and probably felt so; but there was resentment in his heart, too, and a craving for revenge. [5]
Nevertheless, the letter filled Honora with a deep apprehension and a deeper resentment. [9]
Stubbornness and resentment filled Francois's breast. [11]
A flush of fierce resentment crossed over his face. [11]
He had not even been permitted to take leave of his beloved companion with unmixed grief; fierce resentment had mingled with his trouble. [10]
This was not easy, for she had cherished her resentment against this woman's husband, through whom she had experienced bitter suffering, for many years. [10]
Our resentment was directed, not so much against Commissioner Greenhalge as against Krebs. [9]
Love was as dead as last year's leaves--so dead that no spirit of resentment, or humiliation, or pain of heart was in his breast at this sight of her again. [11]
I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception. [5]
She feels her color mounting, even as her resentment rises at his self-possession, and yet she would have despised him had he shown self-consciousness in gait or manner in the sight of her assembled guests. [9]
Hence the unfortunate circumstance that Antony had given Barine the counterpart of an armlet which she herself wore as a gift from her lover, was perhaps the principal cause of her bitter resentment against the hapless woman. [10]
The few who came to offer sympathy, with curiousness in their eyes and as much inhumanity as pity in their hearts, were turned back gently but firmly, more than once with proud resentment. [11]
It enraged me, but my resentment was diminished. [10]

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