Use wrath in a sentence
Sentences starting with wrath
- Wrath against himself preyed upon him, and when he thrust a spear into the flames, scattering the embers and sending a shower of bright sparks upward, it was rage at his own wavering will that guided his hand. [10]
Sentences ending with wrath
- No gentle, tender-hearted woman laughed like that; but she was grand, splendid, wonderful in her wrath. [10]
- There was silence while one might count ten --the master was gathering his wrath. [5]
- Pentaur's hot spirit was full of wrath. [10]
- Deceived by a vision, provoked and annoyed by my brother, I caused him to be murdered in my wrath. [10]
- I have tried, tried thousands and thousands of times; at--Richtberg, here, everywhere--deep as was my wrath! [10]
- She now desired to know who the murderer was who had attacked him, and cursed him with impetuous wrath. [10]
- Many years hast thou angered me by thy coldness, hardness and obstinacy; to-day thou hast wounded me again in my most sacred feelings; this hurried me into an excess of wrath. [10]
- As we read these words the blood faded from Ann's cheek; but I set my teeth, for I may confess that Herdegen's ways and words roused my wrath. [10]
- Was it because the star was hid awhile, That I in blindness wandered from my path; That I wooed Folly with her mumming smile, And sought for Lethe in a cup of wrath? [11]
- They had seen the Colonel angry before, but now they were fairly withered under his wrath. [9]
Short sentences using wrath
- Then his wrath exploded. [9]
- His wrath was boundless. [5]
Sentences containing wrath two or more times
- Conscience--the old kind of conscience,--and nothing inherent in the deeds themselves, made the tragedy; conscience was superstition, the fear of the wrath of the gods: conscience was the wrath of the gods. [9]
- The wrath of London is not French wrath, but has a long memory, and in hottest heat a register and rule. [6]
More example sentences with the word wrath in them
- Probably it was you, too, who had him flung into the water, after you had vented your wrath on him? [10]
- Then, just as you begin to half hope he is going to discover the cause of it and launch hot bolts of wrath at the guilty manufacturers of it, you have to turn away disappointed. [5]
- There it was written that the vehemence flashing from the hero's bright eyes, even when peacefully inclined, showed how easily his wrath could break forth. [10]
- The spirit of wrath--not the words--is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. [5]
- And beneath this wrath, stimulating and energizing it the more, was the ache in his soul from the loss for which he held these enemies responsible. [9]
- This caused fresh wrath, and he furiously crushed the topmost sheet, already half covered with writing, and hurled it on the floor. [10]
- He grinned with wrath, and caught at a tumbler, as if he would have thrown it or its contents at the speaker. [6]
- Her eyes blazed with a wrath new to their tenderness, and, stepping back and stamping her foot; she cried out: "She shall not go! [4]
- Let each one who feels too weak to control his wrath, avoid the Circus; and those who go, keep still if they feel moved to act in my behalf. [10]
- The people were white with wrath, and it tied their tongues for the moment, and they could not speak. [5]
- One is that which regards this world as only a waste and a desert, across the sands of which we are merely fugitives, fleeing from the wrath to come. [4]
- We might as well leave out the wrath of Achilles from the Iliad, as the anger of the President with Sumner from the story of Motley's dismissal. [6]
- And if there was surging and wrath in her breast not less was there in mine. [10]
- Countess Cordula, who was on friendly terms with Eva, also emptied the vials of her wrath with all the impetuosity of her nature upon Sir Seitz Siebenburg and the credulity and malice of the people. [10]
- But Emperor Charles was not the man to allow matters which aroused his wrath and strong disapproval to pass unpunished. [10]
- But his purpose was not fulfilled, for suddenly, flaming with passionate wrath, she thrust the purse aside, groaning: "Not an obol of the accursed destruction of souls shall come back to Hanno, nor even into the family store. [10]
- Nevertheless, to-day Xanthe was angry with her playfellow, and a maiden's wrath has two eyes--one blind, the other keener than a falcon's. [10]
- France: Emerson's first visit, 62, 63; philosophers, 76; Revolution, 80; tired of Napoleon, 207, 208; realism, 326; wrath, 385, 386. [6]
- My wrath flared up, for our house this day was of a certainty the last where such merriment was fitting. [10]
- Bitter wrath rose up in his soul at this thought, as it had often done before, with the immortals, against whom he, the all-powerful, was impotent. [10]
- It was close to the wrath that had first shaken her in the beginning of this war waged upon her. [13]
- No tears came to relieve his grief, for the insult offered him that day aroused his wrath, and he cherished it as if it were a consolation. [10]
- Comets were portents to Increase Mather, President of Harvard College; "preachers of Divine wrath, heralds and messengers of evil tidings to the world. [6]
- Barbara gave way to her wrath and, while vehemently forbidding the unseemly jibe, glanced with a bitter smile toward the Emperor, who, in conversation with the two dignitaries, seemed to have forgotten everything around him. [10]
- Where was she to go, whither flee, now that his wrath was turned against her? [9]
- Macrinus repeated this to Caesar with a shrug of his shoulders, but he withheld the remark added by the venerable elder of the ambassadors, that they did not fear a foe who by so vile a deed had incurred the wrath of the gods. [10]
- Orion was accustomed to be treated in his own country as the heir of the greatest man in it; the color mounted to his brow and his Egyptian heart revolted at having to bend his pride and swallow his wrath before an Arab. [10]
- The Member resented this unparliamentary treatment by jumping up from his chair and giving the small aggressor a good shaking, at the same time seizing the implement which had caused his wrath and breaking it into splinters. [6]
- He had referred them to Moses' decision, and his desire that it might be adverse to him was intensified, as his young wife's self-reliant glance stirred fresh wrath in his soul. [10]
- The chatter in the room was hushed, and for a moment a dangerous wrath flamed in Miss Sadler's eyes. [9]
- The first flush, the raging of Venters's wrath, passed, to leave him in sullen, almost cold possession of his will. [13]
- The chin of the little man with beardless face and hollow cheeks had even begun to tremble, and this was usually the precursor of an outburst of sudden wrath which sometimes overpowered him to such a degree that he committed acts which he afterwards regretted. [10]
- The vein on the little doctor's high forehead swelled with wrath as he listened to this boastful chatter, which did not cease until the first dish was served. [10]
- She had stifled the leap of her wrath, but for perhaps the first time in her life a bitter derision curled her lips. [13]
- The wrath of the Jacobite faction now hastened the end. [10]
- What was it that we saw in Washington on his knees at Valley Forge, or blazing with wrath at the cowardice on Monmouth? [4]
- Jane Withersteen realized that the spirit of wrath and war had lain dormant in her. [13]
- But just at that moment Alderman McWelter, full of wrath, stepped in. [5]
- Besides, you know that Caesar is not himself when he is in wrath. [10]
- And the fact that Austen Vane had seemingly not spoken in wrath, although forcefully enough to compel him to listen, had increased Mr. Flint's anger. [9]
- Mark how the tender-hearted mothers read The messages of love between the lines Of the same page that loads the bitter tongue Of him who deals in terror as his trade With threatening words of wrath that scorch like flame! [6]
- Thus ended the tale of poor Gertrude; but before I had half told it my wrath had cooled. [10]
- We need not take those conversational utterances which called down the wrath of Mr. Swinburne, and found expression in an epigram which violates all the proprieties of literary language. [6]
- Resentment and wrath suddenly flamed in my soul, and before he could detain me I had left the room. [10]
- At some distance stood a circle of court-officials, in whose faces it was easy to read that they were afraid of their ruler's wrath, and preferred keeping as far from him as possible. [10]
- She thought this somewhat insulting, and her blood boiled with wrath. [10]
- Thereupon, the old soldier walked up to them and cut all their throats, sweetly, and without wrath (doulcement et sans cholere). [3]
- After Ledscha had so lately reminded the lover who so vehemently roused her jealous wrath what this night of the full moon meant to her, she could rely upon his appearance in spite of everything. [10]
- Used to the sights of war as he was, the soldier ground his teeth with wrath at this scene. [10]
- I knew that she was powerless to save me from the wrath to come. [9]
- At this thought she tried to release her hand, but he would not let it go; for the deaconess had come close to Agatha, and, in a tone of sanctimonious wrath, desired her to quit this scene. [10]
- Whether it were shame or wrath, he saw that he had reached some deep-lying centre of emotion. [6]
- In order to secure the only suitable site for the statues to be erected to Cleopatra's honour and fame, I enter into judgment with her foes, expose myself to the insult with which boastful insolence is permitted to vent its wrath upon me. [10]
- Still, his own safety was more precious to him than the wishes of any living mortal; so he began by pouring out, on both, the vials of his wrath at the bad management of the town. [10]
- When Jane Withersteen rose from that storm of wrath and prayer for help she was serene, calm, sure--a changed woman. [13]
- But she was resolved to do so, to draw the wrath of her relations down on herself, and, if need should be, to relate all she had seen in the course of the night, to save her devoted servant. [10]
- The head cook, rejoiced at the unwonted graciousness of a master whose wrath had often fallen on him, led the way to his kitchen hearth. [10]
- No man had received so many punishments in the whole army, none had risen so superior to them as had he, none had ever been shielded from wrath present and to come as had this bandmaster of Anstruther's regiment. [11]
- Even the soldier's quickly awakened wrath had long since subsided into composure. [10]
- And now the pride of his manhood rebelled, and it seemed base cowardice to cast aside, from dread of a woman's wrath and censure, all that a warrior held most dear. [10]
- He was evidently pleased at his own display of anger and walking up to the regiment wished to find a further excuse for wrath. [2]
- But had she permitted them to flow uncontrolled, they would have been those of wrath and insulted womanly dignity, not of grief and longing. [10]
- At this moment Pentaur, full of wrath, stepped between them. [10]
- If he grants pardon to these unfortunate ones, it shall be a sign to me that I may be permitted to shield others from his wrath. [10]
- Yet her vehement outburst of wrath had startled him also, and a doubt arose in his mind as to what matrimonial life might be with a companion who, in spite of her youth, ventured to oppose elderly, dignified men so irritably and sharply. [10]
- It was no ordinary spectacle, when these two men, who, towering far above their fellow-citizens, not only in stature, but moral earnestness and enthusiastic devotion to the cause of liberty, declared their opinions and expressed their wrath. [10]
- When Eykhen, the officer of the general staff whom he had summoned, appeared, Kutuzov went purple in the face, not because that officer was to blame for the mistake, but because he was an object of sufficient importance for him to vent his wrath on. [2]
- Could Caracalla approve of this most horrible crime, organized by the wretch Zminis, by appearing on the scene; or might it not be that, in his wrath at the bloodthirsty zeal of his vile tool, he had come to dismiss him? [10]
- Suddenly, on one of the officers' saying that it was humiliating to look at the French, Rostov began shouting with uncalled-for wrath, and therefore much to the surprise of the officers: "How can you judge what's best? [2]
- She was full of righteous wrath against the sanguinary persecutor, and holding her head high she went back into her sleeping-room to finish dressing. [10]
- In the transports of his wrath he sent forth a roar, enough to shake the very hills. [4]
- An obscure consciousness of having insulted the god and incurred his wrath lurked in every soul. [10]
- Hermon's mute nod of assent answered the question, but she exclaimed: "The unhappy woman, who called down the wrath of Nemesis upon you, and who has now herself fallen a prey to the avenging goddess. [10]
- The former did not give up the cause as lost, though he did not spare reproaches, while his wife's wrath was directed against the informer rather than the offence committed by her favourite. [10]
- If you do not desire to be weaker than the woman whose opposition roused your wrath, sacrifice your own wishes for the welfare of yonder thousands, who are of the same blood! [10]
- Popular wrath does not continue to boil, and many changes will take place in the year before the Legislature meets again. [9]
- Often she would not cease her entreaties and representations, and when she even complained that she was dying of solitude and weariness, his veins swelled with wrath, and then she was frightened, fled to her room and wept. [10]
- Yet found she not a word in reply; and while Ursula was speaking, meseemed in the fullness of my wrath and grief as though a cloud were rising before my eyes. [10]
- No sudden wrath, no ardent desire, no weariness or aversion urges or delays them. [10]
- The day of Nahoum's wrath and revenge was not yet come; it was his deep design to lay the foundation for his own dark actions strong on a rock of apparent confidence and devotion. [11]
- And now all my pent-up wrath against this little man broke forth. [9]
- This was intolerable--this must be averted--the mere thought of being beaten on this ground roused the idolaters to wrath and malice. [10]
- Ay, look at me as though my frank speech was rousing the greatest wrath in your cowardly soul! [10]
- Here was a man--a fanatic, if he liked--but still a man who positively did not fear him, to whom his wrath and power were as nothing! [9]
- For he had made a great noise in the world since then, and the wrath of such men as my late patron was heavy upon him. [9]
- Spare him, O Lord; deliver him, O Lord, from Thy wrath! [11]
- Had she been looking all along for a sign--a sign of wrath? [9]
- The burning eyes looked out at Hodder curiously, as at a being upon whom the vials of wrath were somehow wasted, against whom the weapons of power were of no account. [9]
- It was no longer a vision of the bewitching sovereign nay, it resembled the incarnation of despair, tearless anguish, wrath demanding vengeance. [10]
- But during the long moment while he watched her there was nothing commonplace in the slow-gathering might of his wrath. [13]
- I can, at least, sympathize with Isaiah's wrath. [9]
- Not the stained laurel such as heroes wear That withers when some stronger conqueror's heel Treads down their shrivelling trophies in the dust; But the fair garland whose undying green Not time can change, nor wrath of gods or men! [6]
- 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]
- The wrath of King James was probably never cooled against tobacco, but the expression of it was somewhat tempered when he perceived what a source of revenue it became. [4]
- So ended Mrs Jarley's wrath, which subsided long before the going down of the sun. [12]
- They rouse my inmost soul to wrath, and I have other matters to discuss with you. [10]
- Let his manifold infirmities come between him and Thy judgment; in wrath remember mercy! [6]
- It was late in the afternoon before I reached the town, the town set down among the hills like a caldron boiling over with the wrath of Franklin. [9]
- But she succeeded in curbing her wrath, and displaying intense eagerness, as she shaded her eyes with her hand and gazed toward some ships that appeared in view. [10]
- He pronounced judgments in a grand and airy fashion, but as if he were speaking by a card, the Don Quixote whose mercy would be vaster than his wrath. [11]
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