"Resentment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... These directions were accompanied and intermingled with numerous threats as to what he would do if Vijal dared to fail in any particular. The Malay listened calmly, showing none of that impatience and haughty resentment which he formerly used to manifest toward John, and quietly promised to ...
— Cord and Creese • James de Mille
... at her best. She cannot cook; she will not sew. She washes dishes Mondays and Tuesdays under protest, while the nurse and parlor maid are called off from their natural avocations, and dusts the drawing-room with obedient resentment. She sits cutting out underclothes in the March vacations, when all the schools are closed, and when the heavy wagons from the distant farming region stick in the bottomless Andover mud in front of the professor's house. The big front door is ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 • Various
... quick to condemn, sir," he said, coldly. "Permit me to hope that Monsieur Lacheneur will be less severe than yourself; and that his resentment—just, I confess, will vanish before"—he hesitated—"before a ...
— The Honor of the Name • Emile Gaboriau
... of climbing that rough place," Burgess protested, with a sharp glance of resentment at the big young fellow who ...
— A Master's Degree • Margaret Hill McCarter
... disorder. The chairman, the candidates, the ladies, the whole house rose, and one man towards the front made himself heard amid the babel to the effect that the ladies ought to walk out to show their resentment of the insults that had been offered their ...
— Some Everyday Folk and Dawn • Miles Franklin
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