"Unforgiving" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... except, perhaps, a censure for carelessness, attaches to Jackson or his wife, and their whole life together was an example of conjugal affection. However, his enemies—and he had many—found it easy to strike at him through this unfortunate episode. There did not live a more implacable and unforgiving man, when his wife was slandered, ...
— South American Fights and Fighters - And Other Tales of Adventure • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... so far true; but, passionate and unforgiving as he was, he was not so reckless as to be regardless whether the stone did not come back ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XXIII. • Various
... been some dreadful mistake somewhere, ma'am," Agnes said gently, but firmly. "My father was an angel and a martyr. He was not proud or unforgiving, and he suffered, oh, so much! But if you tell me my uncle knew nothing of ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... have sunk awry. Some care, poor eagerness, ambition of work, Some old offence that unforgiving did lurk, Or some self-gratulation, soft and sly— Something not thy sweet will, not the good part, While the home-guard looked out, stirred up the old murk, And so I gloomed away ...
— A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul • George MacDonald
... plans, however, on such a feeble prop, Byrd hunted up the minister, whom he took to be a trifle less plebeian than most of the men, and obtained from him an endorsement of Miss Mason's views. The man of God, though stiff, was too conscientious to be unforgiving, and on receiving Stefan's explanation congratulated him sincerely, if with restraint. He did not know Shadeham personally, he explained, but he knew similar places, and doubted ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
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