"Resentment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... former patrons. It tells his story frankly and forcibly. Burke, however, was not a rich man, and was at one of the most exciting periods of his political career. His party was at last fighting its way to power by means of the general resentment against the gross mismanagement of their antagonists. A perfunctory discharge of the duty of charity would have been pardonable; but from the moment when Crabbe addressed Burke the poor man's fortune ...
— Hours in a Library - New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) • Leslie Stephen
... poor fellow had been fastened in a barrel and rolled down hill or nearly drowned in a ducking for their amusement. A chance had come to get mad and they were going to make the most of it. They began to growl with resentment. Some were wigging their leader Jack Armstrong to fight Abe. One of them ran to his horse and brought a bottle from his saddle-bag. It began passing from mouth to mouth. Jack Armstrong got the bottle ...
— A Man for the Ages - A Story of the Builders of Democracy • Irving Bacheller
... she replied, "I feel no resentment towards them, and I desire to meet in Paradise those who have been chiefly instrumental in taking ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - THE MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE
... able to disarm by flattery the resentment of a woman at a reception in Washington, who upbraided him for that plurality of wives so dear to Mormon ...
— Jokes For All Occasions - Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers • Anonymous
... truthful thrust Jeems Henry saw that further deceit would be futile and he faced Uncle Billy with sullen resentment. ...
— The Littlest Rebel • Edward Peple
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