"Retaliative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The result of that conference was, that Gabelle again withdrew himself to his housetop behind his stack of chimneys; this time resolved, if his door were broken in (he was a small Southern man of retaliative temperament), to pitch himself head foremost over the parapet, and crush a man ...
— A Tale of Two Cities - A Story of the French Revolution • Charles Dickens |
