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This acrimony is readily dissipated by heat.
Zeal in discussion created acrimony and partisan animosity.
There was impatience tinged with acrimony in the tones.
No passage in American history displays more acrimony than this.
The subject was debated with vehemence, even with acrimony.
The acrimony displayed with pen and pencil was deplorable.
All the acrimony engendered by the late strife, has ceased.
His acrimony may however, in this instance, have outstripped his discretion.
"You played thief-taker before, Sir Geoffrey," she retorted, with unaccustomed acrimony.
The minister's partisans retorted with equal acrimony, if not with equal vivacity.
But that condescension, like the earlier acrimony, is a thing of the past.
He was also quick at repartee, not always without a touch of acrimony.
Nor had he the gaiety of convivial, or the acrimony of satirical, verse.
"Wall, they paid me some," Al retorted with a craven kind of acrimony.
Secondly, the virulence of national prejudice which rages now with tenfold acrimony.
There is often much exaggeration, much unfairness, much acrimony in their debates.
He replied with little force and great acrimony; but no rejoinder appeared.
Like all burning questions, it was not discussed without acrimony and vehemence.
By increased acrimony in all the secretions and excretions of the body.
No satire can be excellent where displeasure is expressed with acrimony and vehemence.
The languishing Eliza woke up to deal formidable blows with a calm soft acrimony.
Exclaimed the countess, with acrimony, as Maurice opened the door of his father's chamber.
Cochrane brought to his duties a certain acrimony of feeling, amounting almost to virulence.
The acrimony of the old feud was as a trait bred in the bone.
It was the biting acrimony of his temper that sharpened his other faculties.
He spoke with acrimony, reviewing the jeopardy in which his repertoire had been placed.
Finally, tired of disputing, and remorseful for their acrimony, they dined amicably together.
Acrimony or melancholy may well be the only outcome of an unfinished or revolving argumentation.
The condemnation of the poignancy of Aristophanes, as having too much acrimony, is better founded.
May, the acrimony and scenes of strife among his old associates was unspeakably painful.
Both parties were conscious that their constituents shared their passions and applauded their acrimony.
The Jesuits, in a phase of ascendancy, persecuted and insulted the Buddhists with great acrimony.
I carefully shun the acrimony of political dispute, and the circles in which it is indulged.
I attacked the Professor with considerable acrimony, calling him foolhardy, mad, I know not what.
Once, in one of their discussions, which often bordered on acrimony, he had expounded himself at length.
His mouth smiled with a touch of sardonic humor, whose acrimony and whose irony escaped her.
The ancients looked upon it as a confirmed corrosive poison, though perfectly void of acrimony, taste, and smell.
It is a stinging indictment brought against the author's countrymen, thrown in their faces with dauntless acrimony.
He speaks, even of those who are opposed to his government, with complacency, and without sneer or acrimony.
The disputation continued with some acrimony for a week, until finally my father put his foot down.
And when she spoke, it was as if his unaccustomed acrimony had met and destroyed her own.
A little levity may be pardoned now in reference to a matter which, at the time, aroused some acrimony.
If there ever was a leader in a civil contest who shunned acrimony and eschewed passion, it was he.
One might speak with momentary asperity to his child, but not with acrimony, unless estrangement had begun.
As the raciest wine makes the sharpest vinegar, so the richest fancies turn the most readily to acrimony.
With the honor granted to either of them, I explained, I had foreseen another era of cliques, divisions, and acrimony.
It was on the American question, perhaps the bitterest that ever called forth the acrimony of parties in the House.
During the ensuing years the debate was resumed afresh with much liveliness and sometimes with a little acrimony.
Whatever her feelings might be, they were without the fierceness and acrimony which characterized those of her husband.
John the Baptist set himself with much acrimony and indignation to baffle this senseless arrogant conceit of theirs.
He could not forbear a little acrimony on the impropriety of my interference, and I tacitly acquiesced in the censure.
I own I thought that, in a moment of acrimony, you might be employing harsh epithets in a sort of random style.
He denounced the affair with an acrimony that stirred the wrath of Father Valverde, who helped to draw the indictment.
Pin, her most frequent companion, had to bear the brunt of her acrimony: hence the two were soon at war again.
The "Sword of Frederic" was attacked by the critics with great asperity, and he replied with still greater acrimony.
Cried the citizen, with some acrimony, "take care what you say, sir; a merchant's credit is not to be tampered with."
Whilst the root is fresh it is harsh and acrid, but, being dried, it loses the greater part of its acrimony.
By the almost caustic acrimony of snuff, the mucus is dried up, and the organ of smelling becomes perfectly callous.
The great misfortune for the moment even softened down the acrimony of bigotry and party; but this did not last long.
She knew well the horrible malady from which her lover suffered; she knew well the obscure cause of all his acrimony.
These are the different terminations of inflammation; and whether the cause is from external injuries, or from internal acrimony, the indication must ever be the same, I shall consider each separately.
The debate on each one was marked by acrimony and strong sectional excitement, and each one was signed by President Fillmore amid energetic protests from the Northern Abolitionists and the Southern Secessionists.
Their acrimony must reside in a very volatile principle, which, during the boiling, makes its escape, or is chemically altered; but the nature of this principle has not yet been accurately investigated by chemists.
Palmerston instantly fell upon him with the greatest acrimony, and lashed him with excessive severity, carrying the House along with him, and evidently enjoying the opportunity of thus paying off old scores.
This parish contest was not fought without much acrimony and ill-feeling, for the owners of small houses were not numerous in residence in the town, and those residing away took no interest in the matter.
At length, after much animated discussion, not altogether free from the flavor of acrimony, the proposal was adopted, and the difficult task of choosing those who were to form the exploring party was proceeded with.
This, as may be expected, produced a dispute attended with some acrimony, which threatened to interrupt our intended alliance: but on the day before that appointed for the ceremony, we agreed to discuss the subject at large.
This, as may be expected, produced a dispute attended with some acrimony, which threatened to interrupt our intended alliance; but, on the day before that appointed for the ceremony, we agreed to discuss the subject at large.
I remember an Englishman of my acquaintance telling me once, with no acrimony of tone, nothing but calm acceptance of the inevitable, that he had never tasted the breast of chicken since his marriage five years before!
He remarked that Liszt had disgraced himself with all impartial persons by writing against him with violent acrimony in the public prints; and which act he himself acknowledged was the result of professional jealousy.
At the same time, whenever tumors are dispersing, care should be taken to use internal medicines, in order to correct the acrimony, and a purge now and then, in order to incline the humors to be carried off.
The doctrine of Agricola was in itself obscure, and is thought to have been represented worse than it really was by Luther, who wrote against him with acrimony, and first styled him and his followers Antinomians.
What the event of Hastings's trial will be, I cannot say; the prosecution is carried on with great ability and acrimony, but hitherto the oral evidence has fallen short of the expectations pronounced by the managers.
She had consulted no one, and had made no secret of her disapproval of certain things that had been done without her consent, speaking about them with an acrimony she would have done better, for her future peace, to have avoided.
We claim an exclusive possession of goodness and wisdom: and from approving warmly of those who join us, we proceed to condemn, with much acrimony, not only the principles, but the characters, of those from whom we differ.
The verses are written with a degree of acrimony, such as neglect and disappointment might naturally excite; and such as it would be hard to imagine Butler capable of expressing against a man who had any claim to his gratitude.
When any man has endeavored to deserve distinction, he will be surprised to hear himself censured where he could not expect to have been named; he will find the utmost acrimony of malice among those whom he never could have offended.
The law-suit was carrying on with great acrimony on both sides, when an event happened, that made me then, and has indeed ever since, look with indifference on every thing in this life; it was the death of my husband.
I formed this conjecture, because, on Madame de Rosemonde's having reproached me on my long absence, the fair one replied with some acrimony, "Oh, let us not reproach Mr. de Valmont for his attachment to the only pleasure he can find here."
It is filled with acrimony against Bligh from the outset of the Bounty's cruise, and the form of the entries shows that it was intended to be the basis for laying serious charges against him when the ship was paid off.
The supposed party tendency of expressions that occur here and there in our papers is the result of mere chance; it may be detected as often on one side as on another; and in no publication but our own does it rouse the acrimony of partisans.
The acrimony with which they were discussed, and the genius and passion which were displayed in the disputes to which they gave rise, sometimes went far enough to alarm the throne, without creating the slightest interest in the minds of the people.