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The rest are imprisoned by the wantonness of pride, the malignity of revenge, or the acrimony of disappointed expectation.
It is painful to observe the acrimony which the most eminent scholars have infused frequently in their controversial writings.
Violent opinions were expressed: whoever spoke with the greatest acrimony and cruelty, was most highly commended by Caesar's enemies.
To this the apothecary replied with much acrimony, recalling certain painful episodes in the private life of the burly hero.
The manners of American officials have been discussed with more or less acrimony, and always from the standpoint of personal experience.
Acrimony in speech or temper is like a corrosive acid; it springs from settled character or deeply rooted feeling of aversion or unkindness.
He was zealous in the cause of religion, but his zeal was without bitterness or animosity: polemic acrimony was unknown to him.
We'll have to suppose Fleming knew that; there must have been considerable intramural acrimony on the subject while he was still alive.
Not only did the decision have no tendency to allay party debate, but it added greatly to the acrimony of the discussion.
The secretary too fell under his displeasure, and was reprimanded with much acrimony for overlooking our paper when we were writing.
He retorted with acrimony; and the consequence would have been serious, had not the friends of each party interposed for their preservation.
This emulsion resembles that of almonds, but is even more cooling, and therefore a better medicine in disorders arising from acrimony and irritation.
For modern society to fear religion, or to dispute her influence with acrimony, would therefore be a puerile alarm and a fatal error.
Her resentment of the long lie which he had lived in her presence since their betrothal was tremendous in its calm acrimony.
He asserted the pretensions of the class to which he belonged in several treatises written with much wit, ingenuity, audacity, and acrimony.
And this unreasonable meanness and injustice on the part of Sparta, again reacted on the Athenians, and created great bitterness and acrimony.
Their excretions are in a great measure deficient in acrimony, and their mental faculties are too weak to exert much influence upon their bodies.
We do not recollect that the company were at all disposed to fraternity, as a degree of professional acrimony seemed to preside at that feast.
Regardless of the distinctions of rank and character, he uttered his admonitions with acrimony and vehemence, more apt to irritate than to reclaim.
That it arises from acrimony, induced by the food, is apparently shown by the colt, while at grass, never displaying the symptom.
There appeared to the dean, in the delivery of this sentence, a satirical acrimony, which his irritability as an author could but ill forgive.
With haughty asperity they despised their ecclesiastical superiors; they railed against one another with outrageous acrimony, and conducted quarrels with determined malice.
There was a good deal of acrimony imported into the atmosphere of political circles, partly because of the strong personal element pervading all politics.
He wrote with great acrimony on the margin of my pamphlet, but passion had blinded his reason, so that he smote the wind.
But because I cry out at them with genuine American acrimony, it does not follow that I am stupid enough to think them the only Americans.
The acrimony of his style on these occasions acquired him the appellation of "Bilious Bale," and it was applied to him with singular propriety.
The two masterful men fell bitterly at variance over the question, and lost sight of all greater interests in the acrimony of their quarrel.
But when, whether in court or in a disputation, it is incomplete, i.e. in respect of the acrimony of speech, it is not always a mortal sin.
A long correspondence ensued, which was conducted at times with some approach to acrimony, but which never actually transcended the limits of diplomatic courtesy.
I am both hurt and astonished at the acrimony of malice; indeed, I believe all this Party to merit nothing but honor, compassion, and praise.
He strove to abate the acrimony of his own subjects against the religion of their fathers: he became himself the object of their diffidence and aversion.
A great deal, and, indeed, she had irritated even me: her answer had been given with such unnecessary acrimony, both of word and look.
Sir Robert had fallen out with Dryden about rhyming tragedies, of which he disapproved; and while it lasted, the contest was waged with prodigious acrimony.
Of course, there had been the usual harmonious discord that will occur among men hard-pressed and over-worked, where nerve-tension finds vent at times in acrimony.
Clare disposed him to submission: this great man seemed to have survived all the acrimony of contention, and all the jealous subtleties of a mistaken honor.
History affords too many proofs that scholarship and learning by no means purge men of acrimony, of vanity, of arrogance, of a murderous tenacity about trifles.
The demon, disguised as an angel of light, clothed in a religious garb, attacked him, as envy ever attacks, with bitterness, with acrimony, with implacable cruelty.
He was one of your reluctant witnesses, showed a decided acrimony toward the prosecution, and had to have the facts drawn out of him as with a forceps.
Horse radish should be frequently held to the nose, which has a reviving quality, and is very innocent with respect of adding acrimony to the system.
When members differed and exhibited the least acrimony, they were sure to find the peaceful wand of Judge Sherman fanning their heated feelings into a healthful coolness.
Now all that nature requires is a perspiration; for thereby the imprisoned acrimony is expelled, and which nature is always engaged to throw off from the system.
Dante was the first religious reformer, and Luther surpassed him rather in the rudeness and acrimony, than in the boldness of his censures of papal usurpation.
Dante was the first religious reformer, and Luther surpassed him rather in the rudeness and acrimony than in the boldness of his censures of papal usurpation.
This controversy raged from 1717 to 1720 and produced a spate of pamphlets (to which Defoe contributed), many of which were marked by heated argument and acrimony.
A just man, whom I have never quite forgiven, to tell the truth, told me with unnecessary rigor and acrimony that I had made a pitiable exhibition of myself.
The periods of evacuating the bowels are generally connected with some part of the solar day, as well as with the acrimony or distention occasioned by the feces.
Stanley spoke, and spoke very well, but with considerable acrimony and in a tone which demonstrates the breach between him and his old colleagues to be irreparable.
Half a grain of opium night and morning promotes the absorption of the more fluid and saline parts, and in consequence thickens the mucus, and abates its acrimony.
These seeds yield, on pressure, a considerable quantity of oil, which is soft and insipid to the taste, and partakes but little of the acrimony of the plant.
With regard to his views as expressed in the first two of these books, a controversy ensued between Vaughan and Henry Moore, which was marked by considerable acrimony.
I have been annoyed and disgusted at the part the 'Times' has taken latterly, turning round upon the Government and upon John Russell in particular with indecent acrimony.
This, in calmer times, and more than this, is done without fear; but such was the acrimony of the commons, that no method of obstructing them was safe.
I must stand firm to my post, or experience the anger, vengeance, and punishments, which will, in case of delinquency or flight, be exercised with the most unforgiving acrimony.
One was that they confounded the acrimony with the roughness of taste in the mouth, and secondly with the burning effects slowly developed by the poison afterwards.
But as we read the single pleading that has come to us, we feel that, unlike those Roman trials generally, this was carried on without any acrimony on either side.
Such intellectual bullies are my mortal abhorrence; especially when, like this, to a repulsive exterior they unite all the gall and acrimony of satire, without any of its grace.
In Bohemia the conflict between the Catholics and the reformers had raged with peculiar acrimony, and the reformers in that kingdom had become a very numerous and influential body.
It was, therefore, both attacked and defended with extraordinary acrimony; and at last the Parliament of Paris ordered it to be burned by the hands of the common hangman.
It was precipitated by an event which has not even yet ceased to be looked on by the losing party with honest lamentation and with an unnecessary amount of sectarian acrimony.
This I have no doubt was bile, but it had not acquired its greatest acrimony, and it was discharged before mortification, or even inflammation could have taken place in the stomach.
When he had left the castle, the marquis sent for his daughter, and poured forth his resentment with all the violence of threats, and all the acrimony of contempt.
Vinegar, as prepared in this country, from malt, should be of a pale brown color, perfectly transparent, of a pleasant, somewhat pungent, acid taste, and fragrant odor, but without any acrimony.
And from those what can be expected, but acrimony and vehemence, the insolence of triumph, the vexation of defeat, and, in time, a weariness of contest, and an extinction of benevolence?
But, though Englishmen might be stricken dumb by persecution, the expulsion or oppression of foreigners led to much acrimony and reprisals on the part both of the Emperor and Francis.
In the full flutter of his darling hopes, he one day encountered an old brother lawyer, notorious for the acidity of his temper, and the poignancy and acrimony of his remarks.
Her very high qualities as a wife and mother, her decorum of conduct, so different to others of her profession, seemed to add a zest to the acrimony with which they assaulted her.
On the other hand, he is tolerant with the tolerance of one who has in his blood none of the acrimony begotten by an ancestry alternately conquerors and victims through their faith.
The demonstration of Malthus naturally was not relished by the Radicals, to whom it was first addressed; and Godwin in particular met it with indecent acrimony, as did Coleridge, the Conservative.
When it broke loose it would be a veritable volcano of revolting acrimony, his thin, firm opening and snapping shut in a peculiar fashion, as though he were squirting venom all over the floor.
Wiseman in his lectures, presents an enviable contrast to the acrimony of many theologians, and worthy of all praise, and in harmony with the learning and good taste which characterize his writings.
I prepared, however, an alcoholic extract some years ago, by digesting the fresh roots and evaporating the tincture in the sun, which possessed and retained all the acrimony of the recent root.
There was a mixture of fiendish acrimony, biting irony, and fearful truth, in his wild sketch, which was often interrupted by the cries of astonishment, grief, and terror, from his hearer.
Her ear told her that Simon was certainly laying down the law but with no more than his usual acidity, and that his son was pleading his cause patiently and without acrimony.
In her resentful mood, these expressions had been remembered with acrimony and disdain; they visited her in her softened hour, taking sleep from her eyes, all hope of rest from her uneasy mind.
In a recent state the root is extremely acrid; and, when chewed, it excites in the mouth a pungent taste, which continues for several hours; but this acrimony is almost wholly dissipated by drying.
The peculiar petulance of those who lack a sense was manifested in the acrimony which shone in the child's eyes as she perceived that he sought to restrict and repress her statement of her views.
She was surprised and troubled at this degree of acrimony in one whose habitual manner was so placid, and his judgment so mild; but, for his sake, she was resolute not to show her feeling.
The gut at this part is defended from the acrimony of the urine, by the mucus secreted by two glands, which, probably for this reason, are very large in the male, but small in the female.
There seems a great deal of venom and acrimony in all this; and though the man is unquestionably not my friend, and I see that this persecution continues, I find it very hard not to stand by him.
During the next two days the debate was continued with ever-increasing acrimony, until on Tuesday afternoon Howard broke into so violent a passion that the Cardinal and his friends rose and walked out of the house, saying that it was impossible to argue with such people.
Day after day and week after week the debates continued, sometimes with great courtesy, and sometimes with considerable acrimony, until the tenth of September, when all plans and amendments which had been adopted by the convention were placed in the hands of a committee for revision and arrangement.