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He was restless, ambitious, proud, vindictive, and implacable.
The persistent thymus, like a vindictive Electra, stalks the footsteps of its victim, its possessor.
He has been vindictive, cruel, quarrelsome, tyrannical and terrible.
No doubt I entertained ideas of vindictive pursuit and murderous reprisals.
For his enemies he cherished a vindictive wrath, as unforgiving as Nemesis.
The only merit of the French Revolution seems to be that it has not been vindictive.
The ruined towns and villages prove the melancholy truth, that the general corruption of a nation prepares the way for general anarchy, and that the blindness of political rage is always more vindictive than even private hatred.
The American Indian almost always becomes sullen, vindictive and dangerous.
They are naturally addicted to war; and so vindictive as scarcely ever to forget an injury.
"She'd better run and hide," sputtered Agony, still vindictive in her wounded pride.
They comport only with punishment considered as vengeance, or a vindictive retribution for the past sin.
I have never found him quarrelsome, nor vindictive.
Some shouted out his name; then it was repeated with odious and vindictive epithets, followed by ferocious yells.
It was that she alone appreciated its vindictive quality; she admired the completeness, the audacity of Alice's revenge.
The truce on the border was of the most imperfect description; murders and robberies by the Indians, and acts of vindictive retaliation or aggression by the whites, occurred continually and steadily increased in number.
She wished to marry him, but the handsome Saxon was not willing; and Matilda at first gave way to violent grief on that account, and afterwards, when she became queen of England, to vindictive hatred, the weight of which she made him feel severely.
When he shows his wounds, it is as if a vindictive feeling was supposed to exist; as if he were called upon to remember in judgment the agonies and the degradation to which he had been exposed below for the sake of wicked ungrateful men.
I had fallen twice: each disaster being announced by a shout of vindictive triumph, from the bloodhounds behind.
Intended to be vindictive, but really a comfortable and comely body.
With the second summons to command, came opportunity for Lane's vindictive animosity to be called into play.
A hateful crowd they looked to me; a cruel, rapacious, vindictive crowd, with nothing in their minds but hatred.
He is described as being a surly, low type, reticent and vindictive, of vicious characteristics and mentally defective.
They are farther described, as capricious, vindictive, and easily irritated.
This is the vindictive ferocity which only civil war can kindle.
Proud, vindictive, and arrogant, she played the part of tyrant to her meek and faultless husband.
She shook her clenched right hand as she spoke, and her face was so full of vindictive passion that Ezra was astonished.
As the day passed, the prosecutor's insinuations grew more open and vindictive.
That threat was quite enough for the bullies, they almost began to run; but so soon as they had put the fence between themselves and their antagonists, they paused and looked back, shaking their fists in vindictive fury.
"I understand you," she said, walking away from him, and a spiteful, vindictive expression came into her face.
The waves, hopeless but still vindictive, began to call back their legions from the narrow shore.
The first movements of power gained by a struggle are the most vindictive and intemperate.
And equally small wonder that the King's mistresses and the great ladies of the Court cast many a jealous and vindictive glance on the child, who had power to lure away their slaves to her nursery shrine.
He could not know that she believed him vindictive, coarse, degraded, a drunkard and a bully.
There was an unholy light of vindictive triumph in Healy's face.
Just the sort to be lawless and vindictive if what you tell me concerning him is true.
Yet as time passed, and feeling tightened, and the hideous necklace of war grew more and more frightful with each fresh bead of horror strung upon it, Uncle Arthur, though still in principle remaining good, in practice found himself vindictive.
Yellow Panther turned aside, but he followed the tall figure with a look of the most vindictive hate.
Violet's vindictive thrust had embarrassed rather than hurt her.
As we are not told that he was pursued by vindictive enemies, we are left to the conjecture that he was escaping from disastrous floods, or, perhaps under the influence of a silly superstition, was in quest of some luckier site.
There was something vindictive and repellent in the satisfied expression of his face.
She snatched her hand away and threw up her withered arms with a vindictive shriek.
Most of the natives acknowledged the justice of the punishment inflicted on their young chief, who had a brother present, however, whose sullen countenance betrayed the vindictive feelings in his breast, although he maintained a profound silence.
The eyes of the pair were fixed upon him with vindictive exultation.
With a vindictive look, and pouting lips, Ned turned his steps down the walk.
Between her placid brows a vindictive little frown blackened suddenly.
The old lady pursued with vindictive animosity, cracking the whip in a suggestive manner.
He was an unscrupulous man, of questionable morals, and vindictive as a snake.
The windy fiend seemed to be pursuing him with vindictive hate.
Her eye kindled, and her form dilated, as she turned again to her vindictive foe.
In every sense he was a person against whom you would feel disposed to guard yourself, whether in the ordinary intercourse of life and its transactions, or still more in the secret workings of the darker and more vindictive passions.
The shrill howl of their dogs was mingled in that vindictive, savage chorus.
For there was a steely quality about his love that would have been more appropriate to some vindictive purpose.
Her eyes brightened with vindictive pleasure as they discovered Mercy sitting alone at the further end of the room.
In the pecuniary sense, and in one word, she was absolutely incapable of gratifying her own vindictive longings.
That night a further illustration of the vindictive ferocity of the outrage was given.
The Daffodil, after aiding to berth Vindictive, should have proceeded to land her own men, but now Commander Carpenter ordered her to remain as she was, with her bows against Vindictive's quarter, pressing the latter ship into the Mole.
Harry contrived to look quite vindictive and gave no answer, and a minute later Chris returned.
The cat, recognizing its inveterate enemy, set up a vindictive wail.
His condemnation of Seward had been confided privately to Vindictive brethren.
From the Vindictive point of view, here was a startling announcement.
Remembering the Vindictive temper, remembering the force and courage of the Vindictive leaders, it was imperative to clear the field of the slavery issue before the reconstruction issue was fairly launched.
The prejudices of a superior are readily embraced by those under his authority; and, as La Tour approached the fort, every eye glanced triumphantly on him, and every countenance reflected, in some degree, the vindictive feelings of the commander.
Soberer second thought, less frenzied, was no less vengeful and vindictive.
The whole code of criminal law was savagely vindictive.
Her singing may be rivaled, but hardly her embodiment of ungovernable and vindictive emotion.
And because Lawler was not vindictive, he entertained no thoughts of reprisal.
The vindictive Italians, wherever the French party was inferior in numbers, resorted to similar atrocities.
In the wavering light cast from below it resembled the face of a vindictive beast.
She may therefore be called resentful, vindictive, obstinate, and fickle.
I have had several interviews with your cousin, but he seems still unaccountably hard and vindictive.
At length these vindictive cases became so numerous and so scandalous that strong measures became necessary.
Sam was a brave boy, too brave to be vindictive, and so he quickly decided that as he had recovered his boots he would subject his enemy only to so much punishment as he thought was necessary to secure his good behavior afterward.
This opposition at the moment had become peculiarly vindictive and embarrassing.
It was a most austere Shylock, inveterate of purpose, vindictive, malignant, cruel, ruthless; and yet it was human.
A sudden change came over the girl; a vindictive satisfaction seemed to radiate from her.
It reeled across a sky paled by its ardor, at midday seeming to pause and hang vindictive over the little caravan.
It is easily affronted, and under affront becomes resentful, bitter, even vindictive.
Still the inhabitants of Boston repressed their vindictive feelings.
These vindictive men have closed my laboratories and my shops, and confiscated my bottles, my stills, and my retorts.
The enemy, growing vindictive, chased small bodies of even three or four with shrapnel.
The fugitive Loyalists and their vindictive pursuers scoured along the valleys.
I suppose I should have been driven mad with vindictive fury at this plain revelation of the true cause of most of my misfortunes, but there is a point beyond which the beaten man cannot rise to renew the fight, and I had reached and passed it.
He's a vindictive and resourceful man, and he has a score against us to wipe out.
The ground swell made the Vindictive roll and racked her breaking gangways terribly.
Several gangways were smashed to pieces, the men on them falling between the Vindictive and the mole.
The vindictive scrawl closed with a rude attempt to draw a rope, hanging from a tree, with a man dangling from one end.
Haynes thereupon withdrew a motion which was so obviously inadequate to the vindictive gravity of the occasion.
The dad thought the mater absurdly sentimental, and the mater thought the dad unnecessarily vindictive.
"You usually preach moderation, but now you are as vindictive and resentful as an Indian."
Her companion stood silent, unable to assuage her agony or rebuke her vindictive words.
His eyes reflected flames; his voice had now the tone of the implacable, vindictive judge.
Crafty, vindictive, gross, tyrannical, few men ever continued long such a career with impunity.
He did not wish to have a volley of stones hurled through the opening by the vindictive boys they had put to flight.
And if the attack failed, as he hoped and believed it would, the Malay loss would doubtless be very heavy; and he had heard quite enough of their vindictive nature to feel assured they would take their revenge upon him and Percy.
I am sorry to have to confess that robins are most vindictive towards each other!
There was a tone of affected indifference, such as one assumes when making a passing remark, but at the same time a dark frown rested for one moment on his brow, and he cast a piercing vindictive glance at our guide.
This sagacious but vindictive animal bore down upon the scene of action and treed the policeman the first thing.
The object of the punishment which the law pronounces is not vindictive chastisement of the culprit.
It has shut men's eyes to the awful fact of retribution, administered here and now, and prevented their realizing any punishment other than the savage, barbarous and wholly vindictive punishment of torturing eternally by fire.
Armitage could read it there in the hard shrewd lines, the cold, heartless, vindictive lines, or the softer lines which the smiles could form when smiles were necessary, which was not so often now as in former years.