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It was some days since I had seen Philip; but, weakly enough, I let the memory of that word rankle still. From Wordnik.com. [Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden] Reference
Did the obvious answer to my phrase rankle you?. From Wordnik.com. [C'ville Arts Center Announced at cvillenews.com] Reference
SAVIDGE: Well, as a commander, does it rankle you?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2003] Reference
He has given them wounds which will forever rankle. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
Henceforth that poison will not rankle in the blood. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
Obama's recent position against privacy will rankle. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Obama Leading In Deep-Red Alaska!] Reference
So, I mean, he is going to rankle -- rankle the left. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2009] Reference
Why does the Spitzer implosion rankle Big Law lawyers?. From Wordnik.com. [Big Law and Big Pimpin��� Together at Last] Reference
Age and fatigue tried to rankle, but he was not let them. From Wordnik.com. [Oberheim (Voices)] Reference
Such injuries rankle in the heart and are never forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
The unpleasant things heard, would still continue to rankle. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference
Suffer not this evil to rankle in your breast; but go directly to. From Wordnik.com. [Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York] Reference
To add to the small resentment against him which began to rankle in. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
Or does patriotism in the heart of an African, rankle into treason?. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916] Reference
The blade is poisoned, dear, and the wound will rankle for a lifetime. '. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
The Fisheries, the Mississippi, the Tories were points that would rankle. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 36, 17 - 22 November 1782] Reference
All rankle, but it is the inconsistencies that are, at times, most troubling. From Wordnik.com. [NBA to Coaches: Shut Up!] Reference
Conservatives also, this will rankle them as well, because -- for two reasons. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2005] Reference
The site lets members create public lists of people and things that rankle them. From Wordnik.com. [Antisocial Networking Gets Hip] Reference
Each candidate seems, at least to me, has issues that might rankle the religious right. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 16, 2007] Reference
The much-vexed question of the Franchise continued to rankle in the hearts of the Uitlanders. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
And remember: it took the Dolans only two days to rankle the masses in the newsroom at Newsday. From Wordnik.com. [Dolans Meet with Pesky Shareholders! 'Did I Hit You Where It Hurts?' Asks One] Reference
But when push comes to shove on specifics, you're going to have to really rankle some feathers. From Wordnik.com. [Obama: "The Time Has Come For Universal Health Care In America"] Reference
What is meant, is that the wounds inflicted by wordy shafts rankle and fester and lead to death. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Scenes like this rankle because they short-change psychology for the sake of lively mise-en-scène. From Wordnik.com. [Six Inches Under] Reference
Since channels are merely similar, not identical in their programming, that might rankle some rabid fans. From Wordnik.com. [XM-Sirius Merger: What it might mean for you] Reference
The one thing that really does rankle people is the infant born alive act in Illinois, in the state Senate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2008] Reference
Ingram had a keen and ready tongue, and a way of saying things that made them rankle afterward in the memory. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
I looked, Chapman was just a little old guy, but his very presence always seemed to rankle Louis in some way. From Wordnik.com. [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference
An imagined wrong or insult may rankle in their minds for months, until they have a chance to stab you in the back. From Wordnik.com. [Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos] Reference
She knew that the first defeat Mollie had ever experienced would be bound to rankle and was prepared to make allowances. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue] Reference
It was a very, very small affair, but then it is precisely these very small affairs which rankle in a certain sort of mind. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
Finland and Norway, which also shares an Arctic border with Russia, rankle at Moscow's disregard for their environmental fears. From Wordnik.com. [Deep-Frozen Assets] Reference
Yet, he told his fellow Virginian George Mason, he feared that enactment of the tax would 'rankle, & perhaps convulse the State.'. From Wordnik.com. [Jessica Corry: Mr. Obama... Are You Out There?] Reference
Government of those days still rankle in the breast of every living man and woman that in any way participated in the settlement of the. From Wordnik.com. [Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events] Reference
Every president at some point during their first term has faced a crisis and had to make hard decisions that rankle one group or another. From Wordnik.com. [Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Gloating Over Obama's Honeymoon End] Reference
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