"The time for partisan rancour is over," Obama transition team co-chair John Podesta says. From Wordnik.com. [Bush to keep job in Obama administration] Reference
Lack of Lib Dem rancour calls to mind a previous 'rancour'. From Wordnik.com. [BBC Ouch! Blog] Reference
There's been much talk today about the lack of "rancour" as Liberal Democrats agonise amongst themselves over how to vote in Thursday's Commons decision on tuition fees. From Wordnik.com. [BBC Ouch! Blog] Reference
Would the anxieties which weigh upon her like mountains interpose between the Queen and the jealous rancour which is too petty for her great soul? ". From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Shall this fell stroke, from Cypris 'rancour sprung. From Wordnik.com. [Hippolytus/The Bacchae] Reference
It was the rancour and venom with which I was struck. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
This was not at all too petty to be pressed with rancour. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
'There's no rancour, Paul, lad?' the voice had said, or seemed to say. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
He is too irritated and aggrieved to feel anything but rancour against me. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
And if she might not so wreake hir rancour, she would not sticke to poison them. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England] Reference
Boer; he merely created suspicion and ill-feeling, which ultimately developed into rancour. From Wordnik.com. [The Boer in Peace and War] Reference
Such an explanation, whatever its merits, merely stirs the rancour and dismay of supporters. From Wordnik.com. [Wes Brown snub is yet another blow for embattled Fabio Capello] Reference
Rixa, and General Turner himself -- no less, for the ancient rancour at the moment was at rest. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
I shew no rancour in promoting his destruction, and await the result with the utmost good temper. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
She had difficulty in speaking without rancour of the woman who had thrown away the love of such a man. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Christianity -- been unrivalled in zeal against the cause, and rancour against the followers of the Lamb. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference
Lola, who never cherished rancour, was prepared to let bygones be bygones, and resumed relations with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
Thus was this brave little community sacrificed to the rancour of Thebes, and the selfish policy of Sparta. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Thucydides] Reference
You have heard me say that I thought that he had no malice or rancour; I think so still, and am sure of it. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
Day after day passed on and we found the natives increasing in wild rancour and unreasoning hate of strangers. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
The rancour of the duke, however, had not died away, and he stubbornly refused to recognise the child as his nephew. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
In the long debate on Repeal he had refused to notice personal attacks: he now rose superior to all personal rancour. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Veientians were still in arms with such rancour and animosity, that it was evident that ruin awaited the vanquished party. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
On every occasion he freely displays the rancour he felt at his ill-success; for he certainly was not master of his temper. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
The author of this amusing political satire has exposed the foibles of the great Puritan party with all the rancour of a partisan. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
Montgomeri, was not immediately pursued (he meantime had fled the court), but Catherine de Médici harboured for him a most bitter rancour. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
When the bitterness and rancour caused by this unfortunate incident had happily passed away Colonel Watterson and I met at a delightful dinner at. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
First, our commercial main body, which thinks that chivalry is not business, and that rancour is childish, but cannot see why we should not make the. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
Government to such "Ulsterior" measures, as a Galway man called them to-day, has at least had the effect of moderating the rancour of the relief expedition. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
Admiralty, but political rancour as well as professional jealousy were both employed in a secret but active agitation to prevent his obtaining that employment. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference
The former bondsmen, on their side, and like their brethren of Hayti, are eaten up with implacable, blood-thirsty rancour against their former lords and owners. From Wordnik.com. [West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas] Reference
This motion, which was made on the 17th of February, the day fixed for the debate, was seconded by Mr. Wilberforce, and called forth all the rancour of contending parties. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
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