"I have no 'rankling' fear, anger, consciousness of refutation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845] Reference

Yet hast not gather'd fruit, -- save rankling thorns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Home] Reference

Sadie laughed too, but the hint left its rankling point.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

Destined to find rankling lodgment in the breast of PEEL!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 18, 1891] Reference

The political rankling and what it means for your security.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2006] Reference

Dismiss these cares, these burning pains and rankling wounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference

And the hatred, deeply rankling, 'gainst the Hanoverian crew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference

Part of that product involves deeply rankling the White House.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Professional Left' Saga Says More About Media Than Obama] Reference

Who had left the arrow rankling in his heart with honied lies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference

However this may be, it is certain that Balliol, rankling with.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)] Reference

He drew out the rankling thorn and thus relieved him of his pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young] Reference

And the misnamed judges vainly try their rankling thoughts to hide.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

But the gibes of Newall and Parfitt were still rankling in his breast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

The skilful performance of my duty was the source of a rankling grudge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

She heeded them little: there were deeper offences rankling at her heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference

The Baroness was newly rankling under an insult now so many years of age; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

But for the bitterness rankling within her, she might have found time to admire her pilot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Jim] Reference

Many of the miners were suffering from rankling copper sores, caused by the poisonous water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: The World's First 'Terrorists'] Reference

And he suspected, with a rankling sort of pang, that he was not the rescuer she had expected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference

"Acted very well!" exclaimed Newall, all the passion that had been rankling within him surging up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

So, your idea of effective leadership is rankling feathers .... how's that working out for Hillary?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama: "The Time Has Come For Universal Health Care In America"] Reference

Some hint of all this rankling dissatisfaction became apparent as the new curule magistrates were returned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grass Crown]

It was rankling in his mind, and turning to bitter hate the ill-feeling that already existed between him and Stanley.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

No other woman left so deep a mark of passion or such rankling wounds in his bleeding heart, as did she of whom he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

It was dull, rankling uncertainty, and all the lover fled from him, leaving only the keen sailor with a keen sailor's sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference

For me one of the new parties will be my choice, and that's what's rankling them, the surge in support for them, they are afraid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

A Kentucky slave, named Jim, with the humiliation of slavery rankling in his breast, resolved to make an effort to gain freedom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference

She had spoken sharply to the boys that morning for bringing in muddy footprints, and her words were still rankling in Roy's breast.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Big Opportunity] Reference

With the remembrance of the similar interview of only a few hours before still rankling in my mind, I looked at her a little austerely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel] Reference

The company thought him happy in exclusive possession of the lovely girl's society -- his side was pierced with a cruel, rankling thorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference