How To Use Wrath In A Sentence

  • So spake he, and Athene was mightily angered at heart, and chid Odysseus in wrathful words: ‘Odysseus, thou hast no more steadfast might nor any prowess, as when for nine whole years continually thou didst battle with the Trojans for high born Helen, of the white arms, and many men thou slewest in terrible warfare, and by thy device the wide-wayed city of Priam was taken. Book XXII
  • -- and he says this, too, with a kind of wrathful glee. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
  • He was usually slow to anger but once his wrath was roused he made a dangerous enemy.
  • He was usually slow to anger but once his wrath was roused he made a dangerous enemy.
  • To finish the portrait, the bearing of the gracious Duncan was brief, bluff, and consequential, and the upward turn of his short copper-coloured nose indicated that he was somewhat addicted to wrath and usquebaugh. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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  • He was scared of incurring his father's wrath .
  • The colliquation of his spirits: My heart is like wax, melted to receive the impressions of God's wrath against the sins he undertook to satisfy for, melting away like the vitals of a dying man; and, as this satisfied for the hardness of our hearts, so the consideration of it should help to soften them. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • Christ's spiritual body (Col 1: 24). they ... also -- as well as myself: both God's elect not yet converted and those already so. salvation ... glory -- not only salvation from wrath, but glory in reigning with Him eternally (2Ti 2: 12). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • My emotions manage to squeeze a few tears past the imposed strictures of my society, but most of my grief only pounds wrathfully against generations of parents telling sons that ‘big boys don't cry.’
  • He imagined his mother's wrathful face and the smirk in the eyes of the maid. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
  • Wrath and I are old friends, and I've come to accept his tendency toward tmesis as an endearing personality quirk. Archive 2006-02-01
  • I am unable to determine by what law I ought to incur your wrath and that of your followers. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
  • God is satisfied: his wrath is appeased; justice has been done.
  • And, sure enough, there was Kennedy, with rueful face and a maudlin romaunt about a moonlit meeting with a swarm of painted Sioux, over which the stable guard were making merry and stirring the trooper's soul to wrath ungovernable. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier
  • The play has incurred the wrath/anger of both audiences and critics.
  • If it's our ewe your dog is savaging that setout man may be saving you $125 and my wife's formidable wrath.
  • In great wrath he swore to take vengeance on the man who had dared to tear up his complaint so contumeliously.
  • On the religious side all that they have had is the occasional itinerant preacher, thundering at them of the wrath of God; and on the cultural what Aunt Dalmanutha calls the "pindling" district school. Sight to the Blind
  • He is a desperate character, and in other lands might be dangerous; but he is safe enough here, for the bastinado is a terrible instrument of torture, and the man is now not only desperate in wrath, but is sometimes desperately frightened. The Pirate City An Algerine Tale
  • he looked at her, not wrathfully now, but quizzically
  • A creature once feared a wrathful god. Records of its existence date bake hundreds of years.
  • Foreheads, -- Oh, deign outspeak fierce wrath from bosom outbreathing, The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
  • In this exceptionally picturesque region, beauty and grinding toil continue to coexist, very much as described in John Steinbeck's novels, notably The Grapes of Wrath.
  • Of Sinners 'tis said, _They heap up wrath; _ and the sinners of the Last Generations do not only add unto the _heap_ of sin that has been pileing up ever since the Fall of man, but they Interest themselves in every sin of that enormous heap. The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches
  • His first name means in Latin "wrath" or "vengence," and the second name is in the English language appropriate to the important office which our duped and deceived friend did receive in said Secret Enemies of True Republicanism
  • (It wasn't exactly "beggared" a one that he said, but that is near enough.) "D'ye mean to tell me," said Captain Rush (as he frothed with wrath), The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century
  • I rose and was about to clap my hat upon my head and burst away, in wrathful indignation from the house; but recollecting — just in time to save my dignity — the folly of such a proceeding, and how it would only give my fair tormentors a merry laugh at my expense, for the sake of one I acknowledged in my own heart to be unworthy of the slightest sacrifice — though the ghost of my former reverence and love so hung about me still, that I could not bear to hear her name aspersed by others — I merely walked to the window, and having spent a few seconds in vengibly biting my lips and sternly repressing the passionate heavings of my chest, I observed to Miss The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  • He had promised Aphrodite a hecatomb, a sacrifice of 100 oxen, if he won Helen, but forgot about it, and earned her wrath.
  • Her strongest character traits are, in about this order, heroic courage; wrath; vengefulness; envy; and cattiness.
  • It turns out that the most effective way of inciting his wrath is by mentioning an incident that took place last month. Times, Sunday Times
  • While these members of the French peace movement confronted the same types of emotions that fueled Hugo's wrath, many turned away from the pessimism, chauvinism, and revanchism that characterized his response.
  • He speaks terror, in Sennacherib's invasion, to the hypocrites, who were the people of God's wrath, v. 6. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • Knowing the nature of the woman, how ardent, how impetuous she could be, and how full of wrath, he had come at her call intending to tell her the truth which he now spoke. The Way We Live Now
  • Ho ! Assyrian , the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!
  • The very thought of hearing her name reviled by the jealous woman before him filled him with wrath. Adrien Leroy
  • I know certainly that all these incommodities are annexed to the exercise of arms I would here die for very wrath and displeasure. The Third Book. I. Wherein Is Rehearsed the Unfortunate Adventure Which Happened to Don Quixote, by Encountering with Certain Yanguesian Carriers
  • This exhibition includes such rarely displayed pieces as "Ki Fudo," considered one of Japan's great statues of Fudo Myoo, the wrathful-looking "unshakable spirit," as well as partition paintings and fusuma (sliding-door) paintings from temple-complex buildings. Time Off: Cultural Events Around Asia
  • `But, all the same, I shall not risk incurring his wrath again. TIME OF THE WOLF
  • As she slowly gathered her wits, she could feel the familiar burning of wrathful anger building up within her.
  • Any time now, the gods will turn their wrath upon this blasphemer and strike him down.
  • All that needed to be done to propitiate God's wrath and save his people from their sins had been accomplished.
  • Wrath of the Lich King features many such 'boney' monsters, including flying frost wyrms. World of war
  • Break the speed limit in the pits, overtake when the yellow flags are out or cut a corner in qualifying and you'll find yourself facing the wrath of your team when you get back to the garage.
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  • And in it he asks them to 'Consider' -- his countrymen have scarcely as yet considered it sufficiently -- 'Consider, brethren, it is no speculative theologue which desireth to give you courage, but even your brother in affliction, which partly hath experience what Satan's wrath may do against the chosen of John Knox
  • White had to flee to London to escape the wrath of Cavaliers, and he was old and ailing when he returned.
  • Every tyrant and every oppressor deserve the full wrath of justice.
  • Our sense of the Depression may be bound up with the tragic social realism of Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath'.
  • Amen! went up to heaven in ratification of the deed, mingled with a few hisses and wrathful exclamations from some who were evidently in a rowdyish state of mind, but who were at once cowed by the popular feeling. Revolution Day
  • They launched the ship upon the main, Which bellowed like a wrathful bear; Down to the bottom the vessel sank, A laidly Trold has dragged it there. Lavengro
  • It was probably in 1462 that he arrived in Rome, where he aroused papal wrath for supposed impieties and served two terms in prison before bouncing back into favour, and obtaining his librarianship, after writing some papal biographies.
  • Then they saw the need of delay, before completely punishing the wicked, to give space for repentance, or else for accumulation of wrath (Ro 2: 15); and before completely rewarding the godly, to give room for faith and perseverance in tribulation (Ps 92: 7-12). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The sorrow he felt before was only an earnest of this damnation, a taste and prelibation of future wrath. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
  • Played with a kind of wrathful quietude by the exquisite Eric Bana, Comicbookbin.com
  • He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on wrongdoer.
  • My flip, polite persona masks a smouldering and wrathy incredulity as I learn that another revivalist is stepping up to accept officialdom's accolade.
  • He believed with those who say that the men who dares the 'tempests' wrath, 'and the' billows 'madden'd play' on the errand of saving life, to be as great heroes as those who 'seek for bubble reputation at the cannon's mouth.' The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe
  • Shall do a courtesy to our wrath] _To do a courtesy_ is to gratify, to comply with. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
  • Shall I risk wrath and edge into the middle lane? Times, Sunday Times
  • She will smite the empires with her wrath, and in her sorrow wash them away!
  • Wrath again implies that the bile endures, that is to say, that the memory of the wrong abides: and indeed the Greek word for it, menis is derived from menein, and means what abides and is transferred to memory. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
  • No leg muscle escapes the wrath of the roller blade and, as inline skating is a low impact exercise, it has the benefit of being easy on the joints.
  • The reporters kind of grimaced, not wanting to be the focus of the President's wrath. Two Presidents and Two Lies
  • Who was she, the old witch, for so he mentally termed the inoffensive woman devoutly conning her prayer book, unconscious of the wrath her presence was exciting in the bosom of the young man beside her! Bad Hugh
  • What had she done to provoke his wrath?
  • Allah’s wrath to a black stone, and the Queen thou foundest in the alcove is my mother. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • I thought I was once more by the side of the Sphere, whose lustrous hue betokened that he had exchanged his wrath against me for perfect placability. Flatland: a romance of many dimensions
  • This will control a network of electrical elements, buried in shallow trenches running from Cape Wrath to Land's End.
  • He observed no sort of moderation, such as befitted a private man, either in rewarding or in punishing; the recompense of his friends and guests was absolute power over cities, and irresponsible authority, and the only satisfaction of his wrath was the destruction of his enemy; banishment would not suffice. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
  • Your state trooper is an agent of wrath for those who break the speed limit. C-Ville Weekly: News or Navel Gazing? at cvillenews.com
  • And as fires kindled dispersedly in a dry forest and rustling laurel-thickets, or foaming rivers where they leap swift and loud from high hills, and speed to sea each in his own path of havoc; as fiercely the two, Aeneas and Turnus, dash amid the battle; now, now wrath surges within them, and unconquerable hearts are torn; now in all their might they rush upon wounds. The Aeneid of Virgil
  • Epidemic fevers were still at - tributed variously to filth, the night air, "miasmas" and the wrath of God. Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ]
  • By their sin they provoked the wrath of the people.
  • Shall I risk wrath and edge into the middle lane? Times, Sunday Times
  • Cease from anger and forsake wrath ; Do not fret ; it leads only to evildoing.
  • A creature once feared a wrathful god. Records of its existence date bake hundreds of years.
  • She pitied the poor scientist who'd caught the major part of his wrath.
  • In 1148 he incurred Stephen's wrath by attending a papal council at Rheims and retorted with an interdict which was little regarded.
  • He spoke with wrath rumbling low in his voice. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • But it wasn't worth incurring his wrath. Times, Sunday Times
  • A soft answer turneth away wrath
  • Two dummies, one dressed in a _simarre_ (gown) and the other in pontifical vestments, were burned on the Pont-Neuf: the soldiers, having been ordered to disperse the crowds, some persons were wounded and others killed; the mob had felt sure that they would not be fired upon, whatever disorder they showed; the wrath and indignation were great; there were threats of setting fire to the houses of MM. de Brienne and de Lamoignon; the quarters of the commandant of the watch were surrounded. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
  • Then he gave her a barley scone and said, “I love not one who answereth at times when I am in wrath: so henceforth give me no more of these impertinent words and I will sell thee to a good man like myself, who will do well with thee, even as I have done.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Unfortunately, as the years wore on, he became more despotic and appeared to go insane, venting his wrath against monks and thereby alienating the powerful sangha.
  • Byron was killed in the second world war aged only 35, lost when his ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Wrath.
  • To the wise and good he is love, both in appearance and essence; but to the foolish and evil, the very same unchangeable love assumes the _appearance_ of anger and wrath. Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk
  • But then he's a legendarily ill-tempered fellow whose wrath erupts with metronomic regularity. Times, Sunday Times
  • We moved on, Strickland silent and wrathful, until Fleete was taken with violent shivering fits and sweating.
  • The pleasure of this discourse had such a dulcifying tendency, that, although two causes of delay occurred, each of much more serious duration than that which had drawn down his wrath upon the unlucky Mrs. Macleuchar, our = Antiquary = only bestowed on the delay the honour of a few episodical poohs and pshaws, which rather seemed to regard the interruption of his disquisition than the retardation of his journey. The Antiquary
  • Not against my great _acharya_ is my wrathful bow-string drawn, Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse
  • For a fire has been kindled by my wrath, one that burns to the realm of death below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.
  • He was warned to fly from the emperor's wrath.
  • The people feared the wrath of God.
  • All the while the distinctive bird, which has a bright red tail, faced the wrath of swooping magpies.
  • What! hapless Polymestor, who hath stricken thee? who hath reft thine eves of sight, staining the pupils with blood? who hath slain these children? whoe'er he was, fierce must have been his wrath against thee and thy children. Hecuba
  • Doctors who perform abortions, meanwhile, bear the brunt of the organized anti-choice movement's wrath.
  • Vainly had Silverstein striven to stay the spouse's wrath. Chapter 2
  • All the waves and billows of that wrath passed over Him.
  • But it wasn't worth incurring his wrath. Times, Sunday Times
  • On such occasions, he would throw back his head, shut his eyes and roar his wrath at his opponents in a most disquieting manner, and when he returned home, whether he had won or lost his fight, his paper would bristle for two or three weeks with rage, and his editorial page would be full of lurid articles written in short exclamatory sentences, pocked with italics, capital letters and black-faced lines. In Our Town
  • 'Thou knowest he whom Thou hast named the Lightning-flash of the Western World is a wrathful and quick-tempered man.' St Berthold's Feast Day. . . .
  • But Eusebius, who was still in towering wrath, refused to withdraw what he had said, and endeavoured to thrust his schedule of gravamina into the Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
  • The Prince overtook them with rapid strides, and knowing that the power of gentleness is more lasting than that of anger, he suppressed his wrath as he spoke to them, though withal he reproved them sternly. The Fairies and the Christmas Child
  • Hunter, that it is to be understood of destruction in the wilderness, and the answer stands thus -- _My wrath shall wax hot against Israel and consume them -- they shall all die in the wilderness_, THEREFORE, _now go lead them to Sermons on Various Important Subjects
  • To use live penguins, while adding an audible dimension, might incur the wrath of the animal rights lobby.
  • Don't meddle in matters that don't concern you, unless you want to face the wrath of Rowan!
  • This unconquerableness but fanned Leclère's wrath and stirred him to greater deviltries. BÂTARD
  • May the capitalists suffer the wrath of capitalism and democracy under the constitution, as we have since the brith of this country. Avlon: 'Wingnut' in desperate bid for attention
  • Doctors who perform abortions, meanwhile, bear the brunt of the organized anti-choice movement's wrath.
  • She knew that they were talking about that old trouble, and Nahum Beals's voice of high wrath made her shrink; but, after all, she was removed from it all that night into a little prospective paradise of her own, which, as is the case in childhood, seemed to overgild her own future and all the troubles of the world. The Portion of Labor
  • The ANC spokesman was himself a victim of Manamela's wrath, who said "bourgeoisification" of the ANC was increasingly becoming dangerous for the country and the poor. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Even in Karien, they had trod warily to avoid incurring her wrath. HARSHINI
  • This remark brought the judge's full wrath down on Sergeant Golding.
  • A soft answer turns [turneth] away wrath
  • The play has incurred the wrath/anger of both audiences and critics.
  • If they bring thee back safe, they may chance to sing to the twiggen fiddle-bow, that they may be warned from such folly; but if they come back without thee, by All-hallows the wind of wrath shall sweep their heads off them! The Water of the Wondrous Isles
  • Ander had the sneaking suspicion that terrible things were happening to his grade in her class, but at least he didn't have to worry about taking report cards home to wrathful parents.
  • The MPs incurred the wrath of Mr Trimble and his supporters in June when they resigned the whip at Westminster in a policy row.
  • The wrathful Commendatore himself towered above his unrepentant victim with the flames of Hell around him. TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
  • The native of Waterford's Cannon Street, who now lives in Newrath, is very much a hands-on owner of his travel agency.
  • A comfortable persuasion of our acceptation with God in Christ is the bottom of this peace; it inwraps deliverance from eternal wrath, hatred, curse, condemnation, — all sweetly affecting the soul and conscience. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
  • Anyone who mocks her will face the wrath of my feather duster. Christianity Today
  • He sighed, slightly relieved to have escaped their self-righteous wrath, but also a bit discomposed.
  • We moved on, Strickland silent and wrathful, until Fleete was taken with violent shivering fits and sweating.
  • Douglas, I will give my people and all the world proof that I am still God's righteous and avenging vice-gerent on earth, and that no consideration can restrain my wrath, no after-thought stay my arm, whenever it is ready to fall and smite the head of the guilty. Henry VIII and His Court
  • But the scheme has incurred the wrath of the Environment Agency because of its potential effect on domestic water supplies from springs in the area.
  • Dutocq had seen with great uneasiness what he called the liaison of des Lupeaulx with Madame Rabourdin, and his silent wrath on the subject was accumulating. Bureaucracy
  • I must say the idea terrifies me due to all my Christian beliefs, and I fear the council may unleash the set of dominoes that eventually brings the wrath of God upon the city. Undefined
  • Let not the sun go down on your wrath
  • So far from all prosperity awaiting the people as the false prophets say (Jer 23: 17), wrath is in store for them. grievous -- literally, "eddying," whirling itself about, a tornado. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • I began to be alarmed and wrathy; but I felt that my knowledge of French was not equal to adequately expressing my sentiments and decided to await developments.
  • That explains the unconcealed wrath of Lalkishenchand and the menial manners of Naraadham raining hell fire on Mr Lyngdoh in particular, and on whistleblowers and curtain-raisers in general.
  • Let not the sun go down upon thy wrath
  • She had been out-manoeuvred and out-run, to say nothing of her having been unceremoniously tumbled in the gravel, and her arrival was like that of a tornado — made up of offended dignity, justifiable wrath, and instinctive hatred for this marauder from the Wild. The Southland
  • But the glitter of the buttercup, which is as nothing to the glitter of a gold dollar in the eyes of a practical farmer, fills him with wrath when this immigrant takes possession of his pastures. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
  • This authority, as well as the nature of the case, renders it certain, that all, who indulge such feelings, are _in the gall of bitterness and under the bond of iniquity_ -- _dead in trespasses and sins_ -- _treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath_. The National Preacher, Vol. 2 No. 7 Dec. 1827 Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers, Sermons XXVI. and XXVII.
  • The wrath of the regime is turned upon these rebels who for a long time remain undetected. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nothing much, a bit of carelessness, yet enough to bring the professional wrath of Doctor Bicknell about his ears and to perturb the working of the staff and nurses for twenty-four hours to come. SEMPER IDEM
  • She boomed out again, ‘Morgan forsook me and for it he shall feel my wrath’ She slowly turned a bit, letting the pleasing look about her drop.
  • Parents in the past would readily enter a child's room, or read a child's letters, without asking, says Mr Lu, but today are likely to incur the wrath of their privacy- conscious children if they do.
  • After the first long sermon preaches a doomsday envisionment of religion, where a vindictive God has nothing but wrath for sinners, he is sure that every word was aimed at him.
  • the pirate's spuke," that used to cruise up and down the wrathful torrent, and was snuffed out of sight for some hours by old Peter Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 09 : as to buried treasure
  • The evidence of God's wrath was the blocks upon blocks of burned buildings we supposedly brought on ourselves.
  • Let not the sun go down upon thy wrath
  • Whereas, in an ideal of love and benevolence, we have tried to automatize ourselves into little love-engines always stoked with the sorrows or beauties of other people, so that we can get up steam of charity or righteous wrath. Fantasia of the Unconscious
  • Or, that oaths made in reverential fear Of love, and his wrath, any may forswear ? THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • The wrathful Commendatore himself towered above his unrepentant victim with the flames of Hell around him. TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
  • Therefore he went away, outwardly well-content with his morning, but inwardly full of wrath that his heart had refused the guidance of his mind. Lahoma
  • Equally, the United manager may possibly be one of the few figures down south who can speak to referees in such a brusque, accusatory manner and not incur their wrath.
  • Although they professed to be atheists, the ferrymen muttered among themselves about the wrath of Maera, the River Goddess. TREASON KEEP
  • His bold and free demeanour, his attachment to rich dress and decoration, his inaptitude to receive instruction, and his hardening himself against rebuke, were circumstances which induced the good old man, with more haste than charity, to set the forward page down as a vessel of wrath, and to presage that the youth nursed that pride and haughtiness of spirit which goes before ruin and destruction. The Abbot
  • They were most easily roused in defence of their own honour and jurisdiction, quarrelling with rival law courts, the clergy, and any other institution brave enough to risk their wrath.
  • A soft answer turneth away wrath
  • the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath
  • Insofar as your bellyaching about fetuses, you should also direct your wrath to your party which does NOTHING about abortion but uses abortion as a wedge issue to get you to vote. Think Progress » Blunt rejects barring insurers from denying insurance to adults with pre-existing conditions.
  • I walked a sad tightrope between trying to impress cooler kids through imitation and my mortal terror of wrathful authority figures.
  • Of course, the senior officers ran the risk of incurring the wrath of a vindictive and ruthless Chief Minister.
  • And let him humbly, and truly with his owne mouthe, confesse to a wise prieste, in the steade of God: all those offences wherwith he knoweth him selfe to haue loste his innocencie and clennesse, and to haue prouoked the wrathe of GOD againste him selfe. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
  • Then suddenly visualising the poor beasts lying stiff in congealed blood, and the mailman's exaggerated description of trees black with crows, she flamed out in wrathful horror, and was as anxious as her husband that the perpetrators of the crime should be brought to justice. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
  • Here's a quick clip of her explaining to me that after cutting the final speech from The Tempest, she decided to put it back via the song in the end credits, which, she felt, had to be performed by the mighty Beth Gibbons, best known as the willowy, wounded - and occasionally wrathful - voice of Portishead. Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
  • 1.5.29: Lorde how I gan in wrath vnwisely me demeane. "Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other"
  • Few had the courage to buck the system in case they incurred the well-known wrath of the tsar.
  • The more unbelievers you rule, the clearer it becomes that their ongoing antagonism won’t be an asset, and the bleaker is the prospect of incurring their wrath by coercing them into conversion. One World, Under God
  • Also it says the more confident you become in killing big daddies the more wrath you will incur from the big sister, meaning that the daddies all work for the big sister in a fagan / oliver twist kind of way. Computer And Video Games
  • So she returned, as she were a rending lioness, and bespake none for the space of three hours, when her brow cleared and her wrath cooled. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • As the Gospel narrative unfolds we are quickly made aware that the good news signifies more than rescue from divine wrath.
  • The would-be rescuer who has become a target of wrath over Wall Street excesses and the ravages of the recession, knows all too well what is driving public anger.
  • Vengeance ought to ripen slowly in the strong heat of intense wrath, till of itself it falls -- hastily snatched before its time it is like unmellowed fruit, sour and ungrateful to the palate. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten
  • She knelt down so she was level with Allison's face and glared wrathfully into Allison's eyes.
  • But you can get it strange wrathfully the teasingly undismayed all terrain truck deterrent that premier it, and we gave him the web gravimeter. Rational Review
  • It is said that those who fail to appear before Neptunus Rex are forever damned as pirates, and no shellback shall ever tread upon the deck of a pollywog without incurring the wrath of said monarch. Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Wednesday
  • They saw the floods as a sign of divine wrath.
  • To put it simply, referees and judges find it subconsciously difficult to incite consistently the wrath of home fans. Times, Sunday Times
  • A lack of facilities has forced most bladers and skateboarders to take to the pavements, risking both injury, and the wrath of the public in the process.
  • At the same time, thousands of conservative politicians will face a dreadful choice: backtrack from the anti-abortion ground they have staked out and risk infuriating their pro-life base; or deliver on their promise to eliminate the right to abortion, and risk the wrath of a moderate, pro-choice majority. Letting Go of Roe
  • V. v.308 (300,3) By tasting of our wrath] [W: hasting] There is no need of change; the consequence is taken for the whole action; _by tasting_ is _by forcing us to make thee taste_. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
  • At about the same time, Joseph Smith founded a new American religion—and soon met with the wrath of the mainstream Protestant majority.
  • The old man seemed to swell with wrath and outrage.
  • Anyone who mocks her will face the wrath of my feather duster. Christianity Today
  • The more afraid people became, the more they attacked what they saw as objects of divine wrath. The English Civil War: A People's History
  • To escape the wrath of the hornets, Peter descended the tree "overhand," which being interpreted means that he dropped and caught the limbs as he went down so as to decrease the speed. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
  • As a novelist, he held that she pointed the way to Lever, and adds: 'The rattling vivacity of the Irish character, its ebullient spirit, and its wrathful eloquence of sentiment and language, she well portrayed; one can smell the potheen and turf smoke even in her pictures of a boudoir.' Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
  • He meant to leave town a sputtering, raging man, that minister, -- full of what he called righteous wrath. Green Valley
  • I let faireviews in on slobodens but ranked rothgardes round wrathmindsers: I bathandbaddend on mendicity and I corocured off the unoculated. Finnegans Wake
  • The core of the company's operation is still designer chocolates — indeed, its "7 Deadly Sins to Share," a stark, postmodern box filled with black currant and Champagne (pride), almond praline (wrath) and passion fruit (envy) chocolates, among others, may be this Valentine's Day's most high-concept box of candy. Ring Dings, From the Heart
  • Beware! his hair filled with wrath, is epic; his blouse drapes itself like the folds of a chlamys. Les Miserables
  • If the prime minister fails, he will face the wrath of the voters.
  • His defection aggrieved her so bitterly, that the fiercest of her wrath turned upon him; and after a wrangle wherein all the parties concerned had made liberal use of those "aculeate and proper" words against which the wary Bacon warns his quarrelling readers, she flounced away into the darkness of the small hours of the stormy December morning, loudly avowing her determination never to see a sight of the ugly, dirty, mane-spirited poltroon, or open her lips to him as long as she had an eye or a tongue in her head. Strangers at Lisconnel
  • Not only was Paul frightened of his father's drunken wrath, all the children were.
  • The Kshatriya, conversant with duties, that upholds righteousness when it is trespassed against, does not, by that act, become a sinner, for the wrath of the assailant justifies the wrath of the chastiser. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
  • This incurred great wrath on the part of my father, who finally issued an execution order.
  • Let not the sun go down on your wrath
  • The Hammal, direfully wrath, threatened to shoot him upon the spot, and it was not without difficulty that I calmed the storm. First footsteps in East Africa
  • The herukas, also called the wrathful deities, are expressions of buddha-consciousness and buddha-compassion, but under a terrible aspect. Archive 2005-11-01
  • So, if he have commerce with her, haply she will conceive by him and her son be a hypocrite, a man of wrath and a shedder of blood. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Let not the sun go down upon thy wrath
  • They are poor, numerous, and pregnant; if they work, it is to little purpose; their religions span a simple spectrum from witchcraft to wrath, and their societies alternate between tyranny and chaos; they beat their wives, scarify their daughters, and occasionally eat their enemies; they have never read (if they can read) a book that was not holy, or heard a piece of music unrelated to copulation. Dan Agin: Michelle Obama and the Poison of National Review
  • Mara stood there, face incandescent with rage, eyes blazing with purple wrath and entire body outlined in a shimmering nimbus of terrible light.
  • Shall I risk wrath and edge into the middle lane? Times, Sunday Times
  • I shrieked, my voice quaking with inexpressible wrath.

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