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And there the Lady Alice Lisle--so called by courtesy, since Cromwell's titles did not at law survive the Restoration--might have ended her days in peace, but that it was written that those who hated her--innocent and aged though she was--for the name she bore, who included her in the rancour which had procured her husband's assassination, were to be fully satisfied.— The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series
You, Leontion, would make others better; and better they certainly will be, when their hostilities languish in an empty field, and their rancour is tired with treading upon dust.— Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
Their rancour was at least equal to their erudition,--the two most learned antagonists of a learned age Salmasius was a man of vast erudition, but no taste.— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
If it was the Day of Judgment you would go on moving resolutions; and you have the insolence to maunder over your gallant band of heroes, sacrificed to a whim of party rancour or a struggle for place.— 'That Very Mab'
If Clara had envied his stove, she would have envied it with scoffing rancour, and he would have used sarcasm in response Oh no!"— Clayhanger

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