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  • The sentence of death, did not so much daunt or dismay the poore Lovers, as the uncivill and unsightly manner, which (in feare of the Kings wrathfull displeasure) no man durst presume to contradict.

    The Decameron 2004

  • _Iphigenia_, being a yoong damsell of excellent bewtie, to th'intent to please the wrathfull gods, hinderers of his nauigation, after he had said all, closed it vp in this one verse, spoken in _Epiphonema_.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • _Climene_, [A] with her haire trans-formed into an hearbe called _Venus_ maid, or Lady hearbe, & _Phœbus_ in a cruell indignation & wrathfull displeasure, she following of him weeping, from whom he fled hastening on forward hys swift horses, as one that flyeth from hys mortall and deadly enemie.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • Returning home, he encountered Claribel herself, and “with wrathfull hand he slew her innocent.”

    Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

  • But as for such who have busied themselves in many broyles, or have beene vehement in the prosecution of any lust, as the ambitious, the amorous, the wrathfull man, these still retaine the glimpses and dreames of such things as they have performed in their bodies, which makes them either altogether unfit to remaine there where they are, or else keepes them long ere they can put off their soules.

    The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet John Wilkins 1643

  • Lucretius Carus the philosopher and poet inueighing sore against the abuses of the superstitious religion of the Gentils, and recompting the wicked fact of king Agamemnon in sacrificing his only daughter Iphigenia, being a yoong damsell of excellent bewtie, to th'intent to please the wrathfull gods, hinderers of his nauigation, after he had said all, closed it vp in this one verse, spoken in Epiphonema.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

  • Come nere, ye wrathfull men, take your rowme and place

    The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489

  • 4 Whose wrathfull wreakes them selues do now alay.

    The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

  • 8 The false witch did my wrathfull hand with-hold;

    The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

  • 1696: Loue not such nights as these: The wrathfull Skies

    King Lear (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

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