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Charles the Sixth, that lunatic French king, fell into this misery, out of the extremity of his passion, desire of revenge and malice,
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It may be said that he was ready to return favors; "If things go on as they are going now," he wrote with sportive malice,
Voltaire 2007
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When Doris and those other sea nymphs upbraided her with her ugly misshapen lover, Polyphemus; she replies, they speak out of envy and malice,
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Kibaki said in Kiswahili, the lingua franca of Kenya, that he swore to conduct his duties as president without fear or favor or malice,
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{No fee could compound for such a calamity.} 'Twas a feeless fight, finished in malice,
Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall
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Beauforts red sparkling eyes blab his hearts malice,
Act III. Scene I. The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth 1914
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The Cæsar was silent, and even in this dim light it was easy to read on his ghastly face the inner workings of his tortuous mind -- rage, malice,
"Unto Caesar" Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906
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A lively repartee, piquant raillery, a quarrel seasoned with a trifle of malice,
Ninon de L'Enclos the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century Robinson, Charles Henry 1903
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And because that truth surmounteth her leasing, and that wisdom surmounteth her malice,
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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Captain Giles 'appearance excluding the suspicion of mere sly malice,
The Shadow Line; a confession Joseph Conrad 1890
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