Resented

Examples

• If so, it was a liberty that Rosamond resented; and she prepared herself to meet every word with polite impassibility. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• What the servants chiefly resented, I think, was her silent tongue and her solitary ways. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Tucked away out of sight, I dare say, thought Jo, who could forgive her own wrongs, but hotly resented any insult offered her family. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• From Aucassin to Nietzsche men have resented it as a partial and stunting dream. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• After a pause, they both heartily congratulated me; but there was a certain touch of sadness in their congratulations that I rather resented. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• She resented its having been called into being. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But I suspected the motive, resented it, and went no more. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He had since tried her, in his own unknown person and supposed station, and she not only rejected his advances but resented them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Ursula resented Hermione's long, grave, downward-looking face. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was a burden upon her, that she resented, but could not escape. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In his view he should himself have been heir of all my estates, and he deeply resented those social laws which made it impossible. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He saw that he was cherished in her grateful remembrance secretly, and that they resented him with the jail and the rest of its belongings. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And afterwards he brought her with him to Rome, where her influence over him was bitterly resented. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And she could tell by his tone he resented it, he resented this isolation she had drawn round herself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I had asked him the question inhospitably enough, for I resented the sort of bright and gratified recognition that still shone in his face. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• No feudal baron in _Magna Charta_ times could have more thoroughly resented some incursion of the crown. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Questions that would have been resented in others she could ask with impunity. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He resented the girl's position, as if the lady had been the commonest of commoners. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This was resented by the Godfreys; we differed, and they removed, leaving me the whole house, and I resolved to take no more inmates. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I sought to improve her manners and ameliorate her general tone; she (supported in this likewise by her relations) resented my endeavours. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But she resented being in the position when somebody might do it to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The time had been when I should have resented it as an insult--I accepted it now as a written release from my engagement. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Penelope resented my merriment, in rather a strange way. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He resented them for what they could do to him and for what they could do to this old man. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I don't know what you may be doing here, ladies and gentlemen, he said, as if he resented our presence, but you'll excuse my coming in. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But he resented those words bitterly. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I resented the idea, of course; but I was in a manner struck by it, as a new one altogether. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• And very handsome ones they are, too, cried Jo, who resented any slighting remarks about her friend. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The Bleeding Hearts resented her claiming to know people of such distinction. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I resented it, because it seemed to imply that he expected me to respond to it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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