Resents
[ri'zents]
Examples
- Mrs Veneering equally resents the imputation of being the wife of Twemlow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr. Jobling quite resents this liberty, several times returning to it with such remarks as, There are places enough to die in, I should think! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This Mr. Guppy resents as a liberty, retorting, Jobling, there ARE chords in the human mind-- Jobling begs pardon. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- To touch its brushes may be instant death, for the dynamo is the prison house of the lightning, and resents intrusion. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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