Hostility

Examples

• But Gerald could feel a strange hostility to himself, in the air. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Canler felt the hostility that emanated from each member of the party. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Then Osborne had the intolerable sense of former benefits to goad and irritate him: these are always a cause of hostility aggravated. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The hostility of England to the United States during our rebellion was not so much real as it was apparent. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There was a curious hostility in male, outlawed understanding between the two men. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• His innovation had manifestly raised the suspicion and hostility of the priesthood of Bel. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The protection of that lord (or the danger of his hostility) became more considerable with every such accession. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That would, indeed, be a civil war of the worst description: we should rather, through the instrumentality of men of science, soften the asper ities of national hostility. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It encountered considerable hostility, and at last systematic attempts to suppress it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This hostility exacerbated the natural discord of nomad and townsman. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• All my old feelings of hostility towards him revived on the instant, and all the hours that have passed since have done nothing to dissipate them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There was a queer, indefinable hostility between the two men, lately. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I trust there is no personal hostility concerned here, said Mr. Thesiger. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• France and Holland committed acts of open hostility. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Thus the very workingmen who agitate for a better diffusion of wealth display a marked hostility to improvements in the production of it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They jostled, browbeat, and threatened one another, but they did not come to actual hostilities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Soon after a white flag was received, requesting a suspension of hostilities pending negotiations for a surrender. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It would look strange indeed to my people and to yours were the Princess of Helium to give herself to her country's enemy in the midst of hostilities. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Mr. Murdstone seemed afraid of a renewal of hostilities, and interposing began: 'Miss Trotwood! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Hostilities along that part of the line ceased at once. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Just before the outbreak of the Spanish War in 1898 he felt that such a machine might be of service to his country in the event of hostilities that seemed to him imminent. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• This stopped all further hostilities. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• So our imaginations are led up to the actual hostilities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the North the people governed, and could stop hostilities whenever they chose to stop supplies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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