Rancour

Rancour has surrounded this patch for some 10 years, since a developer tried to get permission for housing and lost, after vigorous protests from the View, and many others.

Britain's best views: Bath 2011

Rancour between Tories and Lib Dems is as nothing compared with the poisonous divisions in the US where government is paralysed by the deadlock between the White House and an obstructionist Congress.

Cameron: over-confident, cavalier and careless… and still on top | Andrew Rawnsley 2011

Rancour, clothed in black, is dragging Calumny forward with his right hand; as a symbol of the lies which she has spread, she is holding a burning torch in her left hand, while she is pulling her victim, an almost naked youth, by the hair behind her with her right hand.

Archive 2009-02-01 2009

His eyes are lowered, so as he is unable to see what is happening; he is stretching out his hand searchingly towards Rancour, who is standing before him.

Archive 2009-02-01 2009

The ghost of Roy Jenkins says: anon. was that posted 'Without Rancour'?

Brown Stirs it up For the LibDems 2007

Faith, Hope, and Charity would be quite banished from such a world — for men are born to relieve and assist one another; and in their stead should succeed and be introduced Defiance, Disdain, and Rancour, with the most execrable troop of all evils, all imprecations, and all miseries.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Faith, Hope, and Charity would be quite banished from such a world — for men are born to relieve and assist one another; and in their stead should succeed and be introduced Defiance, Disdain, and Rancour, with the most execrable troop of all evils, all imprecations, and all miseries.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

I expect that all the Rancour of the Refugees will be poured out upon Cornwallis for it.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 December 1781 1973

Such is the Bitterness and Rancour, the Malice and Revenge, the Pride and Vanity which prevails in these Men.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 July 1774, "Our J. [Justice] H. [Hutchinson] is eternally giving his Political Hints..." 1963

The Rancour of that fiend the Spirit of Party had never appeared to me, in so odious and dreadfull a Light, though I had heard much of it, in a Contest between Roland Cotton and Parson

John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961