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Definition of Rankles
1. rankle [v] - See also: rankle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rankles
Literary usage of Rankles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1810)
"The Gout, with torture, rankles in my Near threescore year* and tea -»the term
joints, And, in excruciating throbs, forbids Repose — Patience, a weak asylum ..."
2. The Halcyon Luminary, and Theological Repository (1813)
"mon of the real misery that rankles at the heart, it may be necessary to resort
to almost extreme vivacity ; for the powers of the ..."
3. A Critical Enquiry Regarding the Real Author of the Letters of Junius by George Coventry (1825)
"The tooth of malice never rankles more, Than when it bites and healeth not the
sore.' Sir James Lowther, who was Governor ..."
4. Thomas Wolsey: Legate and Reformer by Ethelred Luke Taunton (1902)
"... question — Wolsey "dare put his soul"—The sense of injustice rankles— Clement
trifles with the case — The fear of the Emperor — The theological question ..."
5. The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos by Charles William Day (1844)
"heart, and rankles there; whilst an apology merely skins over the surface, but
never heals the wound. To persons impertinently disposed, what a warning ..."
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