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Usage examples of resent.

Ugly and at once it shrinks within itself, denies the thing, turns away from it, not accordant, resenting it.

Captain Barker, however, resented the marriage on the ground that she was out of place in a pavilion expressly designed for a confirmed bachelor.

His own organizers were so afraid people resented his absence that he spent all of Saturday barnstorming through the environs of Prince Albert.

Whether she regretted having given him as much encouragement as lay in a rose dropped from her corsage, or whether she resented the introduction into the party of so unprepossessing a gentleman as Mr Gumley, no one could tell, but although she relented towards him from time to time, even allowing her hand to rest in his for a moment longer than was necessary when he handed her down from the barouche, she was for the most part a little pettish in her manner, and made it plain that he could do nothing to please her.

Bonner really resented, it was hotshot enlisted like this super chief, clearly younger than Bonner, already making better money.

Still more they resented being sent south for skirmish duty while Brian Boru was assembling the main army at Dublin for the battle to determine the future of Ireland.

As Brek expected, the hierarch resented the assumption of equality in that look.

He resented the orders his father gave him and the quick way Clay made decisions, not consulting Bret, never explaining his reasons.

A most unsociable dog he proved to be, resenting all their advances, refusing to let them lay hands on him, menacing them with bared fangs and bristling hair.

He, too, had had pleasure, of this I was certain, yet did the maleness of him resent the position in which he had had his pleasure.

The result was a curious one that Minks would certainly have resented with indignation.

No matter how you may mislike the bias, the Witan would resent the interference of a woman.

She resented being set aside, shut off from his presence, then brought out like some fragile porcelain doll that could not withstand the strain of being overheld, overloved, or overused, and be commanded to perform for his guests.

Miss Overmore had often said to her in reference to any fear that her mother might resent her prolonged detention.

However, Jones, though he had enough of the lover and of the heroe too in his disposition, did not resent these slanders as hastily as, perhaps, he ought to have done.