Wrath Sentence Examples

She was trying to avoid his wrath.

Again Nehemiah's wrath was kindled.

Those who wished to enter the society must have "a desire to flee from the wrath to come, to be saved from their sins."

After Metivier's departure the old prince called his daughter in, and the whole weight of his wrath fell on her.

Felipa had done nothing to deserve his wrath.

The failure caused a savage outburst of wrath in the country.

He'd have to risk the wrath of Death.

So far from drawing any lesson from the brilliant event in the reign of Cyrus, the prophets imply that Yahweh's wrath is still upon the unfortunate city and that Persia is still the oppressor.

You also have to worry about the wrath of the gods.

At the request of the Florentines the council removed to Milan, but this did not save them from the pope's wrath.

Henry Fonda received his first Best Actor nomination in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath.

She knows her life is in his hands; there is no one to protect her from his wrath.

His father received his son's communication with external composure, but inward wrath.

Being apprised by one of the nobles of the court of what had taken place, Firdousi passed the night in great anxiety; but passing in the morning by the gate that led from his own apartments into the palace, he met the sultan in his private garden, and succeeded by humble apologies in appeasing his wrath.

Athamas and his second wife Ino were said to have incurred the wrath of Hera, because Ino had brought up Dionysus, the son of her sister Semele, as a girl, to save his life.

Inhuman as he could be in his wrath, in principle he was as much a humanist as any of his most enlightened contemporaries.

Until the British government stepped in with its police and canals and railroads, between the people and what they were accustomed to consider the dealings of Providence, scarcely a year passed without some terrible manifestation of the power and the wrath of God.

But the Scots, as was natural, bore the brunt of the kings wrath.

Is it a Man cast down in the divine wrath, His strength weakened in the way, His days shortened?

He negotiated with the elector palatine for the establishment of factories at Mannheim; suggested to the elector of Bavaria the creation of German colonies in Guiana and the West Indies; and brought down upon himself the wrath of the Munich merchants by planning a government monopoly of cloth manufacture and of trade.

I'm only sorry for her father! thought she, trying to restrain her wrath.

And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey.

These were traditionally named after two lovers who fled the wrath of the girl 's father.

They knew he rescues us from the coming wrath.

Baptize the soul from wrath, from envy and from hatred; and, lo!

It roused one of the fits of wild rage to which he was not unfrequently liable; he burst out into ejaculations of wrath, and cursed the cowardly idle servants who suffered their master to be made the laughing-stock of a low-born priest.

Edward ordered young Nigel Bruce and many other captives to be executed; for he was provoked to great wrath by the rebellion of a magnate who had given him every assurance of loyalty.

His success did almost as much harm as good to his cause, for the deliberate sack of the city was carried out with such ruthless severity that it roused wild wrath rather than terror in the neighboring regions.

He was roused to implacable wrath by anyone who dared to speak on the forbidden topic of the succession question.

The accounts of its institution, which differ in detail, agree that it was intended to appease the wrath of the goddess at the killing of a bear.

The Italian primate, Octavian de Palatio, knew better, and incurred the wrath of Kildare by refusing to officiate at the impostor's coronation.

These were traditionally named after two lovers who fled the wrath of the girl's father.

For where they had come once, they would come again, next time in greater numbers, afire with righteous wrath.

And He treads the winepress of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty.

They knew he " rescues us from the coming wrath.

The loom in which it was woven was eternal wrath.

Chicheley also incurred the papal wrath by opposing the system of papal provision which diverted patronage from English to Italian hands, but the immediate occasion was to prevent the introduction of the bulls making Beaufort a cardinal.

The elder Gibbon heard with indignant surprise of this act of juvenile apostasy, and, indiscreetly giving vent to his wrath, precipitated the expulsion of his son from Oxford, a punishment which the culprit, in after years at least, found no cause to deplore.

Samaria had experienced several changes in its original population, 2 and an instructive story tells how the colonists, in their ignorance of the religion of their new home, incurred the divine wrath.

Hagen affects to construe this as a confession of guilt, and slays him as if in righteous wrath.

It was about 1820 that Mosilikatze (properly Umsilikazi), a general in the Zulu army, having incurred Chaka's wrath by keeping back part of the booty taken in an expedition, fled with a large following across the Drakensberg and began to lay waste a great part of the country between the Vaal and Limpopo rivers.

He incurred the wrath of Sejanus, the powerful minister of Tiberius, by some supposed allusions in his fables, and was brought to trial and punished.

Foreseeing the wrath of the king against all who obeyed the mandate from Rome, the larger number of the bishops and many others of the higher clergy fled overseas to escape the storm.

About 1504 an attack of unusual ferocity on some Frankfort traders aroused the elector's wrath, and during the next few years the execution of many lawbreakers and other stern measures restored some degree of order.

He is God 's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.

Indeed, some Christians lived an almost excessively puritanical life and thus incurred the wrath of the populace.

Long-awaited, The Wrath of Magra takes the adventure program one step nearer to full role-playing scenarios.

Thou canst not present any service or sacrifice that will at all avail thee for averting the Divine wrath or winning the Divine favor.

Both actions, when done in an unworthy manner, can incur God 's wrath and judgment.

Well, in these two chapters we come to the final series of God 's judgment, the seven vials of wrath !

This brought down the wrath of the international community - international aid was suspended and Cambodia 's application to join ASEAN was postponed indefinitely.

Conversely, Leeds based, Wrath records signed, pop rock peddlers Galitza have clearly been in the business a while.

The family moved often, which meant Cruise was accustomed to the role of new kid on the block who had to work hard to fit in or face the wrath of bullies.

Joe apparently drew the wrath of Ms. Spears when he was caught lounging by the pool with K-Fed.

He has already suffered the wrath of Barbara Walters, who is now boycotting all of his movies.

Memon's son had always sheltered Taran from Memon's wrath.

There was some faint excuse for Frederick's wrath.

Meanwhile Savonarola continued to denounce the abuses of the church and the guilt and corruption of mankind, and thundered forth predictions of heavenly wrath.

Shortly afterwards the threatened bull of excommunication was launched against him, and Fra Mariano was in Rome stimulating the pope's wrath.

That that wrath must be followed by fresh mercies is not in itself a new thought, but only the necessary expression of the inherited conviction that Yahweh whom they preach as the judge of all the earth, is nevertheless, as past history has proved, the God who has chosen Israel as His people.

According to the oracle, the wrath of Poseidon could only be appeased by the sacrifice of one of the king's daughters.

The Rev. John Campbell, one of the founders of the Bible Society, also travelled in southern Bechuanaland and the adjoining districts in 1812-1814 and 1819-1821, adding considerably to the knowledge of the river systems. About 1817 Mosilikatze, the founder of the Matabele nation, fleeing from the wrath of Chaka, the Zulu king, began his career of conquest, during which he ravaged a great part of Bechuanaland and enrolled large numbers of Bechuana in his armies.

Nevertheless the Seljukian dominion was petty and unimportant and did not rise to significance till his son and successor, Kilij Arslan II., had subdued the Danishmands and appropriated their possessions, though he thereby risked the wrath of the powerful atabeg of Syria, Nureddin, and afterwards that of Saladin.

According to Albrecht Ritschl "the wrath of God means the resolve of God to annihilate those men who finally oppose themselves to redemption, and the final purpose of the kingdom of God."

The numerous editions of the various portions - for, despite Hume's wrath and grumblings, the book was a great literary success - gave him an opportunity of careful revision, which he employed to remove from it all the ' villainous seditious Whig strokes," and " plaguy prejudices of Whiggism " that he could detect.

This drew down upon the archbishop-elector the wrath of the French republicans; in 1794 Coblenz was taken by the Revolutionary army under Marceau (who fell during the siege), and, after the peace of Luneville, it was made the chief town of the Rhine and Mosel department (1798).

This independence caused great wrath at St Petersburg, where Bernstorff was accused of disloyalty, and ultimately sacrificed to the resentment of the Russian government (13th of November 1780), the more readily as he already disagreed on many important points of domestic administration with the prime minister Haegh Guldberg.

Tithes were classified according to their nature as praedial, or It was his denial of the divine right of tithes that brought down the wrath of the Star Chamber upon the author.

With one more denunciation of the house of Ahab, Elijah's function as a messenger of wrath was fully discharged (2 Kings i.).

His wrath was excited in no measured terms against the re-marriage of his old friend Mrs Thrale, the news of which he heard this summer.

His speech in favour of reserving to the crown the right of absolute veto under the new constitution drew down upon him the wrath of the advanced politicians of the Palais Royal; but in spite of threats and abuse he continued to advocate a moderate liberal policy, especially in the matter of removing the political disabilities of Jews and Protestants and of extending the system of trial by jury.

Athamas's life was thus saved, but the wrath of the gods was unappeased, and pursued the family.

This was, however, met by vigorous protests from Czechs and Poles, while its provisions for a partly nominated senate, and the indirect election of deputies, excited the wrath of radical Vienna.

Dionysius vented his wrath on those who were nearest to him, banishing many, among them his brother Leptines and his earliest friend Philistus, and putting many to death.

Composition meant for him intense absorption in his work; solitude and quiet were essential; and he resented interruptions by grotesque explosions of humorously exaggerated wrath.

The greatest length from Cape Wrath in Sutherland to the Mull of Galloway is 274 m., and the greatest breadth from Buchan Ness to Applecross in the shire of Ross and Cromarty 154 m., but from Bonar Bridge at the head of Dornoch Firth to the head of Loch Broom it is only 26 m.

At Cape Wrath, precipices 300 ft.

On the west the most notable cliffs south of those of Cape Wrath and the Cambrian sandstones of Sutherland are to be found among the basaltic islands, particularly in Skye, where a magnificent range of precipices rising to moo ft.

Above the Archean gneiss lies a series of red and chocolate-coloured sandstone (Torridon sandstone), which form a number of detached areas from Cape Wrath down the seaboard of the shires of Sutherland and Ross and Cromarty, across Skye, and as far as the island of Rum.

This aroused the wrath of the nobles and the two princes of the blood, Albany and Mar.

The idea of a Spanish marriage excited the wrath of Knox, whose interviews with Mary did nothing but irritate both parties and alienate the politicians from the more enthusiastic Protestants.

Theseus in a rage imprecated on his son the wrath of Poseidon.

The binding of his son Polyphemus by Odysseus brings upon the hero the wrath of Poseidon, from which he is only protected by the united influence of the rest of the gods.

But they further speak of Jesus as " raised from the dead," and they refer to the belief which they had led the society to entertain, that He would come again " from heaven to deliver them from the coming wrath."

There would still be a great gap to be filled before we reached the earliest letters of St Paul; but yet we should know what the Apostle meant when he wrote to " the Church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ," and reminded them how they had " turned from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivereth us from the wrath to come."

In 1093 he went in pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and in his wrath at the miseries of the pilgrims he returned to Europe and preached the duty of the Church to rescue the " holy places " from the infidel.

The place was long besieged, and finally annihilated (1222) by Jenghiz Khan, whose wrath was exasperated at the death of a favourite grandson by an arrow from its walls.

The gods, to be sure, are easily aroused to anger, and in some of them the dire aspects predominated, but the view becomes more and more pronounced that there is some cause always for the divine wrath.

Hajjaj himself was dead; but Suleiman poured out his wrath on his family and his officers.

On a Greek vase-painting the snake is the vehicle of the wrath of Athene, even as Chryse, another local " maiden," had a snake-guardian of a shrine which she sent against Philoctetes.'

Feeling the difficulty of supposing that all the ancient minstrels sang of the " wrath of Achilles " or the " return of Ulysses " (leaving out even the capture of Troy itself), he was led to assume that two poems of no great compass dealing with these two themes became so famous at an early period as to throw other parts of the Trojan story into the background, and were then enlarged by successive generations of rhapsodists.

Some parts of the Iliad, moreover, seemed to him to be older than the poem on the wrath of Achilles; and thus in addition to the " Homeric " and " post-Homeric " matter he distinguished a pre-Homeric " element.

Now, in the Iliad these passages are the finest and most characteristic. The element of connexion and unity is the story of the " wrath of Achilles "; and we have only to look at the books which give the story of the wrath to see how essential they are.

If these passages do not belong to the period of the wrath of Achilles, how are we to account for his conspicuous absence ?

It was regarded as a direct manifestation of the wrath of the gods, even by those who did not suspect the emperor.

For a decade the natives enjoyed their independence, destroying nearly all vestiges of Spanish occupation, and venting their wrath particularly upon the churches.

Its princes became practically independent, and tyrannized the island, until in 1191 Isaac Comnenus provoked the wrath of Richard I., king of England, by wantonly ill-treating his crusaders.

He had to contend with Count Leudast, the governor of Tours; despite all the king's threats, he refused to give up Chilperic's son Meroving, who had sought refuge from his father's wrath at the sanctuary of St Martin; and he defended Bishop Pretextatus against Chilperic, by whom he had been condemned for celebrating the marriage of Merovech and Queen Brunhilda.

By doing this, indeed, she incurred the wrath of the Church to so great an extent that an act of accusation against her was drawn up at the council of Constance.

There were also frequent and imperious demands for the surrender of fugitives who had sought shelter from the wrath of Attila within the limits of the empire.

In 1860 appeared a singular book, somewhat after the fashion of Ahasverus, entitled Merlin l'enchanteur, in 1862 a Histoire de la campagne de 1815, in 1865 an elaborate book on the French Revolution, in which the author, republican as he was, blamed the acts of the revolutionists unsparingly, and by that means drew down on himself much wrath from more thoroughgoing partisans.

Early in March 1792 he was elected lieutenant-colonel of one of the battalions of the Eure-et-Loire; he took part in the defence of Verdun in 1792, and it fell to his lot to bear the proposals of capitulation to the Prussian camp. The spiritless conduct of the defenders excited the wrath of the revolutionary authorities, and Marceau was fortunate in escaping arrest and finding re-employment as a captain in the regular service.

But John descended upon them in great wrath, and by threats compelled them to hold a second meeting, and to elect his nominee Gray, in whose name application for confirmation was also made to the pope.

The bear in Norway is regarded as almost a man, and his dead body is addressed and his wrath deprecated by Samoyeds and Red Indians.

Among other mythic Egyptian figures we have Ra, who once destroyed men in his wrath with circumstances suggestive of the Deluge; Khnum, a demiurge, is.represented at Philae as making man out of clay on a potter's wheel.

Bubastis became a cat to avoid the wrath of Typhon.

As a rule, destruction by a deluge is the most favourite myth, but destructions by fire and wind and by the wrath of a god are common in Australian, Peruvian and Egyptian tradition.

Their propagandizing zeal soon exposed them to the wrath of an ignorant populace and the contempt of the educated; and thus it was that in AD.

John was brought back to Freiburg (April 27), and there in vain attempted to appease the wrath which he had aroused by more or less vague promises of resignation.

She wasn't ready to face his wrath, but neither was anyone else and they had less reason to do so.

Psalm XXXVII O Lord, rebuke me not in Thy wrath, neither chasten me in Thy hot displeasure.

The Well was rammed by gig goers eager to see what Wrath had to offer.

Ewan caught sight of the barbarian's look of righteous wrath and hastily grabbed his horse's bridle.

Renew them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy.

Roche Abbey Roche Abbey a 12th century monastery, which fell victim to the wrath of Henry V111.

Such wrath the the machine is doing baton rouge parish the change only.

Wherefore [ye] must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

The conflict was short and sharp, the mutinous sepoys preferring flight to the wrath of their enemies.

Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.

Flynn's hacking incurs the wrath of the MCP, which dislikes him poking around in its memory.

We cannot accept the idea that Jesus suffered to appease the wrath of God as a simple issue.

The taint of Darkness spreading through their realm is guaranteed to arouse the wrath of these dragons.

That move provoked US TV evangelist Pat Robertson to warn the town was invoking the wrath of God.

Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.

Latimer promptly resigned but the wrath of the king was at once upon him.

Should I take g/s anyway and risk the wrath iof the court?

The voice of reason and something of a moral authority, Frylock uses his fries as limbs while trying to protect Meatwad from Shake's wrath, as well as generally smoothing out ill-conceived schemes gone predictably awry.

Unfortunately, because Meatwad's not very bright, he endures the wrath and schemes of Shake.

For Rainbow Six 3, you have Raven Shield, Black Arrow and Iron Wrath.

If he already has low self-esteem, I can't imagine him being able to tolerate the wrath of his family's humiliation.

If you're just out for fun and games, pass over this one because his wrath will be just as passionate as his lovemaking.

Any man who steps in Aries' way will quickly feel his wrath.

She showers him with the wrath of her superpowers and goes out of her way to break up his new relationship.

Star Trek the Motion Picture was released in 1980, followed by The Wrath of Khan in 1982 and Search for Spock in 1984.

James Horner has also used the instrument for several of his movies like Battle Beyond the Stars and for The Wrath of Khan, with Huxley.

Unfortunately, simply spending a few minutes outdoors can be just enough time to suffer the bee's wrath.

Often the painful sting occurs before the jellyfish is observed, leaving the victim no fair warning to flee their wrath.

Fleeing from the paternal wrath which he had drawn down upon himself by his ambition and by his unauthorized marriage with Charlotte of Savoy, the future Louis XI.

But Europe rose up in wrath; the alliance of T, the Hague.

Ptolemy now vented his wrath upon his counsellors, liberated the Jews, and feasted them for seven days.

He was growing old and increasingly superstitious; the affairs of his realm were going from bad to worse; he became frenziedly anxious to propitiate the wrath of his maker by making war on the enemies of the Church.

He incurred the wrath of that king, who, angered at some act of defiance, ordered the massacre of every Fula in his dominions.

Kriemhild was taunted with being the wife of Gunther's vassal; whereupon, in wrath, she showed Brunhild the ring and the golden girdle taken by Siegfried, proof that Siegfried, not Gunther, had won Brunhild.

This aroused the pope's wrath, and Roberto instantly prepared for defence.

In wrath at this trick, according to Hesiod, or in other versions for the purpose of exterminating the remnants of people who escaped the deluge of Deucalion, Zeus never bestowed, or later withdrew, the gift of fire.

Quinn was fearful; afraid that somehow we'd made a terrible error and the wrath of law enforcement would descend upon us.

She may be using you, but I have no doubt I'd rather be in your position right now than Mr. Fitzgerald's—the wrath of an angry woman is something to behold!

He threw on a jacket and left, aware Sasha couldn.t leave the castle grounds without forfeiting his life and wouldn.t dare disrupt the Immortals for fear of Kris.s wrath.

As the man who raised her while her father ruled Tiyan, he alone was spared the poisonous wrath of the demon.

This will incur the wrath of the MCP, which dislikes him poking around in its memory.

Wrath produce is now getting a good airing on radio!

My friend, Ron Chappell once came ' under the wrath ' of John Thompson for damaging Basil's school blazer.

Naturally, Desiderius was furious at this insult, and the dominions of the Holy See bore the first brunt of his wrath.

Jeremiah became a fugitive from the king's wrath.

By emphasizing the purely moral character of Yahweh's demands from Israel, by teaching that the mere payment of service and worship at Yahweh's shrines did not entitle Israel's sins to be treated one whit more lightly than the sins of other nations, and by enforcing these doctrines through the conception that the approach of the all-destroying empire, before which Israel must fall equally with all its neighbours, was the proof of Yahweh's impartial righteousness, they gave for the first time a really broad and fruitful conception of the moral government of the whole earth by the one true God.1 It is impossible to read the books of the older prophets, and especially of their protagonist Amos, without seeing that the new thing which they are compelled to speak is not Yahweh's grace but His inexorable and righteous wrath.

Romans were more fearful than the educated Greeks had been of the wrath of the gods.

Tell them about their sin and about God 's wrath against sin and about the just penalty for sin that is coming.

If you haven't experienced the wrath of a toddler, you probably haven't entered into the world of parenthood yet.

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Pay homage to the gods, or suffer their wrath by destruction of your crops, buildings and other valuable items.

For example, your student could read about the Great Depression in a textbook or he could read The Grapes of Wrath.

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In the Scandinavian heartland, a picturesque village known as Skagen thrives amid nature's gifts as well as her wrath.

After the victory Oebares kills Astyages against the will of Cyrus, and afterwards kills himself to evade the wrath of Cyrus.

It was, however—and this is sure to earn me the wrath of many humanities professors—a time of surprisingly little originality.

With a population of 60,000, and 8000 workers in copper, it was one of the most flourishing cities in Walloon Belgium until it incurred the wrath of Charles the Bold.

Eardwulf dux, who had apparently fled abroad to escape the wrath of !Ethelred, was now recalled and held the crown until 807 or 808.

In order to take possession of his new see, he had to brave the wrath of the duke of Burgundy, override the resistance of the clergy and bourgeoisie, and even withstand an armed attack on the part of several lords; but his protector, the duke of Orleans, had his investiture performed by Wenceslaus, king of the Romans.

Jehoash, it is said, turned away from Yahweh after the death of Jehoiada and gave heed to the Judaean nobles, " wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for their guilt," prophets were sent to bring them back but they turned a deaf ear.

These proceedings aroused the anger and jealousy of the barons, and their wrath was diminished neither by Gaveston's superior skill at the tournament, nor by his haughty and arrogant behaviour to themselves.

Herodotus mentions the existence of this class, called Enarees, and says that they suffer from a sacred disease owing to the wrath of the goddess of Ascalon whose shrine they had plundered.

In November 1340 Edward III., humiliated, impecunious and angry, returned suddenly to England from Flanders and vented his wrath upon the archbishop's brother, the chancellor, Robert de Stratford.

Or perchance he was some Achilles, who had nourished his wrath apart, and had now come to avenge or rescue his Patroclus.

She may be using you, but I have no doubt I'd rather be in your position right now than Mr. Fitzgerald's—the wrath of an angry woman is something to behold!

Violation of the duties of hospitality was likely to provoke the wrath of the gods; but it does not appear that anything beyond this religious sanction existed to guard the rights of a traveller.

In spite of his iconoclastic sympathies, he endeavoured to conciliate the image-worshippers, but incurred the wrath of the monks by entering into a second marriage with Euphrosyne, daughter of Constantine VI., who had previously taken the veil.

Nicotera, minister of the interior, began his administration of home affairs by a sweeping change in the personnel of the prefects, sub-prefects and public prosecutors, but found himself obliged to incur the wrath of his supporters by prohibiting Radical meetings likely to endanger public order, and by enunciating administrative principles which would have befitted an inveterate Conservative.

Successes achieved in those provinces failed, however, to save Nicotera from the wrath of the Chamber, and on the 14th of December 1877 a cabinet crisis arose over a question concerning the secrecy of telegraphic correspondence.

Religion may " feel," like Tennyson's " man in wrath, " and may expatiate in an undefined awe; science alone is to possess the " knowable."

The threat naturally did not tend to reassure statesmen at Vienna; and the tsar now resolved to prevent the total wreck of the European system by screening the House of Habsburg from the wrath of his ally.

Calchas announced that the wrath of the goddess could only be appeased by the sacrifice of Iphigeneia.

In remembrance of these victims of popular wrath Jalal-uddin founded the order of the Maulawi (in Turkish Mevlevi) dervishes, famous for their piety as well as for their peculiar garb of mourning, their music and their mystic dance (sama), which is the outward representation of the circling movement of the spheres, and the inward symbol of the circling movement of the soul caused by the vibrations of a Sufi's fervent love to God.

The Mars gallicus did not do much to help Jansen's friends in France, but it more than appeased the wrath of Madrid with Jansen himself; in 1636 he was appointed bishop of Ypres.

Achilles is a typical Greek hero; handsome, brave, celebrated for his fleetness of foot, prone to excess of wrath and grief, at the same time he is compassionate, hospitable, full of affection for his mother and respect for the gods.

His wrath, once expended, did not return, and blinking feebly he listened to excuses and self-justifications (Ermolov did not come to see him till the next day) and to the insistence of Bennigsen, Konovnitsyn, and Toll that the movement that had miscarried should be executed next day.

Demeter, clad in black (hence µEXaiva) in token of mourning for her daughter and wrath with Poseidon, retired into a cave.

In a sermon on the Apocalypse he shook men's souls by his terrible threats of the wrath to come, and drew tears from their eyes by the tender pathos of his assurances of divine mercy.

It was Homer's requiem; itself an Iliad and Odyssey in the air, singing its own wrath and wanderings.

Her wrath at the sacrifice of Iphigeneia, and her jealousy of Cassandra, are said to have been the motives of her crime.

Besides the local Baal there were " the god of heaven" (El) and other deities; human sacrifices as a means of propitiating the divine wrath were not uncommon.

This necklace occurs in the story of the goddess Freya (Frigg), who is said to have caused the battle to conciliate the wrath of Odin at her infidelity, the price paid by her for the possession of the necklace Brisnigamen; again, the light god Heimdal is said to have fought with Loki for the necklace (the sun) stolen by the latter.

The Roman exsecratio and diris devotio was a solemn pronouncement of a religious curse by priests, intended to call down the divine wrath upon enemies, and to devote them to destruction by powers human and divine.

Having revealed herself to the Eleusinians, she departs, in her wrath having visited the earth with a great dearth.

First, the emperor's wrath was stirred by the influence of France in the counsels of the republic; then Cosimo, who was no less jealous of the French, conceived the design of annexing Siena to his own dominions.

His ambitious attempt to ascend to the heavens on Pegasus brought upon him the wrath of the gods.

As lieutenantgeneral in Roussillon in 1475 he protected the countryside against the wrath of the king, who wished to repress with cruel severity a rebellion of the inhabitants.

In order to appease the wrath of Apollo, who had visited the camp with a pestilence, Agamemnon had restored Chryseis, his prize of war, to her father, a priest of the god, but as a compensation deprived Achilles, who had openly demanded this restoration, of his favourite slave Briseis.

Achilles withdrew in wrath to his tent, where he consoled himself with music and singing, and refused to take any further part in the war.

Laud defended Richard Montague, who had aroused the wrath of the parliament by his pamphlet against Calvinism.

I knew any defense of Julie O'Malley would bring the wrath of heaven down on our bed.

Damiani was a determined foe of simony, but his fiercest wrath was directed against the married clergy.

He heard supernatural voices proclaiming mercy to the faithful, vengeance on the guilty, and mighty cries that the wrath of God was at hand.

In the negotiations concerning the Peace of Utrecht, Defoe strongly supported the ministerial side, to the intense wrath of the Whigs, displayed in an attempted prosecution against some pamphlets of his on the all-important question of the succession.