MALICE in a Sentence

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For MALICE, below is one of 48 sentences:
I might proceed with several more examples, one way or another known to me, of the great power and malice at times of the sperm whale.

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 Meanings and Examples of MALICE
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malice
 n.  enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another
Classic Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  There was a warm dancing malice in his eyes as he surveyed her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  "Thank you, but they may not hang you till it's too late to pay the taxes," she said with a sudden malice that matched his own, and she meant it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
3  To the credit of the negroes, including the least intelligent of them, few were actuated by malice and those few had usually been "mean niggers" even in slave days.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  But she did not possess his sense of humor which tempered his malice, nor his smile that jeered at himself even while he was jeering others.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
5  Then, that explains-- She broke off, disconcerted, expecting to see his eyes snap with malice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
6  She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but because she thought that Lily disliked her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
7  But other memories importuned her also; the recollection of similar situations, as skillfully led up to, but through some malice of fortune, or her own unsteadiness of purpose, always failing of the intended result.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
8  I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bedfellow.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. Breakfast.
9  He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
10  No turbaned Turk, no hired Venetian or Malay, could have smote him with more seeming malice.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
11  Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice omitted so potent an auxiliary.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
12  I might proceed with several more examples, one way or another known to me, of the great power and malice at times of the sperm whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
13  So that what you take for the White Whale's malice is only his awkwardness.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.
14  Of his own bloody intentions toward the maidens, and of his baffled malice he made no mention, but passed rapidly on to the surprise of the party by "La Longue Carabine," and its fatal termination.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
15  His countenance had changed with each passing emotion, until it settled into a look of deadly malice.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
Example Sentence:
1  Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out.
2  There certainly wasn't any malice in her comments.
3  She certainly bears you no malice.
4  I detected a suggestion of malice in his remarks.