1 Blasted as thou wert, my agony was still superior to thine, for the bitter sting of remorse will not cease to rankle in my wounds until death shall close them forever.
2 Pearl felt the sentiment, and requited it with the bitterest hatred that can be supposed to rankle in a childish bosom.
3 The dimensions of the Brys' ball-room must rankle: you may be sure she knows 'em as well as if she'd been there last night with a yard-measure.'
4 His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever, rankled in unspoken hate and crackled out in bitter humor.
5 Her words and her actions rankled in too many hearts for many people to care whether this scandal hurt her or not.
6 The latter allusion struck deep, and the injury rankled.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 7 It would have rankled in me more than it did, if I had not regarded myself as eliciting it by being so set apart for her and assigned to her.
8 'It rankled in your baby breast,' he said.
9 Well, this injury, as he would consider it, has rankled in his wicked, scheming brain, and all his life he has longed for vengeance, but never seen his chance.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER 10 Some slighting phrases she had used still rankled in his memory; she had once spoken of Gretta as being country cute and that was not true of Gretta at all.