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1. Ken worked like a Trojan all day long, driven on by the ingratitude of all those he loved, each one of whom left him when it suited them, all that is except the second Mrs
2. Mandy was then consigned to working in their restaurant as her parent's revenge for her blatant and insensitive ingratitude toward their sincere attempts to secure an advantageous alliance with the prestigious family
3. Their patrons even frequently complain of the independency of their spirit, which they are apt to construe into ingratitude for past favours, but which, at worse, perhaps, is seldom anymore than that indifference which naturally arises from the consciousness that no further favours of the kind are ever to be expected
4. Would he even want it now if it was offered, after such a show of ingratitude? She had leaped in one quick bound from him to her new multitude and was suddenly away from him
5. The “Lord” afflicted them with snakes for their ingratitude when they complained
6. The first complaint is that they - or we - have shown ingratitude
7. The man was furious at Steele’s ingratitude
8. To that man such ingratitude was an attack on his own badge of moral righteousness that he had won by supporting the Great Society programs to show that he was non-racist
9. Protesting Roger’s selfishness and ingratitude, she took her things and went to sleep in the living-room couch, in plain view of their very apprehensive, disturbed, worried and fearful children
10. 7 Here is a typical case of “savage ingratitude
11. He expressed savage ingratitude by trying to destroy his host country
12. would not flog them too hard or too long for this show of ingratitude
13. Our Lady then said, “Look, my daughter, at my heart, surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce me at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude
14. The ingratitude of so many towards him despite his years of loyal service to France made Mazarin quite bitter at times, especially when the xenophobia about his Italian origins was added to that
15. Such was the ingratitude of the male species
16. What rank Hindu ingratitude to those patriots out to protect their homeland and its ancient way of life! Wonder if there is any parallel of such a social cruelty in the annals of human history!
17. And yet, the Musalmans are ever averse to having vande mataram as the Indian national anthem for it would require their veneration of her! What rank ingratitude for a land that contributed to Islam its Musalmans in their millions! But in catering to their Islamic whim, Gandhi’s Congress gave India a national anthem that salutes Sind, a province of Pakistan! What should be India’s objection if its neighbor accuses her of hegemonic designs to set up an Akhand Bharat?
18. It is not limited to the unbelievers of a special age, yet it includes each one having this quality, that is, each one ungrateful and unthankful to God’s favor and graces and heedless of them, because ‘disbelief’ is an ingratitude to the Creator as well as it is an ungratefulness for the favor and neglecting it
19. Expectation, like obligation, mocks thankfulness by being shackled to ingratitude
20. Is it not the sheerest folly and ingratitude to let yesterday spoil the God-given to-day?
21. Morrison or any other decent woman look upon her flight from her father's home? Would they not turn away shuddering from what she now saw was a hideous selfishness and ingratitude? The altercation going on below rose rapidly in heat
22. The subject deals with suffering and ingratitude quietly
23. Was her compassion for Tahira"s condition a spur that jerked her out of her self-centeredness? Of her cat-oriented world? Did my own concern and the time I spent almost exclusively with Tahira cause her to stake a more substantial claim on me? Was I, after all, so essential in her life? The fact remained that, even if communication was still lacking and incomplete, we now started sharing a bed and a nighttime tenderness that made me feel it would be ingratitude to fate to ask for more
24. For is not the prevailing opinion among all ranks of the people, especially when they desire to appear signally enlightened, that the scriptural language respecting God as a Living Person near at hand, full of thoughtful interest regarding ourselves, is but an accommodation to the weakness of the lower order of minds; so that when prophets and apostles speak of Deity as resenting ingratitude or insult; as indignant at atrocious wrong; as loving, grieving, sympathising, seeking to associate with us in close communion; as delighting in good, provoked with bad men;—these are only so many fictions, 'anthropomorphic parables,’—the absolute truth being that the Divine Nature is infinitely removed above all possibility of concrete thought or moral emotion, of pleasure or pain—that in fact the Godhead dwells in an unbroken calm of perfect rest; so that there is no objective reality in expressions which practically describe Him with a moral nature analogous to the human
25. If you disbelieve, God is Independent of you, yet He does not approve ingratitude on the part of His servants
26. I have taken action and I will tell you why: solely, madam, solely, owing to your black ingratitude! Why! I invite you for the benefit of your destitute relative, I present you with my donation of ten roubles and you, on the spot, repay me for all that with such an action
27. He loved deeply, he was hated; he adored, he was scorned; he wooed a wild beast, he pleaded with marble, he pursued the wind, he cried to the wilderness, he served ingratitude, and for reward was made the prey of death in the mid-course of life, cut short by a shepherdess whom he sought to immortalise in the memory of man, as these papers which you see could fully prove, had he not commanded me to consign them to the fire after having consigned his body to the earth
28. "That is all very well," said Don Quixote, "but I know what must be done now;" and calling together all the galley slaves, who were now running riot, and had stripped the commissary to the skin, he collected them round him to hear what he had to say, and addressed them as follows: "To be grateful for benefits received is the part of persons of good birth, and one of the sins most offensive to God is ingratitude; I say so because, sirs, ye have already seen by manifest proof the benefit ye have received of me; in return for which I desire, and it is my good pleasure that, laden with that chain which I have taken off your necks, ye at once set out and proceed to the city of El Toboso, and there present
29. "Even did she know her," returned Lothario, "I would hide nothing, for when a lover praises his lady's beauty, and charges her with cruelty, he casts no imputation upon her fair name; at any rate, all I can say is that yesterday I made a sonnet on the ingratitude of this Chloris, which goes thus:
30. All the adventures that could befall him from that time forth he regarded as already done and brought to a happy issue; he made light of enchantments and enchanters; he thought no more of the countless drubbings that had been administered to him in the course of his knight-errantry, nor of the volley of stones that had levelled half his teeth, nor of the ingratitude of the galley slaves, nor of the audacity of the Yanguesans and the shower of stakes that fell upon him; in short, he said to himself that could he discover any means, mode, or way of disenchanting his lady Dulcinea, he would not envy the highest fortune that the most fortunate knight-errant of yore ever reached or could reach
31. His conviction that he was making her happy seemed to her an imbecile insult, and his sureness on this point ingratitude
32. "Notable cruelty!" exclaimed Sancho; "unheard-of ingratitude! I can only say for myself that the very smallest loving word of hers would have subdued me and made a slave of me
33. Through the kindness of the Admiralty (which, let me confess here in a white sheet, I repaid by the basest ingratitude) I was permitted during the war to renew my contact with the British seamen of the merchant service
34. She has borne it all, with the fortitude of an angel! She says she never shall think well of anybody again; and one cannot wonder at it, after being so deceived!-- meeting with such ingratitude, where so much kindness had been shown, so much confidence had been placed! It was quite out of the benevolence of her heart, that she had asked these young women to her house; merely because she thought they deserved some attention, were harmless, well-behaved girls, and would be pleasant companions; for otherwise we both wished very much to have invited you and Marianne to be with us, while your kind friend there, was attending her daughter
35. "A letter of proper submission!" repeated he; "would they have me beg my mother's pardon for Robert's ingratitude to her, and breach of honour to me?--I can make no submission--I am grown neither humble nor penitent by what has passed
36. know, he showed such profound ingratitude, that he preferred rather to leave
37. ingratitude to the pleasure I had received, to have repented of it; and
38. Yet in leaving him I couldn't be accused of ingratitude
39. There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify
40. I should have held it ingratitude to the pleasure I had received, to have repented of it; and since I was now over the bar, I thought, by plunging head and ears into the stream I was hurried away by, to drown all sense of shame or reflection
41. His services were so recent that the President-Dictator quailed before the obvious charge of political ingratitude
42. But remember one thing!" His voice hardened as his temper got the better of him with the recollection of his sincerity in asking her and her present ingratitude, and he stepped across to her side and held her by the shoulders, so that she shook under his grasp
43. She is ready prey to any man who knows how to play adroitly either on her affectionate ardor or her Quixotic enthusiasm; and a man stands by with that very intention in his mind—a man with no other principle than transient caprice, and who has a personal animosity towards me—I am sure of it—an animosity which is fed by the consciousness of his ingratitude, and which he has constantly vented in ridicule of which I am as well assured as if I had heard it
44. The father and mother did not speak of the matter to their son again, but a few days later the countess sent for Sonya and, with a cruelty neither of them expected, reproached her niece for trying to catch Nicholas and for ingratitude
45. The princess, who had never liked Pierre and had been particularly hostile to him since she had felt herself under obligations to him after the old count’s death, now after staying a short time in Orel- where she had come intending to show Pierre that in spite of his ingratitude she considered it her duty to nurse him- felt to her surprise and vexation that she had become fond of him
46. Marius shuddered at that reproach of ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point of so fatally justifying
47. Moreover that which is called, far too harshly in certain cases, the ingratitude of children, is not always a thing so deserving of reproach as it is supposed
48. It is the ingratitude of nature
49. “This I learned from her benefactress; from the pious and charitable lady who adopted her in her orphan state, reared her as her own daughter, and whose kindness, whose generosity the unhappy girl repaid by an ingratitude so bad, so dreadful, that at last her excellent patroness was obliged to separate her from her own young ones, fearful lest her vicious example should contaminate their purity: she has sent her here to be healed, even as the Jews of old sent their diseased to the troubled pool of Bethesda; and, teachers, superintendent, I beg of you not to allow the waters to stagnate round her
50. To be called into notice in such a manner, to hear that it was but the prelude to something so infinitely worse, to be told that she must do what was so impossible as to act; and then to have the charge of obstinacy and ingratitude follow it, enforced with such a hint at the dependence of her situation, had been too distressing at the time to make the remembrance when she was alone much less so, especially with the superadded dread of what the morrow might produce in continuation of the subject