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Wrath

Cape. a promontory at the NW extremity of the Scottish mainland
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His free nature asserted itself, and he showed his teeth and snarled fearlessly in the face of the wrathful god.
But you might be put about by finding things meddled with; and even the man Moses, the meekest of men, was wrathful sometimes."
So we raced along, behind us a howling, screaming bedlam of wrathful Greeks, Collinsville ahead, and bullets spat-spatting all around us.
And then, where a vagrant shaft of sunlight struck the ocean and turned its surface to wrathful silver, I caught a small black speck thrust skyward for an instant and swallowed up.
To go petting Papa and helping you, just to wheedle you into liking him." And Jo pulled her hair again with a wrathful tweak.
'Never trust China,' a wrathful Hong Kong protester told me during one of the large-scale protests in Sha Tin district earlier this year.
Sanlagita exists at the foot of the wrathful Mount Kahana.
Nature does not tell me if God is loving, angry, wrathful, merciful or just.
And that is why the above-mentioned personal tragedies are seen by Jesus, not as proofs of inescapable divine wrathful justice, but as somber warnings, God's gift of mercy, to those who are still alive and can do something to better their situation.
This was proved by his own life, which he barely preserved under one wrathful emperor, Caligula, and lost under a second, Nero.
Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days, for a terrible calamity will come upon the earth and a wrathful judgment upon this people.
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday endorsed the creation of an EU Army, siding with French President Emmanuel Macron whose similar call in recent days drew a fusillade of wrathful tweets from US President Donald Trump.
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