| 1. | Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 2. | character, persists in his animosity the army is again defeated. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 3. | For anything I knew, his animosity towards the man might otherwise lead to his seeking him out and rushing on his own destruction. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 4. | Evelyn Howard had been right in her facts, though her animosity against Alfred Inglethorp had caused her to jump to the conclusion that he was the person concerned. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 5. | "You, who have suffered so from the French, do not even feel animosity toward them.. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | In fact, she carried her animosity to such an extent that it was often the cause of domestic disagreements between herself and Zeus, who espoused the cause of the Trojans. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 7. | That time doth not run backward--that is its animosity "That which was" so is the stone which it cannot roll called. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 8. | Then, in darting at the monster, knife in hand, he had but given loose to a sudden, passionate, corporal animosity and when he received the stroke that tore him, he probably but felt the agonizing bodily laceration, but nothing more. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 9. | Prince Andrew did neither a look of animosity appeared on his face and the other turned away and went down the side of the corridor. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |