| 1. | Then loudly calls on Troy's vindictive arm. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 2. | "You have been wonderfully quick," her father retorted, with a vindictive politeness that was quite thrown away upon her. - from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie |
| 3. | It is inconceivable that this fellow could have made two such vindictive enemies as these appear to be without knowing of it. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 4. | He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 5. | "Sir," I interrupted him, "you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady you speak of her with hate--with vindictive antipathy. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 6. | His face quivered and immediately assumed a vindictive expression. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 7. | But as he said these words there gleamed in his eyes not merely a cold look, but the vindictive look of a man persecuted and made cruel. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 8. | He complained so seldom, indeed, of such stirs as these, that I really thought him not vindictive I was deceived completely, as you will hear. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 9. | Bogdanich is vindictive and you'll pay for your obstinacy," said Kirsten. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |