I have just received a letter from him, chiding and blaming me, with his usual acrimony, for a supposed want of cunning; and for not aiding him in what I perceive now to be the design he has most at heart; which is my marriage with the divine Anna.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
Simon Magus has been the victim, sir, of theological acrimony, his character blackened, his flying machine impugned, or ascribed, as by the credulous Arnobius, to diabolical arts.
"The Mark Of Cain"
Andrew Lang
I can but too well imagine how severe the trials must be to which you are now exposed-especially in the present ferment, when a vein of bitterness has been opened in England which will not close so soon, and when the hoarse voice of religious acrimony is filling the atmosphere with its dismal sounds.
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby