The very bitterness, the revilement in solemn terms, of my early instructions, had, reacting, defeated itself.
"San Cristóbal de la Habana"
Joseph Hergesheimer
In his black hour he did not fail to indulge in the usual, useless revilement of the superior class: an act as natural as it is ridiculous.
"The Genius"
Margaret Horton Potter
And it is our secret sense of this, which, through humiliation and defeat, through mockery and revilement, through want and privation, shall keep us steadfast and of good courage!
"The Genius"
Margaret Horton Potter