And so, he is proof against the spitefulness of fortune and the baseness or violence of man.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
A cat, in all languages, has been the symbol of deceit and spitefulness, and she is more fit for an ash barrel than a pulpit.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
If there were any fun in the article to which we refer, we might forgive the malice and falsehood, as we are all too much disposed to do, for the joke's sake; but dull as all the articles of Punch have been lately growing, this article on the Windsor Election is the stupidest that we have seen in its columns-a mere display of heavy spitefulness.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann