Something was rankling him, as he sat down at his desk.

What about the jealous fury in which the rankling of never being ourselves drives us to imagine that other people are happy?

Even Brent could tell that this was no new antagonism, but the rankling of an old quarrel.

The Governor's cautious step could be a way to reach a negotiated settlement without rankling his Hispanic supporters.

Wrath stained it, and the long rankling of siege piled upon siege.

There was never any after-taste to their disputes, no rankling of unspoken words or lingering of doubt.

Rankling, the girl agreed; Danny hung up thinking he should raise the dreaded dinner ante from Mike Lyman's to the Coconut Grove to keep her happy.

He later told me that he concluded the barbarian's bluster was less for the sake of rankling us than for maintaining the cohesiveness of his own restless forces.

Such a recoil is like that of a hair, made to grow out from the body, turning unnaturally upon the direction of its growth and growing into the body - a rankling, festering thing of hurt.

A Rankling Notion It is this notion - and the possibly depressing effect on an actor's morale of passive, even lethargic listening by an audience - that particularly worries and rankles the many critics of amplification.

I do not mean to bow down to the spirit in this camp which is rankling the brethren and which will lead to knockdowns and perhaps to the use of the knife to cut each other's throats, if not put a stop to.

Martha Anne Pearcy, head of the Western Arkansas Employment Development Agency, which is coordinating the retraining program largely financed by the Federal Government, said she was wary of rankling a company that can dictate Fort Smith's fortunes.

Getting called boy by a man half his age rankled, too.

The fact that the program was on state television also rankled.

Still, in light of the other issues, the deal rankles now as never before.

The thought of it rankled all the way back to the city.

It rankled him that the man was being so little help.

Two years later, the name still rankles, but life goes on, with several.

It rankled her, but for a change, there was little she could do.

His treatment at the hands of the king rankled many, myself among them.

Then the Federal income tax came to mind, rankling him.

But in a sense that rankles many people on the island.

That rankled, though he knew it had been the only choice.

But others say he has rankled some colleagues in the administration already.

The mayor's decision did rankle more than a few people using the park.

In the quiet dark of the night, that was what rankled the most.

Bob turned over and tried to go to sleep, but the last words rankled.

Maybe the fact that she'd remained the only one had rankled with him too.

It rankled to find himself in debt to such as she.

Something was rankling him, as he sat down at his desk.

Indeed, it's his life style that seems to have rankled people most.

It has particularly rankled those who do not sell products.

David found himself rankling at the man's air of superiority.

But he said that an action the Council had no control over has rankled union members.

She did not have the ability to become a full sister, and it rankled in her.

The cause still rankles, but the war is an embarrassment.

Even as a boy there had been something about Brian that rankled.