Fleming, "The Sequel of Appomattox". In "The Chronicles of America". There was a faction in the Union Party which we may justly name the Vindictives. The "Manifesto" gave them a rallying cry. At a conference in New York they decided to compel the retirement of Lincoln and the nomination of some other candidate. For this purpose a new convention was to be called at Cincinnati in September. In the ranks of the Vindictives at this time was the impetuous editor of the "New York Tribune", Horace Greeley. His presence there calls for some explanation.英文原著 · 《Abraham Lincoln and the Union》
She would go to her room to rest, and lying there in the darkness on the bed, would hear them speaking together, some- times all at once, in those sternly vindictive tones men use when there is revolt in their souls.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
"Misguided"! "Garrulous"! "Insane"! "Vindictive"! So ye write in your easy-chairs, and thus he wounded responds from the floor of the Armory, clear as a cloudless sky, true as the voice of nature is: "No man sent me here; it was my own prompting and that of my Maker. I acknowledge no master in human form."英文原著 · 《A Plea for Captain John Brown》
"I pity the poor in bondage that have none to help them; that is why I am here; not to gratify any personal animosity, revenge, or vindictive spirit. It is my sympathy with the oppressed and the wronged, that are as good as you, and as precious in the sight of God."英文原著 · 《A Plea for Captain John Brown》
Old Welsh law was very unlike the law we obey now. I cannot tell you much about it in a short book like this, but it is worth noticing that it was very humane. We do not get in it the savage and vindictive punishments we get in some laws. I give you some extracts from the old laws of the Welsh.英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
"The law, Mr. Thorndike, is not vindictive," he said. "It wishes only to be just. Nor can it be swayed by wealth or political or social influences. But when there is good in a man, I, personally, want to know it, and when gentlemen like yourself, of your standing in this city, come here to speak a good word for a man, we would stultify the purpose of justice if we did not listen. I thank you for coming, and I wish more of our citizens were as unselfish and public-spirited."英文原著 · 《A Wasted Day》
After all the nice talk, this is the truth of it: you're pissed and you're being vindictive, that I got half your money.美剧 · 《Billions》