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These matters had been rankling until the Bishop sounded shrill and frenzied.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Balkan railway question had been rankling for years.

From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by Durham, M. E. (Mary Edith)

I knew it had been rankling in your mind all along," said the girl "I expected it to coma out sooner or later.

From April Hopes by Howells, William Dean

This fact, which his wife so flippantly reminded him of, had been rankling all day in his hitherto blameless conscience like a torturing thorn.

From By Veldt and Kopje by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

Mrs. Bowen apparently would not be kept now from saying all that had been rankling in her breast.

From Indian Summer by Howells, William Dean