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a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 320 So depe was hir wo bigonnen And eek hir hert in angre Ronnen A sorowful thyng wel semed she.

1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) iii. xi. f. 66 Apollodorus the phylosopher, taught to the emperour Octauian, that before he speake or do any thynge in anger, he do recite in order, al the letters of the A, B, C.

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 230 Ham. How look't he, frowningly? Hor. A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

1766 A. Nicol Poems Several Subj. 198 Sometimes he's pleas'd, sometimes in anger frowns.

1841 Bentley's Misc. 8 332 ‘Sit down, Richard,’ he said on perceiving me, ‘and whatever you do, don't speak to me hastily, or in anger. I cannot bear it.’

1937 J. F. Dobie in J. F. Dobie & M. C. Boatright Straight Texas 26 He tried to ride the horse, mounting three times to be thrown each time. In anger he shot the horse.

2011 Leader-Post (Regina, Sask.) (Nexis) 27 Oct. aa4 The old-school discipliner who bangs his hands on his desk in anger and tosses papers around.

1612 I. M. tr. Most Famous Hist. Meruine i. xxii. 145 The army..ouerthrew a thousand Pagans that neuer rose againe to draw sword in anger.

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xviii. 216 Cowards are generally stout when Dangers are at a Distance, and so was our General, who had never seen a Sword drawn in Anger.

1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. iii. 106 A boy, who had seldom smelled powder fired in anger before.

1885 Times 23 Jan. 9/2 A man who had never commanded a regiment or fired a shot in anger.

1977 G. Nicholson Great Bike Race (1978) i. 23 He is the only one of us to have ridden a bicycle in anger, and was on the point of turning professional when he was offered a job on Cycling magazine.

2012 Daily Tel. 12 Oct. 33/1 The nuclear-powered attack submarine..that year became the first of her kind to fire in anger.

2014 R. Newman Motor Racing Heroes 124 No other woman would drive a Formula 1 car in anger again until 1974.