avengement

Example Sentences

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Often, as at Pendennis Castle, when no other avengement was at hand, he would hurl on his foes such howling tempests of anathema as fairly to shock them into retreat.

From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman

Swinging his calico cayuse he pressed back the horses astride which the two girls sat—Jane with pale, set face, like a marble of avengement; Irene glitter-eyed and high-hued from excitement.

From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel

Was it but quiet avengement against a jestress whose tongue had been unsparing enough, even to him, the day before?

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart

For the first time he forgot about the emperor and his purpose; the free baron and the desires of sweet avengement.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart

That he might worke the avengement for this shame On those two caytives which had bred him blame And seeking all the forrest busily, At last he found where sleeping he did ly.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund