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Strangely enough Guntello's death seemed to divert her mind entirely from the idea of avenging herself on Almo.
THE UNWILLING VESTALEDWARD LUCAS WHITE
It was a cruel, clumsy crime, which the Spanish rightly resented but never succeeded in avenging.
DRAKE, NELSON AND NAPOLEONWALTER RUNCIMAN
Audacious manDefies the threats of the avenging sea,And to new shores and to new stars repeatsThe same sad tale of infamy and woe.
THE POEMS OF GIACOMO LEOPARDIGIACOMO LEOPARDI
I was desirous of avenging your wrongs, and have done so by killing your seducer.
He perceived that his example had been followed, and that 179 what seemed an avenging spirit was pursuing his fellow worshipper.
INDIAN SCOUT TALKSCHARLES A. EASTMAN
The idolaters, exhausted, gave up the idea of avenging his death.
THE LIFE OF MOHAMMADETIENNE DINET
It is sin that makes afflictions to be the fruits of God's avenging wrath, part of the curse due to sin, and a beginning of hell.
They saw in the fact a stroke of poetic justice — nay, the flaming, avenging sword of Heaven.
THE GUNPOWDER PLOT AND LORD MOUNTEAGLE'S LETTERHENRY HAWKES SPINK JR.
But what has the avenging daybreak to do with the lightning and the divining-rod?
MYTHS AND MYTH-MAKERSJOHN FISKE
As if the avenging voice of Heaven had spoken, a thrilling, an electric conviction darted through the crowd.
EUGENE ARAM, COMPLETEEDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
WORDS RELATED TO AVENGING
- animus
- attack
- avenging
- avengment
- counterblow
- counterinsurgency
- counterplay
- eye for an eye
- fight
- getting even
- ill will
- implacability
- malevolence
- measure for measure
- rancor
- repayment
- reprisal
- requital
- retribution
- return
- ruthlessness
- satisfaction
- sortie
- spitefulness
- tit for tat
- vengeance
- vengefulness
- vindictiveness
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