venge
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Novelist Roald Dahl has adapted his short story William and Mary, about the eerie re venge of a browbeaten wife, as the first offering in a new series intended to exploit eccentric stories.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next year she took her re venge in Fort Lauderdale by humiliating King 6-1, 6-0.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alas, how fiercely Hagen gan venge the knight!
From The Nibelungenlied by Daniel Bussier Shumway
Then, losell Locrine, look unto thy self, Thrasimachus will venge this injury.
From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
Or did stern Ares venge his thankless spear Through this night foray that hath cost thee dear!
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
The mace, returning back, his own hand hit As meaning to be venged for darting it.
From Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe
And I on it againe will venged bee.
From The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge by Anonymous
O the jeade! if I ben't venged of un! a would no' know me this very blessed morning!'
From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
Oh, let not curses fall upon that head Whom love hath cradled on the welcome bed Of bliss, the bosom of our fairest god, Or hand of love e'er grasp the venging rod.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous
A frail little soul with only spiritual weapons, she fought for her hearth against a venging host in arms; facing these rough war- stained men, she forced her trembling body to outward calm and graciousness.
From In the Claws of the German Eagle by Albert Rhys Williams
