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

For the law indifferently doth punish euery man, that without the Magistrates order taketh authority to venge his own wrong.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William

I am not of Dr. Hickes's mind, Qu'il venge.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Swift, Jonathan

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