avengement
Example Sentences
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It is but natural you should attemp' a little avengement for the rascal trap I was such a wicked fellow as to set for you.
From Monsieur Beaucaire by Booth Tarkington
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 Herman Melville
Green lands undesolated For no avengement cry; No feud of race unsated Leaps out again to triumph, Leaps out again to triumph, or to die!
From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Bertram Stevens
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 Frederic Stewart Isham
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 Ethel Dorrance
