avengement

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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

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

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

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

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 Stevens, Bertram