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

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

Ah! shades of Yarrell, Morris, Bewick, Wood, Swoop down from Nephelococcygian eyrie With legions of bird-phantoms, Roc-ghosts and spectral bantams, And venge the Vandal sporting-man's vagary, Wrought on your race in Cornwall's bay of Bude!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, December 2, 1893 by Various

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