venge

Example Sentences

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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

Then, losell Locrine, look unto thy self, Thrasimachus will venge this injury.

From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

For thou hast carried with thee to the grave The only hope that in my heart yet lived, The hope that thou wouldst some day come to venge Thy sire and me.

From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Smith, Goldwin