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 Tarkington, Booth

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

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

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