revenge

Clytemnestra’s revenge, an afterthought in this hero’s journey, is central to Greek drama and classical art as an example of unequal justice.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

Instead of shedding tears or vowing revenge, we hear the protagonist in the song begging the mistress who holds the power to relinquish it.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Eliza May’s novel, “Haeger Mass,” is a dark, weird tale of revenge and obsession that was denounced as immoral but attracted an intense cult following.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The nerd didn’t quite get revenge, but actor Robert Carradine and Hans Stuck ran a spirited, back-and-forth race Sunday in the Bridgestone Potenza Supercar Race.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

“Did he get revenge on his enemies then?” inquired Nhamo.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

“By most mechanical hand, I shall have such revenges on you,” Peter warns early on, gloriously emanating beams of loathing at the always mildly amused Ford.

From Time ● Dec. 7, 2016

He is an enigmatic born leader, a delicate object of myriad desires and revenges, a picker of flowers and performer of mime.

From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2016

The whirligig of time, Grandage implies, brings in its revenges.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 10, 2012

Yet the whirligig of time brings in its revenges.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2011

Twisted words, pranks, omissions, riddles, scandals, not to mention their revenges upon one another for ancient, half-remembered slights.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

I, like everyone else, have several times been a victim of harassment in the workplace but we must not throw out fairness in our determination to be revenged on such behavior.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2017

It went to his head and he soon became insufferable, alienating all his new literary "friends", who revenged themselves when he published his second novel, The Double.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2010

Miriam Burns teed off this time with health on her side, with a determination to be revenged, with a caddy who rivalled Miss Cummings' faithful Joe Horgan for sagacity and devotion.

From Time Magazine Archive

That some of the German people consider their defeat a dirty trick to be revenged some day is hardly spot news.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hera revenged herself, but only after many years.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

As he tells it, logistics discount the revenging Middle Missourian theory.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 9, 2015

Walt is in this for glory, for self-aggrandizement, for revenging his younger self.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2012

More recent films refuse to see Jane as a victim and treat her as an artist who, like her creator, has secret ways of revenging herself on the world.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2011

Before long the Allied flyers were revenging their "Fokker fodder" with a synchronized gun of their own.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Wickham’s chief object was unquestionably my sister’s fortune, which is thirty thousand pounds; but I cannot help supposing that the hope of revenging himself on me was a strong inducement.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen