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

And has our shame Brought us to this, that some barbarian foe Shall venge Hesperia's wrongs ere Rome her own?

From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan

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

This shewes you are aboue You Iustices, that these our neather crimes So speedily can venge.

From King Lear by Shakespeare, William