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395 examples of Vengeance in a sentence

'Well, in that case I know what I must do,' said she to herself, and conscious of a vague sense of wrath and a desire for vengeance rising within her, she ran upstairs.
He could not agree that some dozen of men, among whom was his brother, had the right to assert, on the strength of what they were told by some hundreds of grandiloquent Volunteers who came to the city, that they and the newspapers expressed the will and the opinion of the people: an opinion, moreover, which found expression in vengeance and murder.
With one arm he supported old Bonnemort, exhibiting him as a banner of misery and mourning, and crying for vengeance.
A few held their little ones in their arms, raising them and shaking them like banners of mourning and vengeance.
"Yes! yes! clear him off!" shouted Chaval, who was grinning in excitement, delighted at this vengeance.
But now they worked feeling cold at their hearts, striking hard only out of vengeance; for the noises had ceased, and the low, clear cadence of the call no longer sounded.
Have you considered how a love of freedom and hatred of slavery could lead to plans of vengeance in a temperament like the Canadian's, what he might think, attempt, endeavor . . .
Did this hate also hunger for vengeance?
Dreadful indeed, if, as we could assume, Captain Nemo had been using the Nautilus in works of vengeance!
You could feel the same spirit of vengeance enkindling their every soul.
He had made me, if not an accomplice, at least an eyewitness to his vengeance!
May the contemplation of so many wonders extinguish the spirit of vengeance in him!
"Yet he vows vengeance on her family, while the other one who came on before said, 'I love Lucie and she loves me!'Besides, he went off with her father arm in arm.
They were all in a row gesticulating, and anger, vengeance, jealousy, terror, and stupefaction breathed forth at once from their half-opened mouths.
The master's vengeance is terrible, bloody, but martial and noble: a dagger blow ends everything.
A just but terrible God can no longer wreak vengeance upon them for their mother's crimes.
Faith, if I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant, and, as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments.
Not the God of the Bible, a petty despot, cruel and filled with a thirst for vengeance ... but the God of Voltaire, just, good, infinite ... 'He was disturbed by all his memories of that Bible which he knew by heart ...'But how, whenever three are gathered together, how is one to believe in that great name of GOD, after the frightful abuse that our priests make of it?
'That is what is isolating me, that and not the absence of a just, good, all-powerful God, who is not wicked, not hungry for vengeance ...'Ah!
A furious jealousy and one that was incapable of wreaking vengeance, the prolongation of a hopeless misery (for, even supposing Julien to be saved, how was she to recapture his heart?), the shame and grief of loving more than ever this faithless lover, had plunged Mademoiselle de La Mole in a grim silence from which the zealous attentions of M. de Frilair were no more capable than the rude frankness of Fouque, of making her emerge.
The doctor muttered his dissatisfaction at any postponement of vengeance, but he was compelled to acquiesce, from a regard to his reputation for propriety; and they continued their ride to the quarters of the corps, engaged in various discussions concerning the welfare of the human body.
But as your offense is most odious to a soldier, so it will be sure to meet with the soldier's vengeance.
There was something of disappointed vengeance in the feelings of the man who watched the door of the room on finding his prisoner enjoying a sleep of which he himself was deprived, and at his exhibiting such obvious indifference to the utmost penalty that military rigor could inflict on all his treason to the cause of liberty and America.
cried the trooper, cleaving a marauder to the jaw; but the leader sprang into the lawn, and escaped his vengeance.
"Harvey who, you black villain?" cried the impatient lieutenant, as he executed a full measure of vengeance by letting his leg fly.
Every step that you take leaves that hated gallows behind; and every dark hollow, and every shapeless rock in the mountains, offers you a hiding place from the vengeance of your enemies.
He was a universal favorite, and the sight inflamed the men to the utmost: neither officers nor soldiers possessed that coolness which is necessary to insure success in military operations; they spurred after their enemies, burning for vengeance.
Tom went to bed that night planning vengeance against Alfred Temple; for with shame and repentance Becky had told him all, not forgetting her own treachery; but even the longing for vengeance had to give way, soon, to pleasanter musings, and he fell asleep at last with Becky's latest words lingering dreamily in his ear--"Tom, how _could_ you be so noble!"
He visited me again the next morning, and went on with his method of explaining the terms of divine mercy, which according to him consisted of nothing more, or more difficult, than that of being sincerely desirous of it, and willing to accept it; only a sincere regret for, and hatred of, those things I had done, which rendered me so just an object of divine vengeance.
Of a daytime, in the shop, she took an interest in what was going on outside; she went out at her own instigation, and no longer lived in sullen revolt, occupied with thoughts of hatred and vengeance.
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