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Sentences starting with revenge

Revenge and retaliation follow. [7]

Sentences ending with revenge

When they give you the signal, brave Martialis, remember the unfortunate woman in Alexandria whose death you swore to revenge. [10]
The South flushed with triumph and tempted to excess; the North, betrayed as they believe, brooding on wrong and burning for revenge. [7]
On another occasion, when Bynner had written a poem to Clara Clemens, her father pretended great indignation that the first poem written by Bynner to any one in his household should not be to him, and threatened revenge. [5]
This: that robbery was the motive, not revenge. [5]
In Florence he was so annoyed by beggars that he pretends to have seized and eaten one in a frantic spirit of revenge. [5]
That, Cousin Dick, was Jim Faddo's revenge. [11]
He goes down to-night in that tavern there by the hand of a Gorgio, and the Romany has his revenge. [11]
That has been thy revenge. [10]
What marvel if they should choose him for the target of their resentment and revenge? [10]
The agony of these thoughts was mitigated by the scorching hatred that had replaced her love, the desire for retaliation, revenge. [9]

Short sentences using revenge

Human nature suggested revenge. [5]
An' I've outgrowed revenge. [13]
Some future scheme of revenge? [11]
And then, what a revenge! [10]
Take your revenge. [11]
It was revenge. [11]
Of revenge. [6]
Get revenge. [5]

Sentences containing revenge two or more times

When he takes his revenge (and where is the reason for taking a revenge? [5]

More example sentences with the word revenge in them

So, even though you will lose the joy of revenge upon a hated enemy, forget what has happened, as I did, and maintain your former affectionate companionship. [10]
These victims, together with the captains and owners, presently ceased to laugh altogether, and began to rage about the revenge they would take when the passing business 'spurt' was over. [5]
I hope you will all do your duty bravely and promptly, that you may be back in three months to join the main army in the expedition of revenge on the Massagetae. [10]
That evening, as Wassef the camel-driver went to the mosque to pray, Fatima cursed him, because now all the village laughed secretly at the revenge that Wassef had taken upon the lover of his daughter. [11]
For now he was sure that Mrs. Falchion meant to make his position as a clergyman impossible; to revenge herself on him for no wrong that, as far as he knew, he ever did directly to her. [11]
And it is true: he took his revenge out of M'sieu' Cadet, for he win--I saw it--three hunder' louis. [11]
Many, and probably true, anecdotes have been published on the long-delayed and artful revenge of various animals. [1]
Had he come to the conclusion that it was just as well to submit to what seemed the inevitable and so enjoy the spice of revenge over me? [9]
He had said to Ian Stafford that he would do nothing, but, with the maggot of revenge and jealousy in their brains, men could not be trusted from one moment to another. [11]
When you want to get revenge on a woman you don't kill her--bosh! [5]
People are apt to conceive, or at least to profess, exaggerated expectation, such as no performance can realise; then ensue disappointment and the due revenge, detraction, and failure. [14]
Your father is to come to me, not I to him, nor yet to your fort, neither will I bite at such a bait; as for the Monacans, I can revenge my own injuries. [4]
Not this hatred, this thirst for revenge, this blood, this persecution, and, as their hideous fruit, this terror, these horrible, cruel fears--" Here she was interrupted by the clatter of arms and rapping of hammers which came up from below. [10]
He was not thinking of his love, but of the revenge that was even dearer to him. [10]
They realised that these two men had an account to settle, and there was no need for Grassette to take revenge, for Bignold was going fast. [11]
Every possible motive, then,--his interest, his jealousy, his longing for revenge, and now his fears for his own safety,--urged him to regard the happening of a certain casualty as a matter of simple necessity. [6]
But were I the widow of a noble Aurelian and your mother--" Here Apollinaris, whose wounds were beginning to burn again, broke in: "She would have counseled us to leave revenge to the gods. [10]
He knew that the town would be roused by this time and the governor on fire for revenge. [11]
The friends of the slain dervishes were come to take revenge, it seemed. [11]
He could conceive the revenge to his brother's amorous hand. [11]
I had only the one definite ambition, to revenge Lord Holland. [9]
It began because the Kynopolitans eat the fish, and in revenge the Oxyrynchites caught and killed dogs, and consumed them in sacrifices. [10]
It would seem the horrible revenge Destiny should take. [11]
Surely it was the Egyptians whom Moses' curse had robbed of thousands of beloved lives, while the Hebrews had escaped their revenge by flight. [10]
I was sure that his second shot had not been meant for me, but for the Intendant--a wild attempt at a revenge, long delayed, for the worst of wrongs. [11]
Shame seized him that he had let passion be his master, that he had lost his self-control, had taken a revenge out of all proportion to the injury and insult to himself. [11]
The French columns that had advanced beyond the village went back; but as though in revenge for this failure, the enemy placed ten guns to the right of the village and began firing them at Tushin's battery. [2]
Smith himself says that Chambers had persuaded the French admiral that if Smith was let to go on his boat he would revenge himself on the French fisheries on the Banks. [4]
Amasis pretended much surprise at his son's conduct, assured his friend that Gyges should be released at once, and indulged in some ironical jokes at the discomfiture of Psamtik's attempt to revenge himself. [10]
Ah, I have suffered, suffered, suffered, here in Paris, but never mind--the time is coming when I shall have a dark and bloody revenge. [5]
But he had suffered the indignity of being flung like a bag of bones across the room, and the microbe of insane revenge was in him. [11]
He would have sprung the lever; but he was not so mean as to despise Jean Jacques because he had foregone his revenge. [11]
Aristomachus too, in spite of his wooden leg, had performed miracles of bravery; but, notwithstanding all their efforts, neither he, nor any of his confederates in revenge, had succeeded in taking Psamtik prisoner. [10]
We are not speaking of the execution of a judicial sentence, but of the success or failure of an attempt at personal revenge. [10]
To see his son nominated would be a singular revenge for the indignities which are said to have been heaped upon him. [9]
He had welcomed Sinnet with a sullen eagerness, and had told him in short, detached sentences the dark story of a wrong and a waiting revenge, which brought a slight flush to Sinnet's pale face and awakened a curious light in his eyes. [11]
And if this should indeed be their lot after death, where was the revenge of their bloodthirsty murderer? [10]
Rather will I shelter him from thy revenge, knowing as I do the impure source from which it springs. [10]
Orion believed that she had failed in her promise of screening him by her silence, and this, this was his revenge. [10]
To revenge one's self for wrong to one's self is but a common passion, which has little dignity; to avenge some one whom one has loved, man or woman, --and, before all, woman,--has some touch of nobility, is redeemed by loyalty. [11]
That Nahoum should seek David, who had displaced him from his high office, was scarcely Oriental, when his every cue was to have revenge on his rival. [11]
Cambyses not only scorned to revenge the imposture which had been practised on him on a woman, but, as a Persian, had far too much respect for a mother, and especially for the mother of a king, to injure Ladice in any way. [10]
The motive wasn't robbery; it was revenge. [5]
We will not rob you of your good revenge on our house or of your independence. [11]
His passion for revenge, on the other hand, is boundless--no one living can control it; and not even the noble Julia can shield those who provoke it from a cruel end. [10]
The time for revenge was come. [5]
I sought to revenge myself on him by telling him to help himself to a cigar, having first placed the box of Mexicans near him. [11]
Others take their revenge in a career reckless, but within social conventions, going their own way in a sort of matrimonial truce. [4]
If indeed manly revenge for this slight on your father's memory is dear to your heart you can easily procure it--but only on one condition. [10]
Now I may return home, and I will; but first I raise my hands to Dice, the unchanging goddess of justice, and implore her not to deny me the pleasure of revenge. [10]
He tried to protect himself and meditated revenge against the seducer, and still he could not altogether lose the sense of his own identity. [10]
Phoebicius ended his prayer to-day--a prayer for strength to break his wife's strong spirit, for a successful issue to his revenge on her seducer--ended it without haste, and with careful observance of all the prescribed forms. [10]
Let us both praise the gods for granting us the best remedy for our grief--war and revenge. [10]
The blood was pounding in my veins, and I would have rushed in then and there, have ended the long strife, and have dug revenge for this outrage from his heart, but that I saw Alixe did not move, nor make the least resistance. [11]
Mr. Smythe's sore place was healed, his hunger for revenge was satisfied. [5]
As to my own revenge, however, I can only compare it to a vineyard where the grapes are so plentiful, that I am not able to gather them all myself. [10]
The scorching revelation of life's injustice lighted within her the fires of anarchy and revenge. [9]
The Man had nursed his revenge long past the thought of its probability by the people beneath. [11]
Then robbery was not the motive, and revenge was. [5]
His revenge did not comprise so unheard-of a crime. [11]
But I have no cause for revenge. [11]
I know you never wanted revenge on me, Guida, but still you have it here. [11]
Instead of a neat little hammer, he was flourishing an axe, and he and his companions looked as furious as if they were going to revenge some terrible injury. [10]
The day of Nahoum's wrath and revenge was not yet come; it was his deep design to lay the foundation for his own dark actions strong on a rock of apparent confidence and devotion. [11]
Of all the motives which could prompt him to aid the nuns, revenge was that which the Arab could best understand. [10]
Of the Greek mercenaries very few survived, so furious had been Phanes' revenge, and so well had he been supported by his Ionians. [10]
If you kill me, I will have my revenge in death, for it is the end of all things for you. [11]
And mind you, keep a lookout for Injun Joe, because he said he was going to drop into town and spy around once more for a chance to get his revenge. [5]
Nothing of the jungle had been in their thoughts, though they had been tempted, and love and the moment's despair had stung them to take revenge in each other's arms; yet they had kept the narrow path. [11]
As we said, it is possible if he had read it on the day when his trouble came to him, he had not married Lali, or sent her to England on this--to her--involuntary mission of revenge. [11]
Now that she is toothless, now that wrinkles disfigure her face, she has turned pious, that, like the wolf in sheep's clothing, she may revenge herself by malice for the loss of joy and of the admiration of her lovers! [10]
If, against his injunctions, I name Dr. James Read Chadwick, it is only my revenge for his having kept me awake so often and so long while he was urging on the undertaking in which he has been preeminently active and triumphantly successful. [3]
His revenge was in his good fortune in setting his own story afloat in the current of history. [4]
Blessed be ye if ye follow my counsels, but curses rest upon you, if ye neglect to reconquer the throne from the Magi and revenge yourselves upon them.--Behold, I die a true and honorable man! [10]
As soon as I had seen Voban I guessed what had happened: he had tried for his revenge at last. [11]
At this thought, however, the paltriness of such revenge struck him with horror, and with a hasty impulse he snapped the pipe in two, and flung the pieces on the ground in front of the apple-stall. [10]
Two of these hopeless fugitives were still fortunate enough to get a start of the hounds of retaliation and revenge. [11]
I'd give him his revenge to the last farthing he brought, whatever the amount was. [12]
Vast as are his physical proportions, I knew that the thirst for revenge would penetrate to the remotest frontiers of his person. [5]
Then I knew his object: to provoke a quarrel between this young gentleman and myself, which might lead to evil ends; and the Intendant's share in the conspiracy was to revenge himself upon the Seigneur for his close friendship with the Governor. [11]
The priest in him decided against the woman; the soldier in him was with Iberville in this event--for a soldier's revenge was its mainspring. [11]
In justice to her, she meant the revenge to be very slight. [9]
Having spat out her revenge, she went on to the village, and through it to her house, where she prepared to visit the shop of the tailor. [11]
Come to my heart, only give up these hideous thoughts of revenge. [10]
Men prophesied that he would have revenge some day on Sergeant Fones; but he did not show anything on which this opinion could be based. [11]
Years afterwards, if he wished for any momentary revenge upon Marion (and he had a keen sense of wordy retaliation), he simply said: "Wo-won't you let me take your blanket? [11]
In this hand he holds the smile of beauty and in that the dagger of revenge. [6]
On the other hand, it is urged that arrests, banishments, and assessments are made more for private malice, revenge, and pecuniary interest than for the public good. [7]
On the other hand, he hated Dion with so ardent a thirst for revenge that, to obtain it, he would have resigned even the hope of fresh gains. [10]
There, under her hand was the instrument of revenge on the miscreant; she could make him taste of all the bitterness he had brewed for her aching spirit. [10]
Have you not had your fill of revenge? [11]
His waning powers had indeed only been kept up by his original vigor and his burning thirst for revenge, and fate had allowed him to quench it in a way which, as time went on, seemed too absolute to his peace-loving nature. [10]
Thus Miss Sadler had her revenge. [9]
F. Yes, and had all his sighs and looks and tears been lives, my great revenge could have slain them all, without the least condemnation. [5]
Caracalla turned hundreds from heathenism by his bloody sacrifices, his love of fighting, his passion for revenge, and the blindness which made him cast away all care for his eternal soul to secure the enjoyment of a brief existence. [10]
Were they working for revenge and a new regime? [9]
He suggested plans for preserving order in excited Lebanon, which was determined to revenge itself on Manitou; and he gave some careful and specific instructions to Jowett the horse-dealer. [11]
Willing deaths ours, for I am persuaded, for every one of us that dies, a hundred men will rise up again and take revenge upon this red debauch of government! [11]
The dog looked foolish, and probably felt so; but there was resentment in his heart, too, and a craving for revenge. [5]
Bid the remorseless feeling flee; 'Tis malice, 'tis revenge, 'tis pride, 'Tis anything but thee; I deign a nobler pride to prove, And pity if thou canst not love. [5]

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