Vengeance was his nightly dream, and the uppermost of his waking thoughts.

Walter Scott expresses the same human inclination in language as true as it is strong: "Vengeance is the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell!"

The third vengeance that God sent to them was a great multitude of hungry horse-flies, as many as the dust of the earth, which were on men, and bit them and beasts.

She complained to me, and my vengeance was summary.

He will 'gainst Austria's vengeance be our shield.

It would have been quite useless for Warwick to attempt to tell them that the male tiger, in the mind of her wicked mate, was no longer even a memory, and that premeditated vengeance is an emotion almost unknown in the animal world.

Sentimental vengeance is no item in my stock in trade.

My spirits fail; awhile support me, vengeance Be just, ye slaves; and, to be just, be cruel; Contrive new racks, imbitter ev'ry pang, Inflict whatever treason can deserve, Which murder'd innocence that call'd on me.

Vengeance, not now directed against Royalists but against Republicans, was the universal cry; the people demanded the heads of those who had been their idols.

'Vengeance is Mine,' saith the Lord, but I want to repay it myself.

If we have confidence that vengeance is the Lord's and He will repay, where but in that faith shall we find an outlet for our indignation at once so secure, so consolatory, and so cheap?

In Christian countries murder is a grave crime; amongst a people where blood-vengeance is a sacred duty it can be regarded as a moral act, and its neglect as a crime.

Of the All-powerful, the Terrible, who has kept vengeance for himself alone, because vengeance is his delight.

" Kaipi had returned to the job of sharpening his knife in which I had interrupted him, and at intervals he assured the dead Toni that vengeance was only a matter of a few hours.

My custome alwayes in the afternoone; [Sidenote: of the] Vpon my secure hower thy Vncle stole [Footnote 1: Now, for the moment, he has no doubt, and vengeance is his first thought.]

Such vengeance is my right.

Vengeance was a fierce thirst in my Judaic heart which only Christian streams could ever allay or quench, and I judged the man I loved by selfnot always a fitting standard of comparison.

The bloodiest vengeance, which she could pursue, Would be a trifle to my loss of you.

Butyou shall never hear it, she never profit by it, and my vengeance shall be sweetso sweet!"

" Vengeance on her enemies was the only price she would accept for forgiveness, and this price Louis promised to pay in liberal measure.

And Heathcliff's vengeance, like his passion for Catherine, is an immortal and immaterial thing.