42 collocations for wreaked

As foes arose, these athletes of the tribe or clan would be the first to rush forth to slay the wild beast, to brave the sea and storm, or to wreak vengeance on assailing tribes.

With an incredible spite and vindictiveness he not only pursued my honored father-in-law, Colonel Belford, but has sought to wreak an unwarranted revenge upon the innocent and virtuous young lady whom I have now the honor to call my wife.

He thought not only to wreak his malice upon the English, but to restore the extinct Mahratta Empire, and reign over Hindustan as the representative of the forgotten peshwas.

Stripped of their sheltering gloom, on me Sleepers and wakers rush to wreak their spite: Their wounds, their brutal joys disturbed by light, Their broken bestial sleep fill them with jealousy.

The Germans got the better, and were then free to wreak their fury on the town.

Thus Love shall make worldlings to know his might; Thus Love shall force great princes to obey; Thus Love shall daunt each proud, rebelling spirit; Thus Love shall wreak his wrath on their decay.

Furious to find that he had escaped them, they wreaked their rage on the lifeless furniture, breaking, hewing, and destroying in every way that wantonness or malice could devise.

We could hear the chugging of the big guns, and the sorrowful swishing of the shells, as if they were mournful because they were not wreaking more destruction than they were.

And justice urgeth some extreme revenge, To wreak the wrongs that have been offer'd us.

And the happy Ithacans with songs and solemn sacrifices of praise to the gods celebrated the return of Ulysses: for he that had been so long absent was returned to wreak the evil upon the heads of the doers; in the place where they had done the evil, there wreaked he his vengeance upon them.

Vile monster, robb'd of virtue, what revenge Is this, to wreak thine anger on the walls?

He was a forester; and he had known of old what havoc a mortally wounded bear can wreak in a few seconds of life.

Scarcely two months after the capture of Nancy, Charles set out, on the 11th of June, 1476, to go and avenge his client, and wreak his haughty and turbulent humor upon these bold peasants of the Alps.

The strength of his own case before the public was that he could be made to appear as the victim of a personal and partisan attack; yet on the first opportunity he acts in the spirit of an inquisitor, and that not in fair conflict with some one worthy of his hostility, but to wreak an injury, in a matter of private interest, on an individual, in no way known to him or opposed to him, except as holding certain unpopular opinions.

But the Germans were not content without wreaking the instinctwhich is the savage instinctto break and crush and ill-treat something which has thwarted you, on the women of Vareddes also.

Meetings were held throughout the valley and organizations were springing into existence for the purpose of overpowering the strong guard at Mankato and wreaking summary justice upon the Indians.

Moreover, [as for] Ariovistus, no sooner did he defeat the forces of the Gauls in a battle, which took place at Magetobria, than [he began] to lord it haughtily and cruelly, to demand as hostages the children of all the principal nobles, and wreak on them every kind of cruelty, if everything was not done at his nod or pleasure; that he was a savage, passionate, and reckless man, and that his commands could no longer be borne.

In the silence that followed there came to her the certain knowledge that he was suffering, that he was in an inferno of torment that goaded him into fierce savagery against her, like a mad animal that will wreak its madness first upon the being most beloved.

And we, in Morogoro, were very curious to see what manner of vengeance the Belgians might wreak.

4 "But there's a heaven above, from whose just wreak No mists of policy can hide offenders.

Yes, they Men who are little given to sift and weigh Would wreak on us the passion of the moment.

He is not guilty, but the sins of humanity are imputed to Him, and God wreaks upon Him the penalty which rightfully should have fallen on the heads of sinners.

a fresh supply of the Food of the Gods was let loose to wreak its powers of giantry upon the world.

Then my aunt at last subsides, and seems to wreak the remnants of her anger on the dinner.

We still brood over wrongs which we know to have been imaginary; and for our old acquaintance, N, whom we find to have been a truer friend than we took him for, we substitute some phantoma Caius or a Titiusas like him as we dare to form it, to wreak our yet unsatisfied resentments on.

42 collocations for  wreaked