The American Congress wanted blood for blood, which would have led to an endless vendetta.

Yet Johnnie knew better than another the vast, silent, secret network of hate that draws about the victim in a mountain vendetta.

He went up there and interviewed anybody that he thought might join him in a vendetta.

We find the spirit of the vendetta pervading these tales with more than Corsican bitterness and unreasoning cruelty, every man being allowed to revenge himself by taking the life or property of another.

"A vendetta, perhaps.

"Their vendetta extends widely sometimes.

"It is the vendetta which is such a stain upon the character of the modern Italian; and depend upon it this affair in Rannoch Wood is the outcome of some revenge or otherprobably over a love affair.

When Albert Dupont tries to take my life, as a simple and natural act of vendetta" "You really think it was that?" "I recognised the beast when he let off that pistol at my head.

The actual vendetta may possibly survive in some semi-barbarous regions, and Grangerfords and Shepherdsons (as in Mark Twain's immortal romance) may still be shooting each other at sight.

[Footnote 38: "O Signor mio, quando sarò io lieto A veder la vendetta the nascosa Fa dolce l'ira tua nel tuo segreto!"

I wished the heroine had not spoiled her fine enthusiasms by mixing them so freely with a personal vendetta; but after all it is not the characterisation that intrigues one here.

The name Avalon alone would have lured her; for who would not set sail for Avalon at a moment's notice? Santa Catalina is Corsica in miniature, Corsica without Napoleon or vendetta.

I entertain a vendetta toward the ursine family.

A literary vendetta is carried on to this day, and a stab with the steel pen, or a shot from behind the safe cover of a periodical, is certain to be received by any one of them who offers to his enemy the glorious opportunity of a book.

His-st! Vendetta!

Had he been at all emotional, he would have sworn a vendetta, so deep and lasting was the hurt, but he did not; he merely failed to forget, which, after all, is not so different.

To enumerate all the people he killed or wounded, or pounded to a jelly in public brawls or private quarrels, in the pursuit of deliberate vendetta or under a sudden impulse of ungovernable rage, would take too long.

Not long after my arrival at Canea, the hospital physician, a humane Frenchman, informed me that an old Sphakiot had just died in the prison, where he had been confined for a long time in place of his son, who had been guilty of a vendetta homicide and had escaped to the Greek islands.

But it is idle to bandy words with such as you; teme mia vendetta!"

La vendetta del cane.

But if they are inevitable in human relationship, how comes it that Adana is no longer duplicated by St. Bartholomew; the Bulgarian bands by the vendetta of the Highlander and the Lowlander; the struggle of the Slav and Turk, Serb and Bulgar, by that of Scots and English, and English and Welsh?

No more can we witness tragedies of family vendetta enacted.

Europe contributed her quota, more particularly from the south, bringing with them the Mafia and vendetta.

An Indian war is often the result of a private vendetta.

VENDETTA, the practice which existed in Corsica and Sicily on the part of individuals of exacting vengeance for the murder of a relative on the murderer or one of his relations.