She had often been startled by her father's far-seeing, malignantly planned vengeances, and, now that the rumor of Jack's death began to settle into belief, she was appalled by a sudden sense of complicity in a murderous plot.

This punition shall endure to him in pain unto the seventh, Lameth, whosomever shall slay Cain shall loose seven vengeances.

And God showed many vengeances to them of the country as long as the ark was with them, for God smote them with sickness, and wells boiled in towns and fields of that region, and there grew among them so many mice, that they suffered great persecution and confusion in that city.

For a few moments they paused on the blood-stained ledge of rock where Thor had wreaked his vengeance upon his tormentors.

" They were coming toward me all the time, and behind them were Captain Riggs, still with his lantern, and Harris, uttering terrible threats of vengeance.

Weak and hungry and thirsty, life was still strong, and the desire to live, if only to have vengeance on Thirkle and his men, kept up my courage.

Always afraid of mutiny, he was, and he got one with a vengeance, poor chap.

Military ardor, aroused by the report of brave deeds, is for a few moments held in abeyance by grief, and then rekindled by the desire of vengeance.

A nun, who had been Agnes's friend, hinted at atrocious vengeance taken by the prioress for Agnes's attempt to escape.

But our cause should not be stained with cruelty and crime, even in the name of vengeance.

Both are stories of lust and crime, full of hate and hideous vengeances, and through each runs a vein of bitter and ironical comment on men and women.

Fierce repulsion and retaliation were the only means he would have recourse to in his mode of treating them; and the consequence was, his inspiring the natives with a hatred of him, and a desire of vengeance for his manifold cruelties towards them, which was sure, sooner or later, to end in his destruction.

"It betokens vengeance!"

Yes, sir, vengeance which, claiming the assistance of the fairest virtues, conjugal love and angelic purity, makes them smite with shame, so that it were even a relief to me that the wife of my bosom were wicked, and the child of my affections a creature of sin.

"You were right in thinking I would not submit to capture and death without first wreaking vengeance.

But vengeance on such a sheep as Scharnhoff?

Had he achieved the conquest of half Europe he could not have been greeted with more enthusiasm than awaited him on this occasion, when his hand still reeked with the blood of hundreds of his own subjects, and the shrieks of injured women and slaughtered children were still appealing to Heaven for vengeance.

Besides, he began to find himself incommoded by the vigilance of the French police, on account of his intimacy with the Russian students of the Quartier Latinyoung men with cold eyes and limp and dishevelled hair who were endeavouring to implant in Paris the vengeances of Nihilism.

J'aurais dit: 'La vengeance.'

The passage relating to Cain occurs in the sixth book, called Les Vengeances.

For the element of supernatural vengeance on cruelty compare L'Aigle du casque, published in the 1877 series.

We fell to with a vengeance and at the end of a quarter-hour hardly a crumb remained.

If he would only wave his hand to show that he caredBut Waring rode on, straight and stern, black hate in his heart, his free hand hollowed as though with an invisible vengeance that was gone as he drew his fingers tense.

I am planning five distinct and lengthy vengeances against Bobby.

" My mind again wanders away to my vengeances, and I break off.