Don't believe that I am counting "on posterity, to avenge me for the indifference of my contemporaries.
He thinks Prussia was too insolent and wants to "avenge himself.
He joined Gonzalo Pizarro against the Viceroy to avenge his brother’s death, and was at the battle of Añaquito where the Viceroy was killed.
Others said, “May we not kill this little bearded one, to avenge what his brethren have done to us.
The fighting Judge Cepeda was there, and the Licentiate Benito Suarez de Carbajal, brother of the murdered Factor, with thirty friends and relations toavenge his death.
Be sure that I will not leave you to perish, or if there should be no escape, that I will find a way to put you out of your misery and to avenge you.
Now when I sent this challenge I had more in my mind than a desire to avenge myself upon Idernes and his captain for the public shame they had put upon me.
That holy One was wed and bore a child, Amada, who avenged his father, as I trust that we shall avenge Egypt.
So I matched myself against you, as hunter against hunter, for in the field, as before the gods, all are equal, not as a slave against a king who is determined to avenge defeat by death.
Then I said to the officer, "It is not for great lords to avenge themselves upon the fallen.
Well, I who had been a chief, a very great chief, Master, did not wish to remain a slave and did wish to avenge my people's blood.
The officers in command, on principle disgusted for several seasons with still-hunting, which they deemed police-duty, were now ready to catch at any straw to avenge the death of Allison.
Young men whose hearts are not stirred within them to rush into the breach, avenge the fallen brave, and save their country, are making for themselves no enviable future.
Shall God not avenge His own elect, who cry day and night to Him, though He has great patience with them?
But afterward he said to himself, Though I do not fear God nor man; I will avenge her because she bothers me and her continual coming to me will wear me out.
A widow in that city came to him and said, Avenge me of my adversary.
If the gens of the offender fail to settle the matter with the gens of the aggrieved party, it is the duty of his nearest relative to avenge the wrong.
Help me to avenge myself on Fanfar--help me to carry off this girl, and I belong to you, body and soul!
He swore to avengehimself on those who had betrayed him.
The brave is bound, not only by natural affection and family pride, but still more powerfully by sense of honor and by public opinion, to avenge the slaughter of a relative.
It was true; the foremost riders, or perhaps only the messengers, of Manga Colorada had readied Delgadito; and a hundred warriors were swarming after the train to avenge their fallen comrades.
Famous is that text, "And I will send My sword, which shallavenge the quarrel of My covenant.
God hath sent His sword to avenge the quarrel of His covenant," as Christ whipped the buyers and sellers out of the temple, with whips made of the cords which they had brought to tie their oxen and sheep withal.
And, toavenge the quarrel of the covenant, he was thrust out of paradise, and there was a sword also placed at the east end of the garden of Eden, to avenge covenant-breaking.
If God will avenge the quarrel of an ordinance; if they that reject the ordinances shall be punished, "of how much sorer punishment shall they be thought worthy, that trample under their feet the blood of the covenant?
God hath sent His sword to avenge the quarrel of His covenant.
I cry aloud to Him night and day, in the hope that He will hear me and avenge my wife's death.
He could do nothing now but avenge his wife's sorrows.
To marry John Marchmont would be to avengeherself upon Edward Arundel.
Ask them what is their design, and they will tell you that they desire to level all things, to avenge the sacred cause of humanity.
Greece arises to avenge an injured husband; Europe to redeem the sepulchre of a God.
It was very probable that a nation who had suffered, and might still suffer, such great humiliations, would attempt to avenge them.
When the report of the death of the Inquisitor was spread through the town, the people made a fearful tumult to avenge his death.
It's my mission in life to avenge Cosmo Mornington, to find his natural heirs, to protect them and to divide among them the hundred millions that belong to them.
We must now avenge him and prevent further crimes.
And, in order to avenge himself on their love for each other and to gratify his hatred of them both, he wanted the whole set of facts to point to them as guilty of the murder of which he would be the victim?
The rest of us were of the same mind, and to a man we thirsted for a chance to avenge the foul murder of the two voyageurs.
But that won't avenge the burning of Fort Royal," I said bitterly, "or the death of so many brave men.
As I thought of the three brave fellows we had lost, I made a vow that sooner or later I would avenge them.
They had suffered defeat in battle, and it behooved them to avenge it.
Before death, the prophet enjoined his son, Alcmaeon, to avengehim on his faithless wife.
Merope, believing that her son Cresphontes had been slain by a person who was brought before her, discovers, when about to avenge on him the death of her child, that she whom she had mistaken for the murderer is Cresphontes himself.
Young Don Rodrigo, eager to avenge the slight put upon his aged father, provokes Don Gomez to a duel and kills him.
In a fit of anger, Henry exclaimed among his followers, "Is there no one to avenge me of this miserable clerk?
The peasants rose, in the name of "God's justice," to avenge their wrongs and establish their rights.
Search her well, mistress Upstill, but show her no rudeness, for she hath the power to avenge it in a parlous manner, having gone to school to my lord Herbert of Raglan.
He determined, however, to avenge the death of his companions, and to accomplish the death of Ali Baba.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "avenge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: avenge; punish; requite; retaliate; revenge; right; score; visit
