The public, however, amply avenged Crebillon for the bitter judgment of Boileau; in eight days two editions of the "Rhadamiste" were exhausted.
He had avenged the shame of his sister, and he was now himself the eldest son and heir to the throne.
Benhadad, with the implacable hatred of one who had received a benefit, was so eager to be avenged on Ahab that he had told his thirty-two captains to make his capture their special aim.
Destroy no monuments; cut down no trees; and when ye shall haveavenged the death of Al-Harith ibn Amr, summon the Arab tribes of Syria to Islam.
At last, however, the Alps avenged on the Getae the disgrace of all mountains else and victorious Eridanus that of all other rivers.
But for thee thy sire’s cause, linked as it is with the general safety, doubles thy warlike fame; the same victory that has avenged thy sire has restored peace to the world.
At a time of dire peril ye both gave the aid of gods; but he too late avenged a captured Rome, thou one still safe.
In a single glance of intolerable scorn the man she had played false avenged himself.
Every man I had with me had some wrong to avenge; some had lost their wives, others their daughters; the more fortunate had had all their sheep and cattle carried off, and every man avenged his wrong.
She felt she had done her duty, and avenged herself in doing it.
Here the army encamped on the right bank of the Seine, around Montmartre, while their cavalry avenged the plundering of Aix-la-Chapelle by laying waste the country for many miles around.
Huss is burnt, and we have not yet avenged him," replied Ziska.
In the end, however, he escaped with his life, drove the cattle from Phylace to Pylos, avenged the wrong that had been done him, and gave the daughter of Neleus to his brother.
Nestor son of Neleus," answered Telemachus, "honour to the Achaean name, the Achaeans applaud Orestes and his name will live through all time for he has avenged his father nobly.
For the son of Atreus shall be avenged at the hand of Orestes, so soon as he shall come to man's estate and long for his own country.
I have sworn to beavenged upon the house of De Montfort for the death of my brother.
To be avenged for the fate of Tito had been her one desire; if that were accomplished, she seemed to have nothing else for which to live.
The measure Madame de Pastourelles had dealt out to him, he in some sort avenged on Phoebe.
The victim now avenged himself, with the same glee which a literary club throws into the black-balling of some evil tongue--some too harsh and too powerful critic of the moment.
The wrong which she had done him in the first place, he had avengedby a gross insult to her womanhood.
He would fain have avenged himself on Bess, but for reasons to be stated, he could not enjoy this satisfaction.
He hadavenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen.
Mary treasured up to the end of her life, and at her death bequeathed to the convent of Chaillot, the scourge with which he had vigorously avenged her wrongs upon his own shoulders.
The blood of innocent Papists had been avenged more than tenfold by the blood of zealous Protestants.
If my death must be avenged, Henriot, it must be avenged by God alone.
The next day the note dropped in the corridor of the Louvre, and picked up by some kind friend who already will have circulated the news, will prove that it was the husband who had avenged himself.
Instead of avenging the death of Hiram, they have avenged his assassins.
Would not it have been more humane to have avenged his honor in the blood of the guilty pair!
The outraged husband avenged himself on the mother.
Pierced by a hundred wounds he fell, but his followers bravely avenged his death.
The driver then struck OEdipus with his whip, at which the youth grew so enraged that he avenged the insult by killing the servant with his sword.
They avenged the ghosts of those who died by a violent death and had no one to avenge them.
So far as my means allow, insult shall be avenged by the law, violence repelled by the strong hand, falsehood put to shame by truth, and sophistry exposed by reason.
Soldiers," cried Ulrich von Hohenberg, raising his discharged gun triumphantly, "I have avenged the death of your comrade.
Soon afterwards the Constable de Bourbon, in conjunction with Pescara and Lannoy, avenged his grievances under the walls of Pavia.
And so he had escaped, and for this he praised God and those who had avenged him.
I have now avenged you on the man who put you to such shame.
However, fortune was avenged on Herod in his external great successes, by raising him up domestical troubles; and he began to have wild disorders in his family, on account of his wife, of whom he was so very fond.
Whereupon the king avenged this insolent attempt of the mother upon her son, and blotted Herod, whom he had by her, out of his tretament, who had been before named therein as successor to Antipater.
The struggle was fierce and desperate: it was the Moors' last stand; they felt themselves at bay, and they avenged in their first mad rush of fury a hundred years of insult and persecution.
Mac 9:42 So when they had avenged fully the blood of their brother, they turned again to the marsh of Jordan.
Wis 11:3 They stood against their enemies, and were avenged of their adversaries.
Mac 3:15 So he made him ready to go up, and there went with him a mighty host of the ungodly to help him, and to be avenged of the children of Israel.
AddEsth 16:20 And ye shall aid them, that even the same day, being the thirteenth day of the twelfth month Adar, they may be avenged on them, who in the time of their affliction shall set upon them.
But if he succeeded, Nicetas would be avenged before Baibars and Sultan Qutuz and all Daoud's and Nicetas's khushdashiya.
So Saadi had advised him after he avenged himself on Kassar.
LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
But Geraint has overtaken him, and avenged the insult to the maiden to the uttermost.
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