In spite of her years of self-torture and revengeful thoughts, Miss Havisham had still a spark of real pity.
He was a gloomy, passionate, revengeful man who dressed always in black and had no friends.
Proud, ambitious, savage, he saw the oncoming rush of the men of a different race with revengeful apprehension.
When Indians were accused of brutality, Brant would reply that the whites sometimes excelled the savages in revengeful barbarity.
This answer was by no means satisfactory to the clergyman, and he discovered, by close examination, that she had a deep and revengeful hatred against the young person whom she had thus injured.
She thought she could collect from the conversation which she had partly overheard, and also from the wild confessions of Madge Wildfire, that her mother had a deep and revengeful motive for obstructing her journey if possible.
I have a father too as great as Aeolus, as angry and revengeful where his honour is concerned; and you found, my dearest brother, how near you were last night to a discovery in the garden.
The feeling then was intense--bitter, and revengeful feelings seemed to pervade all classes of labor.
They sprung eagerly from their concealment, and in a moment stood before Don Rodrigo and his attendant, bearing on their countenances the marks of their revengeful disposition, and the savage pleasure of meeting with a devoted prey.
Those who were formerly the most abject of his slaves, were now more particularly conspicuous in manifesting their revengeful disposition.
He had been himself stimulated to take up arms solely by pure and patriotic sentiments, without the least alloy of personal interest, or the indulgence of a revengeful disposition.
No sight of the sort could be finer, as the brave fellows stood stripped to the waist, dauntless and resolute, not about to fight with a common foe, but one that would prove cruel and revengeful in the extreme.
The blessing of God could not rest upon warfare conducted under such a revengeful spirit, and yet he could scarcely blame the man for the bitterness of his wrath.
Therefore I would warn you that you strive to overcome your evil and revengeful passion, reminding you that it is not a spirit which the ransomed soul of your beloved could approve.
This rash attempt only served to produce irritation, and to render the parliamentarians more suspicious and revengeful when negotiations were afterwards opened which might have led to a satisfactory accommodation.
Could angry Pallas, with revengeful spleen, The Grecian navy burn, and drown the men?
Inrag'd against the gods, revengeful Earth Produc'd her last of the Titanian birth.
Rochester got him thrown into the Tower, and there he was poisoned by the revengeful countess, with or without the guilty knowledge of the favourite.
He had roused by his treachery the most revengeful and fanatical people in Europe, and had now to conquer a barren and arid country, "where large armies starve and small armies get beaten.
Although he was travelling in disguise, he was recognized at Vienna, and promptly cast into prison by the revengeful duke.
This revengeful and treacherous ruffian promised the besieged a safe passage to Allahabad.
The bold and vigorous mind of Rufinus seems to have been actuated by a more sanguinary and revengeful spirit; but the avarice of the eunuch was not less insatiate than that of the praefect.
The pages of his own work exhibit many instances of similar cruelty and revengeful practice on their part; and even Brant himself is not free from it.
In the middle ages monks and nuns were frequently obliged to repeat it in superstitious ceremonies, at the command of some powerful revengeful man.
Now the good town of Stargard would have been ruined for ever by this revengeful man, if his treacherous designs had not been defeated (as we shall see presently) by his own terrible death.
She knows George Mullholland loves her passionately; she knows how deep will be his grief, how revengeful his feelings.
He dashes his hat from his brow, turns a revengeful glance round the room, and grasps Maria in his arms, as the old negro strikes a light and reveals the back of Mr. Snivel escaping out of a window.
He had evidently put his revengeful feelings carefully away and only revived them when the time came, when his successes, his disciples, his election as the master of a powerful school, warranted his decanting the bitter vintage.
In it he warned him of the evil results of a revengeful spirit and told him of the duties he owed the people who had brought him to Norway and made him king.
Magnus, as he grew up, showed an ugly and revengeful temper.
If Jack had been loyal to him, loyal to her, Wesley would have been warned that eager eyes were upon him, ready wits reading his purposes, and revengeful hatred ready to slaughter him.
However, now the first numbing terror of the bullet was changed to a sort of revengeful delight.
The howls of the Jew behind him, undergoing his punishment sent a balm through his heart, overburdened as it was with revengeful malice.
Thus came medicine; and the plants, every one of which has its use if we only knew it, furnish the remedy to counteract the evil wrought by the revengeful animals.
Certain diseases are diagnosed by the doctors as due to birds, eitherrevengeful bird ghosts, bird feathers about the house, or bird shadows falling upon the patient from overhead.
Every little hair on Anthony's body stirred separately as he wondered how long that revengeful savage had been within club-throwing distance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revengeful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: implacable; irreconcilable; punitive; rancorous; retaliatory; spiteful; unappeasable
