Massacres and plunders were so common in that age, by the right which every petty lord pretended of revenging his own injuries and quarrels by private wars, that the treaty called the truce of God was set on foot.
The woman, stung at our saint's charitable remonstrance, retired in confusion, but resolved on revenging the supposed affront.
As though Prasville, who is not a genius, but not an absolute blockhead either, would be likely to lose the chance of revenging himself on his mortal enemy!
Why should his visitor waste time in beseeching him or even in revenging himself upon him by uttering vain threats and insults?
They soon announced to the multitude that their choice had fallen on Diocletian, commander of the domestics or body-guards, as the person the most capable of revenging and succeeding their beloved emperor.
He ascribes the success of the Huns to the criminal neglect of revenging Julian's death.
This was so much resented by the former, that a meeting of themselves and their kinsmen was held, to consider of the best means of revenging the insult.
Jerusalem, as Titus afterwards did, and thus revenging the cause of God himself on the Jews.
A Hindoo, who knew the sultan from the horse he rode, resolved, by revenging the destruction of his gods and country, to gain immortal reputation for himself.
The motive which gave rise to all these wars was the opinion he entertained that both his honour and interest were concerned in revenging the murder of his uncle, and maintaining the state of affairs he had established.
If Things are not actually malicious, they seem to have a power of revenging themselves.
The moment ofrevenging this affront had now arrived, and Maximilian was doomed to pay dearly for his folly, in provoking the most revengeful of men.
And let him be made known among the nations before our eyes, By the revenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed: 78:11.
And blessed be thou, who hast kept me to day from coming to blood, and revenging me with my own hand.
We have now to trace the circumstances of this struggle, and to show how Rome under able leaders succeeded in revenging the defeat and captivity of Valerian, and in inflicting, in her turn, a grievous humiliation upon her adversary.
Slaves under Mahdiist regime have so many different ways of revenging themselves on their masters that they never fail to seize an opportunity when it is offered.
At last they demanded permission to assemble to celebrate one of their victories, and the peace party yielded, at the same time revenging themselves on Hamilcar who had so strongly upheld the war.
But the circumstance of my nearing him without being seen, suggested to my mind a sudden thought of revenging all my previous injuries.
It has been frequently observed, by those who have had the charge of these animals, that they seem sensible of being ridiculed, and seldom miss an opportunity of revenging themselves for the insults they receive in this way.
He said he wished to tell the haughty citizens, that Darius had thus disfigured him, and that he had come to them for help in revenging himself.
But I could not die before revengingmyself on the men who had worked my ruin; and therefore, cutting the manacled foot from my leg, I escaped, and hid in the rushes on the banks of the Furotas.
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