Ah, Fitzroy, you hadn't heard of Vendetta before," she cried.
It was quite true, as he told Mrs. Devar, that he had backed Vendetta for a small stake on his own account.
Vendetta certainly does sound like war to the knife," said he.
In the year 1193, the first case of the vendetta occurred in Japan.
So conspicuous were his virtues and so attractive was his personality that a samurai of the Akamatsu family, who had planned a vendetta against him, committed suicide himself rather than raise his hand to slay such a hero.
There are strong reasons to think that the vendetta of the Soga brothers was instigated by Tokimasa and Yoshitoki, and that Yoritomo was intended to be the ultimate victim.
As there is a kind of vendetta in Afghanistan I rather wondered what would happen next.
Tell me,' said Racksole, 'who or what is the origin of your vendetta against the life of Prince Eugen?
I had no vendetta against the life of Prince Eugen,' said Jules, 'at least, not to begin with.
A Vendetta of the Desert, by William Charles Scully.
A Vendetta of the Desert By William Charles Scully Published by Methuen and Co, London.
They are the men of Valetta, who have organized this secret vendetta against all foreigners.
They are a swarthy, robust, fearless people, strong in their loves and hates, and thevendetta has been known to exist here just as fiercely as in its native home of Corsica.
He answered promptly: "I'm Judas Maccabees, and I have a vendetta against the Syrians.
He was now dressed as a famous hero, most likely ready to perform some kind of vendetta gain.
I borrowed your warhorse because I needed your steed to carry out my vendetta against the Midianites, the sons of Abraham.
In the greater vendetta we watch him, and catch him hot from some unrepented sin, and so slay his soul as well as his body.
But this vendetta is not so run upon now as it was a few years ago.
Even when the commission adjourned without arriving at an agreed report, Lady Barbara felt that a vendetta was being forced upon her.
But, if thevendetta required resource, resource should be forthcoming.
Footnote 48: Dautremer, 'The Vendetta or Legal Revenge in Japan,' in Trans.
Dautremer, 'The Vendetta or Legal Revenge in Japan,' in Trans.
At tea, the captain once more delighted Lydia with the tale of a vendetta transversale (A vendetta in which vengeance falls on a more or less distant relation of the author of the original offence.
Following the lord in death, suicide, and vendetta were customs based on loyalty, and they involved the noblest self-sacrifice.
The Vendetta of the Sicilian immigrants is described with a strength and vividness which bear eloquent witness to Hearn's innate pleasure in such themes.
The old baron of thevendetta spoke in a cold, stoical voice.
But Vendetta is confined strictly to local affairs, and it is very rare to find a case where strangers have been brought into family feuds.
In A Vendetta of the Jungle,[154] we have the idea of successive infection of the moral curse, similar to the continuation of vampirism.
From this moment I declare thevendetta against you, so protect yourself as well as you can, for the next time we meet your last hour has come.
No, your excellency," returned Bertuccio; "it was a vendetta followed by restitution.
I only treated the dog as he would have treated me, but I don't want to establish a vendetta among his desperado mates with myself for its object.
One more complete and ruthless holocaust to the unquenchable vendetta ever burning between the unsparing red man and his hated and despised foe, the invading white.
At all events, Rep has got a vendetta fit on him, and raves like a Corsican for vengeance.
What a stunning vendetta on this girl, if she were at last to consent, to find out whom she had married, and what.
After the disappearance of the vendetta the custom of duelling remained.
It is in the bazaar, on market-days, that men of two families engaged in a vendetta are most likely to meet.
This cruel vendetta of theirs, which decimates the population, is horrible.
I have already alluded to the blood feud, or vendetta of Albania.
The Rasputin affair was a vendetta of society which revealed its moral disintegration, but more than two months passed before the Government collapsed.
The vendetta was the chief law of Corsican society up to comparatively recent times; and its effects are still visible in the life of the stern islanders.
To the Corsicans it seemed little more than an autocratic version of the vendetta traversale.
