And ever and anon the fierce, tumultuous thunder of a distant war-dance was borne upon the air, with the vengeful shouts of excited savages, beginning their orgy of torch and assegai.
His strength was too great, and he was burning with vengeful rage at the loss of so many men.
With a deadly andvengeful fire at his heart, Eustace prepared to sell their lives as dearly as ever life was sold.
The ferocity of these savages, stimulated by a sullen but vengeful consciousness of defeat, would render them doubly formidable.
A deep vengeful curse went up from his comrades, and they looked wildly around for an object on which to exact retribution.
It appears that this tragic event grew to undue proportions mainly through the vengeful hate of a frontiersman by the name of Lott.
A treaty was only too often accepted by the Indians as a challenge for some shrewdly devised scheme of vengeful retaliation.
Sidominadota well maintained the savage character of the band and may be credited with the inspiration of many vengeful and frightful deeds committed during his brief leadership.
Could it be sheer malignity, incited by his vengeful cousin?
For several days he avoided the locality, and even feared the vengeful appearance of Spanish Pete some night at his father's house.
For a moment I felt a vengeful hope that he might have come to grief.
I serve a vengeful God who armeth men For his own wars!
But while I ask not one poor breath for me, I beg you pause, nor cast the innocent To feed the vengeful and life-reaping fire Oswald will kindle for his hapless son.
A vicious, dissolute lad stabbed a wounded Goth in a lonely place, out of vengeful spite.
And I am like the fair Alcithoe, Daughter of the ancient king, who changed her form And as a sign of the gods' vengeful wrath Is now instead of princess a night-bat!
To such a sun he offers his hymns and prayers; and such a sun he conceives as a vengeful blood-fed Moloch or a muse of light.
The measured tramp of the armed hosts has shaken the continent; and the vengeful cries of the unnatural strife have disturbed the inmost peaceful recesses of its great central plains and mountains.
He is a vengeful beast, and from my knowledge of him he is not likely to overlook your aiding my escape in his yacht after throwing him over.
With a dull despair at his heart, he had already realized that thevengeful Frenchwoman had shattered his day-dream.
The journey must now be taken alone, for she meant that the vengeful work she contemplated should be secret, and that Earl Kenric should be rid of his dangerous enemy without knowing by whom or by what means Roderic had been slain.
Had he failed to act with prompt foresight upon the information gained in Gigha, the men of Colonsay, with other vengeful warriors, would have massacred every woman and child in the island, for such was assuredly their intent.
He blamed himself beyond measure in that he had allowed his vengeful thoughts to so lead him away from his higher duty.
A vengeful murmur ran through the crowd, but no one replied.
As its vengeful notes rang upon the canon, they were answered by loud cheers from the hunters, mingled with the wild whoops of their Delaware and Shawano allies.
Vengeful yells rang over the town; and the warriors, leaping down from their houses, ran towards the temple.
We had no fear as to the result; but we feared that the vengeful savages might take it into their heads to despatch their captives while we fought.
To satisfy their vengeful feelings, the Gibeonites demanded the life of seven members of Saul's family.
The plan successfully carried out would have satisfied their vengeful feelings, not only as to the king, but as to Mordecai as well.
His life had been crowded with griefs and with vengeful preparations--too much crowded for love.
Cries of terror burst from the doomed crew, many of whom leapt overboard in a vain attempt to swim clear of the vengeful leviathan.
It looked as if the two lads, in spite of the distance they had put between themselves and the motionless submarine, would yet be in the way of the vengeful battleship, whose extreme beam was not less than ninety feet.
The soldiers on the walls joined in these vengeful and victorious clamours, and discharged several sheaves of arrows upon such fugitives, as, in their extremity, approached too near the castle.
He eagerly grasped the pistol they handed to him, and examined it closely with vengeful interest.
Thus arrayed as became my station, I engaged rooms at the chief hotel of Palermo for some weeks--weeks that were for me full of careful preparation for the task of vengeful retribution that lay before me.
Once a rat-like tuza ran past within a few inches of Teddy's feet, and as the boy leaped up in affright, fancying the vengeful Indians had discovered him, it was with difficulty he repressed a cry of alarm.
There was no longer anything to cause anxiety; the vengeful Indians had been left far behind, and the fear of an attack was among the things of the past.
DON JUAN IN HADES When Juan sought the subterranean flood, And paid his obolus on the Stygian shore, Charon, the proud and sombre beggar, stood With one strong, vengeful hand on either oar.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vengeful" 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
