Revenge Sentence Examples

His revenge was all that would make him whole again.

Maybe this kind of revenge really is better.

If she wanted revenge, she might simply try to break them up.

He sought revenge then; he did so again now.

You lived for nothing but revenge.

What was more important than power, betrayal and revenge, the tenets on which he built his life?

The demons want revenge.

What if he took revenge on her for what she planned to do?

I want my revenge against Sasha and Kris both, but there are innocent people there.

Revenge might be far more than harassment.

I want revenge for my daughter.s treatment at Sasha.s hands, and I want the vial or the girl.

It had the effect they desired of convincing the Others he had crushed the gem and was unleashing hell on earth in his quest for revenge for them taking Jessi.

But he if thought her dead, and he was taking revenge on Qatwal, then some part of him must've cared!

He wanted revenge against Memon for his family's death, but revenge isn't enough down here.

That power had been on the point of offering her armed mediation in revenge for his violation of her territory of Anspach; but she was fain to accept the terms which he offered at the sword's point.

John was now a septuagenarian "king in exile," but he was still vigorous enough to revenge himself on Frederick, by commanding the papal troops which attacked southern Italy during the emperor's absence on the sixth crusade (1228-1229).

In 1670 Monmouth was with the court at Dover, and it is affirmed by Reresby that the mysterious death of Charles's sister, Henrietta, duchess of Orleans, was due to her husband's revenge on the discovery of her intrigue with the duke.

His mother Khamko, a woman of extraordinary character, thereupon herself formed and led a brigand band, and studied to inspire the boy with her own fierce and indomitable temper, with a view to revenge and the recovery of the lost property.

When Julian visited the place in 362 the impudent population railed at him for his favour to Jewish and pagan rites, and to revenge itself for the closing of its great church of Constantine, burned down the temple of Apollo in Daphne.

His first care was to revenge his brother's death, and though it seems that Sasanka escaped destruction for a while (he was still ruling in 619), Harsha's experience of warfare encouraged him to make preparations for bringing all India under his sway.

Resentment, however, incited him to personal revenge on the Californian government, and an ambition that clearly saw the gravity of the crisis prompted him to improve it unscrupulously for his own advancement, leaving his The government to support or disavow him according as P1 war should come or not.

Gospel; another exile was Justinian II., who is said to have destroyed the city in revenge.

Personal protection and revenge, oaths, marriage, wardship, succession, supervision over settlement, and good behaviour, are regulated by the law of kinship. A man's actions are considered not as exertions of his individual will, but as acts of the kindred, and all the fellows of the maegth are held responsible for them.

In 1804 the maharao raja Bishan Singh gave valuable assistance to Colonel Monson in his disastrous retreat before Holkar, in revenge for which the Mahratas and Pindaris continually ravaged his state up to 1817.

Henry never forgave the audacity; but, for the moment, the only revenge he could take was upon More's father, whom upon some pretext he threw into the Tower, and he only released him upon payment of a fine of £ioo.

She herself, however, fell in love with the young prince, and Berenice in revenge formed a conspiracy, and, having slain Demetrius, married Ptolemy's son (see Berenice, 3).

Charles used his influence to carry through parliament the act of indemnity, and the execution of some of the regicides was a measure not more severe than was to be expected in the times and circumstances; but that of Sir Henry Vane, who was not a regicide and whose life Charles had promised the parliament to spare in case of his condemnation, was brought about by Charles's personal insistence in revenge for the victim's high bearing during his trial, and was an act of gross cruelty and perfidy.

The phenomena of feeling, of desire and aversion, of love and hatred, of fear and revenge, and the perception of external relations manifested in the life of brutes, imply, not only through the analogy which they display to the human faculties, but likewise from all that we can learn or conjecture of their particular nature, the superadded existence of a principle distinct from the mere mechanism of material bodies.

This provokes you to go on a roaring rampage of revenge as you try and find out the who 's, whys and wherefores.

Edward was furious and exacted his revenge by ransacking the town of Berwick in 1296 and killing everyone he found.

As a result the makers did not shy away from a graphically realistic depiction of rape, murder and revenge.

Poseidon was n't happy about this and called upon the king of the gods, Zeus, to reek a terrible revenge.

The film tells of a covert hit squad put together by Israeli intelligence to wreak revenge.

In Netball the 1st team will be seeking revenge for the single point defeat at the hands of Sheffield Hallam.

It is believed that this was a planned assassination in revenge for the killing of Jack Harris.

While these could never be directly tied back to the government they were widely seen as the revenge for the murder of Neave.

Despite the loss, the Lancaster teams all enjoyed the trip away, and are looking forward to taking sweet revenge next May....

Author enters revenge fantasy, in which Postal Employe is sealed in plastic envelope and sent Priority Mail to the bottom of the sea.

Of course, " there was no evidence it was a revenge attack " according to a US army source.

The girl later died (from " unhappiness "), and Jefferson swore revenge on the one who took her away.

However, his works were not limited to these tales of bravery, intrigue and revenge.

A more controversial example may be the universal thirst for revenge.

Gladstone, the truculent old man, will quail before the pointing finger of revenge.

An all-new revenge meter tracks underhanded tactics and leads gamers down the path to the ultimate payback.

Water pistol in fist, she sprays us in revenge for our unkind cut of a few months back.

The failure of the pagan gods to wreak a terrible revenge undermined the whole pagan belief system.

There, as soon as his fingers were thawed, he took his revenge in Dweller in yon dungeon dark.

After years of seeking retribution for the attack, she chose to let go of her desire for revenge.

You need to build a stable foundation for your child so that she doesn't think she can manipulate situations because her parents want revenge on each other.

Psychological signs might include an increased desire to drink or use drugs, depression or fantasies of revenge.

These pranks will keep your parents on their toes, and looking for revenge!

Why, after the week Cruise has had, you might even think there is some sort of cosmic revenge in place.

Today you'd find Kanye West, "She Wants Revenge," and "Taking Back Sundays" playing in my Ipod.

This story follows the tribulations of a one time great assassin and his approach to taking revenge on a situation that took place in his past.

Dar is prince by birthright who can communicate with animals, and seeks revenge on thugs who murdered the people of his village.

However, the explosion of MCR's career corresponded with the release of their second record Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge.

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In a worst case scenario, such as Ryan's, a youth feels so depressed and angry that their feelings turn to thoughts of revenge by "making the bully sorry."

People who have been the victim of a prank or a practical joke may be considering taking action against the perpetrator in the form of revenge pranks.

This idea is common to societies around the world, but hopefully people who are thinking of playing revenge pranks will think through what they are planning to avoid any legal consequences after the fact.

When considering whether playing revenge pranks is a good idea, first look at whether the other person's actions really warrant the prank.

A minor transgression that the other person may not even remember is probably not important enough to warrant a full-blown revenge prank.

On the other hand, there are some transgressions that are deemed so severe that pulling revenge pranks isn't appropriate, either.

If you have given the matter due consideration and you still want to go ahead to get back at someone, check out these examples of safe revenge pranks.

This revenge prank is a good one when you want to get back at a college bully.

By all means, be creative when you are thinking about revenge pranks, but be sure that you don't set the victim off enough that they start thinking about ways to prank you back!

In some cases, the practical jokester is motivated by revenge.

You may start thinking about revenge practical jokes if you've been the butt of someone else's joke, but you should never try to "get even" with someone.

Revenge practical jokes should always be performed under the mantle of good spirits and with good fun in mind.

Revenge and fun may not be two words you hear in conjunction with each other, but revenge performed in good fun is done so that both the person playing the joke and the one being joked can enjoy.

Jokes, even revenge jokes, should always be done with humor and good intentions.

Fiesta Village - Experience the fun of this Latin-themed area, complete with Montezooma's Revenge steel roller coaster (featuring speeds from zero to 55 miles per hour in under five seconds) and an old-fashioned merry-go-round.

You be taunted by the Riddler on Riddler's Revenge or fight crime on Batman The Ride.

You can see that lovable ogre Shrek in 4-D, be chased by the fearful Mummy in Revenge of the Mummy or get scared in Universal's House of Horror which was voted one of America's best haunted attractions by Hauntworld Magazine.

Lego Star Wars uses the same basic concepts as the above two games, except you play through scenes based on the prequel movies The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.

Custer's Revenge came out in 1982 and was re-released in an Atari Anthology for the PS2.

Players mount horses, chase bandits, fire their six-shooters, and seek revenge for their father's death in true wild-west fashion.

Burnout Revenge is probably the fast game out there because you already go fast under your own power, but you can also go even faster by getting those boosts.

You can tell Duchovny, 'cause I'm pretty sure he's so hopped up on smack that even if he put twice as much feeling into reaping his revenge on me than he did on this game, I would still have nothing to worry about.

If so, play this dark game of revenge with the following hints in mind.

You can help someone get revenge, take out small-time gangs, and arbitrarily beatdown someone you don't like.

For example, there is the aging sage Tellah, who becomes hell-bent on revenge following a traumatic incident early on in the game.

The game has a simple guy just trying to exact revenge of the people who killed his mentor.

While your favorite real-life team may be 1-8, you can play the same virtual team for a little revenge and hope for a winning season next year for your team.

Shenmue for the Dreamcast is the first chapter in an epic quest for revenge.

What teenager with revenge angst who has a destiny with an ancient world wouldn't fall in love?

If you're a medium- to hard-core Star Wars fan, you pretty much know what Lucas' movie, Revenge of the Sith, is about.

In Revenge of the Sith, you play as Anakin Skywalker or his mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Revenge of the Sith does not use the original actors to voice the lines.

The graphics in Revenge of the Sith are top-notch when compared to other 3rd person beat-em-ups.

The quality just hasn't been there and Revenge of the Sith follows right in line.

The game is being developed by Savage Entertainment and will include many of the features of the other console versions including space combat, playable Jedi and content from Revenge of the Sith.

The DVD of Revenge of the Sith will include a full-length documentary on the making of the film and two features.

Bison's Shadoloo organization to aid in his effort to seek revenge.

His story is that his father, Go, was killed by Sagat and Dan's life mission was to seek revenge.

Alex entered the third world warrior tournament to seek revenge on Gill, who seriously injured Alex's best friend Tom.

Necro enters the third world warrior tournament to seek revenge on Gill for the atrocities he has suffered.

One of the most popular free games is Tap Tap Revenge.

Sadly, this type of privacy invasion occurs because an employee is disgruntled, they want to get revenge on you for something you did to them (like treat them badly on the phone) or to simply get your information.

Older children may steal to gain a sense of power, to acquire status with peers who resist authority, to get attention, to take revenge on someone who has hurt them, to alleviate boredom, or to vent unresolved feelings of anger or fear.

She sought revenge, and decided to use her daughter, Salomé, an accomplished dancer, to get it.

An orange lily stands for revenge or anger.

Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Warm is a novel that gives details about the characters' backgrounds.

The rest writes itself as the "dogs" exact their revenge.

This is how the cat became an enemy of the rat and forever tries to exact its revenge.

The whole family will enjoy this simple game of luck and revenge.

Originally believing that Lycans killed her family, Selene becomes a "Death Dealer" in the film, taking revenge on all Lycans as she believed they were responsible for the execution of her family.

While Caddy thinks it's a game to help her outcast friend get her revenge against them, she suddenly finds herself their leader--even in a pursuit of the former leader's boyfriend!

Matt Reeves directs this film about a bullied young boy who is dreaming about getting revenge on those who have been bullying him.

When her murder went unprosecuted, she haunted the mirror and sought revenge on those that hid the truth of other murders.

The show's retooling of the Bloody Mary legend pays particular homage to the name, the mirror and the revenge theme, but it avoids mentioning the death of any children.

In covens devoted to the practice of black magic, the number 13 represents the apostle Judas as the ultimate bringer of evil and revenge against the light of God.

Some of the best known hauntings are filled with frightening tales of malevolent spirits seeking revenge.

Marissa's mother Julie hires a private eye to find Volchok and plots to hook him up with Ryan so that Ryan will take revenge for them both losing Marissa.

Mari-Mar is driven to revenge her grief.

Trying to choose just 10 memorable soap opera moments from 75 years of love, lust, envy, revenge, weddings, funerals and drama is an impossible task.

Hackers write these programs for various reasons, notably revenge against an "enemy" business's program developer, or just because they want to screw up user operations.

At the Disco, and She Wants Revenge were ask to provide cover songs of the original pieces by Danny Elfman.

At the Disco each redo "This is Halloween" and She Wants Revenge takes on "Kidnap the Sandy Claws".

The new Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack features covers of songs from the original soundtrack by artists such as Fallout Boy, She Wants Revenge, Marilyn Manson, and Panic!

Their song Top of the World is featured on the Xbox 360 game Burnout Revenge.

He's also an actor, with roles in television and Hollywood movies, including Revenge of the Mummy.

Once again, it is up to Harry to uncover truth behind the rumors, but this time he must also deal with his feelings of revenge and his desire for justice.

Vanyel helps Tylendel gain an illegal revenge for the death of his brother, but the plot goes awry, resulting in Tylendel's death and the sudden blasting open of all of Vanyel's own latent magical skills and abilities.

The rest of the movie is a lavish recitation of Max's search for revenge.

I did enjoy the Jedi Apprentice series by Dave Worthington and later Jude Watson, though in books 15 through 16, Qui-Gon's Jedi love, Tahl, gets murdered and he goes out for revenge??

Sure he was hurt, angry and grieving, but revenge?

The three day weekend following (opening weeked) ''Revenge of the Fallen'' made $108 million, bringing the gross total to about $200 million.

In Revenge of the Fallen, Shia LaBeouf plays Sam Witwicky and Megan Fox plays Mikaela Banes in the two leading roles of the film.

Revenge of the Sith came out in 2005, and is set 19 years before Episode IV.

Revenge of the Fallen opened with the Autobots hunting down a Decepticon R8 which was making trouble in Shanghai.

Minya popularity was clarified by his recurring role in Godzilla's Revenge (1969) when Godzilla teaches his son how to protect himself.

In Of Gods and Men, an older, bitter Charlie steps through the Guardian of Forever and returns to the past to exact revenge on Captain Kirk and, in an instant, the present becomes a dark and altered time for those who could not stop him.

Much as I crave revenge, I'll turn away and not waste my time assaulting his castle again.

The brother Jude killed himself in jail and this guy was apparently seeking revenge.

Joseph and Ginger sat, pretending everyone continued to love one another while no doubt plotting their own sneaky revenge.

Deep inside, all she could think about was that Lori might want revenge more than she wanted Destiny.

The deity dragged Wynn here to warn him against altering his plan for revenge.

Not another jilted lover out for revenge!

Whoever it was he was to protect, even his promise to Gabriel wouldn't stand in his way of revenge.

Belfair watched, a sneering smile painted on her beautiful face, revenge was hers, as Jership the Terrible crashed in a bloody heap on the rocks below.

Or maybe Charles was right and they just wanted revenge for picking them off.

Was the tiny kingdom strong enough to help him seek his revenge against those who had imprisoned him beneath ground and killed his family?

Of all the warriors, Vara wanted him at his side when he triumphed in his own revenge.

We will build an army unlike any that has ever existed, and we will use it to seek revenge on your father for betraying you and her.

In exchange, she would help me seek revenge against those who cast us out after I was born.

With the earth moving beneath her, Jessi wasn't able to process anything she felt during the last minutes of the world, except that Xander cared enough to finish what he started in his quest for revenge.

In 374 he was assassinated by a eunuch from motives of private revenge.

Having defeated the invading Turks at Villach in 1492, the king was eager to take revenge upon the king of France; but the states of the Netherlands would afford him no assistance.

Volunteers came from all parts of Europe, and it is said that among them was Sir Richard Grenville, afterwards famous for his fight in the "Revenge" off Flores in the Azores.

Langton followed his sovereign to Northampton and persuaded him, at least for the present, to refrain from any serious measures of revenge.

Here he set fire to the cedar roof of the palace of Xerxes as a symbol that the Greek war of revenge against the Persians had come to an end.

Then Achilles, to revenge his friend's death, returned to the war, slew Hector, dragged his body behind his chariot to the camp, and afterwards round the tomb of Patroclus.

He used his influence in moderating measures of revenge and violence, and while sitting in judgment on the regicides was oi.

The Edomites, who had been almost extirpated by David in the valley of Salt, south of the Dead Sea, were now strong enough to seek revenge; and the powerful kingdom of Damascus, whose foundation is ascribed to this period, began to threaten Israel on the north and north-east.

Against their natural desire for revenge may be set the fact that the Pharisees did much to improve the status of women among the Jews.

Sextus Caesar made him lieutenant-governor of Coele Syria, and only his father restrained him from returning to wreak his revenge upon Hyrcanus.

That he did not reform at a stroke all ancient abuses appears particularly in relation to the practice of blood revenge; to put an end to this deep-rooted custom would have been an impossibility.

If the story is correct, his acts at Bayonne showed once more his custom of biding his time in order to take an overwhelming revenge.

The revenge of the autocrat was characteristic. Besides driving Stein from office, he compelled Prussia to sign a convention(8th of September) for the payment to France of a sum of 140,000,000 francs, and for the limitation of the Prussian army to 42,000 men.

When Paris (Alexander), son of Priam, had carried off his brother's wife, he went round to the princes of the country and called upon them to unite in a war of revenge against the Trojans.

The armies of Fulcher and Gottschalk were destroyed by the Hungarians in just revenge for their excesses (June); the third, after joining in a wild Judenhetze in the towns of the valley of the Rhine, during which some io,000 Jews perished as the first-fruits of crusading zeal, was scattered to the winds in Hungary (August).

William of Malmesbury, about 1125, already treats Tinchebrai (1r06) as an English victory and the revenge for Hastings.

Wellington had also difficulties of a similar kind with his own government, and also the Spanish soldiers, in revenge for many French outrages, had become guilty of grave excesses in France, so that Wellington took the extreme step of sending 25,000 of them back to Spain and resigning the command of their army, though his resignation was subsequently withdrawn.

Chlodio, however, soon took his revenge.

In June 1649, burning to revenge the death of the king, he was restored by the exile Charles II.

Plutarch (Cicero, 5) mentions it as reported of Aesopus, that, while representing Atreus deliberating how he should revenge himself on Thyestes, the actor forgot himself so far in the heat of action that with his truncheon he struck and killed one of the servants crossing the stage.

A new squadron with 6000 troops was entrusted to the famous admiral Duguay Trouin to revenge this injury.

Nor did he shrink from deeds of bloodshed and revenge; the assassination of his father-in-law, Niccolo Borghesi (1500), is an indelible blot upon his name.

Next year Sweyn returned, his hostility fanned by the desire for revenge.

In revenge an Abyssinian army under King John attacked the dervishes close to Gallabat in March 1889.

He prevented Gustavus from invading Prussia in revenge for the refusal of the king of Prussia to declare war against France, and during the rest of the reign was in semidisgrace, though generally a member of the government when the king was abroad.

The pressure of the nomads of the steppe, the quest of plunder or revenge, these seem the only motives of these early expeditions; but in the long struggle between the Roman and Persian empires, of which Armenia was often the battlefield, and eventually the prize, the attitude of the Khazars assumed political importance.

The citizens were growing weary of the monastic austerities imposed on them, and Alexander foresaw that his revenge was at hand.

His few lyrics were spirited ballads of adventure, inspired by an exalted patriotism - "The Revenge" (1878), "The Defence of Lucknow" (1879) - but he reprinted and finally published his old suppressed poem, The Lover's Tale, and a little play of his, The Falcon, versified out of Boccaccio, was produced by the Kendals at their theatre in the last days of 1879.

By way of revenge, Aeschines endeavoured to fix the blame for these disasters upon Demosthenes.

After Asahel met his death at the hands of Abner, Joab expostulated with David for not taking revenge upon the guilty one, and indeed the king might be considered bound in honour to take up his nephew's cause.

As he occupied the post of honour in this disaster, so he had that (the command of the vanguard) in the expedition which the regent Henry made shortly afterwards to revenge his brother Baldwin's defeat and capture.

Out of it sprang the rebellion of Megabyzus, who was greatly exasperated because, though he had persuaded Inarus to surrender by promising that his life would be spared, Artaxerxes, yielding to the entreaties of his wife Amytis, who wanted to take revenge on Inarus for the death of her brother Achaemenes, the satrap of Egypt, had surrendered him to her for execution.

According to the German story they were killed at the instigation of Kriemhild in revenge for Siegfried.

In spite, however, of the concerted attacks of William the Bastard (the Conqueror), duke of Normandy, and Henry I., king of France, he was able in 1051 to force Maine to recognize his authority, though failing to revenge himself on William.

The execution was regarded even by many who had been indifferent to Leisler's cause, as an act of revenge.

The prospect of revenge upon her enemies of the Second Balkan War - Serbia, Greece and Rumania - and of attaining her large territorial ambitions at their expense, proved sufficient, after prudent hesitation, to attract Bulgaria to the side of Germany.

Appointed sub-prefect of Avesnes during the Hundred Days, he was imprisoned by the Prussians in revenge for the death of the maidens of Verdun, and lived in exile during the Restoration.

This was enough to secure him the suffrages of the Paris electors ten days later, and the Mountain was strengthened by the accession of an ally whose one idea was to use his new power to revenge himself on his former colleagues.

There the vow was generally one of war or revenge, and, till it was accomplished, the man who vowed left his hair unshorn and unkempt, and abstained from wine, women, ointment and perfume.

Catherine de' Medici was greatly incensed at this affront, and took her revenge by having the constable disgraced on the death of Henry II.

By introducing genuine reforms for the benefit of officers and common soldiers alike, and by laying himself out for popularity in the most pronounced fashion - notably by his fire-eating attitude towards Germany in April 1887 in connexion with the Schnaebele frontier incident - Boulanger came to be accepted by the mob as the man destined to give France her revenge for the disasters of 1870, and to be used simultaneously as a tool by all the anti-Republican intriguers.

They are not often represented as diminutive in stature, and seem to be subject to such human passions as love, jealousy, envy and revenge.

Edred recklessly ravaged all Northumbria in revenge, burning Ripon during his march.

The population (8000) has contained few Moslems since the Moslem quarter was destroyed by Ibrahim Pasha, in revenge for the murder of one of his favourites, after the insurrection of 1834.

In revenge he joined the émigré party at Coblenz, wrote in their favour, and expended nearly all the fortune brought him by his wife, a wealthy widow.

This revenge was the more outrageous since Henry had personally exerted himself on behalf of the Montforts after Evesham.

The older story, according to which Grimhild slays her husband Attila in revenge for her brothers, is preserved in the Norse tradition, though Grimhild's part is played by Gudrun, a change probably due to the fact, mentioned above, that the name Grimhild still retained in the north its sinister significance.

In the Nibelungenlied, however, the primitive supremacy of the blood-tie has given place to the more modern idea of the supremacy of the passion of love, and Kriemhild marries Attila (Etzel) in order to compass the death of her brothers, in revenge for the murder of Siegfried.

The island was nearly lost to Athens by two attempts of the oligarchic faction to effect a revolution; on each occasion the popular party ultimately won the day and took a most bloody revenge on its opponents (427 and 425).

The Angevins took their revenge under Martin IV., who was a stanch supporter of the French.

Mang-srong mang tsan, the second son and successor of Srong tsan gam-po, continuing the conquests of his father, subdued the Tukuhun Tatars around the Koko-Nor in 663, and attacked the Chinese; after some adverse fortune the latter took their revenge and penetrated as far as Lhasa, where they burnt the royal palace (Yumbu-lagang).

According to a famous legend the women were all deserted by their husbands, and in revenge murdered every man on the island.

It was probably at the time when a desire for revenge on her calumniatress made her think the opportunity good and safe for discharge of such a two-edged dart at the countess and the queen that Mary wrote, but abstained from despatching, the famous and terrible letter in which, with many gracious excuses and professions of regret and attachment, she transmits to Elizabeth a full and vivid report of the hideous gossip retailed by Bess of Hardwick regarding her character and person at a time when the reporter of these abominations was on friendly terms with her husband's royal charge.

The passion of love, after very sufficient experience, she apparently and naturally outlived; the passion of hatred and revenge was as inextinguishable in her inmost nature as the emotion of loyalty and gratitude.

She would have flung Scotland with England into the hell fire of Spanish Catholicism rather than forgo the faintest chance of personal revenge.

The chiefs, indeed, were little more than leaders in war; for the right of private revenge limited their authority in judicial matters; and they received no taxes.

He had his revenge, for on the 22nd of June 1667 the Dutch fleet under de Ruyter and Cornelius de Witt made their way up the Medway as far as Chatham and burnt the English fleet as it lay at anchor.

The invasion, however, failed, and Michael so far had his revenge in the "Sicilian Vespers," which he helped to bring about.

The burning of the Barns of Ayr, the quarters of English soldiers, in revenge for the treacherous slaughter of his uncle, Sir Ronald Crawford, and other Scottish noblemen, followed.

The revenge he took was crushing.

The epithet is applied to Zeus and the Erinyes as the deities of revenge and punishment.

The days of French invasions of Germany had for the time ceased, and revenge for the attacks made by Louis XIV.

In 1822, however, Ismail and his chief followers were treacherously burnt to death at Shendi by order of the mek (ruler) of the town, in revenge for the cruelties committed by the Egyptians.

The sultan, who himself had had no share in the victory, advanced after it from Mansura to FriskUr, where his conduct became menacing to the amirs who had raised him to the throne, and to Shajar al-durr; she in revenge organized an attack upon him which was successful, fire, water, and steel contributing to his end.

Foxe and Knox attribute to him a prophecy of the death of the Cardinal, who was assassinated on May 29 following, partly at any rate in revenge for Wishart's death.

Expeditions reduced the Highlands to order; earldom after earldom was forfeited; but this vigour aroused the desire for revenge, and at length cost James his life.

Henry was then crowned in St Peter's on the 13th of April, and after exacting a promise that no revenge would be taken for what had passed withdrew beyond the Alps.

A reign of terror followed; proscriptions, confiscations, and executions became general; some of the noblest citizens were put to death, and Cicero fell a victim to Antony's revenge.

Thus did a Welshman revenge the ignominious deaths of Prince Llewelyn and Prince David by becoming two centuries later king of England and prince of Wales.

The assassination of Maurice in 602 impelled him to a war of revenge against Rome, in the course of which his armiesin 6o8 and, again, in 615 and 626penetrated as far as Chalcedon opposite Constantinople, ravaged Syria, reduced Antioch (611), Damascus (613), and Jerusalem (614), and carried off the holy cross to Ctesiphon; in 619 Egypt was occupied.

Neither gratitude nor revenge moved him, and good or ill services left little impression on his mind.

In his twentieth year he was ordered by the Delphic oracle to return home and revenge his father's death.

According to Aeschylus, he met his sister Electra before the tomb of Agamemnon, whither both had gone to perform rites to the dead; a recognition takes place, and they arrange how Orestes shall accomplish his revenge.

But the Apolline religion introduces the theory of the rights of the soul and revenge for bloodshed.

But the suppression of the Satsuma rebellion brought upon him the personal revenge of Saigo's sympathizers, and in the spring of 1878 he was assassinated by six clansmen.

His adopted son, Nana Sahib, took a leading part in the Mutiny of 18J7, in revenge for being deprived of what he considered his rights.

A Persian force invited by the notorious Pheretima, mother of Arcesilaus III., in revenge for Barcan support of a rival faction, sacked it towards the close of the 6th century and deported a number of its inhabitants to Bactria.

Such successes removed the buccaneers further and further from the pale of civilized society, fed their revenge, and inspired them with an avarice almost equal to that of the original settlers from Spain.

Among themselves they carry on deadly feuds, and revenge is a duty and an inheritance.

However, the protection granted to them was a mere sham, and the Catalans were soon the victims of the revenge of Philip of Spain.

The laws uniformly discountenanced revenge, retaliation, the punishment of one crime by another, and permitted capital punishment only in the last resort and in ultimate default of every other form of redress.

This force was largely composed of Armenians and other Christian volunteers, calling themselves" the army of revenge,"and the atrocities committed by them in the destruction of Rawanduz upon Kurds who had till then known nothing of them were in every way equal to anything attributed to Kurds in former massacres of Armenians.

At this moment came a sudden and incalculable diversion; Harolds turbulent brother Tostig, banished for his crimes in 1065, was seeking revenge.

But he was merely biding his time; he had sworn pichacd revenge in his heart, but he was ready to wait long for rules con- it.

Having lived down his unpopularity, and made himself many powerful friends, he resolved to take his longdeferred revenge on Gloucester and the other lords appellant.

This might have been so, if he had continued to rule as cautiously as during the time when he was nursing his scheme of revenge.

The revenge taken by the new king and his cousin Richard of Warwick for the slaughter at Wakefield and StAlbans was prompt and dreadful.

In this he erred grievously, of the Edward vowed revenge for his slaughtered favorites, queens and waited his opportunity.

The church in Scotland led by Beaton, and the French party led by James V.s widow, Mary of Guise, soon reversed this decision, and Hertfords heavy hand was (1544) laid on Edinburgh in revenge.

Elizabeth, partly in revenge for the treatment of Hawkins and Drake at San Juan de Ulloa, seized some Spanish treasure on its way to the Netherlands (Dec. 1569).

Upon such a system as this human nature was certain to revenge Wesley itself.

In 1777 a British army under Burgoyne capitulated at Saratoga; and early in 1778 France, eager to revenge the disasters of the Seven Years War, formed an alliance with the revolted colonies as free and independent states, and was soon joined by Spain.

Coveting the treasures of Bern, they sent Brune to invade Switzerland and remodel its constitution; in revenge for the murder of General Duphot, they sent Berthier to invade the papal states and erect the Roman Republic; they occupied and virtually annexed Piedmont.

Of later subject are the sagas of Havard and his revenge for his son, murdered by a neighbouring chief (997-1002); of the He15arirgasaga (990-1014), a typical tale of a great blood feud, written in the most primitive prose; of Gunnlaug and Hrafn (Gunnlaugssaga Ormstungu, 980-1008), the rival poets and their ill-starred love.

Her love for Kiartan the poet, and his career abroad, his betrayal by his friend Bolli, the sad death of Kiartan at his hands, the revenge taken for him on Bolli, whose slayers are themselves afterwards put to death, and the end of Gudrun, who becomes an anchorite after her stormy life, make up the pith of the story.

Of later times there are Droplaug's Sons' Saga (997-1007), written probably about I i io, and preserved in the uncouth style of the original (a brother's revenge for his brother's death is the substance of it; Brandkrossa pattr is an appendix to it), and the tales of Thorstein Hall of Side's Son (c. 1014) and his brother Thidrandi (c. 996), which belong to the cycle of Hall o' Side's Saga, unhappily lost; they are weird tales of bloodshed and magic, with idyllic and pathetic episodes.

The plot dealing first with the life and death of Gunnar, type of the chivalry of his day, then with the burning of Nial by Flosi, and how it came about, and lastly with Kari's revenge on the burners, is the ideal saga-plot.

Since 1866 France was calling for "revenge."

The Greek guerrilla bands harassed his army, and in revenge he desolated the country and sent thousands of the inhabitants into slavery in Egypt.

Afterwards Osiris returned from the shades, and (in the form of a wolf) urged his son Horus to revenge him on Typhon.

In this so-called first Peloponnesian War Sparta herself took but a small share beyond helping to inflict a defeat on the Athenians at Tanagra in 457 B.C. After this battle they concluded a truce, which gave the Athenians an opportunity of taking their revenge on the Boeotians at the battle of Oenophyta, of annexing to their empire Boeotia, Phocis and Locris, and of subjugating Aegina.

Otto took his revenge in the autumn by invading France.

Philips double revenge, on sea at Zierikzee and on land at Mons-en-Pvle (1304), led to the signing of a treaty at Athis-surOrge (1305).

The political revenge which in their eyes was owing to them as a body, the queen claimed for herself alone, and she made it a romantic one.

The irritation of the disfranchised proletariat was moreover increased by the appalling dearness of bread and food generally, which the suspicious temper of the timesfomented by the tirades of Marat in the A mi du peupleascribed to English intrigues in revenge for the aid given by France to the American colonies, and to the treachery in high places that made these intrigues successful.

The festival of the new doctrine, which turned the head of the new pontiff (June 8), the loi de Prairial, or code of legal murder (June 10), which gave the deputies themselves into his hand; and the multiplication of executions at a time when the victory of Fleurus (June 25) showed the uselessness and barbarity of this aggravation of the Reign of Terror provoked against him the victorious coalition of revenge, lassitude and fear.

Hearing of Ismail's murder the Defterdar marched to Shendi, defeated the forces of the mek, and took terrible revenge upon the inhabitants of Metemma and Shendi, most of the inhabitants, including women and children, being burnt alive.

That's kind of an extreme form of revenge for asking you about croissants.

Anyway, now, by Immortal law, you're his mate, so he legally has to protect you instead of get revenge.

Since then, he'd known nothing but war, been driven by nothing but revenge, fury, and the elusive glimmer of hope that he might one day feel as he had sitting with his mother and sisters on that hill above his rightful home.

If he could fool Memon into believing him loyal, and the warlord of Tiyan into giving him her armies, he would have his revenge.

Do you hate him enough to seek revenge, to right the wrong he's committed against you and your mother?

Unlike Eden, who treated Xander similarly for a good cause, Xander did it out of revenge.

For revenge, Archimedes devised a fiendish computational problem that involved truly immense numbers.

As they work to untangle the threads of both murders, they make powerful enemies in a dramatic tale of court intrigue and revenge.

In revenge, she sent a huge wild boar to devastate the countryside.

He himself had became a naval captain, commanding the Revenge.

Louise, gaining her revenge for the previous weekend's club champs loss against Jane Cook.

Forget about turning the other cheek, revenge is good for you.

Some say the most convincing explanation of his WMD is, as Tariq Aziz once confided, to prepare for revenge against Iran.

They get their revenge by revealing their own bosses ' indiscretions - such as the leading criminal lawyer who secretly cross-dresses every Friday afternoon.

Simon gets down to some very nasty revenge that is so deranged they haven't found words for it yet.

A few years later I took my revenge by writing a diatribe against presentiments.

In the late 1600s, two clans embodied the essence of rivalry and revenge.

His desire for revenge seems not so much selfish as motivated by an urge to punish the evildoer.

Battle was broken off as darkness fell, and the next day the Spaniards were amazed to see the Revenge still floating.

Without Blair, Chirac will remain exposed to all sorts of petty revenge by American hawks.

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It was time to exact revenge for the defeat the Boers had inflicted on the British on a remote hilltop in Natal v Majuba.

A blazing third person gun slinging action game, Red Dead Revolver is fueled by a revenge driven storyline punctuated with dark humor.

The villagers kept their children away from him, so it looks as if this a revenge killing.

Thus the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering in his ears sinister prophecies of coming catastrophe.

Instead, the story becomes one of fugitives chased across the desert by a lone madman, bent on revenge.

The revenge motif appears to start when Thun and his girlfriend Jane think they have run over a young woman in their car.

Tim had his revenge in the final race when he won and Andrew was 2 nd just ahead of Edward Greig.

He flies into a psychotic rage and tries to murder de Beer but the latter manages to escape and vows revenge.

This provokes you to go on a roaring rampage of revenge as you try and find out the who's, whys and wherefores.

You have a bear of a man all disfigured on a violent rampage of revenge.

Her eldest son is sacrificed by Titus; she vows revenge.

Having followed her to the house Tommy swears revenge upon the pair.

Is the murderer really seeking revenge from beyond the grave?

He often vowed to himself that he would exact no ordinary revenge.

Joan lets Lou in to see Reb in solitary to exact revenge for the attack on Joyce.

What emerges is a tale of misspent fortunes and murderous revenge among the crumbling ruins of an old film set.

Despite the loss, the Lancaster teams all enjoyed the trip away, and are looking forward to taking sweet revenge next May... .

The recent Bosnian civil war saw bloody revenge by the Serbs on Croatia.

Amidst the wreckage of a defeated army, in the storm lashed hills of the Portuguese frontier, Sharpe takes a terrible revenge.

It was an insult to Napoleon III and also was a diplomatic snub; Napoleon wanted revenge.

In his turn Titus vows revenge and sends his surviving son Lucius to the Goths to raise an army.

A stone sphinx comes to life to wreak revenge upon a temple defiler.

Likewise the modern pursuit of justice in terms of revenge makes this book highly topical.

It is unclear how Simkin would limit the parameters of the revenge tragedy genre, if at all.

The premise of the game is one of rescue and revenge within the seedy Japanese underworld run by the Yakuza.

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Planted in the farthest Christian outpost in northern Syria, he had to meet many attacks, especially from Mardin and Mosul, in revenge for the provocation offered by his own forays and those of the restless Tancred.

In all parts of Albania the vendetta (gydk, jak) or blood-feud, the primitive lex talionis, is an established usage; the duty of revenge is a sacred tradition handed down to successive generations in the family, the village and the tribe.

In revenge for his own imprisonment, and the death of his brother by order of Nero, he took advantage of the disorder in the empire not only to stir up his fellow-countrymen to take up arms for independence, but to persuade a large number of German and Belgic tribes to join forces with them.

He commanded the expedition sent to take revenge for the massacre of Chio (see Kanaris) in the same year.

She fell in love with Jason the Argonaut, who reached Colchis at this time, and exacted a terrible revenge for his faithlessness (see Argonauts and Jason).

Archbishop Wulfstan seems to have been a centre of disaffection in the north, and in 95 2 Edred caused him to be imprisoned in the castle of "Judanburh," while in the same year the king, in revenge for the slaying of Abbot Eadelm, slew many of the citizens of Thetford.

In it there would be no suggestion of hatred or revenge, nor a trace of the old-time belief that might makes right.

The French columns that had advanced beyond the village went back; but as though in revenge for this failure, the enemy placed ten guns to the right of the village and began firing them at Tushin's battery.

Karana decides to take revenge upon the dogs who killed her brother.

They want revenge and have their sights set on Earth.

Otherwise your feelings might generate anger or revenge.

Mahmud to hope for revenge, and a renewal of the conflict was only staved off by the anxious efforts of the powers.

To what extent revenge for Wishart was the motive of the Kirkcaldys and Leslies and Melvilles who led the assassins, and how far they were paid agents of England, is unknown.

But Randolph, sent to Edinburgh for the purpose, kept them apart; Elizabeth despatched Sussex to ravage the Scottish border, in revenge for a raid by Buccleuch, and in May Lennox entered Scotland with an English force and soon was appointed regent (17th of July).

By the influence of his countless creditors, who desired to be paid out of his estates, and in revenge for his seizure, on claims for debts, of the whole estates of clan Maclean (1674-1680), he was tried and was actually found guilty of treason.

A favourable pretext for gratifying their revenge was discovered in the shelter which Chrysostom had given to four Nitrian monks, known as the tall brothers, who had come to Constantinople on being excommunicated by their bishop, Theophilus of Alexandria, a man who had long circulated in the East the charge of Origenism against Chrysostom.

It is the community of which murdered and murderer were members which has the right to exact revenge and retribution, an idea which found expression in the foundation of the Areopagus.

In 57 2, according to the Lombard chronicler, Alboin fell a victim to the revenge of his wife Rosamund, the daughter of the king of the Gepidae, whose skull Alboin had turned into a drinking cup, out of which he forced Rosamund to drink.