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  • The sight of Reenie, her dimpled cheeks flushed, her eyes blazing like an avenging Fury's, the black snail of her hair coming unpinned, brandishing a clutch of huge-boobed, bushy-tailed, bare-naked women, was too much for him.†   (source)
  • Seizing an opportunity to avenge a few of her own home repair memories, my mother chimed in, "I told him not to do it.†   (source)
  • To shirk from avenging a string of insults was to lose your honor, your dignity, or even your friends.†   (source)
  • Aunt BB, a tall, light-skinned Alabamian who had known my grandparents since she moved up to New York thirty years ago, was one of our family's fiercest defenders, and she was not going to let me go out there to avenge my sister without her being there.†   (source)
  • Besides, tell me this: If someone killed Aziza, wouldn't you want the chance to avenge her?†   (source)
  • Now was the moment to avenge his mother and father.†   (source)
  • "You avenged Lyanna at the Trident," Ned said, halting beside the king.†   (source)
  • What can I do to avenge my brother, or even try to save the others?†   (source)
  • But If they chose to be cowards he would go out and avenge all himself.†   (source)
  • Some small part of me wants to smile at the sight, to feel the joy of avenging my brother's death.†   (source)
  • He might meet his father, or even get to avenge his mother's death.†   (source)
  • Finally, an extraordinary opportunity in the dark, during the search for the twins, to avenge herself.†   (source)
  • We scoop up everything on the floor and he's happy sitting at his desk at the other end of the office ringing Dublin to tell them how he stormed through shops like God's avenger and saved Limerick from the horrors of birth control while he watches a dancing fire of pages that have nothing to do with John O'London's Weekly.†   (source)
  • Mostly he read the Avengers and the X-Men.†   (source)
  • Bhima has vowed to avenge her honor.†   (source)
  • She looks beautiful in its light, not angelic-beautiful, more like avenging angel—beautiful.†   (source)
  • And then, after a time of the men sitting around the fire, their faces expressionless, an announcer on the dark screen said, "The search is over, Montag is dead; a crime against society has been avenged."†   (source)
  • I needed other people to back me up—that my wife wasn't Amazing Amy but Avenging Amy.†   (source)
  • In a few days, maybe less than a week, he would use his arrows to avenge Garrow's death.†   (source)
  • To avenge them.†   (source)
  • Since that day, the wild pigs have distrusted all humans, and whenever they see a person in the forest, they think he or she is there to avenge the hunter.†   (source)
  • The Shrike Cult saw the monster as an avenging angel; the Ousters saw it as a tool of human devising, sent back through time to deliver humanity from the TechnoCore.†   (source)
  • ...Selitos One-Eye stood forward and said, "Lord, if I do this thing will I be given the power to avenge the loss of the shining city?†   (source)
  • If you've ever heard the story of the Forty-seven Ronin—who avenged their master's death and afterward killed themselves by seppuku—well, it was their leader who hid himself in the Ichiriki Teahouse while plotting revenge.†   (source)
  • He showed my acquaintance a twenty-ztoty note he had taken from the pocket of a corpse; he wrapped the note up carefully so that the stench of the corpses would cling to it, as a constant reminder to him to avenge his brothers.†   (source)
  • That room was silent with the fury of avenging angels sharpening their radiance before they strike.†   (source)
  • I was concerned that I might have to avenge your murder.†   (source)
  • He gives us Orestes, the avenging son pursued by Furies and ultimately consumed in the flames of the family mansion, in Henry Sutpen, and Electra, the daughter consumed by grief and mourning, in his sister, Judith.†   (source)
  • Hekate will need to be avenged.†   (source)
  • He felt an urge to pick up the bar stool next to him, reverse it, and go through the place like an avenging whirlwind.†   (source)
  • Do you mean to avenge them?'†   (source)
  • I suppose I thought if I could avenge myself, and kill the wolves who had murdered his father, Valentine would mourn me.†   (source)
  • For tonight's mission, Richardson's flight had a full load of depleted uranium slugs for their Avenger cannons and a pair of Rockeye cluster bomb cannisters, additional antitank weapons.†   (source)
  • It would be very difficult for me to avenge all those who should be avenged, because my revenge would be just another part of the same inexorable rite.†   (source)
  • And killing throws the whole system into confusion, because death must be avenged; killers and their families are under permanent threat.†   (source)
  • To avenge the military intervention, Milosevic's army unleashed a wave of destruction and brutality on some sixty towns and cities in Kosovo.†   (source)
  • They seemed the embodiment of the kind of young thug feared by nearly all urban-dwellers, and the mysterious gunman who shot them down seemed like an avenging angel.†   (source)
  • If Booth was captured, the army would have to protect him from Lincoln's avengers — rampaging mobs of vigilantes who might storm the Old Capitol Prison — if they discovered Booth was jailed there.†   (source)
  • "Avenge my family," Jane said.†   (source)
  • But how else can I live to avenge my father?†   (source)
  • The avenging angels will.†   (source)
  • In order to find some way to avenge my parents, I need to keep his trust and his fondness for me intact.†   (source)
  • He was talking to the men, but he was looking at the kids, and I heard it as, 'We are going to avenge your father's death.'†   (source)
  • As the years went by, the particular torments from which the bird delivered him altered; others-older children, his father, a faithless girl, a sergeant he'd known in the Army-replaced the nuns, but the parrot remained, a hovering avenger.†   (source)
  • Conclusion (3), I am in Florin City and need a planner to avenge my father, while he is in Florin City and needs a rescuer to salvage his future, and when people have equal needs of each other, conclusion (4 and final), deals are made.†   (source)
  • She came into her own with the women who had despised her, by being more moral than they; she avenged herself on Cholly by forcing him to indulge in the weaknesses she despised.†   (source)
  • With a single call, he could be avenged.†   (source)
  • According to the Reverend William Gordon, Washington called on those within the sound of his voice to " 'remember it is the fifth of \ larch, and avenge the death of your brethren.'†   (source)
  • Above all, he wanted to be avenged, so he said again and again the name of the person who had killed him.†   (source)
  • But when the Cat had followed in and had come out again in a madness of terror, then I said to myself, Surely the true Tash, whom they called on without knowledge or belief, has now come among us, and will avenge himself.†   (source)
  • His cheeks grew tight with fury at the thought that he had just been duped into humiliation by a man who was almost the same age as he was and still only a captain, and he swung upon the chaplain avengingly with a look of such murderous antagonism that the chaplain began to tremble.†   (source)
  • It was less than a year ago that a savior came into the murk of Haiti, an angry avenger for the poor who warned the aristocracy to share the wealth or watch the peasants take it.†   (source)
  • "You can avenge your village," said the old woman.†   (source)
  • Shay didn't ask me to take on his case; I'd swooped down like an avenging angel and convinced him that what I wanted to do could somehow help him do what he wanted to do.†   (source)
  • By dispatching this villain, Bragha Ran had avenged many of their fallen comrades.†   (source)
  • But then again, Cinderella didn't live in a post-apocalyptic world invaded by avenging angels.†   (source)
  • At least we may yet be avenged.†   (source)
  • And though that will seems hard and bitter to us all, yet in his way he is our protector, for he knows Frith's promise to the rabbits and he will avenge any rabbit who may chance to be destroyed without the consent of himself.†   (source)
  • I bet we looked like avenging angels, hovering over the astonished crowd.†   (source)
  • Others were summoned as a means of penance, or to avenge a wrongdoing.†   (source)
  • But up on the front lines, American boys were avenging these losses with a fury.†   (source)
  • To take something that, in their minds, would avenge their wounded honor.†   (source)
  • No one had been more eager than they to avenge their Thief.†   (source)
  • Both as a means of avenging him and of preventing other such deaths ....yes, and of attracting lost members back into the ranks.†   (source)
  • You're going to avenge last year's World Series!†   (source)
  • For God's sake, the district attorney of Austin, Texas, was just brutally murdered in the same manner as the victims he'd sworn to avenge.†   (source)
  • She laughed, but there was a part of her that warmed foolishly over the idea of having an avenger.†   (source)
  • The next time, we would avenge Custoza, Lissa, and Aduwa.†   (source)
  • With a shudder of astonishment, Rearden found himself thinking that it was not the face of a man, but of an avenging angel.†   (source)
  • He will avenge my shame, white one.†   (source)
  • None of the clan had slept in nearly a day, and they remained tense and eager to avenge their kin.†   (source)
  • But I didn't enroll to avenge her — even though I had that in mind, too.†   (source)
  • I will avenge my father, and you, my mother.†   (source)
  • But he had avenged them, in equally horrible ways.†   (source)
  • This madman you called back from the grave to avenge you!†   (source)
  • Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord.†   (source)
  • On the other side, the Thebans, with some other cities, supported the Amphictyons' authority to avenge the violated god.†   (source)
  • The desire to avenge comrades or relatives killed by enemy bullets burned as hotly in northern hearts as in southern.†   (source)
  • She had just handed him a bottle of Sancerre and was watching intently as he removed the cork—watching his hands, he remembered, the hands of the avenger.†   (source)
  • Ta-Kumsaw will thus avenge the blood of the slaughter at Tippy-Canoe, while we destroy the American army and subjugate the land from the Hio to Huron Lake.†   (source)
  • They did not know I was Pig's avenger and cadre-man, not his chief mourner.†   (source)
  • ESTRAGON: Avenged!†   (source)
  • Keenset was already aware of the raising of its neighbors, but not of the heavenly avengers who were to come.†   (source)
  • Hodge, too, and even Will, had flaring nostrils, coarse hair in the nose and ears and curling on the backs of the fingers, but no stranger would have mistaken them for avenging angels, trumpets of Justice in days of rank corruption.†   (source)
  • He said he'd join the partisans—'to avenge the ills of society,' he said.†   (source)
  • Yes, I will admit it: Along with my anger, there was a definite desire to avenge them, to prove they had not failed.†   (source)
  • Lena, my avenging angel.†   (source)
  • The Prayers of the Saints Ana they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?†   (source)
  • And by dropping her father she seemed in some way to be avenging her mother's sufferings.†   (source)
  • That stone of all the treasure I name unto myself, and I will be avenged on anyone who finds it and withholds it.   (source)
    avenged = taken revenge for
  • Why hast thou not avenged thyself on me?   (source)
  • "It has avenged thee," answered Hester Prynne.   (source)
  • If that has not avenged me, I can do no more!   (source)
  • Roger Chillingworth, however, was inclined to be hardly, if at all, less satisfied with the aspect of affairs, which Providence—using the avenger and his victim for its own purposes, and, perchance, pardoning, where it seemed most to punish—had substituted for his black devices.   (source)
    avenger = someone who takes revenge
  • Unable to accomplish this, he nevertheless, as a matter of principle, continued his habits of social familiarity with the old man, and thus gave him constant opportunities for perfecting the purpose to which—poor forlorn creature that he was, and more wretched than his victim—the avenger had devoted himself.   (source)
  • Why should I avenge Eddard Stark?†   (source)
  • I thought you were here to avenge my dear cousin!†   (source)
  • Again the dragons rise on wing, And we avenge their suffering!†   (source)
  • I didn't care if the wolves, either set, avenged me or called the Cullens' justice fair.†   (source)
  • He wished to avenge his sons' death, but he was old.†   (source)
  • I wanted to avenge the deaths of my family.†   (source)
  • "You two have been a thorn at my side," he cursed, "but I will avenge my daughter's death.†   (source)
  • Not even his desire to avenge Hrothgar could help him to overcome his exhaustion.†   (source)
  • On my way back to heaven, a host of avenging angels stopped me and ripped out my wings.†   (source)
  • Then Booth shouted, "The South is avenged!"†   (source)
  • And not to avenge your brother but to avenge us all.†   (source)
  • I thought it only fitting that our champion avenge Jon with his own blade.†   (source)
  • And the Cullens wouldn't stand aside to let me avenge him.†   (source)
  • M. Subwaizee thinks that you would be perfect for the novelizations of the Crimson Avenger holies.†   (source)
  • And then, together, you and I shall kill the Ra'zac and avenge our father.†   (source)
  • "Lincoln's Avenger," the man who shot John Wilkes Booth.†   (source)
  • The witch is dead, my daughters are avenged!†   (source)
  • The moment she tried to get back into heaven, the avenging angels would have stripped them.†   (source)
  • Now we honor the dead, heal the wounded, and avenge our fallen.†   (source)
  • The Dornishmen burn to avenge Elia and her children.†   (source)
  • For the love I bore your lord husband, let me avenge his death.†   (source)
  • From his point of view, he sacrificed himself to ensure your safety and to avenge your father.†   (source)
  • You have to help me find Eragon in order to avenge Quimby on the Ra'zac.†   (source)
  • You will do your best, won't you, to kill the Ra'zac and avenge my father?†   (source)
  • He stepped forward, sweeping his wings up and down: the avenging demon.†   (source)
  • She is trying to avenge her mate—only it wasn't the black-haired leech we killed.†   (source)
  • We're in your debt for avenging us on the monsters that drove us from our homes.†   (source)
  • With the strength it gives me, I will avenge the Amazons you killed today.†   (source)
  • We have come all the way from the Mines to kill, and avenge our folk.†   (source)
  • If Lord Stannis will avenge him, we should join Lord Stannis.†   (source)
  • One thing might bring unity to Olympus again—an old wrong finally avenged.†   (source)
  • I mark it here in your pages for little April to someday know that her arm has been avenged.†   (source)
  • Mike smiled as well, feeling at least partially avenged.†   (source)
  • I wanted to avenge my father's death and restore the family's honor!†   (source)
  • Eragon and Saphira set out to avenge themselves on the Ra'zac.†   (source)
  • What will his brother do to avenge our murdered prince?†   (source)
  • Next to Billy was little Paul Lazzaro, who had promised to avenge Roland Weary.†   (source)
  • First, she wanted to avenge Ziad's death by striking a blow against the West.†   (source)
  • Never had Jace looked so much like an avenging angel, hurtling through cloud and fire.†   (source)
  • It's your kin whose blood we'll avenge today.†   (source)
  • If I could find the route ...the way home, then perhaps— But, no. Avenge me or leave me.†   (source)
  • What of your own oaths to avenge Hrothgar's death?†   (source)
  • It was the three of us who resolved to avenge this country and to release its imprisoned soul.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't have started a war to avenge you, Gen, or even to rescue you.†   (source)
  • You've come to avenge an action in the air.†   (source)
  • We've got to avenge this wrong on our future, on our health, and on our lives.†   (source)
  • You promised me a chance to avenge my father's death.†   (source)
  • Then I swore I would avenge him, and I failed at that as well.†   (source)
  • Only Horus and Isis can defeat Set and avenge the death of Osiris.†   (source)
  • The gift of mercy ...avenge your little Michael ...†   (source)
  • "My royal mother is avenged," said Rilian presently.†   (source)
  • Now I loved him dearly, and would gladly avenge his death, yet I knew him well.†   (source)
  • I cannot avenge them, but I will not forget their names.†   (source)
  • I could wish ...but no. Robb will avenge his brothers.†   (source)
  • Good people, your dead shall be avenged!†   (source)
  • It declared him a holy martyr and swore to avenge his death by unleashing "rivers of blood."†   (source)
  • "To avenge Hank Rearden!" he had cried defiantly, tears running down his furnace-tanned face.†   (source)
  • If no one ever avenged their deaths, it would be as if they had never lived at all.†   (source)
  • His brothers had no armies, no way to avenge him but with swords.†   (source)
  • I'll just tell you the short version: To avenge his father, Osiris, Horus challenged Set to a duel.†   (source)
  • I was a member of the unit that avenged the murder of our people in Munich.†   (source)
  • That is why Horus was called the Avenger.†   (source)
  • Do you hear me now, Hank Rearden, the greatest of the victims I have avenged?†   (source)
  • Avenged the murder of his Sworn Brother, Ser Gwayne Gaunt.†   (source)
  • Let me be avenged at long last, so Joff can rest in peace.†   (source)
  • I vowed I would not let my hair be cut until my father was avenged.†   (source)
  • "Your brothers were avenged," Grenn said.†   (source)
  • There was Osiris, the king, and Isis, his queen; Set, the evil god, and Horus, the avenger.†   (source)
  • Then you see the Hangman as an avenging angel?†   (source)
  • So where does he get off to call me a public avenger and a sadist and everything?†   (source)
  • And then the bush avenged itself: that was her last thought.†   (source)
  • "And how we are to avenge him," added Reepicheep.†   (source)
  • 'Then let us avenge it, ere we speak of it!' said Aragorn, and they rode back to battle together.†   (source)
  • But they just kept coming, changing forms, and I knew that if I hadn't been Horus the Avenger—if I had just been Carter Kane trying to deal with these horrors —I would go crazy, or die, or both.†   (source)
  • The Masked Avenger, and Flash Gordon, even one about Frank Buck, the man who went to Africa to catch wild animals and who could subdue lions and tigers just by staring at them.†   (source)
  • I only had a sadistic vampire trying to avenge her mate's death with my own, preferably through some slow and torturous method.†   (source)
  • Do you not wish to avenge Yourself?†   (source)
  • I was Horus the Avenger.†   (source)
  • Within a few hours of the attack, an influential local cleric called Faqir Mohammad, who had run the madrasa, announced that the deaths would be avenged by suicide bombings against Pakistani soldiers.†   (source)
  • She saw it as God's Way of punishing Ammu for her sins and simultaneously avenging her (Baby Kochamma's) humiliation at the hands of Velutha and the men in the march—the Modalali Mariakutty taunts, the forced flagwaving.†   (source)
  • I suppose you're going to tell me that your boyfriend will avenge you?" he asked, hopefully it seemed to me.†   (source)
  • What they offer in terms of emotional satisfaction—the problem solved, the question answered, the guilty punished, the victim avenged—they lack in weightiness.†   (source)
  • I was convinced that the moment I fell asleep, a disgruntled ex-employee who had managed to keep the master key would come back to avenge himself.†   (source)
  • "He remembered," she read on in a loud, clear voice, "and he was determined to be avenged — avenged upon those who were the cause of all this misfortune, whose cruelty poisoned the whole world."†   (source)
  • The tribal code, Pashtunwalai, has heavy demands: hospitality, generosity, and the duty to avenge even the slightest insult.†   (source)
  • When I was in the doghouse, I wrote in my mind that one day Colonel Garcia would stand before me in defeat and that I would avenge myself on all those who need to be avenged.†   (source)
  • Not Amazing Amy: Avenging Amy.†   (source)
  • Silly to waste so much energy avenging someone who had less affection for you than a hunter for his mount.†   (source)
  • I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end ... After all our presentations, we sang a chant we had come up with.†   (source)
  • It would be very difficult for me to avenge all those who should be avenged, because my revenge would be just another part of the same inexorable rite.†   (source)
  • The owl's cry reawakened Tenorio's threat: "This very night I will avenge the death of my two daughters!†   (source)
  • And since that day, I've been working to fix that, waiting in the shadows of this monstrous world, waiting for my time to avenge her.†   (source)
  • Without giving it a second thought he left for the countryside with half a dozen hired thugs to avenge himself to his heart's content against the peasants who had dared to defy him and rob him of his property.†   (source)
  • I had seen the devil Tenorio murder Narciso, and now there was no telling what he might do to avenge his daughter's death.†   (source)
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