All 5 Uses of
avenge
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- A rumour just lived in the village—had a faint and bare existence there, as its people had—that when the knife struck home, the faces changed, from faces of pride to faces of anger and pain; also, that when that dangling figure was hauled up forty feet above the fountain, they changed again, and bore a cruel look of being avenged, which they would henceforth bear for ever.†
Chpt 2.16
- Whether it was a son who would some day avenge his father.†
Chpt 2.17 *
- Otherwise, the governor would escape, and the people's blood (suddenly of some value, after many years of worthlessness) be unavenged.†
Chpt 2.21
- Hear me, my dead baby and my withered father: I swear on my knees, on these stones, to avenge you on Foulon!†
Chpt 2.22
- This dialogue had taken place at Mr. Lorry's usual desk, with Monseigneur swarming within a yard or two of it, boastful of what he would do to avenge himself on the rascal-people before long.†
Chpt 2.24
Definition:
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(avenge) take revenge for a perceived wrong