Both Uses of
vengeance
in
Heart of Darkness
- He was useful because he had been instructed; and what he knew was this—that should the water in that transparent thing disappear, the evil spirit inside the boiler would get angry through the greatness of his thirst, and take a terrible vengeance.†
Chpt 2 *
- But the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(vengeance as in: vengeance is mine) the act of taking revenge
(Revenge means to harm someone to get them back for something harmful that they have done.)