All 6 Uses of
avenge
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- —the Black Avenger of the Spanish Main!†
Chpt 8
- Tom Sawyer, the Black Avenger of the Spanish Main.†
Chpt 13
- The Black Avenger of the Spanish Main said it would never do to start without some fire.†
Chpt 13
- The Black Avenger stood still with folded arms, "looking his last" upon the scene of his former joys and his later sufferings, and wishing "she" could see him now, abroad on the wild sea, facing peril and death with dauntless heart, going to his doom with a grim smile on his lips.†
Chpt 13
- The Terror of the Seas and the Black Avenger of the Spanish Main had more difficulty in getting to sleep.†
Chpt 13
- The boys were avenged.†
Chpt 21 *
Definition:
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(avenge) take revenge for a perceived wrong