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  • 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)
  • It is a son's highest duty to avenge his father.†   (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)
  • I thought you were here to avenge my dear cousin!†   (source)
  • Besides, tell me this: If someone killed Aziza, wouldn't you want the chance to avenge her?†   (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)
  • Some small part of me wants to smile at the sight, to feel the joy of avenging my brother's death.†   (source)
  • She looks beautiful in its light, not angelic-beautiful, more like avenging angel—beautiful.†   (source)
  • Finally, an extraordinary opportunity in the dark, during the search for the twins, to avenge herself.†   (source)
  • But If they chose to be cowards he would go out and avenge all himself.†   (source)
  • What can I do to avenge my brother, or even try to save the others?†   (source)
  • Mostly he read the Avengers and the X-Men.†   (source)
  • "You avenged Lyanna at the Trident," Ned said, halting beside the king.†   (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)
  • He might meet his father, or even get to avenge his mother's death.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • In a few days, maybe less than a week, he would use his arrows to avenge Garrow's death.†   (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)
  • I was concerned that I might have to avenge your murder.†   (source)
  • And killing throws the whole system into confusion, because death must be avenged; killers and their families are under permanent threat.†   (source)
  • Then Booth shouted, "The South is avenged!"†   (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)
  • "Avenge my family," Jane said.†   (source)
  • To avenge them.†   (source)
  • Bhima has vowed to avenge her honor.†   (source)
  • Hekate will need to be avenged.†   (source)
  • I suppose I thought if I could avenge myself, and kill the wolves who had murdered his father, Valentine would mourn me.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I needed other people to back me up—that my wife wasn't Amazing Amy but Avenging Amy.†   (source)
  • But how else can I live to avenge my father?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • That room was silent with the fury of avenging angels sharpening their radiance before they strike.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • To avenge the military intervention, Milosevic's army unleashed a wave of destruction and brutality on some sixty towns and cities in Kosovo.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • But he had avenged them, in equally horrible ways.†   (source)
  • Tomorrow, we avenge him.†   (source)
  • Mike smiled as well, feeling at least partially avenged.†   (source)
  • To take something that, in their minds, would avenge their wounded honor.†   (source)
  • But up on the front lines, American boys were avenging these losses with a fury.†   (source)
  • At least we may yet be avenged.†   (source)
  • Others were summoned as a means of penance, or to avenge a wrongdoing.†   (source)
  • Do you mean to avenge them?'†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I bet we looked like avenging angels, hovering over the astonished crowd.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Both as a means of avenging him and of preventing other such deaths …. yes, and of attracting lost members back into the ranks.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • No one had been more eager than they to avenge their Thief.†   (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 then again, Cinderella didn't live in a post-apocalyptic world invaded by avenging angels.†   (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)
  • They did not know I was Pig's avenger and cadre-man, not his chief mourner.†   (source)
  • By dispatching this villain, Bragha Ran had avenged many of their fallen comrades.†   (source)
  • I will avenge my father, and you, my mother.†   (source)
  • The next time, we would avenge Custoza, Lissa, and Aduwa.†   (source)
  • The desire to avenge comrades or relatives killed by enemy bullets burned as hotly in northern hearts as in southern.†   (source)
  • On the other side, the Thebans, with some other cities, supported the Amphictyons' authority to avenge the violated god.†   (source)
  • None of the clan had slept in nearly a day, and they remained tense and eager to avenge their kin.†   (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)
  • She laughed, but there was a part of her that warmed foolishly over the idea of having an avenger.†   (source)
  • This madman you called back from the grave to avenge you!†   (source)
  • Avenged.†   (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)
  • "You can avenge your village," said the old woman.†   (source)
  • Then you see the Hangman as an avenging angel?†   (source)
  • ESTRAGON: Avenged!†   (source)
  • Frankie, Nino, and Jerry weren't there to avenge me by pounding Walter black and blue but to see that the rules of honor were observed.†   (source)
  • But I didn't enroll to avenge her — even though I had that in mind, too.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He said he'd join the partisans-'to avenge the ills of society,' he said.†   (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)
  • Why hast thou not avenged thyself on me?   (source)
    avenged = taken revenge for
  • "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)
  • Now was the moment to avenge his mother and father.†   (source)
  • I wanted to avenge the deaths of my family.†   (source)
  • M. Subwaizee thinks that you would be perfect for the novelizations of the Crimson Avenger holies.†   (source)
  • I'll just tell you the short version: To avenge his father, Osiris, Horus challenged Set to a duel.†   (source)
  • He wished to avenge his sons' death, but he was old.†   (source)
  • I know a son is bound to avenge his father's murder."†   (source)
  • The Dornishmen burn to avenge Elia and her children.†   (source)
  • "Lincoln's Avenger," the man who shot John Wilkes Booth.†   (source)
  • And not to avenge your brother but to avenge us all.†   (source)
  • All the stories he had heard of avenging sons, and it was still a surprise to him.†   (source)
  • Now we honor the dead, heal the wounded, and avenge our fallen.†   (source)
  • I thought it only fitting that our champion avenge Jon with his own blade.†   (source)
  • Only Horus and Isis can defeat Set and avenge the death of Osiris.†   (source)
  • There was Osiris, the king, and Isis, his queen; Set, the evil god, and Horus, the avenger.†   (source)
  • For the love I bore your lord husband, let me avenge his death.†   (source)
  • That is why Horus was called the Avenger.†   (source)
  • One thing might bring unity to Olympus again—an old wrong finally avenged.†   (source)
  • With a single call, he could be avenged.†   (source)
  • If Lord Stannis will avenge him, we should join Lord Stannis.†   (source)
  • Again the dragons rise on wing, And we avenge their suffering!†   (source)
  • What will his brother do to avenge our murdered prince?†   (source)
  • He stepped forward, sweeping his wings up and down: the avenging demon.†   (source)
  • I mark it here in your pages for little April to someday know that her arm has been avenged.†   (source)
  • We have come all the way from the Mines to kill, and avenge our folk.†   (source)
  • I wanted to avenge my father's death and restore the family's honor!†   (source)
  • With the strength it gives me, I will avenge the Amazons you killed today.†   (source)
  • We're in your debt for avenging us on the monsters that drove us from our homes.†   (source)
  • I didn't care if the wolves, either set, avenged me or called the Cullens' justice fair.†   (source)
  • Eragon and Saphira set out to avenge themselves on the Ra'zac.†   (source)
  • She is trying to avenge her mate—only it wasn't the black-haired leech we killed.†   (source)
  • "It's your kin whose blood we'll avenge today.†   (source)
  • What am I, if I do not lift the hand I have left to avenge mine own blood and seed?†   (source)
  • What of your own oaths to avenge Hrothgar's death?†   (source)
  • "To avenge Hank Rearden!" he had cried defiantly, tears running down his furnace-tanned face.†   (source)
  • "You two have been a thorn at my side," he cursed, "but I will avenge my daughter's death.†   (source)
  • It declared him a holy martyr and swore to avenge his death by unleashing "rivers of blood."†   (source)
  • If no one ever avenged their deaths, it would be as if they had never lived at all.†   (source)
  • On my way back to heaven, a host of avenging angels stopped me and ripped out my wings.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't have started a war to avenge you, Gen, or even to rescue you.†   (source)
  • Next to Billy was little Paul Lazzaro, who had promised to avenge Roland Weary.†   (source)
  • I cannot avenge them, but I will not forget their names.†   (source)
  • If I could find the route …. the way home, then perhaps— But, no. Avenge me or leave me.†   (source)
  • You've come to avenge an action in the air.†   (source)
  • You promised me a chance to avenge my father's death.†   (source)
  • You have to help me find Eragon in order to avenge Quimby on the Ra'zac.†   (source)
  • I could wish …. but no. Robb will avenge his brothers.†   (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)
  • "And the Cullens wouldn't stand aside to let me avenge him."†   (source)
  • Then I swore I would avenge him, and I failed at that as well.†   (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)
  • The witch is dead, my daughters are avenged!†   (source)
  • And then, together, you and I shall kill the Ra'zac and avenge our father.†   (source)
  • It was the three of us who resolved to avenge this country and to release its imprisoned soul.†   (source)
  • The moment she tried to get back into heaven, the avenging angels would have stripped them.†   (source)
  • I vowed I would not let my hair be cut until my father was avenged.†   (source)
  • His brothers had no armies, no way to avenge him but with swords.†   (source)
  • From his point of view, he sacrificed himself to ensure your safety and to avenge your father.†   (source)
  • Let me be avenged at long last, so Joff can rest in peace.†   (source)
  • I was a member of the unit that avenged the murder of our people in Munich.†   (source)
  • Do you hear me now, Hank Rearden, the greatest of the victims I have avenged?†   (source)
  • The gift of mercy …. avenge your little Michael ….†   (source)
  • Avenged the murder of his Sworn Brother, Ser Gwayne Gaunt.†   (source)
  • Good people, your dead shall be avenged!†   (source)
  • You will do your best, won't you, to kill the Ra'zac and avenge my father?†   (source)
  • Not even his desire to avenge Hrothgar could help him to overcome his exhaustion.†   (source)
  • "Your brothers were avenged," Grenn said.†   (source)
  • And then the bush avenged itself: that was her last thought.†   (source)
  • So where does he get off to call me a public avenger and a sadist and everything?†   (source)
  • We've got to avenge this wrong on our future, on our health, and on our lives.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He really did look like an avenging angel getting ready to dispatch divine justice from on high, as the Shadowhunters were meant to do.†   (source)
  • I thought about the myths I knew—how Horus, the son of Osiris, had to avenge his father by defeating Set.†   (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 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)
  • 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)
  • Not Amazing Amy: Avenging Amy.†   (source)
  • I suppose you're going to tell me that your boyfriend will avenge you?" he asked, hopefully it seemed to me.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The tribal code, Pashtunwalai, has heavy demands: hospitality, generosity, and the duty to avenge even the slightest insult.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • If the khal died at the hands of some enemy, they lived only long enough to avenge him, and then followed him joyfully into the grave.†   (source)
  • But it made no matter, so long as he lived long enough to take his place by his brother's side and help avenge his father.†   (source)
  • We will avenge him.†   (source)
  • Avenge Osiris.†   (source)
  • He told us that our war had not ended at the Mummer's Ford, but only begun there, and that every man of ours who'd fallen would be avenged tenfold.†   (source)
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