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vendetta
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  • Now, as part of this vendetta, funds to the college were being cut.†   (source)
  • The editorial contained phrases such as: personal vendetta, criminally sloppy journalism, and demands that measures be taken against indictable allegations regarding decent citizens.†   (source)
  • Despite her vendetta against Roran, by tradition it was Birgit's right and responsibility to represent Katrina, as she had been a close friend of Katrina's mother.†   (source)
  • Winters has some crazy vendetta against people who smoke.†   (source)
  • Yet Johnnie knew better than another the vast, silent, secret network of hate that draws about the victim in a mountain vendetta.†   (source)
  • The colt spent three years plunging around the track in devil-possessed rages and nurturing a vendetta against the hapless assistant starters assigned to hold his head in the doorless starting gate.†   (source)
  • Once you learn the ropes, you'll realize that nearly every altercation has something to do with a feud or vendetta of some sort, and the law doesn't much like to get involved with those unless they cross the line, like this one.†   (source)
  • Don't start on one of your vendettas, Alex."†   (source)
  • A middling, earnest student named Lawan Foster who is often homeless (her mother a drug addict, her brother hiding from gang vendettas) gets the "Beat the Odds" award from the Children's Defense Fund.†   (source)
  • It involved a single man with a vendetta against old enemies, a killer who had long since fled from the island.†   (source)
  • Their friend Connor Lynch had left Rowan and was living in Blys, having swapped a soul in exchange for a barony and the chance to fulfill a vendetta.†   (source)
  • My math teacher had a vendetta against me and as proof I offer the fact that I had not been told about Wednesday's test.†   (source)
  • There were no quarrels with Edward the Great, only vendettas.†   (source)
  • There are stories of elopements, unrequited love, family feuds, and exhausting vendettas, which everyone was drawn into, had to be involved with.†   (source)
  • Being blind in this place was desirable, but risky, for if one were involved in a vendetta one could easily and anonymously be flipped backward, like the Neapolitans.†   (source)
  • That vain usurping of an honour'd name: We'll dance his masque as if it were the truth, Enlist the poniards swift of Those who, sworn To punctual vendetta never sleep.†   (source)
  • A vendetta.†   (source)
  • And anyway, if Alec had a vendetta on with Mr. Ford, why did he go for him in the shop on a Saturday, in the middle of the weekend shopping rush, when everyone could see?†   (source)
  • He bent at the waist and snatched up V for Vendetta.   (source)
  • Like V for Vendetta Natalie Portman.   (source)
  • V for Vendetta, I mean.   (source)
  • The next afternoon, I drove over to Gus's house and ate peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches with his parents and told them stories about Amsterdam while Gus napped on the living room couch, where we'd watched V for Vendetta.   (source)
  • Your father named this vendetta, Atreides.†   (source)
  • We have a vendetta against Wennerström ourselves.†   (source)
  • Leave Ambrose and his vendetta far behind.†   (source)
  • Ricky, Vanger is exploiting us in some sort of private vendetta against Wennerström.†   (source)
  • He went up there and interviewed anybody that he thought might join him in a vendetta.†   (source)
  • Did you swear a vendetta against Jesper Rasmussen?†   (source)
  • When they call for you by name, then the system has changed and the vendetta has begun.†   (source)
  • With the number they were claiming Pig as the first victim in their vendetta against us.†   (source)
  • There is no history there, no vendetta.†   (source)
  • KANLY: formal feud or vendetta under the rules of the Great Convention carried on according to the strictest limitations.†   (source)
  • Vendettas abounded.†   (source)
  • You wish our siding in a vendetta?†   (source)
  • The vendetta I'll handle myself.†   (source)
  • Vendetta, heh?†   (source)
  • This vendetta is over, and the witches have been granted their own lands within Lord Aamon's kingdom.†   (source)
  • She still nursed a vendetta against the werewolves for killing her friend Laurent (just as he was about to kill me).†   (source)
  • And our long vendetta will be repaid.†   (source)
  • Human laws what forbid vendetta?†   (source)
  • What they did was not simply a removal from office, it was a blood vendetta and for many months I could not talk about either man without becoming enraged.†   (source)
  • He killed a man cold-bloodedly, in pursuance of some sordid vendetta in the underworld of prostitutes and pimps.†   (source)
  • Hence the veneration in headhunting communities (in New Guinea, for example) of the heads brought home from vendetta raids. m4 Hence, too, the irresistible compulsion to make war: the impulse to destroy the father is continually transforming itself into public violence.†   (source)
  • He declared a vendetta against all dogs.†   (source)
  • It's all very well for her, since her "vendetta" lies in the "fact."†   (source)
  • "No, your excellency," returned Bertuccio; "it was a vendetta followed by restitution."†   (source)
  • But did he know what was meant by the terrible word 'vendetta'?"†   (source)
  • And so terribly did he live this vendetta that Grey Beaver, fierce savage himself, could not but marvel at White Fang's ferocity.†   (source)
  • I knew you were gloomy, and always brooding over some old history of the vendetta; and I overlooked that in Italy, because in Italy those things are thought nothing of.†   (source)
  • The Corsican vendetta has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it is so simple that it does not astonish souls which are but half turned towards good; and those hearts are so constituted that a criminal, who is in the path of repentance, may be scrupulous in the matter of theft and unscrupulous in the matter of vengeance.†   (source)
  • From this moment I declare the vendetta against you, so protect yourself as well as you can, for the next time we meet your last hour has come.'†   (source)
  • The Corsican, who had declared the vendetta against me, who had followed me from Nimes to Paris, who had hid himself in the garden, who had struck me, had seen me dig the grave, had seen me inter the child,—he might become acquainted with your person,—nay, he might even then have known it.†   (source)
  • The Vendetta.†   (source)
  • The seer raised his hand to heaven, murmuring: The vendetta of Mananaun!†   (source)
  • …what he was) a certain kind of admiration for a man who had actually brandished a knife, cold steel, with the courage of his political convictions (though, personally, he would never be a party to any such thing), off the same bat as those love vendettas of the south, have her or swing for her, when the husband frequently, after some words passed between the two concerning her relations with the other lucky mortal (he having had the pair watched), inflicted fatal injuries on his adored…†   (source)
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