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wanting to punish someone for causing harm

He killed Tom Black, the vengeful demon who rode horses to death.
Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die

Even as the angry, vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them.
Corrie ten Boom -- The Hiding Place
He was a vengeful man, a hateful man.
Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game
A forgotten son, a vengeful mother, a brother with a long shadow, a strange mutation.
Victoria Aveyard -- Red Queen
I thought of the many ways we've legalized vengeful and cruel punishments, how we've allowed our victimization to justify the victimization of others.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
It would be the deed of a silent, vengeful, implacable man driven by wild justice such as had been the deadly leaven in Monty Price.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
Kemp ran to the highest spot he could find, his face flushed with a vengeful desire.
R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard
His face was grim, almost unrecognizable, as though he were possessed by some dark or vengeful force.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
There was nothing vengeful about him either, no fury, no outrage.
William Faulkner -- Light in August
Then she descended into the waiting arms of three powerful Executives, all of them grinning with vengeful excitement.
Trenton Lee Stewart -- The Mysterious Benedict Society
I was in a vengeful and near savage state.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
And all the time, I was weighing the possibility of the Taliban coming in on some vengeful attack in retribution for yesterday's bombardment.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
The sea the color of honey looked sweet even to the tongue, the salt and vengeful sea.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
It was in this way, bullet-riddled, shot to pieces, open to the vengeful and the morbid gaze of all, that Dick came back to town.
Thomas Wolfe -- The Child by Tiger
So on that day, Wu Tsing, fearful of my mother's vengeful spirit, wore the coarsest of white cotton mourning clothes.
Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club
She was vengeful and violent.
Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
Now the vengeful urge no longer had sure footing.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
Oh, if only God did not seem so furious and vengeful!
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
And that had prompted Kemp's vengeful little billet doux.
Stephen King -- Cujo
I never meant to be vengeful.
Dave Peizer -- A Man Named Dave

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