All 6 Uses of
vendetta
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- 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.†
Chpt 43-44 *
- The Vendetta.†
Chpt 43-44
- 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.'†
Chpt 43-44
- But did he know what was meant by the terrible word 'vendetta'?"†
Chpt 43-44
- "No, your excellency," returned Bertuccio; "it was a vendetta followed by restitution."†
Chpt 43-44
- 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.†
Chpt 67-68
Definition:
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(vendetta) a long-lasting disagreement in which one side tries to harm the other