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vengeance
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White Fang
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- He was no fool himself, and whatever vengeance he desired to wreak, he could wait until he caught White Fang alone.†
Part 3 *vengeance = the act of taking revenge
- But he resolutely held the door of his tepee, inside which he had placed the culprit, and refused to permit the vengeance for which his tribespeople clamoured.†
Part 3
- But now Lip-lip was his dog, and he proceeded to wreak his vengeance on him by putting him at the end of the longest rope.†
Part 3
- He oppressed the weak with a vengeance.†
Part 3 *with a vengeance = with intensity
- He fled away to Grey Beaver, behind whose protecting legs he crouched when the bitten boy and the boy's family came, demanding vengeance.†
Part 3vengeance = the act of taking revenge
- But they went away with vengeance unsatisfied.†
Part 3
- He revelled in the vengeance he wreaked upon his kind.†
Part 4
- After the first two or three strange dogs had been downed and destroyed, the white men hustled their own animals back on board and wrecked savage vengeance on the offenders.†
Part 4
- And in open court-room, before all men, Jim Hall had proclaimed that the day would come when he would wreak vengeance on the Judge that sentenced him.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(vengeance as in: vengeance is mine) the act of taking revenge
(Revenge means to harm someone to get them back for something harmful that they have done.) -
(2)
(with a vengeance as in: with a vengeance) with intensity
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)