All 33 Uses
avenge
in
The Three Musketeers
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- Loose, half-drunk, imposing, the king's Musketeers, or rather M. de Treville's, spread themselves about in the cabarets, in the public walks, and the public sports, shouting, twisting their mustaches, clanking their swords, and taking great pleasure in annoying the Guards of the cardinal whenever they could fall in with them; then drawing in the open streets, as if it were the best of all possible sports; sometimes killed, but sure in that case to be both wept and avenged; often killing others, but then certain of not rotting in prison, M. de Treville being there to claim them.†
Chpt 2.avenged = took revenge
- I will then release you from all your promises—even that of procuring my admission into the Musketeers; for before everything, I wish to avenge myself.†
Chpt 3. *avenge = take revenge for
- Unfortunately for d'Artagnan, among the spectators was one of his Eminence's Guardsmen, who, still irritated by the defeat of his companions, which had happened only the day before, had promised himself to seize the first opportunity of avenging it.†
Chpt 6.avenging = taking revenge
- Well, then, instead of pitying me, you would do much better to assist me in avenging myself on your mistress.†
Chpt 33.
- I do not love her, but I will avenge myself for her contempt.†
Chpt 33.avenge = take revenge for
- "Be tranquil," murmured Milady; "I will avenge you—and cruelly!"†
Chpt 35.
- When I am insulted I do not faint; I avenge myself!†
Chpt 35.
- "Avenge me of that infamous de Wardes," said Milady, between her teeth, "and I shall soon know how to get rid of you—you double idiot, you animated sword blade!"†
Chpt 36.
- "Well, I will avenge you of this wretch," replied d'Artagnan, giving himself the airs of Don Japhet of Armenia.†
Chpt 36.
- "Thanks, my brave friend!" cried Milady; "and when shall I be avenged?"†
Chpt 36.avenged = took revenge
- "Tomorrow," said he, "you will be avenged, or I shall be dead."†
Chpt 36.
- "No," said she, "you will avenge me; but you will not be dead.†
Chpt 36.avenge = take revenge for
- Seeing d'Artagnan about to leave her, Milady recalled his promise to avenge her on the Comte de Wardes.†
Chpt 37.
- "You would not, then, prefer a method," resumed d'Artagnan, "which would equally avenge you while rendering the combat useless?"†
Chpt 37.
- It was, then, Richelieu's object, not only to get rid of an enemy of France, but to avenge himself on a rival; but this vengeance must be grand and striking and worthy in every way of a man who held in his hand, as his weapon for combat, the forces of a kingdom.†
Chpt 41.
- I say you wished to avenge yourself on me, and I say that it is horrible!†
Chpt 42.
- But in the first place, this woman I have described must be found who is desirous of avenging herself upon the duke.†
Chpt 44.avenging = taking revenge
- Buckingham might have guessed that it was she who had cut off the two studs, and avenge himself for that little treachery; but Buckingham was incapable of going to any excess against a woman, particularly if that woman was supposed to have acted from a feeling of jealousy.†
Chpt 50.avenge = take revenge for
- Yes; but in order to avenge herself she must be free.†
Chpt 52.
- My God, it is I—I—and this fellow who will help me to avenge myself.†
Chpt 55.
- The more profoundly she wounded his heart, the more certainly he would avenge her.†
Chpt 56.
- "The idea came into your mind to avenge yourself on this man, did it not?" cried Felton.†
Chpt 56.
- I heard the door open and shut, and I remained overwhelmed, less, I confess it, by my grief than by the mortification of not having avenged myself.†
Chpt 56.avenged = took revenge
- I will take the whole world as a witness of your crime, and that until I have found an avenger.'†
Chpt 57.avenger = someone who takes revenge
- "No," cried Felton, "no; you shall live and you shall be avenged."†
Chpt 57.avenged = took revenge
- "I have avenged myself!" said he.†
Chpt 59.
- "Avenged yourself," said the baron.†
Chpt 59.
- In fifteen days at most, Rochefort would be back; besides, during that fifteen days she would have time to think how she could best avenge herself on the four friends.†
Chpt 63.avenge = take revenge for
- "This is not the way that I wished to avenge myself," said Milady, replacing the glass upon the table, with an infernal smile, "but, my faith!†
Chpt 63.
- Women weep for the dead; men avenge them!†
Chpt 63.
- If it be to avenge her, I am ready to follow you.†
Chpt 63.
- Being a few paces in advance she whispered to the lackeys, "A thousand pistoles to each of you, if you will assist my escape; but if you deliver me up to your masters, I have near at hand avengers who will make you pay dearly for my death."†
Chpt 66.
- If I am not saved I shall be avenged.†
Chpt 66.avenged = took revenge
Definitions:
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(1)
(avenge) take revenge for a perceived wrong
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Avengers is also used as a proper noun to refer to fictious superheroes or naval ship names. Avenger has also been used to describe classes of weaponry.