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So that now it is no longer hatred, but vengeance.†
Chpt 8. *

vengeance = the act of taking revenge
On leaving the convent he entered into the magistracy, became president on the place of his uncle, embraced the cardinal's party, which did not prove want of sagacity, became chancellor, served his Eminence with zeal in his hatred against the queen-mother and his vengeance against Anne of Austria, stimulated the judges in the affair of Calais, encouraged the attempts of M. de Laffemas, chief gamekeeper of France; then, at length, invested with the entire confidence of the cardinal—a confidence which he had so well earned—he received the singular commission for the execution of which he presented himself in the queen's apartments.†
Chpt 16.
That reconciliation was nothing but the vengeance of a jealous woman.†
Chpt 21.
For himself, he had no doubt she was a victim of the cardinal's vengeance; and, and as was well known, the vengeance of his Eminence was terrible.†
Chpt 26.
For himself, he had no doubt she was a victim of the cardinal's vengeance; and, and as was well known, the vengeance of his Eminence was terrible.†
Chpt 26.
This idea, while darkening his brow, drew several sighs from him, and caused him to formulate to himself a few vows of vengeance.†
Chpt 27.
D'Artagnan had often meditated against the perfidious host one of those hearty vengeances which offer consolation while they are hoped for.†
Chpt 27.
Fine vengeance that, on my faith!†
Chpt 33.

vengeance = the act of taking revenge
It was a movement of vengeance upon Milady.†
Chpt 33.
D'Artagnan believed it right to say that vengeance is the pleasure of the gods.†
Chpt 33.
Oh, yes, I know what sort of vengeance!†
Chpt 33.
Milady will then turn you out of doors, and you know she is not the woman to limit her vengeance.†
Chpt 33.
He did not therefore allow her any hope that he would flinch; only he represented his action as one of simple vengeance.†
Chpt 35.
For the rest this vengeance was very easy; for Milady, doubtless to conceal her blushes from her lover, had ordered Kitty to extinguish all the lights in the apartment, and even in the little chamber itself.†
Chpt 35.
It took some time for d'Artagnan to resume this little dialogue; but then all the ideas of vengeance which he had brought with him had completely vanished.†
Chpt 35.
A shade of anger and vengeance passed across the usually calm brow of this gentleman.†
Chpt 35.
The counsels of his friend, joined to the cries of his own heart, made him determine, now his pride was saved and his vengeance satisfied, not to see Milady again.†
Chpt 35.
36 — DREAM OF VENGEANCE†
Chpt 36.
Milady, not seeing me come again, would not be able to understand what could cause the interruption of my visits, and might suspect something; who could say how far the vengeance of such a woman would go?†
Chpt 36.
But he also was spurred on by a ferocious desire of vengeance.†
Chpt 37.
He wished to subdue this woman in his own name; and as this vengeance appeared to him to have a certain sweetness in it, he could not make up his mind to renounce it.†
Chpt 37.
A secret voice whispered to him, at the bottom of his heart, that he was but an instrument of vengeance, that he was only caressed till he had given death; but pride, but self-love, but madness silenced this voice and stifled its murmurs.†
Chpt 37.
Ah, my dear Athos, I am greatly afraid I have drawn a terrible vengeance on both of us!†
Chpt 38.
Let her, then, exhaust her vengeance on me alone!†
Chpt 38.
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.
Buckingham also was pursuing a private vengeance.†
Chpt 41.
It might be a vengeance of Milady; that was most probable.†
Chpt 41.
Then the young man tremblingly comprehended what a terrible thirst for vengeance urged this woman on to destroy him, as well as all who loved him, and how well she must be acquainted with the affairs of the court, since she had discovered all.†
Chpt 41.
Can this be another vengeance of that woman?†
Chpt 42.
The king, even while obeying him like a child, hated him as a child hates his master, and would abandon him to the personal vengeance of Monsieur and the queen.†
Chpt 43.
She thought it was best to preserve silence, to discreetly set off to accomplish her difficult mission with her usual skill; and then, all things being accomplished to the satisfaction of the cardinal, to come to him and claim her vengeance.†
Chpt 45.
First, my stranger of Meung; then de Wardes, to whom I have given three sword wounds; next Milady, whose secret I have discovered; finally, the cardinal, whose vengeance I have balked.†
Chpt 47.
Now, Planchet has an excellent memory; and I will be bound that sooner than relinquish any possible means of vengeance, he will allow himself to be beaten to death.†
Chpt 48.
In short, at the moment in which she has just obtained from Richelieu a carte blanche by the means of which she is about to take vengeance on her enemy, this precious paper is torn from her hands, and it is d'Artagnan who holds her prisoner and is about to send her to some filthy Botany Bay, some infamous Tyburn of the Indian Ocean.†
Chpt 52.
How many magnificent projects of vengeance she conceives by the light of the flashes which her tempestuous passion casts over her mind against Mme. Bonacieux, against Buckingham, but above all against d'Artagnan—projects lost in the distance of the future.†
Chpt 52.
The door opened gently; the beautiful supplicant pretended not to hear the noise, and in a voice broken by tears, she continued: "God of vengeance!†
Chpt 54.
"Oh, my God, my God!" cried Milady; "when I supplicate thee to pour upon this man the chastisement which is his due, thou knowest it is not my own vengeance I pursue, but the deliverance of a whole nation that I implore!"†
Chpt 54.
I do not ask you for liberty, as a guilty one would, nor for vengeance, as would a pagan.†
Chpt 55.
It is the desire of vengeance, and how desire molds a man!†
Chpt 55.
What must the mistrustful, restless, suspicious cardinal think of her silence—the cardinal, not merely her only support, her only prop, her only protector at present, but still further, the principal instrument of her future fortune and vengeance?†
Chpt 56.
"Continue, continue!" said Felton; "I am eager to see you attain your vengeance!"†
Chpt 56.
"Then," continued Milady, "then I collected all my strength; I recalled to my mind that the moment of vengeance, or rather, of justice, had struck.†
Chpt 56.
On the cross I swear, if I ever leave this place, to call down vengeance upon you from the whole human race!'†
Chpt 56.
Learn to know the heart of men, and henceforth make yourself less easily the instrument of their unjust vengeance.†
Chpt 57.
He wills that human vengeance should precede celestial justice.†
Chpt 57.
'Hear me,' said he; 'this man has gone, and for the moment has consequently escaped my vengeance; but let us be united, as we were to have been, and then leave it to Lord de Winter to maintain his own honor and that of his wife.'†
Chpt 57.
The rapidity of his walk heated his blood still more; the idea that he left behind him, exposed to a frightful vengeance, the woman he loved, or rather whom he adored as a saint, the emotion he had experienced, present fatigue—all together exalted his mind above human feeling.†
Chpt 59.
And one of our boarders has suffered much from the vengeance and persecution of the cardinal!†
Chpt 61.
There was connected with the remembrance of this girl a remembrance of anger; and a desire of vengeance disordered the features of Milady, which, however, immediately recovered the calm and benevolent expression which this woman of a hundred faces had for a moment allowed them to lose.†
Chpt 61.
She therefore took leave of the abbess, and went to bed, softly rocked by the ideas of vengeance which the name of Kitty had naturally brought to her thoughts.†
Chpt 61.

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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
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