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  • "Is it because people are immoral in the dark, or is it because we all realize that the avenger's quest and duty is righteous and true?"

    Obama's Finest Hour Bret Stephens 2011

  • Once Othbaal's house was the pleasure-house of King Uriaz, who slept on a down-cushion floating on a pool of quicksilver, guarded by tame lions -- yet fell before the avenger's dagger in spite of all.

    Conan the Freebooter Howard, Robert E. 1968

  • The horns of the altar are its last resort -- seized only in desperation, as it rushes from the terror of the avenger's arm.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • The horns of the altar are its last resort -- seized only in desperation, as it rushes from the terror of the avenger's arm.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • It seizes them, if at all, only in desperation -- rushing from the terror of the avenger's arm.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • It grasps the horns of the altar only in desperation -- rushing from the terror of the avenger's arm.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • It seizes them, if at all, only in desperation -- rushing from the terror of the avenger's arm.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • In _Hamlet_ is found madness, assumed simplicity, delay in action, the invisible influence of the supernatural, and sacrifice of the avenger's life in the attainment of revenge, besides the ordinarily remembered adoption of an inset play.

    The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne

  • It grasps the horns of the altar only in desperation -- rushing from the terror of the avenger's arm.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • In the light of such conduct it is difficult to regard as merely assumed his pusillanimity in the final scene, where he at first grovels before Clermont on the plea that by his baseness he will "shame" the avenger's victory.

    Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

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