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  • Mr. Walden in his heart, I dare say, was re-venged on the baronet.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • I be back and I be venged and then I be Noble House by God ....

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

  • He was going to build his House again and then, '… and then I be back by God … I be back and I be venged and then I be Noble House by God ….

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

  • And in the deadly battle-strife had venged their leader well;

    The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty

  • And in the deadly battle-strife had venged their leader well:

    The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • And in the deadly battle-strife had venged their leader well;

    Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson

  • Then the bishop put himself to prayer and orisons, and brake all the lamps of the church, and said: There shall none of them be lighted till that our Lord hath venged him on his enemy, and that the church have recovered that which she hath lost.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

  • Their wedlocks 'pledges [313] venged their husbands bad.

    The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) Christopher Marlowe 1578

  • He might have venged himself, nor did: -- now wou'd,

    Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1503

  • Day after 'day alike rose in exertion, alike closed in disap - pointment; and the sad remains of the murdered abbot St. Theodore were con - veyed to the last silent receptacle of mortality, pitied, deplored, but una - venged.

    The confessional of Valombre 1812

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