Dictionary Entry
An act of vengeance; a revenge.
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Poetry examples for “avenge”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →In my hardware store that day.
But a man can never avenge himself
On the monstrous ogre Life.
Read full poem →Forwasted all their land, and them expeld:
Whom to avenge, she had this Knight from far compeld. 45
Read full poem →To avenge his father slain,
And reconquer realm and reign,
Read full poem →To Sigrid the Haughty;
And to avenge his bride,
Soothing her wounded pride,
Read full poem →Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones
Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold;
Read full poem →to the wife of a neighbouring magnate, the _pane_ or Lord Falbowski. The
intrigue was discovered, and to avenge his wrongs the outraged husband
caused Mazeppa to be stripped to the skin, and bound to his own steed.
Read full poem →Again the guns disturbed the hour,
Roaring their readiness to avenge,
As far inland as Stourton Tower,