Underneath all the high-sounding phrases of royal and papal letters and behind the more down-to-earth instructions to the envoys was the inescapable fact that Edward would have to desert his Flemish allies and leave them to the vengeance of their indignant suzerain, the king of France, in return for being given an equally free hand with the insubordinate Scots.

But at the touch of Hume and Voltaire the noble or hideous visitations which had haunted the mind since Agamemnon's blood cried out for vengeance, disappeared altogether or took tawdry refuge among the gaslights of melodrama.

The foregoing, aided by several clues I'll withhold to keep you on your toes, will pursue you with a tenacity worthy of Inspector Javert, but before they close in, gird yourselves, I repeat, for a vengeance infinitely more pitiless.

Concerning the sentence, Foss wrote, `` If it be possible that mercy shall override vengeance and that John Brown's sentence shall be commuted to imprisonment, it would be well -- well for the country and for Virginia ''.

But once the bulk of the Macedonian army had retired, the states of Thessaly feared the return and vengeance of Alexander, and so sent for aid to Thebes, whose policy it was to put a check on any neighbor who might otherwise become too formidable.

The opening passage ( Nahum 1: 2-3 ) states: " God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth ; the LORD revengeth, and is furious ; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

God is strong and will use means, but a mighty God doesn't need anyone else to carry out vengeance and wrath for him.

and quest for vengeance: she poisons the master of Wudang, attempts to poison Jen and succeeds in killing Mu Bai.

The United Methodist Church, along with other Methodist churches, also condemns capital punishment, saying that it cannot accept retribution or social vengeance as a reason for taking human life.

Genghis Khan and the Mongols were well known for strongly insisting on the rights of diplomats, and they would often take terrifying vengeance against any state that violated these rights.

The blood that you have spread still smokes ; it rises toward Heaven and cries for vengeance.

After indicating that he has been killed by a sword-thrust, and appealing for vengeance, he disappears.

These included strikes against leading Jordanian politicians, as a means of exacting vengeance and raising the price for attacking the Palestinian movement ; and also, most controversially, for " international operations " ( e. g. the Munich Olympics attack ), intended both to put pressure on the US, European countries and Israel, and to raise the visibility of the Palestinian cause, and to upstage radical rivals such as the PFLP.

It was traditionally believed that the souls of the departed wandered the earth until All Saints ' Day, and All Hallows ' Eve provided one last chance for the dead to gain vengeance on their enemies before moving onto the next world.

According to Caesar, the captured Roman soldiers were ordered to pass through under a yoke set up by the triumphant Gauls, a dishonour that called for both public as well as private vengeance.

What wonder that a fiery rage still burned within his breast and that he should seek every opportunity of obtaining vengeance upon his natural enemies .</ br >< p > The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull.

Asked to explain herself she insisted on first summoning witnesses and after disclosing the rape called on him and them for vengeance, a plea that could not be ignored, as she was speaking to the chief magistrate of Rome.

He blames Clark Kent for writing several articles unraveling his schemes and pledges vengeance on Metropolis after an angry mob jeers him on the courthouse steps.

This causes him to become consumed with a desire for vengeance.

Elzevir is bent on vengeance for his son by killing Maskew, and while the rest land the cargo and leave, he and John keep watch over Maskew.

Reeve also writes that while Israeli officials have stated Operation Wrath of God was intended to exact vengeance for the families of the athletes killed in Munich, “ few relatives wanted such a violent reckoning with the Palestinians .” Reeve states the families were instead desperate to know the truth of the events surrounding the Munich massacre.

During his time, the Buddhists wreaked vengeance on the Hindu Brahmins ( especially the followers of Shaivism ) for the harm they had received earlier from Shankaracharya.

A conqueror wages war upon the vanquished for vengeance or for plunder but an established kingdom exacts tribute.

Unlike her sister, Electra, Chrysothemis did not protest or enact vengeance against their mother for having an affair with Aegisthus and then killing their father.

The miners and other local residents were so incensed at the affair that they decided to apply " summary vengeance " to Richardson as soon as they knew that the sheriff had apprehended him.

The use of Binney as a villain stems from an event in his early childhood where Marlow framed the young Binney for defecating on the desk of a disciplinarian elementary teacher ( Janet Henfrey ), a perverse act of vengeance for the affair Marlow has witnessed between his own mother and Binney's father Raymond.

Sophocles lets us hear the speech Ajax gives immediately before his suicide ( which, unlike in most Greek tragedies, where action and death are reported, is called for to take place onstage ), in which he calls for vengeance against the sons of Atreus ( Menelaus and Agamemnon ) and the whole Greek army.

Xavier seeks to confront Vulcan before he can enact his vengeance against the Shi ' ar empire, which killed Vulcan's mother.

Exercising his right of vengeance, Worf fought and killed Duras allowing Duras's opponent Gowron to become chancellor ( TNG: " Reunion ").

", i. e. killed ), as it was often quoted throughout the 1920s in mass media reports regarding violent acts of vengeance among the German Right.

* May 7 – May 9 – Bava-Beccaris massacre: Hundreds of demonstrators are killed when General Fiorenzo Bava-Beccaris orders troops to fire on a rally in Milan, Italy ( in 1900, King Umberto I of Italy is killed in an act of vengeance for his praise of the shooting ).

* Anarawd ap Rhodri defeats the Mercians in a battle described as " God's vengeance for Rhodri ", who had been killed in battle a few years earlier.

The early part is rich in anecdotal stories, among which are the arrival of the three Varangian brothers, the founding of Kiev, the murder of Askold and Dir, the death of Oleg, who was killed by a serpent concealed in the skeleton of his horse, and the vengeance taken by Olga, the wife of Igor, on the Drevlians, who had murdered her husband.

Tissaphernes claimed to have killed the rebel himself, with the result that Parysatis later took cruel vengeance upon the slayer of her favorite son.

There, thousands of years in the future, a fading Tisiphone merges with a dying, former Imperial Cadre drop commando, Alicia DeVries, and helps wreak vengeance on the space pirates who killed DeVries ' family.

Later, when Brynhild learned that she had been tricked into marrying an inferior man, she exacted vengeance by telling Gunnar that Sigurd had taken liberties with her, and Gunnar had Sigurd killed.

After World War II, many such Volksdeutsche were killed or driven from their homes in acts of vengeance, others in ethnic cleansing of territories prior to populating them with citizens of the annexing country.

I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance.

A blood feud is a feud with a cycle of retaliatory violence, with the relatives of someone who has been killed or otherwise wronged or dishonored seeking vengeance by killing or otherwise physically punishing the culprits or their relatives.

: vengeance for the crimes committed by the Ustaše was executed immediately after the war, with the terrible massacres at Bleiburg in Austria and during the so-called Way of the Cross ( Death Marches ), when many innocent opponents of the Communist regime were also killed.

Cai is killed by Gwyddawg fab Menestyr, who is in turned killed in vengeance by Arthur.

Percy may have been killed in vengeance for Richard.

According to legend, Fong Sai-yuk is killed by Bak Mei, the notorious pugilist in a battle of vengeance, however he was then avenged by his mother.

Unlike Manco, Mortimer's motivation throughout the movie is not the bounty over El Indio and his gang, but vengeance for the death of Mortimer's sister many years before, who killed herself while being raped by Indio.

The song " 12 " tells of a misplaced execution in which the person killed takes vengeance on 12 jurors who were involved in sentencing him to death.

Dukhat was killed and his protégé Delenn, in a fit of rage, cast the deciding vote on the Council to wage a war of vengeance against Earth.

The chief protagonist was a typical Wallace anti-hero vigilante, one Henry Arthur Milton, aka The Ringer, a legendary assassin who killed for personal vengeance.