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.

The FBI also thought that a drug cartel might have been carrying out an act of vengeance against DEA agents as the building held a DEA office.

* 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 ).

He died in 1357, and the first act of his successor, Pedro I of Portugal, was to take vengeance on the murderers of Inês.

The burning of Columbia has engendered controversy ever since, with some claiming the fires were accidental, others a deliberate act of vengeance, and still others that the retreating Confederates burned bales of cotton on their way out of town.

It was after this battle that she, in a blatant act of vengeance, ordered the execution of two Yorkist prisoners-of-war, William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville, and Sir Thomas Kyriel, who had kept watch over King Henry to keep him out of harm's way during the battle.

He announces that he has begun to practice the craft of writing so that he might return to his fictional home -- not to displace Landry, but rather so that he might end both of their existences for good in a final, brutal act of vengeance.

Aud had previously used magic against her past lovers as well, casting spells to create boils on the penis, for example, but this act of vengeance against Olaf attracts the attention of the demon D ' Hoffryn, who offers to transform her into a vengeance demon for scorned women.

" Anya cannot find anyone who wishes vengeance on Xander and so she takes comfort in sex with Spike, an act which puts her relationship and friendship with Xander and Buffy in jeopardy.

Four months after the operation, on 31 October 1984, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards in what is viewed as an act of vengeance.

Other industries are fishery and tourism thanks to a famous act of vengeance by the Forty-seven Ronin in 1703, featured in the Chushingura.

Usually ( though not always ) as a prank or an act of vengeance.

Most modern stories indicate that the exchange is performed as a means of vengeance, and it is almost never depicted as a generous act.

van Vogt in his 1971 novel " The Battle of Forever " lets the worst guys use Ylem power to exterminate the entire human settlement behind the " barrier " in Chapter 12 and towards the final act of vengeance by the protagonist Modyun, using his " indication " capability in Chapter 35 to recoil the Ylem energy in shortening the enemy's eternal life-span to less than 100 years.

This act of vengeance brings her to the attention of the national law enforcement authorities ( in New Delhi ).

G ' Kar is unaware of the Emperor's reason for visiting, and he plans to murder him as an act of vengeance for the Centauri's past treatment of his people.

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.

Once the pressure of serving his creation reaches a breaking point for Viktor, he decides to ruin Simone's career as an act of vengeance.

Calibos, finding that Thetis cannot act against Perseus, instead demands that she take vengeance on Joppa.

The PCLF, seeing that they have the military strength of a small country and Jordan is just a 16 year old girl working out of a secret lab, refuse to pay the fee and are soon vaporized when Jordan, as an act of vengeance, hijacks an old Russian satellite-based laser death platform and fires on them.

This act invokes the vengeance of God, and three years later Constantine is killed by his nephew Aurelius Conanus.

To hang him for murder is an insulting outrage, and it is more: it is an abuse of power: an unworthy act of vengeance.

Following the destruction, the three men crew of the MEV witnessed the miraculous re-materialisation (" retro-metabolism ", as it is termed in the TV series ) of the Mysteron city, and for their act of aggression the Mysterons took control of Black's mind and body as the principal agent of their vengeance.

Talos was furious at this betrayal, and attempted to act in vengeance.