When Derbforgaill is mutilated by the women of Ulster out of jealousy for her sexual desirability and dies of her wounds, Lugaid dies of grief, and Cú Chulainn avenges them by demolishing the house the women are inside, killing 150 of them.

If a man kills a man: then a brother avenges a brother, or a son avenges a father, or a cousin, or a nephew ; if no one will take revenge, then 80 grivnas for the murdered ; if he be a knyaz ’ s man or knyaz ’ s official ; but if he be a rusin, or a grid ' ( a lower-ranking druzhinnik ), or a merchant, or a boyar ’ s official, or a mechnik ( swordsman ), or an exile, or a slovenin ( Novgorodian ), then 40 grivnas for the murdered.

At the end of the war, Kovner was one of the founders of a secret organization Nakam ( revenge ), also known as Dam Yisrael Noter (" the blood of Israel avenges ", with the acronym DIN meaning " judgement ") whose purpose was to seek revenge for the Holocaust.

His military nickname, " The Falcon ", becomes his superhero code name, avenges his father by beating Master Man, and along with Captain America, and Nick Fury defeat the Red Skull's plans for world domination.

Though the couple were poor, their generosity far surpassed that of their rich neighbours, at whose homes the gods found " all the doors bolted and no word of kindness given, so wicked were the people of that land.

In response, Pasternak wrote to the exiled daughter of Marina Tsvetayeva, " There has been much concern over an article in Novy Mir denouncing my Faust on the grounds that the gods, angels, witches, spirits, the madness of poor Gretchen, and everything ' irrational ' has been rendered much too well, while Goethe's ' progressive ' ideas ( what are they?

Justin Peters, whose first encounter with Word of Faith doctrine came at the age of 16 when a faith healer " slayed in the spirit " in an attempt to cure his cerebral palsy, states in A Call for Discernment that the reason the Word of Faith movement holds so tenaciously to " health and wealth " tenets is because of the " little gods " teaching: " A god should never be sick, and a god should never be poor.

In this story, four gods ( Asaka, Mother of the Earth ; Agwé, god of Water ; Erzulie, goddess of Love ; and Papa Ge, Demon of Death ) rule an island, the Jewel of the Antilles, which in real life is Haiti, where poor peasants worship them ( Prologue /" We Dance ").

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

For a freshman Congressman to read political Lessons to graybeard Democrats was poor policy for one who needed to make friends.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

The only hope which good teachers have for being paid their due is to stop dragging the dead weight of poor teachers up the economic ladder with them.

How could the rich, for whom life was made so simple, ever understand the subterfuges, the lies, the frauds, the errors, sins and even crimes to which the poor were driven in their efforts to overcome the great advantages the rich had in the race of life??

Cousin Joshua Dover decided to remain with the Reverend and poor Isaac Pitt until life passed away -- and he was hurt so badly he did not seem for long in this world.

Instead of wanting to sock the poor bastard I found myself having a fellowfeeling for him.

It was a ridiculous situation and Rector knew it, for Hino, frankly partisan, openly gregarious, would make a poor espionage agent.

`` And in the future, since I write for a public of one, I can save the poor publishers from wasting their money ''.

The same is true of areas which at first look good because of a few existing recreation features but may actually be poor areas to develop for general public use.

The parties were on the whole unprepared for elections, while the people were still experiencing post-independence let-down and suffering the after-effects of poor harvests in 1957.

A training program in a depressed area may have few enrollees unless there is some apparent prospect for better employment opportunities afterwards, and the prospect may be poor if the training is aimed solely at jobs in the local community.

Ridiculing a child for being afraid or forcing him to meet the feared situation alone are poor ways of dealing with the problem ; ;

Over-chilling is an accepted method for covering up the faults of many a cheap or poor white wine, especially a dry wine -- and certainly less of a crime than serving a wine at a temperature which reveals it as unattractive.

And it makes a very poor red herring for an inside job.

So, too, was the insistence on the relativity of the external world, and the ideas that language and things perceived by consciousness were poor substitutes indeed for immediate perception by pure, indwelling spirit: the opposition of pure consciousness to ratiocinating consciousness.

It was safe to assume that Papa, sighing heavily, had said many times to his remaining daughter, `` Thank God your poor mother was spared this '', and indeed it might be true that it had been easier for Henrietta to leave, with her hand in Charles' hand, just because her `` poor mother '' was gone already and would never know.

" At its worst, Scheler says, " love for the small, the poor, the weak, and the oppressed is really disguised hatred, repressed envy, an impulse to detract, etc., directed against the opposite phenomena: wealth, strength, power, largesse.

Land which is unsuitable for arable farming usually has at least one of the following deficiencies: no source of fresh water ; too hot ( desert ); too cold ( Arctic ); too rocky ; too mountainous ; too salty ; too rainy ; too snowy ; too polluted ; or too nutrient poor.

Poirot regards Hastings as a poor private detective, not particularly intelligent, yet helpful in his way of being fooled by the criminal or seeing things the way the average man would see them, and for his tendency to unknowingly " stumble " onto the truth.

The original Millennium Challenge Account commitment for $ 235 million had been reduced to about $ 175 million due to Armenia ’ s poor governance record.

Drought and poor harvests from 1884 compounded the problems, with some families leaving for Western Australia.

The family was relatively poor, but Gaynor recalls the house being filled with laughter and happiness, and the dinner table being open to neighbourhood friends.

This has been explained by the fact that the dependency is not linear but logarithmic, i. e., the same percentual increase in the GNP produces the same increase in happiness for wealthy countries as for poor countries.

They feel responsible for it and want to help those poor children find some happiness.

The Magus welcomes pleasure, accepts wealth, deserves honour, but is never the slave of one of them ; he knows how to be poor, to abstain, and to suffer ; he endures oblivion willingly because he is lord of his own happiness, and expects or fears nothing from the caprice of fortune.

The Matangeshwar Shiva Preached to poor Tribal Sinbharia MAHESHWARY MEGHWAR caste of Sindh, Pakistan and kutch and Jamnagar Bhav nagar regions of Gujarat state of India, and given the dharma and path of happiness to poor Sinbharia Meghwar and he formulated ancient Barmati dharma.

Special acts of tzedakah are performed on significant days ; at weddings, Jewish brides and bridegrooms would traditionally give to charity, to symbolise the sacred character of the marriage ; at Passover, a major holiday in Jewish tradition, it is traditional to be welcoming towards hungry strangers, and feed them at the table ; at Purim it is considered obligatory for every Jew to give food one other person, and gifts to at least 2 poor people, in an amount that would equate to a meal each, for the purpose of increasing the total happiness during the month.

Strange, because they are so frankly and hysterically insane — like all dreams: a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones ; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one ; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short ; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it ; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body ; who mouths justice and invented hell — mouths mercy and invented hell — mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell ; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself ; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all ; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself ; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites a poor, abused slave to worship him!

(" Petite airs au bord du ruisseau ( reprise )") He realizes the poor have nothing in terms of material wealth, yet they have it all when it comes to happiness.

The aim of the organisation, he said, would be to " ameliorate the condition of the poor and needy of this great metropolis, and to promote their comfort and happiness ".

In Gorky's play a hero named Danko leads poor people to the light and happiness through hardships and darkness, burns his own heart to show them the way and dies after this self-sacrifice.