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Most sons would by now have felt that they had revenged themselves sufficiently on paternal piety.

From Time Magazine Archive

I said, and my thoughts went back to the tender little maid who wept when I was punished, and for whom I had revenged myself on Master Dove.

From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)

She had revenged herself for the upper berth by securing a room much better placed than Henriette's.

From The Way of Ambition by Soper, J. H. Gardner

Thus studied, it had revenged itself by taking possession of her.

From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

The matrons mourned for Brutus a whole year, because he had revenged the death of Lucretia.

From A Smaller History of Rome by Smith, William, Sir