Example Sentences

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Homer, too, has had some victims; and if he has suffered from translation, he has revenged himself on his translators.

From Books Fatal to Their Authors by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

What of Henry of Huntingdon, who, besides a learned history of England, wrote a treatise on the contempt of the world, which the world has revenged by forgetting him?

From The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Irving, Washington

Do not attempt it; he has revenged himself and has done well.

From Twenty Years After by Dumas père, Alexandre

And see how cruelly fate has revenged herself on me, who fought with her so bravely!

From Ivanoff by Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

They have been at daggers drawn ever since, and Sefton has revenged himself by a thousand jokes at the King’s expense, of which his Majesty is well aware.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Reeve, Henry