Example Sentences

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But as it was; that was the sore point which kept their hearts, the one so distant; the other so revengefully inclined.

From It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) by Wood, Mrs. Henry

The shadow took her faded dress into shelter but fell revengefully into the little cup behind her collar-bone.

From Dubliners by Joyce, James

Then Zbyszko began to tell him what he had heard from Mikolaj of Dlugolas, that the counts, not being able to account for de Fourcy's murder, would accuse him and prosecute him revengefully.

From The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy by Binion, Samuel A.

"They chucked me off here, once!" the old prospector remarked, revengefully.

From The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis

And the cruel part of it all was that Pancha ever must believe that he, willfully, revengefully, because she had kept back from him her love, had brought upon her this great misery.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 by Various