Example Sentences

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With such a foe the unequal fight to try, Were by false courage unrevenged to die.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow; And Scipio's ghost walks unrevenged amongst us.

From Cato A Tragedy, in Five Acts by Addison, Joseph

His next dread was that the regiment would be mustered in before the case was finished, compelling its postponement and leaving Charity to languish unrevenged.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

And bravest chiefs, in Helen's quarrel slain, Lie unrevenged on yon detested plain?

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

Centuries of humiliation remained unrevenged, which both France and Scotland had endured at English hands.

From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by Froude, James Anthony