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"The captured German female cats declared they were avenging their dead husbands," he writes.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2015

When my brother and I in our anger thought we were avenging our mother's death, were we in truth destroying him also--driving him into wickedness beyond hope?

From Lady Merton, Colonist by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

They speak of their soldiers as though they were avenging angels—avenging what?

From Molly Brown of Kentucky by Speed, Nell

The Invincibles and their comrades were avenging the death of Turner Ashby.

From The Scouts of Stonewall The Story of the Great Valley Campaign by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

The cruel repression of this “conspiracy of Amboise” inspired bitter hatred of the Guises, since they were avenging a rising rather against their own than the royal authority.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various