mintye

Updated: May 4, 2025

"Why did you not hear me, unhappy children? why did you not take my word?" and he wept over his enemies' heads as if he had been their father. He then rose, his eyes darting fire, and, shaking his terrible fist, he cried, in a voice hoarse with rage: "Czine mintye!"* * Czine mintye! A Wallachian term signifying revenge. In a few hours, the Wallachians had assembled before the Decurio's house.

- The Lock and Key Library : The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: North Europe — Russian — Swedish — Danish — Hungarian

"Why did you not hear me, unhappy children? why did you not take my word?" and he wept over his enemies' heads as if he had been their father. He then rose, his eyes darting fire, and, shaking his terrible fist, he cried, in a voice hoarse with rage: "Czine mintye!" In a few hours, the Wallachians had assembled before the Decurio's house.

Various - The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales: Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm: Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann