vengance

Updated: May 2, 2025

Over the graves in the Lithuanian forests stand enormous crosses as enormous as those in Gogol's "Dreadful Vengance" and now, on the hill behind us, we discern two of them, one partly shattered and overhanging the other a bodeful grim reminder! Always soldiers, soldiers, soldiers. Not a single old man, not a single woman, not a single child.

Boris Pilniak - Tales of the Wilderness

This all occurred in the Market-place, in the front of the Bear-inn, where the Sheriff and the notable founders and supporters of the infamous time-serving petition were assembled, and from the windows of which they had the mortification of witnessing the defeat, the disgrace, and the complete routing of their hirelings, and the victory of the people, who, instead of taking advantage of their success; instead of inflicting summary vengance upon those who had assaulted them in such a cowardly manner; instead of chastising those who had conducted themselves in such a partial, corrupt, unmanly, and disgraceful way; they peaceably bore me off to my inn.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3