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"Yes, he deserves a good scorching," pretending to misunderstand her, "but I should not have thought you would be so revengeful." "You know well enough what kind of coals I mean, and who it was that said, 'If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink. I can not release you from your promise till the year for which you made it is over.
She had had so many proofs of the revengeful cruelty of this Indian despot that she feared the worst for Heideck, and resolved, in the last extremity, to sacrifice her life if she could not preserve her honour to save him. The Maharajah had received her with great courtesy and promised to use his influence in favour of the German who had been seized as a spy and traitor by the Russians.
Instead of the promised enthusiastic welcome a sullen acquiescence in the inevitable everywhere greeted the foreign invaders. This, whenever compatible with personal safety, turned into active enmity on the part of the nation, and often into open and revengeful cruelty.
As he spoke, his earnest eyes, fixed on me, seemed to read my very soul: my heart, my savage revengeful heart, felt the influence of sweet benignity sink upon it; while his thrilling voice, like sweetest melody, awoke a mute echo within me, stirring to its depths the life-blood in my frame.
He was in the position of one who feels that the lives of his dearest friends are placed in his hands. To him, nothing was more evident than that the revengeful savages would attempt to cross the stream and make another stealthy attack upon the camp.
"I believe you're right, Sam; he's a bad bird, Hourigan; so I think the best thing to do is to tie his hands up for him." "And if we could tie his tongue up too, your worship, it ought to be done." Here, on the other hand, the notice he had just received stuck in his throat, and reduced him to a new perplexity. "But then, Sam," he added, "think of the revengeful spirit that is abroad.
His whole manner changed as he said this, and his voice sounded full of fierce anger. "Yes," I faltered, "that's all true; but you will not be revengeful?" "A doctor revengeful, Dale?" he said quickly. "I don't mean that," I said. "I mean, you will do your best to save his life?" "For him to be punished by the law?" "I was not thinking of that," I said hastily.
They speak of Othello as jealous Othello, one of the least jealous of all human natures! Jealousy is a quality that needs no cause. It makes its own cause. It will find or make occasion for its exercise, in the most innocent circumstances. The PROOFS that made Othello wretched and revengeful, were sufficient to have deceived any jury under the sun. He had proofs. He had a strong case to go upon.
Mae rose and walked to the fireside, and looked down on the two small logs of wet wood that sizzled on the fire-dogs. The faint, red flame that flickered around them, looked sullen and revengeful, she thought, as she watched the feeble blaze intently. It seemed hours since Eric had left the room. What was Norman thinking? What was the stranger saying out in the little salon?
He knew that a Joss was revengeful and terrible in matters of hate, therefore his prayer would be understood in the strange region of power where the Great Ones dwelt.
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