Long-standing rival

Usage examples of nemesis.

Nemesis, the robot ship had discarded her Bussard system upon arrival.

In less than a minute, the thunderous song of the razee signaled his departure from Ortel, and later, when his task force hit hyperpoint, it did so with such casual disregard for the shape of the continuum that the Pretender could not have failed to detect the coming of Nemesis.

Captain Mackenzie Calhoun, thwarter of the Black Mass, nemesis of the Redeemers, he who has returned from the dead and has been worshipped by some as a mes-siah.

He came to a halt in front of his nemesis as the Blesser of Sorbold drew himself up to his full height and turned to face the others.

Upon the whole, the metempsychosis may be understood, as to its inmost meaning and its final issue, to be either a Development, a Revolution, or a Retribution, a Divine system of development eternally leading creatures in a graduated ascension from the base towards the apex of the creation, a perpetual cycle in the order of nature fixedly recurring by the necessities of a physical fate unalterable, unavoidable, eternal, a scheme of punishment and reward exactly fitted to the exigencies of every case, presided over by a moral Nemesis, and issuing at last in the emancipation of every purified soul into infinite bliss, when, by the upward gravitation of spirit, they shall all have been strained through the successively finer growing filters of the worlds, from the coarse grained foundation of matter to the lower shore of the Divine essence.

But that missel point, if such it actually is, gives one to wonder if their nemesis was really the Ahrmehnee.

CHAPTER XI JIMMY DECIDES TO BE HIMSELF It was less than a quarter of an hour later--such was the speed with which Nemesis, usually slow, had overtaken him--that Jerry Mitchell, carrying a grip and walking dejectedly, emerged from the back premises of the Pett home and started down Riverside Drive in the direction of his boarding-house, a cheap, clean, and respectable establishment situated on Ninety-seventh Street between the Drive and Broadway.

It was less than a quarter of an hour latersuch was the speed with which Nemesis, usually slow, had overtaken himthat Jerry Mitchell, carrying a grip and walking dejectedly, emerged from the back premises of the Pett home and started down Riverside Drive in the direction of his boarding-house, a cheap, clean, and respectable establishment situated on Ninety-seventh Street between the Drive and Broadway.

Ted Gruhn, the Royal Barber, who although relatively gentle with the other commissioned pollywogs, left his old nemesis with only a Mohawklike tuft on the front and center of his scalp.

Blackwood may come as Nemesis, and compel him to regorge any puffing and cramming which Tiff has put into his pocket, and is earnest to have a letter addressed in an influential quarter to prevent this.

In reality she was the innocent victim of a relentless, undiscerning Nemesis.

Billy Antrim was at that moment looking at the back of his eventual Nemesis, the man who would send him to his death.

For which reason the antients used, on such occasions, to sacrifice to the goddess Nemesis, a deity who was thought by them to look with an invidious eye on human felicity, and to have a peculiar delight in overturning it.

Calvin had found Gene following the Ophion through steep terrain as it wound its way among the Nemesis Mountains of Crius, the day region just west of Rhea.

The Circum-Gaea rejoined Ophion at that point after having made its way through North Rhea and down through the tortuous passes of the western Nemesis Mountains.