One out to right a wrong

Usage examples of avenger.

It was a funny, rather smelly little place, and she hurried as much as she could, the more so that the foreigner who served her insisted on telling her some of the strange, peculiar details of this Avenger murder which had taken place forty-eight hours before, and in which Bunting took such a morbid interest.

When Bunting began to ask Joe Chandler about the last of those awful Avenger murders, she even listened with a certain languid interest to all he had to say.

He supposed she was still resentful of the way he had spoken to her about young Chandler and the new Avenger murder.

She was not the only woman in London who had got the Avenger murders on her nerves.

And, of course--leastways to my thinking--The Avenger is a madman--one of the cunning, quiet sort.

The Avenger what sent that letter here, but it looks uncommonly like it, and I know that the Boss attaches quite a lot of importance to it.

Sir--During the last day or two several of the more Intelligent of my acquaintances have suggested that The Avenger, whoever he may be, must be known to a certain number of persons.

It seemed strange that The Avenger had stayed his hand, for, as Joe had said only last evening, it was full time that he should again turn that awful, mysterious searchlight of his on himself.

Bunting always visioned The Avenger as a black shadow in the centre a bright blinding light--but the shadow had no form or definite substance.

By this time she was out in the street again, and she began mentally counting up the number of murders The Avenger had committed.

She remembered what young Chandler had said the other day--that there had never been, in the history of the world, so strange a murderer as The Avenger had proved himself to be.

And this time The Avenger has surpassed himself as regards his audacity and daring--so cold in its maniacal fanaticism and abhorrent wickedness.

Perhaps it was the sudden, dramatic change from agonising anxiety to peace and security which had been too much for Ellen--yes, that was what was the matter with her, that and the universal excitement about these Avenger murders, which were shaking the nerves of all London.

She was as keen as anyone could be to hear the latest details of an Avenger crime.

She turned over the big sheets, until she found, at the foot of one of the ten columns devoted to The Avenger and his crimes, the information she wanted, and then uttered an exclamation under her breath.