What is "vengeances"

Usage examples of "vengeances".

These were emotions so bitter as to dominate all other thought: feuds which were to the participants as water to a fish, vengeances and hoped-for vengeances so sweet as to obsess the mind.

As for the Bible, he had felt it to be a great and dreary book fit for old women and Sunday, but, when the conversation-hunger drove him, he opened it perforce—and was suddenly lost in talks of old wars, wild vengeances, strange prophecies, inspired men.

Now, surely, were there any tiniest grain of truth in these tales of the spirits of disinterred pagans taking horrible vengeances on those who disturb their bones or rob their tombs, then some awful doom would long since have befallen my brother.

A prison was a place as safe from certain unlawful vengeances as the grave, with this advantage, that in a prison there is room for hope.