And now this, a £25,000 fine, far too much and way too late, a vengeful act delivered after any chance of reparation had vanished.

She was drawing attention to her perfection, which only served to remind people of her husband's imperfection - it was, I realized, a vengeful act.

These groups engaged in a prolonged series of retaliatory, vengeful, and hostile acts against this black militia.

But by far the most hideous of her vengeful acts was the shipwreck of Odysseus.

Chip then begins a series of vengeful acts.

"We are both opposed to the annexation of the occupied territories as firmly as we stand against any irredentist claims and vengeful acts."

When a different police officer finds his wife with another man, a deliberately vengeful act on her part, first he explodes with anger, then he walks out.

This can create all sorts of ill feelings toward the professor and even result in vengeful acts like "egging" the residence or knocking over the mail box.

The prosecution of Mr. Botha has been contentious, with many whites complaining that it is simply a vengeful act against an old man.

Life itself is endangered, their enemy is the elements, their tragedy derives from forces greater than they, forces of nature and vengeful acts of God.