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Definition of Avengers
1. avenger [n] - See also: avenger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avengers
Literary usage of Avengers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald (1908)
"THE avengers HERE was nothing now to be dreaded from Dr. Kelman, but it made
Curdie anxious, as the evening drew near, to think that not a soul belonging to ..."
2. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1866)
"Statistics of Yankee recruiting.—Another Confederate success.—Defeat of Sturgis.—"The
avengers of Fort Pillow."—Barbarities of the enemy's summer campaign. ..."
3. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"Powers of the Head Chief— The avengers of Blood — The Death Penalty — Deadly
Hostility — Sitting Bull's Indomitable Band ..."
4. My Sixty Years on the Plains, Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting by William Thomas Hamilton (1905)
"We Have a Triumphal Ovation and are Hailed as avengers. Our Fame Spreads. THE news
brought in of miners being found stripped, scalped, and otherwise ..."
5. A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Concordance Society (1908)
"Linger. they linger yet, avengers of their native land : linger in the gloomy
Walks of Fate: El. Mas. 80. Bard 45. rhymes that us'd to linger on, Vent. 9. ..."
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