| Progression: the avenger finally condemns his whole family, himself included. |
| His assassin, Charlotte Corday, saw herself as a political criminal, a legitimate avenger. |
| So much for the fierce mountain clansman, the implacable Albanian avenger he'd imagined and feared. |
| Nobody does shrewishness better than McEwan, who turns Sister Bridget into a crooning, purse-lipped avenger. |
| Carter alternated between roles as pill-flushing avenger and evangelically passionate lover. |
| He was positively sheeplike in his mansuetude, whereas I had intended to make him a stern avenger of virtue. |
