... He has a gift of sly intrigue, an art of setting folk by the ears, combined with an impudent aggressiveness upon occasion when he considers himself safe from reprisals...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
... “The more innocent they were, the more helpless, the more pitiable, the louder would their blood have cried for reprisals against the wild beasts who sent them to their death...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...He did not dare to take any initiative in the matter, for in that case, if he failed, the reprisals against him would indeed be terrible...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
... There were months of guerrillafighting, and then months of reprisals, when chief after chief washunted down and brought to trial...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...They have frequently surprised and kept for ransom the white agents, whom "o negocio" deterred from reprisals...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...Probably this custom of half-concealed habitations is asurvival from the time when the Navaho were warriors and plunderers, andlived in momentary expectation of reprisals on the part of theirvictims...
Cosmos Mindeleff 「Navaho Houses, pages 469-518」
...A noble could kill a noble without expense, as far as the law was concerned, but reprisals in kind were to be expected...
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 「A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Complete」
...Here Cook learnt the history of theattack on the Adventure's boat's crew from the chief who led it, but madeno attempt at reprisals, although urged by many other natives to killhim...
James Cook 「Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World」
...The sailors were mad for reprisals, but Captain Clerke, on whom thecommand devolved, decided on pacific measures, and every attempt was madeto recover Cook's body...
James Cook 「Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World」
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