For you, and your likings or mis-likings, I never cared a rush: but 'tis Mary herself refused me, so there's no more about it; only don't be Wreaking your temper on her, for she has no fault in it.
"St. Patrick's Eve"
Charles James Lever
Severe as was the lesson they had received, it was but too probable that they would return and take another opportunity of Wreaking their vengeance on our heads.
"With Axe and Rifle"
W.H.G. Kingston
But after lapse of days, when all my pain Was softened, and I felt that my hot spirit Had run to fierce excess of bitterness In Wreaking mine offence-then, then the State Drove me for ever from the land, and they, Their father's sons, who might have saved their father, Cared not to help him, but betrayed by them, For lack of one light word, I wandered forth To homeless banishment and beggary.
"The Seven Plays in English Verse"
Sophocles