Proper bandits, I explained, the ones who fought bloody vendettas and hid out in the Maquis, have faded into Corsican history.

The Maniots were known for their proud military traditions and for their bloody vendettas (another portion of these Greeks moved to Corsica; cf. the Corsican vendettas).

But the bloody vendetta will reach far beyond Sicily; to a manor house in the English countryside, and to the gangster-run Chicago of the 1920's.

Though sometimes engaging in bloody vendettas, Venusian violence is relatively innocuous compared with what is going on Earth.

Then her arch nemesis, her former instructor who raped her and set her on her bloody vendetta, shows up with his flaming sword and blazing eyes.

Following ordination, he worked in various parishes, including a country parish afflicted by a bloody vendetta.

Sartène was notorious for its banditry and bloody vendettas.

Taken together, the changed approach suggests that Mr. Clinton has heeded an aroused Congress and widespread bafflement over a humanitarian mission that by degrees turned into a bloody vendetta.

Since then internecine bloody vendetta has ensued.

In 1939 a bloody vendetta between both clans started during a brawl about a question of honour among youngsters of the two clans.