nemesis

("Works and Days", 182 ff.) with its catalogue of wrongdoings and violence ever increasing until Aidos and Nemesis are forced to leave mankind who thenceforward shall have `no remedy against evil'.

But there is the terrible Nemesis following on some errors, that it is always possible for those who like it to interpret them into a crime: there is no proof in favor of the man outside his own consciousness and assertion."

There was no sound, barely a struggle of the convulsively stiffening old muscles, and then, with a push from De Vac, the body lunged forward into the Thames, where a dull splash marked the end of the last hope that Prince Richard might be rescued from the clutches of his Nemesis.

For which reason the antients used, on such occasions, to sacrifice to the goddess Nemesis, a deity who was thought by them to look with an invidious eye on human felicity, and to have a peculiar delight in overturning it.

The Nemesis of the delicate ones was creeping on apace.

Rokoff sat frozen with fear, unable to move a hand or foot, his eyes riveted upon the face of his Nemesis.

On a French liner it were an easy matter, Olga, permanently to settle this Nemesis of ours."

And we see in it, I think, an admirable instance of the unexpected forms in which the great Nemesis hides herself.

"No, certainly; I pity him in proportion to his struggles, for they foreshadow the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis. Consequences are unpitying.

And I pray Nemesis not to visit upon me the words which I am going to utter.

There is a Nemesis which overtakes generosity too, like all the other imprudences of men who dare to be lawless and proud .

But, if they had known that respectable Nemesis better, they would not have wondered about it, and might have stated the amount with the utmost precision.