requital
Example Sentences
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This nonsense gradually infected everything and the consequence was an underestimate which subsequently bought the bitterest requital.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thou hast remembered thine oath unto me, my King; thou hast published thyself as ready to fulfil thy promise, and hast yielded unto me the choice of the manner of my requital!
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth
Maria then began to consider what adequate requital she could possibly make me.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert
Nor is revenge, even in its subordinate position, the simple blood-for-blood requital that it is in Kyd.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
For all the wrong of slavery requital must be made, submissively, ungrudgingly, repentantly.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
