meed

Example Sentences

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During the nine-day period between the King's death and his burial, most Britons had had their meed of public grief.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I would deny no meed of praise or thanks."

From Time Magazine Archive

Whoever wins or loses, the donor gets his meed of personal advertising and public acclaim.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nancy made a flat cake of white flour with a sprinkling of sugar on top, and Jenny pulled tender radishes and onions from her garden to give the taste of spring to their meed.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

“Ere yet her speech was finished, he consign’d To her soft hand the fruit of burnished rind; And foam-born Venus grasp’d the graceful meed, Of war, of evil war, the quickening seed.”

From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Guerber, H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline)