punition

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No such cruel punition as that of forcing a dull pupil to learn an additional task, or of sentencing him to strain his eyes copying four or five hundred lines, is ever dreamed of.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Hearn, Lafcadio

Send then Thy snowy white dove peace-bringing, Unto Thy faithful Thy token winging, Olive-branch fair of Thy summer's fruition After the deluge of sin's punition!

From Poems and Songs by Palmer, Arthur Hubbell