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

Helen, I swear it, by every hope that now thrills within me—" "It would be," resumed she, tremulously, "an ungenerous requital for this, were I to practise any deception on you.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

The loftiest love is that which gets not nor expects requital.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

The register of the rudeness of the strong is also full, and destined for full requital.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.

The conception of requital implies that of time; therefore eternal justice cannot be requital.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur