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

The masses have a dim idea that every evil deed meets with requital and express it in the proverb that "Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small."

From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Nordau, Max Simon

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.

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

I say this: 'Yonder young man is much in debt to me, but my requital when I ask it will be equal to his debt.'

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth