requital

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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

And then, pray that the veil of oblivion may be thrown over the fiendish requital which, in after years, succeeded this hospitable reception.

From Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by Norman, B. M.

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

What a miserable requital for the cruel neglect and iron injustice, which repaid the years of suffering and self-sacrifice, by which it was earned!

From Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by Norman, B. M.

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