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
Her language to Lord George was even worse, for she told him that his "counsel was a very sorry requital for the generous hospitality her father had always extended to him."
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever
The dark mystery of unrequited wrong was being illuminated by the righteous majesty of complete requital.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
In retaliation for this poor requital, he divulged the whole correspondence to President Madison, receiving therefor the sum of $50,000.
From Vermont A Study of Independence by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
Maria then began to consider what adequate requital she could possibly make me.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Robert Fitzroy
