requital

Example Sentences

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The coney was like hooey And squealed our requitals.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The Walnut-Tree piteously exclaimed, "O wretched me! that those whom I cheer with my fruit should repay me with these painful requitals!"

From Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Townsend, George Fyler

And now had not he himself taught her, by that hateful apology which seemed to have settled nothing, that there were subtler requitals than by buffets upon the front?...

From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor

So marked, indeed, is this practice of looking for requitals, that even the language is infected with it.

From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by Cooper, James Fenimore

Moreover, had there been a chance of requitals or escape he was under orders to accept neither.

From Men of Affairs by Pertwee, Roland