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

He could scarcely nerve himself to fling it away, and yet it seemed, in the light of reason, a very indifferent requital for a life of struggle and poverty.

From A Damaged Reputation by Bindloss, Harold

In requital, if you'll come to Growlers' Gully, where I'm hanging out, I can lay you on to a "show," as we miners call it, that may turn out something good.'

From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf

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.

The idea came from the Crito, where Socrates compels Crito to own that we must do evil to no one—not even by way of requital.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)