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What thrift requites good service, I'll show you well to-day.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

He that a greater biter bites, His folly on himself requites, 516 As we shall manifest forthwith.—

From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)

But our little attention requites in a very small degree the obligations which I am under to your noble father’s family. 

From The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales by Davies, R. Rice

And since the Grand-duke has come back and brought This army of the North which thus requites His filial South, we leave him to be taught.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

I believe that he would be a very different boy if he were relieved from the misery he suffers at home and requites by mischievous pranks. 

From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Yonge, Charlotte Mary