guerdon

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To snag the top guerdon at a fake National Spelling Bee, Guy relies on his photographic memory and a certain prospicience about the vulnerabilities of spelling prodigies.

From Time • Mar. 13, 2014

The guerdon of the struggle remained the same; but, by the beginning of the last scene, most of its contenders and nearly all of their weapons had been altered.

From Time Magazine Archive

When "Stunner" Harding was elected President, he returned the guerdon of friendship, taking "Chain Ganger" Crissinger down to Washington to be Comptroller of the Currency.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Pay the men of art for not curing her: all the guerdon I seek, that cured her, is this; go not and give your foul linen away from me by way of thanks."

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

Many loved truth and lavished life’s best oil Amid the dust of books to find her, Content at last for guerdon of their toil With the cast mantle she had left behind her.

From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by Somerville, H. G.