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

And had for guerdon what the base world's spite Oft gives to souls that noblest grace display, Full ill was Dante's life-work understood, His purpose high, by that ungrateful state.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

So for the costly guerdon her treasurer she sent.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown