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
I say this: 'Yonder young man is much in debt to me, but my requital when I ask it will be equal to his debt.'
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
Thou hast remembered thine oath unto me, my King; thou hast published thyself as ready to fulfil thy promise, and hast yielded unto me the choice of the manner of my requital!
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
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 T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
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 Harold Bindloss
