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

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

Judith patted the little maid in requital of her courtesy, and then stole noiselessly up-stairs.

From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William

What a miserable requital for the cruel neglect and iron injustice, which repaid the years of suffering and self-sacrifice, by which it was earned!

From Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by Norman, B. M.

Her language to Lord George was even worse, for she told him that his "counsel was a very sorry requital for the generous hospitality her father had always extended to him."

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James