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

When you are visiting another city, and receiving civilities from some of its inhabitants, it is an ill requital for their attentions to disparage their place, and glorify your own.

From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Leslie, Eliza

"Still, there are young ladies in the world who would vouchsafe to bear me company in requital for being placed at the head of such a house as this."

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Lever, Charles James

The conception of requital implies that of time; therefore eternal justice cannot be requital.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur

For all the wrong of slavery requital must be made, submissively, ungrudgingly, repentantly.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.