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But still I crane my neck and track them at every opportunity, hoping I suppose to requite their deep indifference for me with my high regard for them.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2013

I think that’s every girl’s dream, that this punk who doesn’t really like us and doesn’t really requite our love, that he’s going to change all the sudden.

From Time ● Jan. 28, 2013

Therefore, in "the world as it is," you must requite evil with lesser evil.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2011

Did Mr. Anderson requite Ms. McKinney’s love, as she insists?

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2011

Replied Odysseus: “The young men, yes. And may the gods requite those insolent puppies for the game they play in a home not their own. They have no decency.”

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

That God repents his former Slights,       And Fortune thus your Faith requites.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Montague Summers

"One that hardly requites me for my patience in hearing it out."

From The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery by Marjorie Douie

When I felt most strongly Thy presence, and Thy love, O Lord, said I, how wonderfully Thou bestowest Thy favors on such a wretched creature, who requites Thee only with ingratitude.

From The Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

In other words, one is devoted to a friend when one knows him well, is true as steel to him, and basks in the sunshine of a love that requites that fidelity.

From Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals by John H. (John Henry) Stapleton

Cowper, even more than most writers, deserves and requites consideration under the double aspect of matter and form.

From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury

The experimental indie track “Only in My Dreams” and the bilingual, requited love anthem “Cariño” cemented their reputation as up-and-comers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024

His love for the revolution was not always requited.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2022

But there's a parallel thread of romance... a story of unrequited love that slowly became very requited indeed.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2022

But there’s something more that’s driving interest in Bennifer: the storybook nature of long-lost love requited.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2021

For months they’d been coming here, four or five nights a week as the Voice requited.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

Not requiting any encouragement to get out of his seat was Fernandez's fitness coach, who would leap and shout, pointing fingers or waving clenched fists.

From Fox News ● Sep. 7, 2021

And yet, among the human lovers, she is perhaps the most active, from when she betrays her friend to score points with Demetrius, her formerly requiting unrequited crush.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2020

The beloved proletariat, so requiting during hard times, had, at first opportunity, run off with capitalism's traveling salesman.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Nay, that would be requiting me ill—returning evil for good—to take the wind out of my sails and make my news stale,” returned the Trader, with a good-natured laugh.

From The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

We have recognised temporal justice, which has its seat in the state, as requiting and punishing, and have seen that this only becomes justice through a reference to the future.

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