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Example sentences for "requital"

Lexicographically close words:
requisition; requisitioned; requisitioning; requisitions; requisitus; requitall; requite; requited; requites; requiting
  1. Thy victory is from me," she said, "where is the requital of my gift?

  2. Then a strange smile passed over the face of Minos, as he said, "The gifts of fair maidens must not be lightly cast aside; the requital shall be made when the turmoil of strife is ended.

  3. And we indeed are suffering justly, for we are receiving due requital for what we have done.

  4. He requires that every man shall contribute at his own risk: and trust for requital to the honesty or equity of his fellow-contributors.

  5. The service which each man renders to supply the wants of others is in the nature of an onerous duty; the requital for which is furnished to him in the services rendered by others to supply his wants.

  6. The portion of that conversation, which described the theory of a model commonwealth, is recapitulated in its main characteristics: and Sokrates now claims from the two listeners some requital for the treat which he has afforded to them.

  7. In requital mine host was always furnished with the news of the country, and was probably a little of a humorist to boot.

  8. My sin is worse than that of Hophni and Phineas, and I would that the requital might be as theirs was, save that I can make it more bitter yet.

  9. He stipulated that the associates should secure to him the sum of one thousand pesos de oro in requital of his goodwill, and they eagerly closed with his proposal, rather than be encumbered with his pretensions.

  10. They considered them as a poor requital of all the favors bestowed on them by the Inca, who hitherto had received at their hands nothing but wrong.

  11. Corn-bot may thus have been a fine for the destruction of corn, and have taken on a general sense of requital or revenge.

  12. S: They said: But what shall be the requital of this, if you are liars?

  13. Y: That was the Requital We gave them because they ungratefully rejected Faith: and never do We give (such) requital except to such as are ungrateful rejecters.

  14. Y: For them there is Hell, as a couch (below) and folds and folds of covering above: such is Our requital of those who do wrong.

  15. S: They said: The requital of this is that the person in whose bag it is found shall himself be (held for) the satisfaction thereof; thus do we punish the wrongdoers.

  16. In requital of this obligation the French Emperor unquestionably agreed to permit the Czar to conquer Finland from Sweden--thereby adding immeasurably to the security of St. Petersburg.

  17. Another article, extremely distasteful to Austria, yielded Tuscany; which Napoleon resolved to transfer to a prince of the House of Parma, in requital of the good offices of Spain during the war.

  18. He is to feel that the punishment is not only a requital but a mental benefit.

  19. The masses have a dim idea that every evil deed meets with requital and express it in the proverb that "Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.

  20. He paused, then added: Things have indeed now got so far, Socrates, that several times I have had to stand my trial and have judgment passed upon me in set terms, what I must pay or what requital I must make.

  21. This, too, is that kindliest of arts which makes requital tenfold in kind for every work of the labourer.

  22. For every boon of service well performed he must be eager to make requital to the author of it, nor hesitate to visit on the heads of those neglectful of their duty a just recompense.

  23. Nietzsche makes a violent, passionate attempt to refer the sum total of false modern morality, not to the instinct of requital or to the feeling of revenge in general, but to the narrower form of it which we call spite, envy and rancune.

  24. Yea, for the murdered children's life, A chieftain's in requital ta'en.

  25. I, I who stand and thus exult to see This man lie wound in robes the Furies wove, Slain in requital of his father's craft.

  26. A right requital for thy presumptuous and treasonable game, my son," said his father, teasing him.

  27. Nay, for my part, methinks 'twas a strange requital of poor Babington's suit to your sister!

  28. The time is come when with Thine aid I may avail to make yonder wicked woman pay the penalty of the harm she did me in requital of the great love I bore her.

  29. I will well that you have this consolation, in requital of the buffets he gave you on my account.

  30. The all-seeing God knows that I never did aught to merit such requital at my husband's hands.

  31. I added that with so distinguished a personage I could not think of exacting a bargain and fixing the amount of fees; the requital of my care should be left to his generosity.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "requital" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amends; atonement; avenge; compensation; consideration; damages; desert; deserts; gratification; honorarium; indemnification; indemnity; meed; price; punishment; quittance; recompense; redress; refund; reimbursement; remuneration; reparation; repayment; reprisal; requital; restitution; retaliation; retribution; return; revenge; reward; salvage; satisfaction; squaring; vengeance