Sentence examples for requital for from inspiring English sources

Has it been made to show good will, esteem, or kindliness toward persons who happen to have served, but who are paid without thought to make requital for the service?

If, then, Thetis has come to my house I must make her due requital for having saved me; entertain her, therefore, with all hospitality, while I put by my bellows and all my tools". On this the mighty monster hobbled off from his anvil, his thin legs plying lustily under him.

Poplicola, admiring his courage, proposed at once that the Romans should every one make him a present of a day's provisions, and afterwards give him as much land as he could plough round in one day, and besides erected a brazen statute to his honour in the temple of Vulcan, as a requital for the lameness caused by his wound.

5 So Charidemus was led away, but as he went to his death, he shouted that the king would soon change his mind and would receive a prompt requital for this unjust punishment, becoming the witness of the overthrow of the kingdom.

Honour him then yourself, Olympian lord of counsel, and grant victory to the Trojans, till the Achaeans give my son his due and load him with riches in requital". Jove sat for a while silent, and without a word, but Thetis still kept firm hold of his knees, and besought him a second time.

Worship is the requital of God's live in a personal encounter, a communion which is reciprocal but asymmetrical, involving a "sacrifice of praise" (Heb. 13:15) on the part of the created and redeemed.

(Scroll through her Twitter feed for a flavor of its requital).

To say that this arrangement suited Housman would be unfair, for nobody could wish such misery on another, but one wonders how he might have coped with requital.

Again, thy husband is not exiled for thy son's sake, nor is he slain to avenge my death, although by him this life is quenched twice as much as e'er my sister's was; so if murder is to succeed murder in requital, I and thy son Orestes must slay thee to avenge our father; if that was just, why so is this.

Morrison, it happens, is less interested in the grand passions of love and requital than she is in the curious texture of communal amnesty.

The novel ends without any suggestion of requital or real atonement; and, of course, nothing is more judgmental, in the end, than Dee's avoidance of obvious judgment.