Further Sixthly, this practice is perpetually haunted with most troublesome companions, inward regret and self-condemnation, fear and disquiet: the conscience of dealing so unworthily doth smite and rack him; he is ever in danger, and thence in fear to be discovered, and requited for it.

The social gulf that set their lives apart was all too wide to be spanned but by a miracle of love requited; and he had too much humility and naivété of soul to presume that such a thing could ever come to pass.

and be ashamed to have so ill-requited them!

Surely such nobility ought to be requited with nothing less than love!

The queen, always eager to encourage and reward feats of warlike enterprise, treated him with marked distinction, and procured him from her husband not only the restoration of his commission, but promotion to the command of a regiment; kindness which, as will be seen, he afterward requited with the foulest ingratitude.

Gray could not have requited him with such excess of admiration; but continued during the rest of his life to regard Beattie with affection and esteem.

Elephants, for instance, are reported to have taken premeditated revenge for insults long after they were suffered; lions, to have requited benefits on an opportunity tardily offered.

Gallantry is the residue of this veneration, deservedly requited as it is by feminine arrogance; it affords continual food for laughter to all Asiatics, and the Greeks would have joined in it.

In this respect, the ordinary traveller is apt to resemble him who journeys on the great highway of life, and who finds himself obliged, by a tardy and ill-requited diligence in age, to repair those omissions and negligences of youth which would have rendered the end of his toil easy and profitable.

Bid him open his heart anew, and he shall yet be happy, yet love again, and have his love requited.

"The deep devotion you have displayed towards me deserves to be requited.

Many the things, in truth, I with patience endured from my playmates, When the good-will that I bore them they often requited with malice.

After which I caused a procuration to be drawn, empowering him to be my receiver of the annual profits of my plantation, and appointing my partner to account with him, and make the returns by the usual fleets to him in my name; and a clause in the end, being a grant of one hundred moidores a year to him during his life, out of the effects, and fifty moidores a year to his son after him, for his life: and thus I requited my old man.

He said they were the most ungrateful, faithless set he ever saw; no confidence could be placed in them, and kindness was always requited by insult.

He therefore augmented the pay of all his attendants, and requited every exertion of uncommon diligence by supernumerary gratuities.

The Duc de Mayenne, who had espoused the royal cause against Epernon, was indignant at the ingratitude and coldness with which his services had been requited, and did not seek to disguise his discontent; while the nobles of Guienne, by whom he had been followed, were in an equal state of irritation.

"Wrongs are engraved on marble; benefits, on sand: those are apt to be requited; these, forgot.

And in this gaming there is no gain, because the end of loving, for everybody except those lucky persons whose love is not requited, must always be a sick disgust and a self-despising, which the wise will conduct in silence, and not talk about as I am talking now under your dear bewitchments.

She sank into a vague wonder at life, which had so cruelly requited the fervours of her girlhood.

"The King has requited him with a title," Dick returned.

Years ago, his father rendered me a signal service, which I requited as I best could; and there is nothing I would not gladly do for the son of such a friend.

"I have already told you that your father rendered me a service impossible to be adequately requited," pursued the Puritan.

I trust you will escape the disorder, and if I am spared your devotion shall be adequately requited.

The affection of parents for young children was requited by no kindness on the part of youth for old age.

The captives were duly sent to their fate in Sydney, and the services of the New Zealanders gratefully requited by a payment at the rate of a musket per convict.