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I have gone quite through with it, and was thinking to have accomplished that pleasure a second time before I wrote to thank you; but Martin Burney came in the night (while we were out) and made holy theft of it: but we expect restitution in a day or two.

On this principle he demanded restitution of the property.

Yet if I could awhile myself relieve, Till Ely be in some place settled, A double restitution should I get, And these sharp sorrows, that have joy suppress'd, Should turn to joy with double interest.

But when that appeared too difficult to put in execution, and no opportunity offered to accomplish it, they borrowed all the money they could, as if they designed to make satisfaction and restitution for what they had defrauded: and having purchased a great number of horses, they deserted to Pompey along with those whom they had engaged in their plot.

ducks and drakes; boomerang; spring, reactionist^. elastic collision, coefficient of restitution.

Warwick bears testimony to the sincerity of his conversion; "for he declared he was ready to make restitution to any man who would accuse him, or whom he could accuse himself to, to have wronged.

The unfortunate Filippo met his end nine years later in the Boboli fortezza, which his money had helped to build and in which he was imprisoned for his share in a conspiracy against Cosimo I. Cosimo confiscated the palace and all Strozzi's other possessions, but later made some restitution.

He was a second time sent into Barbary on a mission to King Amoli-bela-gegi, to procure restitution of the bones of the infant Don Fernando, in which he was successful.

He did so, and while urging provisions for the United States he paid attention also to the interests of Hamet, but was able to effect nothing more than to engage the restitution of his family, and even the persevering in this demand suspended for some time the conclusion of the treaty.

The minister of the United States to that court was specially instructed to urge the necessity of the immediate and effectual interposition of that Government, directing restitution and indemnity for wrongs already committed and interdicting the repetition of them.

The claims of our citizens are for mere justice; they are for reparation of unquestionable wrongsfor indemnity or restitution of property taken from them or destroyed without shadow or color of right.

The reclamations of American citizens upon the Government of France are for mere justicefor the reparation of unquestionable wrongs, indemnity or restitution of property taken from them or destroyed forcibly and without right.

They complain that their interests have been sacrificed entirely to those of the house of Orange, and they say that from the readiness they displayed in shaking off the yoke of France, and the great weight they thereby threw into the scale, they were entitled to the restitution of all their colonies in Asia, Africa, and America.

All that I need add on the subject of the statues and pictures is, that putting out of the question the justice or injustice of the restitution, it will be a great loss to England and to English artists in particular, should they be removed: many an artist can afford to make a trip to Paris, who would find it beyond his means to make a journey to Florence or Rome.

In order to recover him the Egyptians agreed to restore what they had taken, and the restitution was made.

But darkest and deepest of all, darker and deeper than the past shame of being suspected by him she loved, was the shame of suspecting her own motherof believing herself, as she did, privy to that shameful theft, and yet unable to make restitution.

I must say, Jack took it all in good humour, and filing a bill "STOMACH v. RIBS," left it to Old Neptune to obtain restitution for injuries inflicted on his sons.

RÉPARATION, f., action de réparer; restitution.

She was anxious to make restitution for any damage; but a close examination revealed the fact that there was no wound that a bit of glue would not easily cure, and the only real hurt was that given to the feelings of insulted motherhood.

Annotator's edition of Restatement of the law of restitution, quasi contracts and constructive trusts as adopted and promulgated by the American Law Institute at Washington, D. C., May 8, 1936.

Student edition of Restatement of the law of restitution, quasi contracts and constructive trusts as adopted and promulgated by the American Law Institute at Washington, D. C., May 8, 1936.

California annotations to the Restatement of the law of restitution as adopted and promulgated by the American Law Institute.

BRIERLY, HUGH. California annotations to the Re-statement of the law of restitution as adopted and promulgated by the American Law Institute.

Ohio annotations to the Restatement of the law of restitution.

Missouri annotations to the Restatement of the law of restitution.

retribution 474 occurrences

When and where the career of these germs of being, starting from points so wide asunder, are to meet, and how the balances of good and evil, of suffering and enjoyment of sinning and retribution, are to be adjusted at last?

The Angel of Retribution descended; and snatching the consummate Philanthropist to his bosom, he rose again; while all the astonished multitude, now reviving from their terror, gazed only on the celestial apparition; and heard the reascending Seraph thus address the beneficent spirit now committed to his care: "Thou faithful servant of Heaven!

[Illustration: RETRIBUTION.

To punish a person is to inflict pain or penalty upon him as a retribution for wrong-doing.

Requital, retaliation, reprisal, revenge, vengeance, retribution.

But a retribution subtler than mere drowning awaited the superfluous Potts; a retribution so simple of mechanism, so swift, so potent, and wrought with a talent so masterly, that the right of its instigator to the title of Boss of Little Arcady seemed to be unassailable for all future time.

" "But the old crimethe great trouble" "Oh, we'll allow all that," returned Beth; "and I don't say that an avenger wouldn't be the nicest person to exact retribution from the wicked captain.

"Do you know, I feel that some angel of retribution has guided us to this lonely farmhouse and put the idea into my head to discover and expose a dreadful crime.

He was not called to foretell the retribution which would surely be inflicted on degenerate and idolatrous nations, nor even to declare those impressive truths which should instruct all future generations.

If Socrates, by provoking questions and fearless irony, drove the Athenians to such wrath that they took his life, even when everybody knew that he was the greatest and best man at Athens, how much more savage and malignant must have been the narrow-minded Jews when Jeremiah laid bare to them their sins and the impotency of their gods, and the certainty of retribution!

As to the crimes they were guilty of towards one another, I had nothing to do with them; they were national, and I ought to leave them to the justice of God, who is the governor of nations, and knows how, by national punishments, to make a just retribution for national offences, and to bring public judgments upon those who offend in a public manner, by such ways as best please him.

What is punished with severity contrary to our ideas of adequate retribution, will be seldom discovered; and multitudes will be suffered to advance from crime to crime, till they deserve death, because, if they had been sooner prosecuted, they would have suffered death before they deserved it.

a fearful retribution shall avenge this crime.

It is said that the train of accidents that befell the Conqueror's family in the Forest was considered by Hampshire folk to be a just retribution for his iniquity in "making" it.

It is to be feared a heavy retribution awaits the white man, the pitiless author of their extermination.

We would not have this war end without signal and bitter retribution, and especially for all who have been guilty of deliberate treachery; for that is a kind of baseness that should be extirpated at any cost.

If the sternest foe of the Pilgrims across the water could have looked upon the exiles in their winter dreariness, hungry, wasted, dying, cowering beneath the accumulation of their woes, he might have regarded the scene as presenting but a reasonable retribution upon a stolid obstinacy in the most direful and needless self-inflictions.

The retribution was just and natural.

If aught in his life merited retribution, the man paid the price a hundred times over and over that second.

Conscience is a principle natural to men; and the work that it doth naturally, or of itself, is to give an apprehension of right and wrong, and to suggest to the mind the relation that there is between right and wrong and a retribution.

In the day of final retribution, not one mouth shall be opened to complain of injustice.

BRUSH, BERNICE BROWN. Retribution.

The unfortunate cacophony of the opening is the retribution on the translator for not having the courage to begin with a hypermetrical line.

Nor will I indulge a doubt but that the sense of justice of Great Britain will constrain her to make retribution for any wrong or loss which any American citizen engaged in the prosecution of lawful commerce may have experienced at the hands of her cruisers or other public authorities.

CHAPTER XXV. RETRIBUTION.

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