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

He had not yet emerged from the eternity of the past, to grapple with the present, or encounter the retributions of the eternity which is to come.

Civilization cries aloud for retribution on a race whose religion teaches them to regard us as "dogs."

Nor is there in the vivid group of the vulture flapping the wolf, any accessory to rouse stronger emotions, than those which are associated with the sight of energy and courage, while the covert insinuation, that the bird is actuated by some instigation of retribution in pursuing the wolf for having run away with the bone, approaches the very point and line where the horrible merges in the ludicrous.

It is a just retribution to me to find the place so empty and forlorn.

You may strip Germany of her colonies, reduce her armaments to a mere police force and her navy to that of a fifth-rate power; all the same, in the end, if she feels that she has been unjustly treated in the peace of 1919, she will find means of exacting retribution from her conquerors.

Ay, Heaven heard,the God whom he ignored,and sent a retribution as signal and as prompt and as awful as his victories had been overwhelming.

He was a professor of that religion which will pour upon the willing slaveholder the retribution due to his sin.

If I admit that such a retribution by the party first attacked could scarcely be censured as unjust, still the punishment retorted upon the aggressor would be so dreadful, that nothing short of having received direct injury could justify any third Power in taking part in it.

Far worse than Brumaire, it needed a more crushing retribution than Waterloo.

And Oline nodded, as if prophesying divine retribution at a later date.

She now decided that it was time to put her plan of retribution into execution.

The Indians appear to have no idea of a retribution beyond this life.