retribution

• The people themselves will, no doubt, one day interfere to abate this terrible scourge, which exists amongst them only for their ruin; and when the cry is once afoot, the retribution will be awful. —  Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II.
• In him I wronged a man of honour, and my retribution is the judgment of God. —  The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
• The Furies are the attendants on justice, and if the sun in the heavens should transgress his path, they would punish him This is that awful yet sublime doctrine of retribution which is the groundwork of the masterpieces of the ancient Greek tragedies, the inspiration without which the world would never have known the Agamemnon or the immortal trilogy of Sophocles. —  Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles
• He took it out There was the same rough handwriting on the same kind of paper, and evidently with the same blunt pencil Remember--retribution is sure This thing ceases to be a joke!" —  The Brand of Silence A Detective Story
• Some of us even began to think that the law of retribution was at work itself, without our poor help We went ahead with our plans, however. —  The Brand of Silence A Detective Story

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