Is there no danger in proving to men that to have served thee is discredit, to have warred against thee is guerdon and grace?
I know the men who will help me, bold ribauds, whom I will guerdon myself; for I want not thy coins, but thy craft.
I ask thee to pay him such a visit, and for this office I am empowered, by richer men than myself, to award thee the guerdon of twenty broad pieces of gold.
Knowing from your Highness and your spies that he had been open to the gifts of Charolois, I spoke to him plainly of the guerdon that should await his silence.
Alas, vnhappy father that I am, is this the guerdon and recompence that I and my children shall expect for our trusty and faithfull seruice?
Beneath the high sanction of Heaven, We'll fight as our forefathers fought; Then pray that to us may be given Such guerdon as fell to their lot.
He would then visit the rich and populous nations that, as report said, lined its borders, sail out on the great ocean, cross to the neighboring isles, and return to Spain to claim the glory and the guerdon of discovery.
This was the real stimulus to their toil, the price of perfidy, the true guerdon of their victories.
Pizarro's emissary had orders to send the offending captain to Lima; but Benalcazar, after pushing his victorious career far into the north, had returned to Castile to solicit his guerdonfrom the emperor.
The harvest of the Lord is sure; His Hand shall give the guerdon meet To all that to the end endure!
Then if you wish me success," he replied, "you must send me out with some guerdon of your favor.
Now all the reverence I held thee in is turned to hatred, God be thanked; such is the guerdonof thy love for me.
One more thing must I do, and then will I claim my guerdon of the Princess Joceliande.
Then, inasmuch as my lord duke desired to hear more music made, we were ready enough to obey and uplifted our voices, while he leaned on an easy couch, listening diligently, and gave us the guerdon of his gracious praise.
The idea of buying a baronetcy would have been thought simply droll, and knighthood was regarded as the guerdon of the successful grocer.
Whoso born of noble lineage, hits the far suspended aim, Let him stand and as his guerdon Drupad's beauteous maiden claim!
Thus hath this robbour and this homicyde, That many a man made to wepe and pleyne, Swich guerdon as bilongeth unto pryde.
At-after soper fille they in tretee, What somme sholde this maistresguerdon be, 1220 To remoeven alle the rokkes of Britayne, And eek from Gerounde to the mouth of Sayne.
My guerdon is but bresting of myn herte; Madame, reweth upon my peynes smerte; For with a word ye may me sleen or save, 975 Heer at your feet god wolde that I were grave!
I cast in the whirlpool a goblet of gold, And o'er it already the dark waters flow; Whoever to me may the goblet bring, Shall have for his guerdon that gift of his king.
Then said Amadis, I beseech you tell the King that what Urganda said before me is now made manifest, how I should gain for another, and my guerdon should be wrath, and the long delay of my will!
So when Madasima was remanded to prison he went to his brother-in-law Brocadan in trouble of heart, receiving now the guerdon which the merits of his misdeed deserved.
For my sad heart with misery bleeds, As, guerdon of those evil deeds, Still greater woe to woe succeeds In never-ending line.
Soon by his mighty arm embraced The long-lost rapture wilt thou taste, And Ráma, meet for highest bliss, Will gain his guerdon in thy kiss.
So now, my trusty Sir Alain, tell me whatguerdon I shall give thee for the services with which thou art charged.
Before I go hence," said the king to the Lord of Caversham, "is there no grace or guerdon that thou wouldest ask of me?
Sir Alain responded that he and his son had had grace and guerdon enow.
Guerdon of duty nobly done, And glistened on my cheek the tear Of grateful joy for victory won.
Then side by side, in our love and pride, be our men of the land and sea; The fewer these, the sterner task, the greater their guerdon be!
Should find a thrill of music in his name; Yea, goal and guerdon too, though Scorn should aim Her arrows at his soul's high citadel.
Anthony, thanks Is too-too small a guerdon for this news.
See, how your soldier wears his cage Of iron like the captive Turk, And as the guerdon of his rage!
It was probably some such thought as this which moved him to demand as guerdon for his services a boon which would place him in a position to do battle with some chance of success.
But song touched not his heavy heart, nor yet The lovely lines of gold and violet, A guerdon left by the departing sun To grace the brow of Anti-Lebanon.
And it felt as though the burden Of all England gave us might, Laid on each, who asked no guerdon But against those odds to fight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guerdon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
