I heard some speak who thought it no more than just retribution upon Mr. Lincoln for the havoc he had wrought in our country.
In this struggle they took an active part, and were visited with the severest retribution by the marauding Indians.
Wherever the will of God is violated by nations or by individuals, a day of retribution comes, as surely as rivers which have burst their banks carry devastation wherever they rush.
These men were bent on exacting a terrible retribution for all they had undergone during seven disastrous years.
As nothing more was to be obtained from Parliament, the uncouth tyrant wended his way to St. Andrews, where he had planned a severe retribution for the remonstrant ministers, from a more obsequious tribunal.
This put an end to the patience of the conspirators, and they protested that it was but a fitting retribution to bury the authors of their oppressions under the ruins of the edifice in which they enacted such diabolical laws.
Despite all the horrors of destruction and the retribution that followed, it was necessary for orders to be issued as to the early closing of public buildings.
Retribution was falling heavily and sensational reports were in the air.
She was on the way to the fastnesses, where her unyielding husband was preparing a tremendous retribution for those whom he had never trusted.
Her retributionis as sure as her tyranny has been great.
But these "Authors by Profession" sometimes found a retribution of their crimes even from their masters.
Punishment, it is said, is not inflicted on the offender as a retribution for his misdeeds, it is inflicted for the purpose of protecting society against its enemies.
The difficulties surrounding the theory of retribution have led to other definitions of punishment.
I will remind him, that to my mother's care he owes the dearest treasure and comfort of his life; and I will ask him if it is a just retribution to make that mother childless.
This man's rude and clamorous grief only proves that the retribution I have dealt has been more widely felt than by the wretched sufferer himself.
You are also in possession of their after fate--the terrible, the tremendousretribution which, after long delays of many years, finally overtook and crushed them.
Punish her deceiver as he deserves and come to my lonely grave at the last and whisper to me that retribution has come.
It was very hard to persuade her at first that God's retribution would come time enough, she was so eager to avenge her wrongs with her own hand, but now that she has fully conquered her sinful desire for vengeance, God thinks fit to act.
The retribution that had gone forth against him had struck his moral, as a thunderbolt might have stricken his physical being.
The misery that she had inflicted on others recoiled in retribution on herself, as she now shuddered under the consciousness of the first emotions of helpless terror that she had ever felt.
Yet let him remember, though destruction may sate his vengeance, and pillage enrich his hoards, the day of retribution will yet come.
And when a servile insurrection takes place, many close their eyes and lift their hands, and say, "Perhaps the day ofretribution is come!
Then was committed that great crime, memorable for its singular atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution by which it was followed.
Natural laws have a curious roundabout way of paying back old scores, though the tragic retribution has to be borne more often than not by the innocent descendants of those who have, in the name of the Deity, violated them.
Sir Francis Tyrrell feel that he was generally hated, and acted, therefore, as some retribution for the sufferings he inflicted.
But such retribution had only a tendency to harden, not to mitigate, his feelings.
But here a swift and sternretribution was to be exacted from them.
But make no mistake about it--retribution is in the air.
They were now to receive the retribution of their indifference; rain had set in, and the farmers hoped that it might continue for a month.
Trust that the retribution of this will fall where it ought; and that will never be upon our Margaret.
Pray that the retribution may fall where it ought, and that its bitterness may be intense as the joy which Margaret and you deserve.
It is by such things that those who knew me long ago have judged me lately--a retribution which I ought not to complain of.
A penance in the future world is less fearful and distinct, especially to the young and the passionate, than an unavoidable retribution in this.
