| 1. | But the hour of retribution had arrived. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 2. | I thought that was a poetical retribution for her crime.. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 3. | A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 4. | Forgive, and leave his further retribution to the Power that claims i. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 5. | Thus the law Of retribution fiercely works in me.. - from The Divine Comedy, Complete by Dante Alighieri |
| 6. | "It is a long time," repeated his wife "and when is it not a long time Vengeance and retribution require a long time it is the rule.. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | See ye not, she is the scarlet letter, only capable of being loved, and so endowed with a millionfold the power of retribution for my si. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 8. | There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 9. | I cannot guess how many days have passed since then, but I have endured misery which nothing but the eternal sentiment of a just retribution burning within my heart could have enabled me to support. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 10. | Of piety and impiety to gods and parents, and of murderers, there were retributions other and greater far which he described. - from The Republic by Plato |