Guerdon

The gods were wroth at so presumptuous an offer, but when they would have indignantly driven the stranger from their presence, Loki urged them to make a bargain which it would be impossible for the stranger to keep, and so they finally told the architect that the guerdon should be his, provided the fortress were finished in the course of a single winter, and that he accomplished the work with no other assistance than that of his horse Svadilfare. ❋ Unknown (1894)

The 13-year-old boy aced "guerdon" to win the 81st edition of the bee, held in the nation's capital. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thanks to the school of scientific philosophers he favored, he knew the biological significance of love; but by a refined process of the same scientific reasoning he reached the conclusion that the human organism achieved its highest purpose in love, that love must not be questioned, but must be accepted as the highest guerdon of life. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“Then dirt and weather-beat shall be your guerdon of honour,” ❋ Unknown (2010)

Lors des championnats les plus récents, les mots qui ont permis aux gagnants de remporter la victoire ont été pococurante, autochthonous, appoggiatura, ursprache, serrefine, guerdon et Laodicean. ❋ Rene Meertens (2010)

The winning words in recent competitions have included: pococurante; autochthonous; appoggiatura; ursprache; serrefine; guerdon; Laodicean. ❋ Rene Meertens (2010)

Constructing new legislation is always difficult, but I propose a simple starting point for immigration selection: Anyone who can spell guerdon is in! ❋ Unknown (2009)

People also gathered round this silver-and-nickel-alloy guerdon to meet its guardian: Mike Bolt. ❋ Beinner, Ron (2009)

When Sameer Mishra correctly spelled guerdon last May to win the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee, he became the sixth Indian-American winner in the past 10 years. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There's gold, if this thou'lt claim as thy guerdon. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For thy present guerdon, take this small reliquary — it was given to us by our uncle the Cardinal, and hath had the benediction of the ❋ Unknown (2008)

Could they win guerdon in the tourney, thinkest thou, noble prince? ❋ Unknown (2008)

From the hills I am bringing to my home a tendril freshly-culled, glad guerdon-of the chase. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Queen of Argos, daughter of Tyndareus, sister of those two noble sons of Zeus, who dwell in the flame-lit firmament amid the stars, whose guerdon high it is to save the sailor tossing on the sea. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thus the Count and Countess had an opportunity to estimate the happiness and the felicity reserved for those slaves, whom the Omnipotent Jupiter, in the plenitude of compassion for their state, and in guerdon of their good morals, had dedicated to the service of a philosopher. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And this too filled me with affright; o'er the summit of his tomb appeared Achilles 'phantom, and for his guerdon he would have one of the luckless maids of ❋ Unknown (2008)

Meantime all the Achaeans sit idly here in their ships at the shores of Thrace; for the son of Peleus, even Achilles, appeared above his tomb and stayed the whole host of Hellas, as they were making straight for home across the sea, demanding to have my sister Polyxena offered at his tomb, and to receive his guerdon. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Nor, as aforetime, did the Hylleans devise their hurt, but of their own accord furthered their passage, winning as guerdon a mighty tripod of Apollo. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Even thy wildest and most foolish wishes may perchance be fulfilled — I might blush to mingle meaner motives with the noble guerdon I hold out to thee — It shames me, being such as I am, to mention the idle passions of youth, save with contempt and the purpose of censure. ❋ Unknown (2008)