Prediction: the Saddam verdict will provoke retributory violence by radical Sunnis, with significant potential for Shi'ite militias to respond via death squads. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I have already begun my retributory purposes, as I may call them. ❋ Unknown (2006)
And yet, I could understand why Nat Turner would be driven to retaliate against a violent system by retributory violence. ❋ Unknown (1997)
It must be that God had a retributory end in view in that great event. ❋ Mrs. William T. Savage (N/A)
Were even the gods not exempt from retributory justice? ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
Strange was this retributory fate which had brought these two into the most intimate relations of husband and wife. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
From the day when, as young men, both had been aspirants for the imperial throne of Germany and Francis had suffered defeat, the latter had assiduously devoted himself to the retributory task of gaining the ascendancy over his successful rival. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
In violent hands, but deadly sure and retributory. ❋ John Trotwood Moore (N/A)
And when Dr. Martineau talks of the "natural penalties for guilt," and adds that "sin being there, it would be simply monstrous that there should be no suffering and would fully justify the despair which now raises its sickly cry of complaint against the retributory wretchedness of human transgression" (_Study_ II., p. 106), the reply is that there are no such things as "_natural_ penalties for guilt." ❋ Chapman Cohen (N/A)
It is not only a retributory and destructive fire, but a disciplinary and creative process, whose aim is the salvation, through unification, of the entire planet. ❋ 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi (1927)
"Yesterday the dagger of Escanes was ready to do the supreme act of retributory justice, and to rid the world of a maniacal tyrant and Rome of a cruel oppressor; to-day the act was virtually done by the madman himself when he fled in abject terror from before the face of his people." ❋ Emmuska Orczy Orczy (1906)
Imogen's figure, bereaved of her father, of her lover, desolate, amazed, rose before her and, behind it, the hovering, retributory gaze of her husband. ❋ Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1904)
Vigilantes, sheriff's posses (and now and again the regular army) had swept over these grassy swells on errands of retributory violence, and so the territory had been divided at last into populous States. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
He recognises a principle of right beyond the ken of man; but though he once said that this principle was conscious of his existence and his work on earth, it never entered his head to endow it with anything like retributory powers. ❋ Herbert Allen Giles (1890)
Spinoza could not regard the bad man as an object of Divine anger and a subject of retributory punishment. ❋ James Anthony Froude (1856)
Famines, at all events dire exhaustion, invariably put an end to such tumultuary wars, if they did not much control their beginnings, [42] and periodically expressed their long retributory convulsions. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)
Sometimes, indeed, the mere necessities of dispute carried me, before I was aware of my own imprudence, so far up the staircase of Babel, that my brother was shaken for a moment in the infinity of his contempt; and before long, when my superiority in some bookish accomplishments displayed itself, by results that could not be entirely dissembled, mere foolish human nature forced me into some trifle of exultation at these retributory triumphs. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)
With us are no retributory superstitions, by which a foundation of charity compensates, through ages, to the poor, for the rapine and injustice of a day. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)
The truth at length broke into his slow understanding that it was the pig that smelt so, and the pig that tasted so delicious; and surrendering himself up to the new-born pleasure, he fell to tearing up whole handfuls of the scorched skin with the flesh next it, and was cramming it down his throat in his beastly fashion, when his sire entered amid the smoking rafters, armed with retributory cudgel, and finding how affairs stood, began to rain blows upon the young rogue's shoulders, as thick as hail stones, which Bo-bo heeded not any more than if they had been flies. ❋ Various (1885)
