SYN: Remuneration, equivalent, wages, pay, allowance, restoration, restitution, satisfaction, atonement, expiation, indemnification, amercement, damages.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Will they say of any tale of cruelty and horror, however aggravated in degree, that it is improbable, when they can turn to the public prints, and, running, read such signs as these, laid before them by the men who rule the slaves: in their own acts and under their own hands?
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Onond , prep. as regards, respecting, S; onont , S; see An-ent .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

These were the days when might was right, and the man with the strongest arm did as he pleased, often oppressing the poor and riding rough shod without any regard over the feelings and affections of others.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

“And I am as grave as a father confessor,” replied the Outlaw; “you must pay a round ransom, Sir Prior, or your convent is likely to be called to a new election; for your place will know you no more.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

The prince and Rogojin remained standing, and were not invited to sit.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it; Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Death and confiscation of property were now proclaimed as the penalty of practising any religious rites save those of the Roman Catholic Church.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

To set up a line of posts and rails requires some little skill; a man must know his business to stop a gap with a single rail or pole, fixing the ends firmly in among the underwood; even to fit thorn bushes in properly, so as to effectually bar the way, needs some judgment: but anybody can stretch a wire along and twist it round a tree.
— from The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of natural history and rural life (Illustrated) by Richard Jefferies

At the very commencement of this period a remarkable reaction set in against the sort of comedy hitherto prevalent and popular.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

"I can, indeed, sir, for I know that my friend Cluett has been but two days absent from the city the week past," and Randal Rayford stepped out of his room into the parlour, he having hastily dressed as he saw that a tragedy was threatening.
— from Wizard Will, the Wonder Worker by Prentiss Ingraham

Helen watched them trotting and galloping and running the horses round the grassy park, and rather regretted she had not gone with them.
— from The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey

"Oh, I'll leave 'em pay all right," rejoined Simeon, significantly, and stood silent and smiling until there were those in the room who uncomfortably shifted.
— from Christmas: A Story by Zona Gale

[163] [Pg 222] These Gypsies have never been seen to pray or perform any religious rite; some of their elders, like the Druzes and other Syrian tribes, circumcise their children, and conform to the exterior observances of El Islam.
— from The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir