guerdon
noun
a reward, recompense, or requital.
guerdonless
-
a word derived from
guerdon.
Example Sentences
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And I will send you guerdonless to the foul fiend, if you prate of Lady Inger but one unseemly word more.
From Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Vol III Lady Inger of Ostrat by Henrik Ibsen
"O Sanpeur, love one worthier than I, And where your love will not be guerdonless!"
From Under King Constantine by Katrina Trask
Yet who, of all that see the gray morn rise, Lifts not his latch and hails with eager eyes My Songs, yet sends them guerdonless away?
From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus
Son of a goddess, if none risks the fray, How long shall Dares guerdonless remain?
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
If some of Virtue's train, for prince and country's good, To show their faithful hearts, shall hazard life and blood, And guerdonless depart, without their due reward, Small is th'encouragement, the example very hard.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
