PUNISHMENT

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punishment substantiv

pedeapsă, penalizare;

◊ (fam.) man who stands / takes punishment boxer care ştie să încaseze;

to take one’s punishment like a man a înghiţi hapul bărbăteşte.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment—beyond her situation: of something not round her nor before her.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

He had killed this god's dog, bitten his companion god, and what else was to be expected than some terrible punishment?

(White Fang, de Jack London)

The crime had its source in her; be hers the punishment!

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The law cannot, as you say, touch you, said Holmes, unlocking and throwing open the door, yet there never was a man who deserved punishment more.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She hoped to marry him, and they continued together till she was obliged to be convinced that such hope was vain, and till the disappointment and wretchedness arising from the conviction rendered her temper so bad, and her feelings for him so like hatred, as to make them for a while each other's punishment, and then induce a voluntary separation.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

They stood for some time without speaking a word; and she began to imagine that their silence was to last through the two dances, and at first was resolved not to break it; till suddenly fancying that it would be the greater punishment to her partner to oblige him to talk, she made some slight observation on the dance.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

And that punishment you made me suffer because your wicked boy struck me—knocked me down for nothing.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

When the gods administered punishment they stood on their legs.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

I would advise you, before you determine on it, to consult the wishes of the present party; I am much mistaken if there are not some among us to whom a ball would be rather a punishment than a pleasure.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

It ended in Mrs. Norris's resolving to quit Mansfield and devote herself to her unfortunate Maria, and in an establishment being formed for them in another country, remote and private, where, shut up together with little society, on one side no affection, on the other no judgment, it may be reasonably supposed that their tempers became their mutual punishment.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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