Meted

Examples

• This was the clause--and no one who reads it can fail, I think, to agree with me that it meted out equal justice to all parties. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Chance has meted you a measure of happiness: that I know. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• With what measure ye mete, the same shall be meted unto you. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Let us hope that there it will be meted to the therns as they have meted it here unto others. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• What reward shall be meted to John Carter in accordance with the acts he has committed? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• She meted out a wide space between us, and kept me aloof by the reserved gesture, the rare and alienated glance, the word calmly civil. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It is here that Martian justice is meted to benefactor and malefactor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The ethics of all the others meted a quick and merciful death to their victims. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Editor: Margie