What is "deserves"

Usage examples of "deserves".

Rancour deserves that I should leave her standing at the door to punish her for her impertinence to me when I came to London.

Just now I will tell you of a little trick which I played on you, which without doubt deserves some punishment.

If a person who prys into the characters of others, with no other design but to discover their faults, and to publish them to the world, deserves the title of a slanderer of the reputations of men, why should not a critic, who reads with the same malevolent view, be as properly stiled the slanderer of the reputation of books?

Place that confidence in the young lady which she so well deserves, and I am certain you will be the happiest father on earth.

The cavern is hardly half as high, and the water pours forth from it in such abundance that it deserves the name of river at its source.

If, as our holy religion maintains, there is a future life before us all, Marie Therese certainly deserves damnation, if only the oppressions she has used towards those poor women whose life is wretched enough at the best.

I will venture to assert, as a fact, that a man of sense rarely behaves very ill to a wife who deserves very well.

In my humble opinion, the true characteristic of the present beau monde is rather folly than vice, and the only epithet which it deserves is that of frivolous.

Indeed, my best of friends, he deserves a kinder appellation from you, had you heard the good, the kind, the grateful things which I have heard him utter of you.

You know he works hard and deserves so much more than Nonno gives him.

Your virtue, which went astray for only one instant, and which has so suddenly recovered its mastery over your senses, deserves some praise.

I can assure you that that man deserves to be loved, but he must acknowledge himself inferior to you in everything.

In great undertakings there are certain critical points which the leader who deserves to succeed trusts to no one but himself.

He deserves that those of us who know him and hold him in regard should stand by him.

William Guthrie, a man who deserves to be respectably recorded in the literary annals of this country.