What is "punishes"

Usage examples of "punishes".

SPAIN CHAPTER I I Am Ordered to Leave Vienna--The Empress Moderates but Does Not Annul the Order--Zavoiski at Munich--My Stay at Augsburg--Gasconnade at Louisburg--The Cologne Newspaper--My Arrival at Aix-la-Chapelle The greatest mistake a man that punishes a knave can commit is to leave the said rogue alive, for he is certain to take vengeance.

She would have cost you your life at last, and she punishes me for having given her life.

Thus nature, wise like its Divine Author, punishes the ignorance and presumption of poor weak mortals.

If she punishes you, I would not stand for it, any more than I will stand for what was done to Sister Verna.