The men about me held themselves like children whose sure punishment only awaited the return of a parent.

"I can imagine some such punishment awaits me in Hell!"

By morning, the friends return to their respective homes to discover what punishment awaits them.

She felt fit except for the anguish of wondering about what further punishment awaited her.

Whatever punishment awaited the other Smokies, it would be a hundred times worse for them.

He warned of the punishment awaiting those who neglect this duty.

He enters a place of terror and wonder where punishment awaits those who violate a specific code.

If you didn't excel there were punishments awaiting that defied description.

I know there is no great punishment awaiting me, because my pardon was apparently signed on the night before my escape.

Of course he had no way of knowing what punishment might await the woman among her own people, since she had failed at her mission.