They would not have ceased to survey each other even for promise of a reward!

But Lavérie was not to be cajoled with any promise of a reward.

Death was a bloody, stinking, foul reality, and in the face of it, the promise of a reward in the afterlife was not the least persuasive.

Darkin was not in the army long before he persuaded a captain of a merchant navy ship, with the promise of a reward, to smuggle him back to England, an offence that carried a fine of £100 at that time.

The Hur Brotherhood was another group of Assassins that emerged from a combination of religion and politics in the 1890s, modern fedayeen, like the Assassins, find strength in the promise of a reward in "paradise."

Behind the counter at the end of the wide cardboard-coloured room full of trestle tables, women put aside their ladles and spatulas to hold up their prayerful hands while a blurred smell of porridge and bacon descended upon the gathering like the promise of a reward for their devotion.