Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

your old fellow-servant, Joseph, issued out to receive us by the light of a dip candle. He did it with a courtesy that redounded to his credit.

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)

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The totall value of that which was gotten in this voyage, is estimated at three score thousand pounds, vvhereof the companies vvhich haue trauelled in the voyage were to haue twentie thousand pounds, the aduenturers the other fortie. Of which twentie thousand pounds (as I can iudge) will redound some sixe pound to the single share.

Walter Bigges. A Svmmarie and Trve Discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest Indian Voyage (1589)

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I did not omit even our sports and pastimes, or any other particular, which I thought might redound to the honor of my country. And I finished all with a brief historical account of affairs and events in England for about a hundred years past.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)

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Twenty years is a long time. I know nothing about those years, and I believe that I would know—if anything had happened that redounded at all to his credit.

Marilynne Robinson. Gilead, p.160 (2004)

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Yet if the gentlemen of Surgeons’ Hall think that any benefit can redound to their science from inspecting the appearances in the body of an opium-eater, let them speak but a word, and I will take care that mine shall be legally secured to them—i.e., as soon as I have done with it myself.

Thomas De Quincey. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)