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  • No money, no recompense for work–why did our souls' society not fall apart?†   (source)
  • I got a few good pelts in recompense, but fur don't fill your belly.†   (source)
  • He got recompense for that!†   (source)
  • Holabird tried to persuade Gedney that claiming salvage might unnecessarily prolong the process, and perhaps it would be better to pursue the claim privately and seek recompense from Ruiz and Montes directly.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he sees something meaningful, how this might be a test and a recompense.†   (source)
  • 'As an American, it may offend you,' answered Wu Song, 'but he is a man in Bristol, Connecticut, who realized that the company he works for — designs for — would never recompense him adequately for his invention.†   (source)
  • It was wonderful to be twenty-two and a little drunk, knowing that all went well at the writing desk, shiveringly happy in the clutch of one's own creative ardor and in that "grand certitude" Thomas Wolfe was always hymning—the certitude that the wellsprings of youth would never run dry, and that the wrenching anguish endured in the crucible of art would find its recompense in everlasting fame, and glory, and the love of beautiful women.†   (source)
  • I have taken him and there is no recompense.†   (source)
  • Did it feel as bad as having some fifty thousand books annihilated with no recompense?†   (source)
  • And yet, if such must come, if there is no other way, still there may be recompense.†   (source)
  • He walked all this way to sing how loyal he is and beg for recompense.†   (source)
  • It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.†   (source)
  • Edwyn said, "My lord grandfather will expect recompense for these prisoners."†   (source)
  • They may ask for …. ah …. recompense for those who lost their lives to the dragon's wroth.†   (source)
  • Adams had strong views on the matter of recompense for officeholders.†   (source)
  • We've watered the ground between here and the Burning Plains with our blood, and now we'll have our recompense.†   (source)
  • But I will desire recompense.†   (source)
  • I will have recompense.†   (source)
  • You are guilty of both theft and destroying someone else's property without offering proper recompense.†   (source)
  • "So," said Undin, glowering at a pastry, "they rebuilt the clan over the decades, waiting and hunting for recompense.†   (source)
  • I freely admit that without your help, we never would have been able to attack the Empire as we did, and you deserve recompense for what you have risked, spent, and lost over the course of this war.†   (source)
  • In addition to the crew's wages, I charge a fee of two hundred crowns, plus recompense for any damage to the barges on account of your men, plus-as both owner and captain-twelve percent of the total profit from sale of the cargo.†   (source)
  • "The Mountain's dead, as is my father," Jaime told him, "and some might say your head was recompense enough.†   (source)
  • Permit me to recompense you for your trouble.†   (source)
  • From whom should we claim the recompense of our damage, and aid for our widows and orphans?†   (source)
  • It was probably just peaceful despair and relief at final and complete abnegation, now that Judith was about to immolate the frustration's vicarious recompense into the living fairy tale.†   (source)
  • You believed some brief formalities, some bendings of the knee, would recompense Him well enough for your criminal indifference.†   (source)
  • They aided you in your distress, and in recompense you have thus far brought ruin only, though doubtless undesigned.†   (source)
  • They were seized with a sort of panic at the thought that they might die so near the goal and never see again the ones they loved, and their long privation have no recompense.†   (source)
  • The other directors of the Burma Mines Ltd awarded me fourteen thousand shares as a small recompense for my services.†   (source)
  • …peaceful greenery and crimson flowers and sugar cane sapling size and three times the height of a man and a little bulkier of course but valuable pound for pound almost with silver ore, as if nature held a balance and kept a book and offered a recompense for the torn limbs and outraged hearts even if man did not, the planting of nature and man too watered not only by the wasted blood but breathed over by the winds in which the doomed ships had fled in vain, out of which the last tatter…†   (source)
  • Men spoke of the recompense for all their harm that they would soon get from it, and wealth over and to spare with which to buy rich things from the South; and it cheered them greatly in their plight.†   (source)
  • Sometime and somewhere there would be recompense.†   (source)
  • I wish to recompense you—why should you lose all?†   (source)
  • Resign yourself, and this obedience Will be by Heaven well recompensed.†   (source)
  • I did not mean to tax your time without a recompense.†   (source)
  • You ought to stand something handsome, Fagin, to recompense me for keeping house so long.†   (source)
  • "An evil recompense," said Rebecca, "for the surrender of the rights which are dearest to humanity."†   (source)
  • They will recompense him now, I hope, as he deserves.†   (source)
  • It would recompense me for much disappointment if I could hope to gain your confidence.'†   (source)
  • "Oh, I am already grandly recompensed!" cried d'Artagnan.†   (source)
  • "And it is thus heaven recompenses virtue, sir," added Caderousse.†   (source)
  • That is how you recompense me for the really paternal care that I lavish on you!†   (source)
  • And this is the recompense I get, you ungrateful girl!†   (source)
  • Guster has some recompenses for her many privations.†   (source)
  • I'll recompense myself for the way in which I have been brought up.'†   (source)
  • I did not take bribes, you see, so I was bound to find a recompense in that, at least.†   (source)
  • Monsieur le Baron, I will tell you all, leaving the recompense to your generosity.†   (source)
  • I trust you will allow me to recompense worthily the devotion of your man.†   (source)
  • "I have already said," answered the Pilgrim, "that I desire no recompense.†   (source)
  • His gratitude, and the happiness imparted, were more than a recompense for all my trouble.†   (source)
  • When this madness is over there is a recompense.†   (source)
  • 'Your own recompense for all this, Mr Pancks,' said Clennam, 'ought to be a large one.'†   (source)
  • D'Artagnan at once comprehended that this was his recompense.†   (source)
  • 'Recompense him for his toils and disappointments.†   (source)
  • Do you think that I deserve a recompense?†   (source)
  • ' 'Ay, there is a recompense when the madness is over, surely?' the lama muttered half to himself.†   (source)
  • The recompense will exceed your expectations; that is all I promise you.†   (source)
  • "Madame," said he, "the count and yourself recompense too generously a simple action.†   (source)
  • It is just that some recompense should be bestowed on you.†   (source)
  • Her mother was her best friend and had put every last possibility into the guiding of her, not so rare a thing in the theatrical profession, but rather special in that Mrs. Elsie Speers was not recompensing herself for a defeat of her own.†   (source)
  • It caused me a pleasure which I was ashamed to have dared to demand from my parents, for so great was it that to have procured it for me must have involved them in an immensity of effort, and with no recompense, since for them there was no pleasure in the sound.†   (source)
  • We are willing to give £30 a quarter, or £120 a year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which our fads may cause you.†   (source)
  • He waited, he gibbered, he was recompensed, he was dissatisfied, he did not leave them until he had swept their minds clean of all thoughts whether pleasant or unpleasant.†   (source)
  • She had her recompense at last.†   (source)
  • For obviously, their time being as valuable as it was—devoted hitherto to the most successful practice in Bridgeburg—and with many matters waiting on account of the pressure of this particular case—they were by no means persuaded that either their practical self-interest or their charity permitted or demanded their assisting Clyde without further recompense.†   (source)
  • It is to recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the very heads of your profession.†   (source)
  • But the weary hours of abnegation to this physical torture at least held one consoling recompense as compared with her experience of last year, and it was that there was no one interested to watch for her weaknesses and failures and blunders.†   (source)
  • I give it to him, fully conscious of my action, as recompense for—well, for anything he thinks best.†   (source)
  • As regards your hair, it is no doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary may recompense you for the loss.†   (source)
  • And even then, the exertions which the austere reason of that great man made to repress the generous but imprudent passions of his fellow-citizens, very nearly deprived him of the sole recompense which he had ever claimed—that of his country's love.†   (source)
  • I had saved a human being from destruction, and as a recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shattered the flesh and bone.†   (source)
  • Having declared her intention of staying till the master could get about again, "wage or no wage," she had found a certain recompense in keeping a strong hand over her mistress, scolding her for "moithering" herself, and going about all day without changing her cap, and looking as if she was "mushed."†   (source)
  • "In the seventh place, try, by the frequent thought of death," the Rhetor said, "to bring yourself to regard it not as a dreaded foe, but as a friend that frees the soul grown weary in the labors of virtue from this distressful life, and leads it to its place of recompense and peace."†   (source)
  • These Mohicans and I will do what man's thoughts can invent, to keep such flowers, which, though so sweet, were never made for the wilderness, from harm, and that without hope of any other recompense but such as God always gives to upright dealings.†   (source)
  • The chuckle with which he said this, and the chuckle with which he paid for the Turkey, and the chuckle with which he paid for the cab, and the chuckle with which he recompensed the boy, were only to be exceeded by the chuckle with which he sat down breathless in his chair again, and chuckled till he cried.†   (source)
  • This poor workingman had constituted himself the tutor of Justice, and she recompensed him by rendering him great.†   (source)
  • "A good man's prayers are golden recompense!" rejoined old Roger Chillingworth, as he took his leave.†   (source)
  • But the duties and responsibilities make the recompense small, and they are so very heavy that I fear to undertake them.'†   (source)
  • But how thinkest thou, chela, to recompense these people, and especially the priest, for their great kindness?†   (source)
  • To recompense you, you shall have your picture on the first possible day; next week—as soon as it is dry.†   (source)
  • Your lot is your lot, and Scripture is nothing; for if you do good you don't get rewarded according to your works, but be cheated in some mean way out of your recompense."†   (source)
  • I accept your gift, and would fain recompense it with this precious purple flower; but if I toss it into the air it will not reach you.†   (source)
  • To have struggled with him in the street, or to have exacted any lower recompense from him than his heart's best blood, would have been futile and degrading.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless I cannot believe that all those who practise virtue from religious motives are only actuated by the hope of a recompense.†   (source)
  • For my part, I could have gone through a good deal (though I was much less brave than Traddles, and nothing like so old) to have won such a recompense.†   (source)
  • I have a little boy, younger than you, who knows six Psalms by heart: and when you ask him which he would rather have, a gingerbread-nut to eat or a verse of a Psalm to learn, he says: 'Oh! the verse of a Psalm! angels sing Psalms;' says he, 'I wish to be a little angel here below;' he then gets two nuts in recompense for his infant piety."†   (source)
  • Inquiries were made as to how it got there; I was obliged to confess, and in recompense for my cowardice and inhumanity was sent out of the house.†   (source)
  • …they have taken flight, and the pallet, which they must have forgotten in their terror, is precisely that hospitable bed in search of which you have been running ever since morning, and which madame the Virgin miraculously sends you, in order to recompense you for having made a morality in her honor, accompanied by triumphs and mummeries; or the children have not taken flight, and in that case they have put the brand to the pallet, and that is precisely the good fire which you need to…†   (source)
  • I must—though she did always brag about her rich uncle or rich aunt, and her expectations from 'em—I must send a useful sum of money to her, I suppose—just as a little recompense, poor girl….†   (source)
  • FAUST Seek thou the honest recompense!†   (source)
  • As Young Jerry, thus encouraged, went on a few yards in advance, to plant the stool in the shadow of the Bar, Mr. Cruncher added to himself: "Jerry, you honest tradesman, there's hopes wot that boy will yet be a blessing to you, and a recompense to you for his mother!"†   (source)
  • Yet it is in your power to recompense me, and deliver them from an evil which it only remains for you to make so great, that not only you and your family, but thousands of others, shall be swallowed up in the whirlwinds of its rage.†   (source)
  • Man, searching by his intellect into the divine conception, and seeing that order is the purpose of God, freely combines to prosecute the great design; and whilst he sacrifices his personal interests to this consummate order of all created things, expects no other recompense than the pleasure of contemplating it.†   (source)
  • Day and night he was watching, and patiently enduring all the annoyances that irritable nerves and a shaken reason could inflict; and, though Kenneth remarked that what he saved from the grave would only recompense his care by forming the source of constant future anxiety — in fact, that his health and strength were being sacrificed to preserve a mere ruin of humanity — he knew no limits in gratitude and joy when Catherine's life was declared out of danger; and hour after hour he would…†   (source)
  • What evil can there be in it if unfortunate people, our serfs, people like ourselves, were growing up and dying with no idea of God and truth beyond ceremonies and meaningless prayers and are now instructed in a comforting belief in future life, retribution, recompense, and consolation?†   (source)
  • "And then, dear boy, it was a recompense to me, look'ee here, to know in secret that I was making a gentleman.†   (source)
  • If the spirit of a sainted wooman hovers above us and looks down on the occasion, that, and your constant affection, will be my recompense.†   (source)
  • The pleasant face of Phoebe—and doubtless, too, the liberal recompense which she had flung him—still dwelt in his remembrance.†   (source)
  • 'My daughter, sir,' returned Bray, haughtily, 'as I have brought her up, would be a rich recompense for the largest fortune that a man could bestow in exchange for her hand.'†   (source)
  • And he said all this — I knew, as I saw his face in the moonlight — that I might understand he was resolved to recompense himself by using his power.†   (source)
  • Much relieved when the two hours were at last accomplished, he went away at a quick pace, as a recompense for so much loitering.†   (source)
  • Messrs Pyke and Pluck heard the exclamation, and stopped immediately: winking to each other as they did so, and filling their glasses to the brim, as some recompense for the deprivation of speech.†   (source)
  • He was quite ashamed, after the foregoing reflections, to propose any diminution of so moderate a recompense for the immense service to be rendered.†   (source)
  • He was happy in the return he had made her, he was recompensed for his suffering, he was proud of his strength.†   (source)
  • But there was recompense in the joy with which Herbert would come home of a night and tell me of these changes, little imagining that he told me no news, and would sketch airy pictures of himself conducting Clara Barley to the land of the Arabian Nights, and of me going out to join them (with a caravan of camels, I believe), and of our all going up the Nile and seeing wonders.†   (source)
  • It was some small satisfaction to me to observe his spare, short-waisted, high-shouldered, mulberry-coloured great-coat perched up, in company with an umbrella like a small tent, on the edge of the back seat on the roof, while Agnes was, of course, inside; but what I underwent in my efforts to be friendly with him, while Agnes looked on, perhaps deserved that little recompense.†   (source)
  • However, I could take some toast and some hot negus, and as I really enjoyed that refreshment, it made some recompense.†   (source)
  • If the principle of interest rightly understood had nothing but the present world in view, it would be very insufficient; for there are many sacrifices which can only find their recompense in another; and whatever ingenuity may be put forth to demonstrate the utility of virtue, it will never be an easy task to make that man live aright who has no thoughts of dying.†   (source)
  • "Money and recompense," said the Palmer, interrupting him, "I have already said I require not of thee.†   (source)
  • There was a show of gratitude and worship in his attachment to my mother, differing wholly from the doting fondness of age, for it was inspired by reverence for her virtues and a desire to be the means of, in some degree, recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured, but which gave inexpressible grace to his behaviour to her.†   (source)
  • …miserable existence, if it were only to prevent their detestable English from contaminating a language spoken in the presence of the sun—as to those fellows, who meanly take advantage of the ardour of gentlemen in the pursuit of knowledge to recompense the inestimable services of the best years of their lives, their long study, and their expensive education with pittances too small for the acceptance of clerks, I would have the necks of every one of them wrung and their skulls arranged…†   (source)
  • It is—we say it without censure, nor in diminution of the claim which it indefeasibly possesses on beings of another mould—it is always selfish in its essence; and we must give it leave to be so, and heap up our heroic and disinterested love upon it so much the more, without a recompense.†   (source)
  • Besides this, as every great action bears its recompense with it, the brave exploit of d'Artagnan resulted in the restoration of the tranquility he had lost.†   (source)
  • Ah, sire, you recompense but badly this poor young man, who has come so far, and with so much ardor, to give your majesty useful information.†   (source)
  • Sir Mulberry drank to recompense himself for his recent abstinence; the young lord, to drown his indignation; and the remainder of the party, because the wine was of the best and they had nothing to pay.†   (source)
  • —Noble Cedric," he said, turning to the Saxon, "that spoil is divided into two portions; do thou make choice of that which best suits thee, to recompense thy people who were partakers with us in this adventure."†   (source)
  • The habit, too, of seeking some sort of recompense in the discontented boast of being disappointed, is a habit fraught with degeneracy.†   (source)
  • Tim is getting old, and Tim has been a faithful servant, brother Ned; and I don't think pensioning Tim's mother and sister, and buying a little tomb for the family when his poor brother died, was a sufficient recompense for his faithful services.'†   (source)
  • Without giving herself time for a second thought, she rushed into the shop, pale, wild, desperate in gesture and expression, scowling portentously, and looking far better qualified to do fierce battle with a housebreaker than to stand smiling behind the counter, bartering small wares for a copper recompense.†   (source)
  • I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good—now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!"†   (source)
  • Then he explained to Jean Valjean that this was his recompense for a service which he, Fauchelevent, was to render to the community.†   (source)
  • "Well, well," said the cardinal, "I don't wish you any ill; but you must be aware that it is quite trouble enough to defend and recompense our friends.†   (source)
  • But a glance on the great picture of life will show, that the duties of self-denial, and the sacrifice of passion to principle, are seldom thus remunerated; and that the internal consciousness of their high-minded discharge of duty, produces on their own reflections a more adequate recompense, in the form of that peace which the world cannot give or take away.†   (source)
  • I would not, for any worldly recompense I can imagine, have him in a moment, however blindly, throw me down from the station I have held before him all his life, and change me altogether into something he would cast out of his respect, and think detected and exposed.†   (source)
  • If there have been moments when I have imagined that Miss Dorrit has indeed resented the favourable opinion Mr Dorrit has formed of my services, I have found, in that only too high opinion, my consolation and recompense.'†   (source)
  • And he had no recompense to expect.†   (source)
  • Such is not the recompense which Providence has deemed worthy of suffering merit, and it is a dangerous and fatal doctrine to teach young persons, the most common readers of romance, that rectitude of conduct and of principle are either naturally allied with, or adequately rewarded by, the gratification of our passions, or attainment of our wishes.†   (source)
  • "—'And here is your recompense,' said the traveller, offering the young herdsman some small pieces of money.†   (source)
  • That there are, upon record, trials at law in which damages have been sought as a poor recompense for lasting agonies and disfigurements inflicted upon children by the treatment of the master in these places, involving such offensive and foul details of neglect, cruelty, and disease, as no writer of fiction would have the boldness to imagine.†   (source)
  • Sire, I can assert that they have hitherto discovered no gold mines in their mountains; though the Lord owes them this miracle in recompense for the manner in which they supported the pretensions of the king your father.†   (source)
  • "Have I discovered the truth?" he said; "but whether it be for recompense or punishment, I accept my fate.†   (source)
  • As d'Artagnan had presumed, on receiving his letter, Milady in a delirium of joy had told her servant everything; and by way of recompense for the manner in which she had this time executed the commission, she had given Kitty a purse.†   (source)
  • I don't say,' he replied in his steady, planning way, and looking into the distance before him as if his grey eye were measuring it, 'that it's recompense for a man's toil and hope; but it's a certain sort of relief to know that I might have counted on this.'†   (source)
  • This masterpiece finished, this prodigy accomplished, all these miracles of art, address, skill, and patience executed, what will be your recompense if it becomes known that you are the author?†   (source)
  • …afterwards drooped away into melancholy and withdrawal from all who knew her—if, in that state of weakness, he dictated to me, whose life she had darkened with her sin, and who had been appointed to know her wickedness from her own hand and her own lips, a bequest meant as a recompense to her for supposed unmerited suffering; was there no difference between my spurning that injustice, and coveting mere money—a thing which you, and your comrades in the prisons, may steal from anyone?'†   (source)
  • I wish to be providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.'†   (source)
  • Father Fauchelevent received other recompense for his good action, in addition to the glory which we just mentioned, and of which he knew nothing; in the first place it made him happy; next, he had much less work, since it was shared.†   (source)
  • As a punishment for having spoken without permission, my friend, you will please to eat this piece of paper; then to recompense you for the service you will have rendered us, you shall afterward drink this glass of wine.†   (source)
  • "You are a good fellow and a kind-hearted messmate," replied Edmond, "and heaven will recompense you for your generous intentions; but I do not wish any one to stay with me.†   (source)
  • …and kind, although others have been malicious, I have become an honest man once more, in spite of everything, I have repented of the evil that I have done and have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and at the moment when I receive my recompense, at the moment when it is all over, at the moment when I am just touching the goal, at the moment when I have what I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all this is to take flight, all this will vanish, and I…†   (source)
  • 'He shall be—ha—he shall be handsomely recompensed, sir,' said the Father, starting up and moving hurriedly about the room.†   (source)
  • "And we are going to be recompensed for our diligence?" continued the mercer, with a trifling alteration in his voice—so trifling, indeed, that d'Artagnan did not perceive it any more than he had the momentary shade which, an instant before, had darkened the countenance of the worthy man.†   (source)
  • Sire, the kindness your majesty deigns to evince towards me is a recompense which so far surpasses my utmost ambition that I have nothing more to ask for.†   (source)
  • She is not rich, but offers such and such little recompenses for the little cares and derangements of such services; and I graciously—to do everything graciously is a part of my character—consent to accept them.†   (source)
  • …of cities inundated with light, green branches on the thresholds, nations sisters, men just, old men blessing children, the past loving the present, thinkers entirely at liberty, believers on terms of full equality, for religion heaven, God the direct priest, human conscience become an altar, no more hatreds, the fraternity of the workshop and the school, for sole penalty and recompense fame, work for all, right for all, peace over all, no more bloodshed, no more wars, happy mothers!†   (source)
  • And were it not for the windows at the Palazzo Rospoli, by way of recompense for the loss of our beautiful scheme, I don't know but what I should have held on by my original plan.†   (source)
  • Traitors showed themselves unbuttoned; men who had gone over to the enemy on the eve of battle made no secret of their recompense, and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches and dignities; deserters from Ligny and Quatre-Bras, in the brazenness of their well-paid turpitude, exhibited their devotion to the monarchy in the most barefaced manner.†   (source)
  • Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded with benefits, recompensed, crowned.†   (source)
  • Edward begged for a long while, the maternal kiss probably not offering sufficient recompense for the trouble he must take to obtain it; however at length he decided, leaped out of the window into a cluster of heliotropes and daisies, and ran to his mother, his forehead streaming with perspiration.†   (source)
  • …possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, and which expiates in their stead; servitude submitted to, torture accepted, punishment claimed by souls which have not sinned, for the sake of sparing it to souls which have fallen; the love of humanity swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct and mediatorial character; sweet and feeble beings possessing the misery of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed.†   (source)
  • But a recompense was in store for him; turning around, he saw near the door a beautiful fair face, whose large blue eyes were, without any marked expression, fixed upon him, while the bouquet of myosotis was gently raised to her lips.†   (source)
  • "I divined that you would become mine, count," replied Morrel; "besides, as I had the honor to tell you, heroism or not, sacrifice or not, that day I owed an offering to bad fortune in recompense for the favors good fortune had on other days granted to us."†   (source)
  • …than the sun; designs by Decamp, as vividly colored as those of Salvator Rosa, but more poetic; pastels by Giraud and Muller, representing children like angels and women with the features of a virgin; sketches torn from the album of Dauzats' "Travels in the East," that had been made in a few seconds on the saddle of a camel, or beneath the dome of a mosque—in a word, all that modern art can give in exchange and as recompense for the art lost and gone with ages long since past.†   (source)
  • I cannot allow him to acquire the habit of expecting to be recompensed for every trifling service he may render.†   (source)
  • Ali Pasha was killed, as you know, but before he died he recompensed the services of Fernand by leaving him a considerable sum, with which he returned to France, when he was gazetted lieutenant-general.†   (source)
  • "Ah, I forgot," said Louis, smiling in a manner which proved that all these questions were not made without a motive; "I forgot you and M. Noirtier are not on the best terms possible, and that is another sacrifice made to the royal cause, and for which you should be recompensed."†   (source)
  • Lend the Trojans power, until the Akhaians recompense my son and heap new honor upon him!†   (source)
  • That way you'd deny me recompense of honor.†   (source)
  • But, in the meantime, the paquet had sailed with my sea-stores, which was some loss to me, and my only recompense was his lordship's thanks for my service, all the credit of obtaining the accommodation falling to his share.†   (source)
  • But, if I may even flatter myself that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.†   (source)
  • The king's business must be done; so many brave troops, come so far for your defense, must not stand idle through your backwardness to do what may be reasonably expected from you; waggons and horses must be had; violent measures will probably be used, and you will be left to seek for a recompense where you can find it, and your case, perhaps, be little pitied or regarded.†   (source)
  • Power for the time being I will concede to you, as recompense, for never will Andromakhe receive Akhilleus' arms from you on your return.†   (source)
  • …the opposition that had been so long continu'd to his measures was dropt, and harmony restor'd between him and the people; in effecting which, it was thought no one could be more serviceable than myself; and I might depend on adequate acknowledgments and recompenses, etc., etc. The drinkers, finding we did not return immediately to the table, sent us a decanter of Madeira, which the governor made liberal use of, and in proportion became more profuse of his solicitations and promises.†   (source)
  • Zeus gave this day to us as recompense for everything: now we may burn the ships that came against the gods' will to our shore and caused us years of siege—through cowardice of our old counselors who held me back when I said 'Battle at the ships' sterns!'†   (source)
  • Shall the height Send wings, and hide her in the vaulted sky To work red murder on her lords, and fly Unrecompensed ?†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrecompensed means not and reverses the meaning of recompensed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Parting track'd by arriving, perpetual payment of perpetual loan, Rich showering rain, and recompense richer afterward.†   (source)
  • Yet, for his galley sav'd, the grateful prince Is pleas'd th' unhappy chief to recompense.†   (source)
  • So shall I evermore be bound to thee; Besides, I'll make a present recompense.†   (source)
  • Like renown with gods to gain Recompenses all thy pain.†   (source)
  • Ay, that is study's god-like recompense.†   (source)
  • 11:31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.†   (source)
  • I am no fee'd post, lady; keep your purse; My master, not myself, lacks recompense.†   (source)
  • It were a bad recompense for your love, to lay any of them on you.†   (source)
  • 'twas an honest slave And well deserved some better recompense.†   (source)
  • 20:22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.†   (source)
  • These are the gifts you bring from haughty Jove, The worthy recompense of ravish'd love!†   (source)
  • And last, my Polyneices, unto thee I paid due rites, and this my recompense!†   (source)
  • Maria writ The letter, at Sir Toby's great importance; In recompense whereof he hath married her.†   (source)
  • This is to give a dog; and in recompense desire my dog again.†   (source)
  • Beseech your highness, give us better credit: We have always truly serv'd you; and beseech So to esteem of us: and on our knees we beg,— As recompense of our dear services, Past and to come,—that you do change this purpose, Which, being so horrible, so bloody, must Lead on to some foul issue: we all kneel.†   (source)
  • No, truly, but in friendly recompense.†   (source)
  • …this life, and is an occasion of rectifying our measures, and bringing us to a more modest opinion of ourselves: It tells us, how necessary the assistance of divine grace is unto us, when life itself becomes a burden, and death even desirable: But when the greatest oppression comes upon us, we must have recourse to patience, begging of God to give us that virtue; and the more composed, we are under any trouble, the more commendable is our wisdom, and the larger will be our recompense.†   (source)
  • I haven't much of it, as you have signified, But I know where there's a woman, soft-eyed And open-hearted …. and this double-cross May make her more inclined to recompense my loss.†   (source)
  • At seventeen years many their fortunes seek; But at fourscore it is too late a week: Yet fortune cannot recompense me better Than to die well and not my master's debtor.†   (source)
  • 18:20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.†   (source)
  • But if an alien from a foreign land Be known to any as the murderer, Let him who knows speak out, and he shall have Due recompense from me and thanks to boot.†   (source)
  • But after the public has reaped all the advantage of their service, and they come to be oppressed with age, sickness, and want, all their labours and the good they have done is forgotten, and all the recompense given them is that they are left to die in great misery.†   (source)
  • Direct my course: Directed, no mean recompense it brings To your behoof, if I that region lost, All usurpation thence expelled, reduce To her original darkness and your sway (Which is my present journey), and once more Erect the standard there of ancient Night.†   (source)
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