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  • He didn't see any lowland contractor swinging from the bridge's girders and assumed the gunmen had extracted a promise of reparations from the soldiers.†   (source)
  • I'll beg pardon a thousand times for causing you unhappiness and make reparations by making you laugh a thousand times."†   (source)
  • Eddis described them as reparations.†   (source)
  • There is that for which there can be no reparation—the loss of life sustained by Shadowhunters and lycanthropes in battle, those who were torn from us by the Infernal Cup—†   (source)
  • It was an imperfect system of reparation and indemnity, but it was a secret and highly venerated law of the Corps.†   (source)
  • We read our Sunday school paper, which has the story of Joseph in it and a modern story about a boy who steals from the collection plate but repents and collects wastepaper and old bottles for the church, to make reparations.†   (source)
  • "There were dozens of these teams," continued the colonel, "the personnel ranging from old-line navy chiefs who knew the coastlines to French plantation owners whose only hope for reparations lay in an American victory.†   (source)
  • They want the Confederate leaders and generals hanged, they want the South to pay war reparations, and they want Lincoln's speech to be full of the same self-righteous indignation they feel so powerfully in their hearts.†   (source)
  • For Nguyen, you will pay reparations?†   (source)
  • "You get reparation candy," she said.†   (source)
  • There would, perhaps, be time for reparations.†   (source)
  • Perhaps there is a way in which some reparation may be made.†   (source)
  • Real peace thereno annexations and no reparations, as they say.†   (source)
  • Treaties and boundaries and reparations and occupations.†   (source)
  • There was no cure, no answer, no reparation.†   (source)
  • Atelier de reparation, thinks Werner, a chamber in which to make reparations.†   (source)
  • Certainly there would be people in the world who believe these three have reparations to make.†   (source)
  • Calculations indicated that 'reparation' for being unemployed would take $60,000 per year.†   (source)
  • 'Reparation' for being black would take $30,000 per year.†   (source)
  • 'Reparation' for being widowed or separated would take $100,000 per year.†   (source)
  • He had in fact always struck her as the opposite of bitter, so quick to smile, and she was reassured when now he held her hand and kissed it, as if making reparations, but she was a bit unsettled too, for it struck her that a bitter Saeed would not be Saeed at all.†   (source)
  • But his general gist seemed to be close to his lordship's, concluding with a call for a freezing of German reparation payments and the withdrawal of French troops from the Ruhr region.†   (source)
  • Atelier de Reparation   (source)
  • After Dien Bien Phu — everything I had was destroyed, blown up by our own troops — the talk of reparations was meaningless.†   (source)
  • Reparations?†   (source)
  • A reparation, a duty.†   (source)
  • The question was: What reparation would he make?†   (source)
  • But I am ready to offer you the usual reparation between men of honour.†   (source)
  • He can make reparation by marrying her; and he shall, or he shall answer for it to me.†   (source)
  • It was not too late to make reparation for that.†   (source)
  • For her only one reparation could make up for the loss of her daughter's honour: marriage.†   (source)
  • I offer you the only posseeble reparation among gentlemen.†   (source)
  • Their apparent attempt at reparation had come too late to be effective.†   (source)
  • There must be reparation made in such case.†   (source)
  • We offer the best reparation in our power.†   (source)
  • Should there be need of reparation, I am bound to thee for it.†   (source)
  • But in an impulsive moment, purely out of reparation, he proposed to make her his wife.†   (source)
  • 'I am quite sure,' repeated Sissy, 'that it is the only reparation in your power, sir.†   (source)
  • Then I shall acknowledge it and make him reparation.†   (source)
  • After such wrong as he had suffered, there is no reparation.†   (source)
  • My reparation comes too late; and, neither in this world nor in the next, can I have hope again!'†   (source)
  • To make reparation is a function in which the whole soul is absorbed.†   (source)
  • Any you will submit to the reparation he may require?†   (source)
  • I endure without murmuring, because it is appointed that I shall so make reparation for my sins.†   (source)
  • 'What reparation can you make for this?'†   (source)
  • Each one of them in turn makes what they call reparation.†   (source)
  • It is, what can I do for my partner, how can I best make reparation to him?'†   (source)
  • I don't like the term "reparation," sir, except as a lever in the hands of counsel.†   (source)
  • Those who guessed the probable state of affairs, Arabella's parents being among them, declared that it was the sort of conduct they would have expected of such an honest young man as Jude in reparation of the wrong he had done his innocent sweetheart.†   (source)
  • If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.†   (source)
  • These older, these autochthonous in-dwellers in his soul absorbed all Swann's strength, for a while, in that obscure task of reparation which gives one an illusory sense of repose during convalescence, or after an operation.†   (source)
  • However, what I want to ask you is, will you put it in my power to do my duty—to make the only reparation I can make for the trick played you: that is, will you be my wife, and go with me?†   (source)
  • The ebb-tide, which had so cruelly delayed us, was now making reparation and delaying our assailants.†   (source)
  • You simply mean that you flirted outrageously with him, poor old chap, and then repented, and to make reparation, married him, though you tortured yourself to death by doing it.†   (source)
  • But the sin was there; even his sense of honour told him that reparation must be made for such a sin.†   (source)
  • The recollection of his confession of the night before was a cause of acute pain to him; the priest had drawn out every ridiculous detail of the affair and in the end had so magnified his sin that he was almost thankful at being afforded a loophole of reparation.†   (source)
  • "And you were deceived, my dear sir," replied Aramis, coldly, very little sensible to the reparation.†   (source)
  • Then, according to her custom, she rebuked herself for her pettishness and ingratitude and determined to make a reparation to honest William for the slight she had not expressed to him, but had felt for his piano.†   (source)
  • There are considerations even before my consideration for you; reparations to be made—ties you know nothing of.†   (source)
  • 'The duty done, and act of reparation performed, which can alone enable me to contemplate my fellow mortal, I shall be known no more.†   (source)
  • As soon as I arrived, I sent a penitential codfish and barrel of oysters to Joe (as reparation for not having gone myself), and then went on to Barnard's Inn.†   (source)
  • She had discouraged him, formally, as much as a woman could; what business had she then with such arts and such felicities, above all with such tones of reparation—preparation?†   (source)
  • If a man had by unheard-of and excruciating tortures destroyed your father, your mother, your betrothed,—a being who, when torn from you, left a desolation, a wound that never closes, in your breast,—do you think the reparation that society gives you is sufficient when it interposes the knife of the guillotine between the base of the occiput and the trapezal muscles of the murderer, and allows him who has caused us years of moral sufferings to escape with a few moments of physical…†   (source)
  • 'If reparation can be made to any one, if restitution can be made to any one, let us know it and make it.†   (source)
  • And that child whom I meant to go in search of, whom I have promised to her mother; do I not also owe something to this woman, in reparation for the evil which I have done her?†   (source)
  • We have more than the rights of common men;—we have the claim of an injured race for reparation.†   (source)
  • …before the grand portal of Notre-Dame, and you will there make an apology with a wax torch of the weight of two pounds in your hand, and thence you will be conducted to the Place de Grève, where you will be hanged and strangled on the town gibbet; and likewise your goat; and you will pay to the official three lions of gold, in reparation of the crimes by you committed and by you confessed, of sorcery and magic, debauchery and murder, upon the person of the Sieur Phoebus de Châteaupers.†   (source)
  • To you, to whom I have done this hard and cruel thing, the only reparation I can make is to say, 'I know it, I feel it!'†   (source)
  • I don't know what you may have said to him, or what you may say hereafter; but I should like you to know that if you have encouraged him to believe that he will gain anything by hanging on, or that I have budged a hair's-breadth from the position I took up a year ago, you have played him a trick for which he may exact reparation.†   (source)
  • She had long been in the habit of resorting to it, under the pressure of such circumstances as were palpably beyond human redress, though her spirit and resolution rarely needed support under those that admitted of reparation through any of the ordinary means of reprisal.†   (source)
  • Produce your reparation.†   (source)
  • The reparation is pitifully small!†   (source)
  • The sight had quite depressed her this evening; had reminded her of her folly; she wished anew, as she had wished many months ago, for some means of making reparation for her fault.†   (source)
  • Harthouse,' returned Sissy, with a blending of gentleness and steadiness that quite defeated him, and with a simple confidence in his being bound to do what she required, that held him at a singular disadvantage, 'the only reparation that remains with you, is to leave here immediately and finally.†   (source)
  • But if you wouldn't marry Lord Warburton yourself, make him the reparation of helping him to marry some one else."†   (source)
  • " ' "Because, sir," said the president, "you have insulted a man, and that man will not go one step farther without demanding honorable reparation."†   (source)
  • Does not every American Christian owe to the African race some effort at reparation for the wrongs that the American nation has brought upon them?†   (source)
  • "If it be so," replied the magistrate, "rely upon every reparation being made; meanwhile, I am the bearer of an order of arrest, and although I most reluctantly perform the task assigned me, it must, nevertheless, be fulfilled.†   (source)
  • He found it impossible to turn his back upon Fleurieres and its inhabitants; it seemed to him that some germ of hope or reparation must lurk there somewhere, if he could only stretch his arm out far enough to pluck it.†   (source)
  • 'And he carries his drubbing with him, does he?' said Ralph, turning away; 'pockets his bruises, and sneaks off without the retaliation of a word, or seeking the smallest reparation!'†   (source)
  • As this act is performed in front of a post on which burns a candle, it is called without distinction, to make reparation or to be at the post.†   (source)
  • It is easy for him to talk of reparation, fresh from journeying and junketing in foreign lands, and living a life of vanity and pleasure.†   (source)
  • The reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all the dissensions, for all the violations, for all the iniquities, for all the crimes committed on earth.†   (source)
  • Reparation!†   (source)
  • That phantom which he had seen stretched on the ground was the sister who was making reparation; that bell, the sound of which had so strangely surprised him, was the gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent.†   (source)
  • But Mrs Clennam, resolved to treat herself with the greater rigour for having been supposed to be unacquainted with reparation, refused to eat her oysters when they were brought.†   (source)
  • 'Is it possible, mother,' her son leaned forward to be the nearer to her while he whispered it, and laid his hand nervously upon her desk, 'is it possible, mother, that he had unhappily wronged any one, and made no reparation?'†   (source)
  • In the eyes of M. Gillenormand, Catherine the Second had made reparation for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three thousand roubles, the secret of the elixir of gold, from Bestucheff.†   (source)
  • For the space of twelve consecutive hours, from four o'clock in the afternoon till four o'clock in the morning, or from four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the afternoon, the sister who is making reparation remains on her knees on the stone before the Holy Sacrament, with hands clasped, a rope around her neck.†   (source)
  • Has misgivings that the goods of this world which we have painfully got together early and late, with wear and tear and toil and self-denial, are so much plunder; and asks to whom they shall be given up, as reparation and restitution!'†   (source)
  • 'Reparation!' said she.†   (source)
  • You owe me reparation.†   (source)
  • Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was deserted, he could be seen on his knees in the middle of the walk which skirted the chapel, in front of the window through which he had gazed on the night of his arrival, and turned towards the spot where, as he knew, the sister was making reparation, prostrated in prayer.†   (source)
  • Reparation!†   (source)
  • …through their consideration for his partner's innocence, the affairs could ever be got into such train as that the business could be profitably resumed, and its present downfall overcome, then his own share in it should revert to his partner, as the only reparation he could make to him in money value for the distress and loss he had unhappily brought upon him, and he himself, at as mall a salary as he could live upon, would ask to be allowed to serve the business as a faithful clerk.†   (source)
  • A crowd, then, in a market place, and there two men at odds over satisfaction owed for a murder done: one claimed that all was paid, and publicly declared it; his opponent turned the reparation down, and both demanded a verdict from an arbiter, as people clamored in support of each, and criers restrained the crowd.†   (source)
  • — These were great concessions;—but where Marianne felt that she had injured, no reparation could be too much for her to make.†   (source)
  • And he was gentle, as only big men can be, cradling me like a quail's egg, paying me court with a humble patience that I recognized as reparation—and a gentle insistence that I knew was a continuation of the lesson so brutally begun the night before.†   (source)
  • I ask you.
    Surely not Telemachus, with all his tiresome threats.
    Nor do we balk, old man, at the prophecies you mouth—
    they'll come to grief, they'll make us hate you more.
    The prince's wealth will be devoured as always,
    mercilessly—no reparations, ever …. not
    while the queen drags out our hopes to wed her,
    waiting, day after day, all of us striving hard
    to win one matchless beauty.†   (source)
  • But I dinna think Colum was that upset about it, to tell the truth, insult or no. It would ha' solved his problem—and Grant would likely have had to take Ellen wi'out her dower and pay reparation to Colum as well."†   (source)
  • Better for me
    if you were devouring all my treasure, all my cattle—
    if you were the ones, we'd make amends in no time.
    We'd approach you for reparations round the town,
    demanding our goods till you'd returned the lot.
    But now, look, you load my heart with grief—
    there's nothing I can do!"
    Filled with anger,
    down on the ground he dashed the speaker's scepter—
    bursting into tears.†   (source)
  • The reparation of a fissure of the length of 1 1/2 inches in the right side of his guest's jacket.†   (source)
  • "Then your honour," answered the lieutenant, "will require no reparation at all.†   (source)
  • If it disturb you, and I owe Some reparation, it may be a Defence for me to let you know Don Quixote's tears are on the flow, And all for distant Dulcinea Del Toboso.†   (source)
  • They, indeed, help their friends not only in defensive but also in offensive wars; but they never do that unless they had been consulted before the breach was made, and, being satisfied with the grounds on which they went, they had found that all demands of reparation were rejected, so that a war was unavoidable.†   (source)
  • In the condition to which you have reduced her, I sincerely think she ought to determine what reparation you shall make her.†   (source)
  • I pressed him to go before a magistrate with me, and if anything could be proved on me that was like a design of robbery, I should willingly submit, but if not, I expected reparation.†   (source)
  • VOLP: I mean to be a suitor to your worship, For the small tenement, out of reparations, That, to the end of your long row of houses, By the Piscaria: it was, in Volpone's time, Your predecessor, ere he grew diseased, A handsome, pretty, custom'd bawdy-house, As any was in Venice, none dispraised; But fell with him; his body and that house Decay'd, together.†   (source)
  • I told him I was glad to hear him talk so much more like a man of sense than he did before; that it was true, acknowledgment in most cases of affronts was counted reparation sufficient; but this had gone too far to be made up so; that I was not revengeful, nor did I seek his ruin, or any man's else, but that all my friends were unanimous not to let me so far neglect my character as to adjust a thing of this kind without a sufficient reparation of honour; that to be taken up for a thief…†   (source)
  • But, though they so vigorously assist their friends in obtaining reparation for the injuries they have received in affairs of this nature, yet, if any such frauds were committed against themselves, provided no violence was done to their persons, they would only, on their being refused satisfaction, forbear trading with such a people.†   (source)
  • Search your memory, and if you find anything of this kind you need only tell me of it, and I promise you by the order of knighthood which I have received to procure you satisfaction and reparation to the utmost of your desire.†   (source)
  • He told me he was very sorry for what had happened, and that it was to testify the willingness he had to make all possible reparation that he had appointed this meeting; that he hoped I would not carry things to extremity, which might be not only too great a loss to him, but might be the ruin of his business and shop, in which case I might have the satisfaction of repaying an injury with an injury ten times greater; but that I would then get nothing, whereas he was willing to do me any…†   (source)
  • Oh! had I even now had the grace of repentance, I had still leisure to have looked back upon my follies, and have made some reparation; but the satisfaction I was to make for the public mischiefs I had done was yet left behind; and I could not forbear going abroad again, as I called it now, than any more I could when my extremity really drove me out for bread.†   (source)
  • If you had dismissed me when your insolent fellow seized on me it the street, and brought me to you, and when you yourself acknowledged I was not the person, I would have put it by, and not taken it ill, because of the many ill things I believe you have put upon you daily; but your treatment of me since has been insufferable, and especially that of your servant; I must and will have reparation for that.'†   (source)
  • …that the mercer's man should in his eager pursuit have so little discretion as to take up an innocent person for a guilty person; that if he had not been so unjust as to detain me afterward, he believed I would have forgiven the first affront; that, however, it was not in his power to award me any reparation for anything, other than by openly reproving them, which he should do; but he supposed I would apply to such methods as the law directed; in the meantime he would bind him over.†   (source)
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