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to compensate for lossor more rarely: to pay or reward
- Your highness said even now I made you a duke; good my lord, do not recompense me in making me a cuckold.William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure
- Perhaps he sees something meaningful, how this might be a test and a recompense.Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
- No, truly, but in friendly recompense.William Shakespeare -- Much Ado About Nothing
- Sometime and somewhere there would be recompense.Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
- 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.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- We've watered the ground between here and the Burning Plains with our blood, and now we'll have our recompense.Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
- So shall I evermore be bound to thee; Besides, I'll make a present recompense.William Shakespeare -- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- "A good man's prayers are golden recompense!" rejoined old Roger Chillingworth, as he took his leave.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- From whom should we claim the recompense of our damage, and aid for our widows and orphans?J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit
- This is not about the Law, Imogen, it is that you hate and blame me for the death of your son and this is your manner of recompensing me.Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes
- That is how you recompense me for the really paternal care that I lavish on you!Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- You ought to stand something handsome, Fagin, to recompense me for keeping house so long.Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
- I have taken him and there is no recompense.Kamala Markandaya -- Nectar in a Sieve
- Like renown with gods to gain Recompenses all thy pain.Sophocles -- Antigone
- They will recompense him now, I hope, as he deserves.Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
- It was wrong what happened and one would like to recompense them somehow.Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day
- Did it feel as bad as having some fifty thousand books annihilated with no recompense?Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles
- I did not mean to tax your time without a recompense.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
- Resign yourself, and this obedience Will be by Heaven well recompensed.Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
- 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.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
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