All 18 Uses
recompense
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
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- 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.†
Chpt 9-10recompense = compensate for a loss; or pay a reward
- "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."†
Chpt 11-12recompensed = compensated for a loss; or paid a reward
- 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.†
Chpt 11-12recompense = compensate for a loss; or pay a reward
- "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.†
Chpt 23-24
- "And it is thus heaven recompenses virtue, sir," added Caderousse.†
Chpt 27-28 *recompenses = compensates for a loss; or pays a reward
- 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.†
Chpt 27-28recompensed = compensated for a loss; or paid a reward
- I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good—now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!†
Chpt 29-30recompense = compensate for a loss; or pay a reward
- —'And here is your recompense,' said the traveller, offering the young herdsman some small pieces of money.†
Chpt 33-34
- 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.†
Chpt 33-34
- "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."†
Chpt 39-40
- 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.†
Chpt 41-42
- "Madame," said he, "the count and yourself recompense too generously a simple action.†
Chpt 41-42
- I trust you will allow me to recompense worthily the devotion of your man.†
Chpt 47-48
- I cannot allow him to acquire the habit of expecting to be recompensed for every trifling service he may render.†
Chpt 47-48recompensed = compensated for a loss; or paid a reward
- 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.'†
Chpt 47-48recompense = compensate for a loss; or pay a reward
- 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.†
Chpt 69-70
- 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.†
Chpt 107-108
- "Have I discovered the truth?" he said; "but whether it be for recompense or punishment, I accept my fate.†
Chpt 117
Definitions:
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(1)
(recompense) compensation for loss; or payment or rewardRecompense is seldom used in modern literature.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)