Diggory glanced up, and received a look from the two prefects that amply repaid him for the trying ordeal through which he had just passed.

If the reader can find in the reading one-half the pleasure I have had in interpreting Noel Campbell's odd speech, and smoothing down his too vigorous language, then will he be richly repaid for the perusal.

Assuredly the time will come when these obligations will be repaid tenfold, and when the maze of the world's past history, through which the pure geologist and the pure palaeontologist find no guidance, will be securely threaded by the clue furnished by the naturalist.

Many times have I climbed a mountain and felt myself abundantly repaid by an off-look less beautiful.

Nothing can be plainer than your geography, Howel; but, in addition to these particular regions, our worthy friend the captain wishes you to know also, that there are such places as France, and Austria, and Russia, and Italy; though the latter can scarcely repay a man for the trouble of visiting it.

Would not Bill Campbell feel doubly repaid for the living he had furnished for his nephew?

By her own earnings, and donations from sympathizing friends, she gradually repaid Isaac W. Morris three hundred dollars toward the sum he had advanced for the expenses of her trial.

The estimation in which it is held, and the care and expense incurred in its cultivation both in forcing-houses and in the open air, is proof of its superiority: and no fruit repays the labour of the attendant, or the expense of the owner, more bountifully than this.

It will repay me, quite handsomely, for my trouble in this affair; but, of course, my firm gets half of the reward.

It is no uncommon thing for a native to borrow two dollars and a half from another in order to purchase his exemption from the forty days of annual service, and then, failing to repay the loan punctually, to serve his creditor for a whole year.

She told me that she thought herself honoured by my visit; and I am sure that whatever regard she bestowed on me was liberally repaid.'

The fertility of the soil generously repaid the labor of the husbandman, making the poor to sing, and industry to smile, through every corner of the land.

I beg you, dear papa, most urgently to keep the matter quiet as long as possible, and in the meantime to pay her father on my account any expense he may have incurred by her entrance into the convent, which I will repay gladly when I return to Salzburg.

As a result of that sermon one poor farmer built a silo and filled it with green corn in the autumn; his cows relished the new food and repaid him splendidly with milk.

It was easy for them to find good tutors for their children, because a pupil owed a debt of gratitude to his teacher and a child from a gentry family could later on nicely repay this debt; often, these teachers themselves were members of other gentry families.

Mr. Henry James, who so nobly repaid the hospitality England was proud to show him by adopting her nationality in her hour of greatest need, said shortly before his death that nothing grieved him more than the constant loss of England's "best blood, seed and breed."

Upwards of two hundred of them were transferred to wood-blocks; but the scheme did not repay the ingenious originatorpartly from their small size, uncertainty of effect to be produced on wood, and partly from the very cheap rate at which the engravings were soldthe whole series being purchaseable for three or four shillings.

On the whole, however, the drama but poorly repaid its debt to prose fiction.

I beg, sir, that you will give me your address, and assure you that the sum shall positively be repaid to you next week.

Something must be allowed to personal resentment; Mr. Pope was a man of keen passions; he felt an injury strongly, retained a long remembrance of it, and could very pungently repay it.

"The bales are in the usual place, at the wharf, under the inspection of honest Master Tillerbut if so inferior in quality, they will scarce repay the trouble of the walk.

He came to me to proposewhat do you think?that hehis bank, I meanshould secretly repay me the amount of my deposit, all the money I had in it.

He was loyal to Charlotte to the last days of his life, when he gave her defence into Mrs. Gaskell's hands; for which confidence Mrs. Gaskell repaid him shockingly.

The way is long, and winding and slow is the track, The sharp rocks fret us, the eddies bring us delay, But we sing sweet songs to our mother, and answer her back; Gladly we answer our mother, sweetly repay.

Of course, ultimately, he would repay the money to Mrs. Morrison and Bella.