12 Metaphors for compensation

How poor a compensation for wrongs to the people will be the victories over our friends!

But Bishop Allen and Rev. Mr. Jones never hesitated to go wherever they could be useful; and with them, the compensation was always a secondary consideration.

At the same time a reasonable compensation for their cession to Russia would be the dismantlement of their forts.

In the present practice of justice the compensation of the victim for his loss has become a laughing stock, because this victim is systematically forgotten.

" To a servant or child who spoke so to me and with equal reason, I would reply: "Compensation is due to you and not 'forgiveness'much less punishment," and I would act accordingly....

The compensation, for all objects, was about two millions of dollars.

The only compensation for the disgust of this letter was the confirmation it afforded of Patrick's narrative, in which, it was clear, he had done no injustice to his oppressor.

The only compensation I see for all these horrors is the conviction they bring of the amount of heroism in the world and of the progress made in humanity towards enemiesespecially sick and wounded.

The compensation of the overseers was a certain portion of the crop.

In a few days he received a favorable response in which the friend told him he was glad to have the privilege of rescuing one of that fated race from a doom more cruel than the grave; that the compensation was no object; that they had lost their only child, and hoped that she would in a measure fill the void in their hearts.

"To be made lame, was the next most considerable offence, and the compensation for it was thirty shillings.

To such men a pecuniary compensation is a small affair.

12 Metaphors for  compensation