37 examples of overpay in sentences

She had suffered least in the war and was really being overpaid for her services.

but it may be overpaid, it is necessary that we may judge of the benefit, to inform us on what terms it has been obtained, and how well the act of succession has been observed on this occasion.

' "'I think he'll be overpaid,' Mr. Somers says.

'And as for being overpaid, I get that much right now from the ice cream company, and in addition I get to eat all the ice cream I want.'

You see, Parliament's in recess, and all its trivial overpaid Members are playing golf and things.

liberal, free, generous; charitable &c (beneficent) 906; hospitable; bountiful, bounteous; handsome; unsparing, ungrudging; unselfish; open handed, free handed, full handed; open hearted, large hearted, free hearted; munificent, princely. overpaid.

It may be stated here that wood was very cheap at Pentonville, so that Ben would not be overpaid.

The Raretongan was a genius in his own particular line, and I think he took more than ordinary precautions so that his success would prove to Holman that Barbara Herndon had not overpaid him when she presented him with the emerald ring as a reward for his desertion from Leith.

I will consider them as overpaid by success in the cause, especially while that success is doubtful.

A man-servant receives from four to eight dollars a-month, and female servants nine or ten dollars, as Chinese women will not wait upon a European unless greatly overpaid.

why overpay the man by a shilling? why wear down the soles of an exceedingly thin and elaborate pair of boots on the hot, hard pavement without compunction?

The congregations to which I have preached have far overpaid my labours; and the students whom I have taught have given me more lessons than many books.

Juke wasn't the member of that crowd I should personally have selected to discuss fashionable and overpaid livings with, had I just accepted one, but they were the only two parsons in the room, so I suppose Potter thought it appropriate, I overheard pleased fragments such as 'Twenty thousand communicants ... only standing-room at Sunday evensong,' which indicated that the new parish was a great success.

" He, reddening in extremity of delight, "My lord, you overpay me fifty-fold.

but of one fault he has, besides an extreme cautiousness in his writings; and that one is national, a matter of words, and amply overpaid by a stream of conversation, lively, piquant, and liberalnot the less interesting for occasionally betraying an intimacy with pain, and for a high and somewhat strained tone of voice, like a man speaking with suspended breath, and in the habit of subduing his feelings.

I feel that my past endeavors in the service of my country are far overpaid by its goodness, and I fear much that my future ones may not fulfill your kind anticipation.

From that day to this that hearty welcome at our central London hall has never failed me, and the love and courage wherewith Freethinkers have ever stood by me have overpaid a thousandfold any poor services I have been fortunate enough to render to the common cause.

By this descent from the pinnacles of art no honour will be lost; for the condescensions of learning are always overpaid by gratitude.

But in a short time they forgot the distress from which they had been rescued, and began to consider their deliverer as a wretch of narrow capacity, who was growing great by works which he could not perform, and whom they overpaid by condescending to accept his bounties.

Is your work gone The prouder queenly work that paid itself And yet was overpaid with men's applause!

Then, perchance, a sunny ray, From the heaven of fire, His lost tools may overpay, And better his desire.

It appears to me that, in this very life of the present, each little delinquency is so heavily paid forso exorbitantly overpaid, indeed.

What little time the thing has cost me is overpaid, not only by the sight of your pleasure, but by my own satisfaction in copying it.

The artist and poet is overpaid in his brief snatches of joy.

To supererogate is to overpay, or to do more than duty requires.

37 examples of  overpay  in sentences