1468 examples of repaid in sentences

And Condé himself, whose heart, physically twice as large as other men's, was spiritually imperceptible, repaid this stainless nobleness by years of persecution, and bequeathed her, as a life-long prisoner, to his dastard son.

They kept them until they were repaid the 6,500 livres of silver, which had been taken from them.

This was repaid on March 27, 1814, when the pair sat up over champagne and claret from six till midnight, after which "Scrope could not be got into the carriage on the way home, but remained tipsy and pious on his knees."

This is unfortunately decisive of the fact that he did not in spirit adhere to the resolution expressed to Moore never to touch a farthing of his wife's money, though we may accept his statement to Medwin, that he twice repaid the dowry of 10,000 l. brought to him at the marriage, as in so far diminishing the obligation.

It has saved me so many a dull day that it has quite repaid my trouble.

The regret of the people was formally expressed to him for the recent sentenceperhaps, indeed, the fine may have been repaid to him, or some evasion of it permitted, saving the forms of lawin the present temper of the city; which was further displayed toward him by the grant of a remarkable exemption from a law of his own original proposition.

Above all, he must have thought of the domestic virtues that hallowed a German home; of the respect there shown to the female character, and of the pure affection by which that respect was repaid.

But this was not all Petruchio intended to bring her to, and he replied, "The poorest service is repaid with thanks, and so shall mine before you touch the meat."

Representing the high ideals of our countrymen and cherishing the spirit of our forefathers who first celebrated this festival of Thanksgiving, we are proud to have repaid a debt of gratitude to the land of Lafayette and to have lent our aid in saving civilization from destruction.

For all I have done and risked already, for all the risks of the future, I am tenfold repaid in winning you.

He fully repaid them for all his care, for he turned out to be one of the prettiest and most lovable dogs that I ever saw.

" "One is well repaid when one's modest efforts are so well appreciated.

Mr Malone further argues that Lodge, roused by this applause (which he repaid in his "Phillis"), produced not long afterwards a "matter of more skill," in "The Wounds of Civil War." THE MOST LAMENTABLE AND TRUE TRAGEDIES OF MARIUS AND SYLLA.[100]

Remember him, daughter, in thy prayers, that part of the debt of gratitude may be repaid.

He repaid her regard with less steady look; he had to say something and he didn't wish to.

The devotion of his young Cree wife was repaid with sneers and the whiplash.

He wasn't at all pleased to find himself mistaken; and though Lanyard did his best with his blandest smile to make amends for having discomfited the prince by getting home later than he had promised to, his good-natured effort was repaid only by a spiteful scowl.

"I am well repaid," he said a bit stiffly, "by the knowledge that the honour of madame la princesse is safe.

402, n. 2; repaid in an annuity to Barber, ib.; Ode on Inchkenneth, alters, ii. 295, n. 2; and Parr, an evening with, iv.

"But," continued the professor, speaking of this incident to some of his friends, "I was richly repaid for all my trouble and peril, for when I reached the foot of the mountain I captured a new and very rare species of butterfly."

Serving for a bride until the parents feel repaid for their selfish trouble in bringing her up, also prevails among savages as low as the African Bushman and the Fuegian Indians, and is not therefore, as Herbert Spencer holds, a higher or later form of "courtship" than capture or purchase.

But surely every fear vanished when she felt the grand old abolitionist's hand warmly pressing hers, and heard him say that to listen to no one else would he have had courage to leave his sick room, and that he felt fully repaid by her grand speech, which neither in matter nor manner would he have changed in the smallest particular.

In ten weeks the face of the bill will be thus repaid.

"It is true, I have repaid your advances of money tenfold, by giving you an interest in my future but certain fortune.

When the scholars are allowed, as they very often are, to come when they please to change their pens, breaking in upon any businessinterrupting any classesperplexing and embarrassing the teacher, however he may be employed, there is a very serious obstruction to the progress of the scholars, which is by no means repaid by the improvement in this branch.

1468 examples of  repaid  in sentences