62 Verbs to Use for the Word recompense

The Buddha took the earth, and returned it to the ground on which he was walking; but because of this the boy received the recompense of becoming a king of the iron wheel, to rule over Jambudvîpa.

Can you not offer him a royal recompense?

To-day is singing on every village greenhappiness is in the very air, for 'tis Pentavalon's Beltane, and Beltane is a sweet season; so doth this poor second rogue find him recompense.

That boy has now become a man, and he has vainly sought, in all the glittering pursuits of life, an adequate recompense for the death of those soft hours.

For that they have no longer the same intentions, that they now no more either propose security, or demand recompense, is evident; since though they have obtained neither, yet are they thankful for the conduct of the war.

He, whom a doubtful promise of distant good could encourage to set difficulties at defiance, ought not to remit his vigour, when he has almost obtained his recompense.

This will make Thy friends, who now afford thee careful aid, A recompense most rich for all their pains, Counting thy acquisitions their best gains.

But now, de Laval, I feel that we owe you some recompense for having set the young aristocrats a good example, and for having had a share in this Toussac business.

Did I ever promise any disciple any recompense for his enlightenment and good deeds, save flogging, starvation, and burning?' "'Never, father," said he, 'and therefore thou hast had no follower of thy law save one, and he hath broken it.'

This we gladly agreed to, and thought ourselves so happy in purchasing, so cheaply, an opportunity of ingratiating ourselves with Spain, that we desired no other recompense.

'I ask no recompense, sire,' said I, with an uneasy sense of what was coming.

Renown and wealth could be secured only by readiness and felicity of speech, and that was most valued which brought immediate recompense, like eloquence.

Yet even in this extremity of distress Marie Antoinette thought of others rather than of herself; and when at last her faithful attendant, Madame de Campan, obtained access to her, her first words expressed how greatly her own sorrows were aggravated by the thought that she had involved in them those loyal friends whose attachment merited a very different recompense.

Segasto, cease to accuse the shepherd; His worthiness deserves a recompense, All we are bound to do the shepherd good.

It ever happens when a barbarous nation is conquered by another more advanced in the arts of peace, that it gains in elegance a recompense for what it loses in liberty.

At the conclusion of the trial named above the University offered him a handsome present; which, however, he declined, declaring that he required no recompense, and had given his services gratuitously; whereupon that learned body passed a solemn act pledging itself to eternal gratitude alike towards him and his posterity; an obligation which it would, however, appear to have forgotten in 1656, in the case of his son.

" Rustem rejoined: "Unworthy the pretence, And scorn and insult all my recompense? Must I be galled by his capricious mood?

Do you not think, to see my children, as I do now around me, walking in that path which alone can lead to eternal life, and leading their offspring with them, bringing up so tenderly, so fondly their children as heirs of immortality, and yet lavishing on me, as on their father, the love and duty of former yearsis not this a precious recompense for all which for them I may have done or borne?

Let these four words be distinctly and frequently recollected; and cheerfully perform all your business from this considerationthat it is obedience to heaven, and from thence will leave a recompense.

In the strength of the endeavor, In the temper of the giver, In the loving of the lover, Lies the hidden recompense.

In the sowing of the sower, In the fleeting of the flower, In the fading of each hour, Lurks eternal recompense.

He threw himself upon this and many other estates with the evident intention of making no recompense for them.

You will meet your recompense in Heaven.

The queen-mother went and joined him; she shut herself up with him in a cabinet, and, bursting into tears, she said, "I should never have thought that, in return for having taken so much pains to bring you up and preserve to you the crown, you would have had heart to make me so miserable a recompense.

And all desired to lead him to the King, But he would not, and turn'd another way "Nay! friends," said he, "I need no recompense.

62 Verbs to Use for the Word  recompense