If he take the seed-corn for himself, and do not use the yoke of oxen, he shall compensate him for the amount of the seed-corn.
If a man hire an ox, and he break its leg or cut the ligament of its neck, he shall compensate the owner with ox for ox.
If the herdsman overlook something, and an accident happen in the stable, then the herdsman is at fault for the accident which he has caused in the stable, and he must compensate the owner for the cattle or sheep.
If this woman does not wish to remain in her husband's house, then he shall compensate her for the dowry that she brought with her from her father's house, and she may go.
If a merchant give an agent corn, wool, oil or any other goods to transport, the agent shall give a receipt for the amount, and compensate the merchant therefor.
If a man betroth a girl to his son, but his son has not known her, and if then he defile her, he shall pay her half a gold mina, and compensate her for all that she brought out of her father's house.
If he kill the cattle or sheep that were given to him, he shall compensate the owner with cattle for cattle and sheep for sheep.
If any one hire oxen, and kill them by bad treatment or blows, he shall compensate the owner, oxen for oxen.
It seems to me that a real or feigned attack on Columbus from up-river at the same time would either prevent this, or compensate for it by throwing Columbus into our hands.
The greatest magnificence that can be lavished on a tomb will scarcely compensate for an hour's confinement within the dreariness of a prison.
But do not their benevolence, their amiability, their cheerfulness, when compared with the growling temper and manners of the people among whom you are, compensate their want of patience?
I feel the desire of never separating from you grow daily stronger, for nothing can compensate with me the want of your society.
William had determined that the hand of the beautiful heiress of Huntingdon, should compensate the pliant Simon for the mortifying refusal of her stepmother.
Thy instructions had taught me the power of a righteous purpose, and I sought its aid to compensate for what I considered a defect in my husband's character, vainly hoping that ambition, sanctioned by religion, would secure its reward.
It is, in fact, impracticable in the operations of the workshop to maintain a stated circumferential speed, because that would entail a constant increase of revolutions to compensate for the wear in the diameter of the wheel.
The amount of cut to be taken off is a matter of judgment and trial, since it must be just sufficient to compensate for the greater density of the wheel on that side.
To compensate for the wear of the dies, and admit of their adjustment, another wedge o, with screw adjustment, is disposed below the inclined plate i.
K represents the key with its trued edge against the fixed jaw, at P is a piece put in tocompensate for the taper of the key, and to cause the other edge to bed firmly and fairly against the fixed jaw.
It is a great love that can compensate a woman for the loss of freedom after she has enjoyed it.
Nothing indeed can compensate a woman for this, except a lover, that is to say, a return to an older state.
The Almighty can do anything which admits of doing; He can compensate every evil; but a Greek poet says that there is one thing impossible to Him--to undo what is 5 done.
Patrons such as these can compensate to the freshman, in whom we have interested ourselves, for the poorness of his lodging and the turbulence of his companions.
Some prosodists suppose, a surplus at the end of a line may compensate for a deficiency at the beginning of the next line; but this I judge to be an error, or at least the indulgence of a questionable license.
I think he will; not because they trust me, for they know not what trust is; but because I could gain nothing by any injury to General Brunet and twenty soldiers that could compensate for a breach of the treaty.
You have lost the goods you had on board, but I will compensate you another way.
Who knows but fortune waits, upon my getting off this dangerous shelf, to compensate my shipwreck with usury.
Amgiad, in consideration of Behram turning Mussulmaun, and to compensate for the loss which he had suffered before he deserved his favour, made him one of his principal officers, and lodged him in his house.
Chiefly that I perceive mine to be so short in time, I desire to extend it in weight; I will stop the promptitude of its flight by the promptitude of my grasp; and by the vigour of using it compensate the speed of its running away.
Alfonso tried to compensate for this defeat and his loss of territory in the east of his dominions by conquests in the west, and in 1093 he advanced to the Tagus and took Santarem and Lisbon, and made Sueiro Mendes count of the new district.
To compensate for all these losses, the destruction of the monopoly of the Asiatic trade, the loss of Ormuz and Malacca, and the reduction of the greater part of Brazil, what advantages had Portugal received?
The town seemed wofully small and shabby and lifeless; but it had trees and birds and earth-smell to compensate for other things.
Even in France, government has moved with too slow and hesitating a pace, and preventive measures do not yet compensate destructive causes.
The tide cannot deposit earth higher than it flows, and after the ground is once enclosed, the decay of the vegetables grown upon it and the addition of manures do not compensate the depression occasioned by drying and consolidation.
In Northern Italy, on the contrary, which exports little wine, there has been no such increase in the price of wine as to compensate the great diminution in the yield of the vines, and the loss of this harvest is severely felt.
He aimed to compensate the world by presenting a concept of beauty in place of a general notion of repellent ugliness.
Yes; but the gain to my reputation that would have resulted--who will compensateme for that?
It leaves me in your debt only for the other expenses of my voyage, and perhaps the typewriting I did will in some measure compensate for that.
And fifty or so pictures like these would compensate us for the small amount of luck we have had hitherto.
This work will compensate me for the compulsory rest to which I have been condemned.
The differences are only tolerable because of the bond of agreement which is strong enough to compensate them.
They are not usually charged at all if they compensate the owners.
Now in this there had certainly been much hardship, and who was to compensate him if not the Marquis?
It is certainly true as to hunting that there are so many hours in which the spirit is vexed by a sense of failure, that the joy when it does come should be very great to compensate the evils endured.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compensate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
