It was quite true that she could not expect to exercise the same undivided authority in a private house as in a school, and she must find compensations elsewhere, which she very speedily did.
It is one of the blessed compensations of life that in times of prosperity we do not remember our miseries.
Are compensations to be made, or a maintenance decreed to those whom they have robbed of their freehold in their office, or expelled from their profession?
My mind often wandered, yet ever and anon, as I listened again to him, I was struck with admiration at the compensations of Nature.
There arecompensations in every condition of life.
And yet the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
But she made him, through the meal, pay compensations for his presence.
The national compensations to Canada for her participation in the war would not in themselves justify the sacrifices; but they are a substantial reinforcement to the considerations that supply the actual justifications.
There were a few regrettable seconds in every minute she lived, I think, though she never enjoyed the compensations attached to a really considerable sin.
But luckily I have found the compensations for myself; I just had to find something.
The case was reopened in another world, and compensations could be assumed to take place there.
The fact that there are, or may be, compensations does not affect the primary relation between the two.
From the standpoint of the individual father or mother this means that there are compensations for the toil and cost of rearing children.
All its motives are grounded in specific instincts and needs, all its reconstructions and compensations culminate with reference to these.
Sometimes abortive self-expressions of frustrated desires, sometimes ideal compensations for the shortcomings of existence, they are always equally ideal reconstructions of the surrounding evil of the world into forms of the good.
And if, weighed as such a welcome, it proves hopelessly inadequate, at least it provides a number of possible compensations by the way.
The pleasant atmosphere of your home is one of the chief compensationswhich renders the Minotaur less odious to a husband.
But how shall we treat those compensationswhich are most pleasing to husbands?
In this case the compensations may be looked upon as complete; but unfortunately there are compensations of all kinds.
Here is one of the most charming compensations known.
She has her compensations doubtless, but I am seriously afraid not to the extent to which she is entitled, though, perhaps, they are greater than we imagine.
What compensations do they get for all the suffering and privations they undergo?
Pensions and compensations of all kinds paid by the allied and associated Powers to the military victims of the War and to their families.
Human differs from brute action, too, in its influence upon the material world, because it is not controlled by natural compensations and balances.
The declaration speaks of compensations and indemnities [to the seigneurs], but the ungovernable populace takes advantage of the abolition of the game laws and laughs at the obligation imposed by the decree.
It is a striking evidence of the divine compensations which are sometimes graciously vouchsafed to those who have been faithful to duty, that on his death-bed this affecting scene was vividly revived in the mind of Isaac Jackson.
And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief.
Apart from this, however, in Labrador, as in every conceivable locality, the evils of soil and climate have their compensations and alleviations.
If the Dual Alliance is victorious we shall have certain compensations that to my deep conviction will be far from satisfying our national aspirations.
Meanwhile the inadequate compensations of a state of schism began to show themselves.
Montesquieu the remark, that "the infamy of the person might be estimated by the infamy of the thing," was not without its compensations in the political experience he extracted from it.
Her plumage had lost its lustre; but in seeing her contemplate her little ones, you might conceive the maternal joy which filled her, and by what ineffable compensations she felt herself indemnified for all her privations and sufferings.
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