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Example sentences for "pay his"

  • Very soon after, Sir Clement Willoughby called, to pay his respects, he said, to Mrs. Beaumont.

  • I am most sincerely rejoiced, that this opportunity has offered for my contributing what little relief was in my power to this unhappy man; and I hope it will be sufficient to enable him to pay his debts to this pitiless family.

  • To enable him to pay his troops, Don Diego seized the fifth of the precious metals belonging to the crown, and took possession of the properties of those who had been massacred, and the revenues of all the absentees.

  • Every day after mass Cortes went with all his officers to pay his respects to Montezuma, asking his orders, the king always affecting to be perfectly contented with his situation.

  • The Mayor said evasively that he would think of it, and that he intended to pay his respects to Mr. Chapman before he returned home, that very night: it was proper.

  • Still coppers are useful in household bills; and when Waife was really at a pinch, somehow or other, by hook or by crook, he scraped together intellectual halfpence enough to pay his way.

  • When Vance had recited his misadventures, and Lionel had sufficiently condoled with him, it became time for the latter to pay his share of the bill, pack up his knapsack, and start for the train.

  • Sartines, who begs to pay his respects to you.

  • Yes, in person, that he might obtain the favor of being permitted to pay his court to me.

  • The king one day said to me, "My brother of Denmark has expressed to the duc de Duras a great desire to pay his respects to you, if you will accede to his wishes.

  • Choiseul would refuse to pay his devoirs to me, and that his resistance would lead to his fall.

  • The secretary of General Andreossy, Governor of Vienna, had an unfortunate passion for gambling; and finding that he did not gain enough to pay his debts, sold himself to the enemy.

  • And next day when he went as usual to pay his respects to his father, and handed him all the petitions presented to him the evening before, one alone was kept apart; it was that of his little protege.

  • Bankers and merchants used formerly to count their money, and write their bills of exchange upon benches in the streets; and when a merchant or banker lost his credit, and was unable to pay his debts, his bench was broken.

  • And no bad thing, before he sets out for Cambridge or Oxford, 'twould be for a young gentleman to pay his debts.

  • The baronet died suddenly, and his estate and title devolved to a younger brother, who was now just arrived in the country, and to whom Mr. Case was eager to pay his court, in hopes of obtaining his favour.

  • Valantine--I think you call him, has the impertinence to beg I will permit him to pay his respects to me!

  • No one approaching, she conjectured, that it was Montoni going to pay his mid-night visit to her unknown neighbour, and she determined to wait, till he should have retired to his own apartment.

  • At the same time, those counsellors who stood around Charles, drew back on either side, so as to permit the Duke to pay his respects to his Majesty in the usual form.

  • When the Marechal de Richelieu came to pay his respects to Louis XV.

  • Compelled to fly, he forgot to pay his differences on the Bourse.

  • He told her of Keith's fraud practised upon him, leaving him in London a stranger and nearly penniless, so that he could not return until he had earned money enough to pay his passage.

  • In the circumstances, Benjamin could scarcely do otherwise than to pay his bill at the inn and take him along with him, though he very reluctantly decided to do so.

  • Yet, Benjamin continued to pay his board, and loan him a little money from time to time, though Collins continued unsuccessful in his search for a position.

  • If you could give him enough to do to pay his board, until you are full of work, it may be for your interest and his, too.

  • He's had money enough spent on his learning; but instead, he comes down dressed like a popinjay, and never troubles his head to think how I'm to pay his debts.

  • You know my father has refused to pay his debts?

  • He ought to have done so, to pay his respects.

  • D'Artagnan departed, scarcely knowing what to think, but as he was a youth who did not easily lose his head, while continuing to pay his court to Milady, he had framed a little plan in his mind.

  • He had at first an idea of crossing by the ferry; but on gaining the riverside, he had mechanically put his hand into his pocket, and perceived that he had not wherewithal to pay his passage.

  • Breakfast over, Vivian waited only to pay his compliments to Lady Glistonbury, who had breakfasted in her own apartment.

  • Whilst his man prepared to obey, or at least to meditate upon the cause of this unusually decided order, our hero went in quest of Lord Glistonbury, to pay his compliments to his lordship previous to his departure.

  • No--they only obliged the captain to give an order on the vessel to pay his debts.

  • He was ready to pay his share of that price.

  • On ascending the great staircase, in order to pay his respects to the King, he was informed that his Majesty was in the Queen's apartment, towards which he immediately proceeded.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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