I had yet sufficient time before me to keep my appointment, and I was now fairly on my way to Curzon Street; nothing interrupting my meditation for the next half hour but the paying of a turnpike.
I do not like That paying back; it is a double labour.
You mean the captain of the maintop's wife,' says Susan, paying me back the pinch I gave her.
A few days after his return to town, having hired a hackney-coach to take him from Carlton Palace to his own house, he found himself, as usual, without the means of paying for it.
Did you ever know a woman like that who wasn't paying weekly instalments on an enlarged crayon portrait of herself?
After this withdrawal he bought a pew in Christ Church in Alexandria (Fairfax parish), paying £36.
Noll, aft, was paying him little attention though Dan'l made sure that the captain saw.
But I believe, for all that, that you are payingme a compliment.
The padrona, he felt sure, was in the house, and the Excellency of the count was paying a visit.
A doubtful victory was obtained by the Sunday openers, for so many of the exhibitors closed their departments that visitors did not attend on Sunday in paying quantities.
He seems to be so busy payinghis taxes that he has very little time to vote, or to mingle in society's giddy whirl, or to mix up with the nobility.
I think, when he knows this, for all your activity in his behalf to-night, you will not be long in paying another visit to the Temple, but in a somewhat different capacity from that you occupy at present.
Then he tied a rope round Halima's waist, and she began the descent feet foremost on her hands and knees, he standing at the top and paying out the rope as needed.
Passengers by paying double fare will be entitled to a share in all the new stars, suns, moons, comets, meteors, and magazines of thunder and lightning we may discover.
At this time Caesar was talking to some of the back-country members about the approaching fall elections, and paying little attention to what was going on around him.
It looked somewhat as if they wanted to get out of paying for that beef.
Thanks," I replied, curtly, paying no attention to his outstretched hand.
Those who sold what they didn't have arepaying for their folly.
He will have at least the opportunity of becoming a good mechanic, and probably some chance of getting up a paying novel in the hereafter--with a seductive cover.
I think it is delightfully romantic," said Bessie, payingno attention to the remarks of her lover.
Because I write for the masses and classes, not for the asses," replied Moore, as pleasantly as though paying a delicate compliment to the nobleman.
I see you have no intention ofpaying this bill, Mr. Moore," said the clerk, abandoning hope of collection.
You would be sending flowers to some actress at the theayter over on Drury Lane, instead of paying me.
No publisher half sane would dream o' paying ye half that in advance.
The world would say I married you for your money," she continued, paying no heed to his words.
After paying a visit to "my Master Milton," he made his way to Chalfont, the home of his friends the Penningtons, where he was soon after engaged as a Latin teacher.
Then Rhys had conceived a mortal antipathy to the agent that first rent-paying day, and he suspected a sinister motive in every word that fell from the ill-natured, thin lips.
He is very rich, and a friend of Rodney, and he is paying Maud great attention.
But as your heart seems set onpaying these visits, you may have the carriage, and we will manage with a hansom, please say no more about it," as Maud certainly had the grace to look a little ashamed of herself.
Here he has been paying her attention for the last six months.
I cannot throw away good money that might help worthy people in payingthe debts of an extremely idle young man, and so encourage him to contract more.
But an actress who serves in a butcher's shop is doubly accustomed to such, and being busy the girl paid no attention to the poet, though the poet was paying marked attention to her.
A gentleman is payingfor his lessons, God be thanked.
You must have been paying a guinea out of your own pocket!
He hated to part with money; he put off paying bills to the last moment, and he would even beseech his "hands" to wait a day or two longer for their wages.
The apple-woman took her for a philanthropist paying a surprise visit to one of the families of the house, and resented her as a spy.
Mrs. Belcovitch, however, made amends bypaying him considerable attention.
That I was paying back to the son what I was unfortunately prevented from paying back to the father--a constant gratitude!
It was as if he werepaying homage to heaven devoutly.
I am paying more to her than as if I'd given you the Rattler and all--all--everything!
All the nobility, with few exceptions, were reduced to the ranks of the people, and the possessions of the exiles were divided among themselves, upon each paying a small acknowledgment.
The art of getting the result--the spirit of experience, without paying all the cost of the experience itself--needs a good word spoken for it nowadays.
No one seems to be using it very much, or paying very much attention to it, or getting very much out of it.
Then take a smaller-paying place if necessary to get started.
You would not expect to run a car properly without paying the closest attention to the rules for clutches, brakes, starters and gears.
Fat people and florid people are the ones who let their greenbacks fall on the floor while paying the cashier!
He does not mind paying a good price if he knows it in the beginning, but beware of raising it afterwards.
He never believes in paying any more for a thing than is necessary.
Terrified by her coldness, and her little affection for her children, whom she abandoned to me without regret, I determined to leave her the command of her fortune, after paying our common debts.
The buyer, to get these few merchantable skins, has to put some kind of value on the culls to make a buy, but in reality the trader is only paying for the few good ones and the trapper loses the other skins.
The Indian would call for a gun and pay so many Made Beaver, a scalp knife, powder, shot and so on, paying for each article as he received it in either quills or tokens.
The bottom is bound to fall out, and many of these men, who are paying the present prices, must go to the wall.
Every layman, though king or emperor, receiving these moneys fell by that very act under anathema; every churchman paying them was deposed from his office; universities guilty of the like offense were struck with interdict.
At that time it was a matter of uncertainty whether the king might not recover, as recover he did, and there was danger of prematurely paying court to the rising sun.
Did they or did they not pay Scot, and in what did "paying Scot" consist?
This mode of paying for produce was succeeded in after-years by credits on London banks, drafts under which supplied the most convenient medium of remittance to shippers of opium and other produce from India.
Bargeton, to whom he was paying his court, as a cuttlefish bone, a burlesque absurdity which amused readers who knew neither of the personages.
The Baron is paying court to your lady love, a cuttlefish bone that she is.
Chatelet was now paying a visit to the Duchesse de Carigliano in an adjourning box; Mme.
I say nothing of the pleasure of going to the theatre without paying for your seat, for that is a delight which quickly palls; but you can go behind the scenes in four theatres.
This is not discounting; I am payingmyself for a sale," said the old man.
If they take my terms, I shall have eight hundred readers and a thousand paying subscribers, so we shall have twelve hundred with the New Year.
We stayed at Saint-Mande for ten days, and my prince got off with paying the forfeit money to the management.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
