The neighbouring country, pays Meldois as it is called, is one vast fruit and vegetable garden, bringing in enormous returns.
The workman pays a hundred and twenty francs, rather less than five pounds, a year for this accommodation, which it is hardly necessary to say is the portion of very few artizans in France, or elsewhere.
He pays this penalty for his success in that kind; and every one payssome such penalty who deals with some such material.
When he has an incentive to work he is industrious, and will do as much in one day in his own field as he will in two for an employer who pays him.
We pay a person for a thing, but the Negro pays for the person as well.
It is, besides, a sort of litigation in which charge and cross charge recur incessantly, and, as in all amicable suits, each party pays his own costs.
Then, Baden always pays its way, and the sea-side places also do, for the world is an excellent world to the fellow who travels with his courier, and only begs to be plucked a little by the fingers that wear large diamonds.
So it is to the interest of every one to protect insect-eating wild birds, for although these birds may do some damage to crops, their service usually more than pays for it.
On a large plant the total product of feathers for a season amounts to several thousand dollars, and it pays to provide facilities for taking proper care of them.
We still think it pays to grow chestnuts, though things look pretty bad around here now.
If this reasoning is admitted, it will require no calculation to show that Ireland pays more taxes in proportion to its small income than England does in proportion to its great one.
Ireland then pays to Great Britain double the sum that she collects from the whole world in all the trade which Great Britain allows her.
It is an acknowledged fact that Ireland pays in excises as much as she is able to bear, and that her inability to bear more arises from those very restraints.
Mr. Chadband glows with humility and train oil, Mrs. Chadband pays the money.
The hardships and privations they endured during the first year or two of their life in Wisconsin were such as to try their very souls, and Brother Briggs pays a grateful tribute to his wife by recording the fact that she never once murmured.
He pays a high tribute in his memoir to the devoted service and efficient help he received from his wife, who was as kind to his children as if they had been her own, and of great assistance and comfort to him.
A rented heart 'tis truly called, For love of virtues you enthralled, Tenant at will to you, and pays Large rents of sighs each hour and days.
That little box plays a great part: it is always taken out with her when she pays a visit--for the sake of conversation it is brought out; all is then looked through, and every article goes the round of the company.
He can be near a church of his own denomination; the freedom of conscience is complete; he pays no tithes, nor church tax, except voluntarily.
Nature within her placid breast receives All her creation; and the body pays Itself the due of nature, and its end Is self-consummated.
He pays his compliments to a tailor in the following lines: "O monstrous arrogance!
Gonzalo pays a like compliment to the boatswain who is doing his best to save the ship in the "Tempest" (Act 1, Sc.
Joseph Lebon, one of the vilest characters that ever existed, and who made the streets of Arras run with blood, was my suppliant as member of the convention for the department of the Pays de Calais.
In this he also pays a tribute to Washington, in which he says: "God has given him a mind that can flourish upon care.
Thereupon they began to sing, and sang with all their hearts and vocal powers to the accompaniment of the violin: "O Canada, pays de mon amour!
O Canada, pays de mon amour--" I caught those words distinctly, and was amusing myself with this expression of patriotism when Jamie came out of the shop.
Then he that so transgresses it payspenalty in finding himself isolated; bereft of friends who are good, and driven to seek after those who love him not.
Or, "he who knows what is lawful with regard to Heaven pays honour to Heaven lawfully.
He never pays the soldiers and many are deserting to go down the Yangtze, where a war is brewing.
One pays for a moment's folly in the coin of years.
General Moultrie, in his "Memoirs of the American Revolution," pays a handsome compliment to the ladies of that section of country in which his military services were performed.
At this stage of his early training, he pays a beautiful tribute to the patriotism of the mothers of the Revolution.
Here he even pays a tribute to the monasteries founded in bygone ages to teach the “young people discipline and cleanliness.
If any one pays me a visit I see them for only a few moments; I talk of rain and fine weather or the news of the day; and after that I take refuge in my retreat.
He pays me much attention, and I know few persons in whom he has more confidence than he has in me.
No one pays any attention here to the dust; I have seen in travelling such clouds of it that we could not see each other in the coach, and yet the king never ordered the horsemen to keep back.
At fifteen he became attached to the Nassau Country Club, and there, chiefly under the guidance of Alexander Smith, to whose qualities as tutor he pays high tribute, his game improved.
Stride, I forgot to say, is allowed to smoke a pipe in your mother's parlour when he paysher a visit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pays" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
