I accept your gift, and would fain recompense it with this precious purple flower; but if I toss it into the air it will not reach you.
Monsieur,” he began unblushingly, “you owe me at least a recompense of three hundred francs.
The lord, however, never abused this privilege; on the contrary, he was in the habit of distributing every year among the peasantry a certain quantity of land to farm for their own benefit, as a recompense for their services.
This sum is supposed to recompense them for the outlay involved in rearing the young girl.
Fancy what the ownership of the Union and Central Pacific lines would mean as recompense for the amounts advanced.
It is a fine thing," screamed Anne of Austria, "to recompense a man for his attachment to your service by putting his head upon the block!
In recompense for this promise and the other articles of the treaty the King re-established his brother "in all his rights.
Recompense is God's great function in the world, and evil, however strong it may be, and however long it may triumph, must one day be dealt with by Him.
Natheless, may you have of this great graciousness that you and my Lady the Queen have shewn me, and which I may not requite, abundant recompense in the blessing and favour of God;" and so she was silent.
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward.
And happy shalt thou be, because they can not recompense thee; for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the righteous.
Now as a recompense in the same kind (I speak as to my children), be ye also enlarged.
The cause why the bearer stays so long, is the business I have had to dress up gear for you; and which I trust, ere long to cause you occupy: then I trust to occupy yours, which shall be recompense enough to me for all my pains and labour.
The unfeigned sickness of this well-willing legate doth somewhat retard his access to your person; but I trust verily, when God shall send him health, he will with diligence recompense his demur.
Compared with the estimate of profits it shows that each employer, assuming the calculation to be correct, would derive a revenue of two hundred and fifty pounds a year as the recompense of his capital, skill, and risk.
The cultivators had their share of the benefits of cultivation; they had their "recompense of gain.
This union is, I think, the recompense which God has had in reserve for me after so much adversity, so many years of work, so much gone through and overcome.
Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it?
Yahweh recompense your work, and a full reward be given you of Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you are come to take refuge.
Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompenseof the wicked.
Let him recompenseit to himself, that he may know it.
I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he served, because they worked for me, says the Lord Yahweh.
Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
They shall recompense your lewdness on you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that renders recompense to his enemies.
First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
For many nations and great kings shall make bondservants of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
Think of thy sins, and God's great recompense for the good.
The death of the emperor was followed by that of his powerful general Mellobaudes, the king of the Franks; who maintained, to the last moment of his life, the ambiguous reputation, which is the just recompense of obscure and subtle policy.
Damages, gentlemen--heavy damages, is the only punishment with which you can visit him; the only recompense you can award to my client.
These are the gifts you bring from haughty Jove, The worthy recompense of ravish'd love!
The glad hour has come when I can part with it for a recompense far greater than the baron's gold.
The recompense of a sweet smile, a tender blush and the unguarded thanks of a pretty woman.
Yet he had pledged himself to restore to me my estates or recompense me in cash.
As for the witches, they killed them, and their children and accomplices became slaves of the chief, after he had made some recompense to the injured person.
I will recompense them according to their work and according to the doing of their hands (Jer.
The executioner has already punished treason; it is now time for the King to recompense fidelity.
You shall be consecrated Lord Prelate, with a scarlet robe, enriched with diamonds; that will be therecompense of your game of chess with Don Gusman.
If any man is hurt in the engagement, I promise on the word of an honest seaman, to make him a recompense according to his loss.
In recompense I now insist The Grecians feel thy toe and fist; For sure thou canst not grudge the least To vindicate so good a priest.
In the morning he presented his compassionate landlady with two of the four buttons which remained on his waistcoat, the only recompense which he had in his power.
If he should be successful, which is frequently the case, he is allowed to witness the punishment, which the offender is sentenced to receive, and generally gets some recompense for his loss.
His entreaties were thrown away on him, and even the certainty of an ample recompense by the British government, which had been held out to him, had been treated with contempt.
Vouchsafe unto me in this life a recompense for the loss of one of my eyes.
