recompense
Example Sentences
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There was something about the little girl—perhaps it was the fact of her having come so far, and being an orphan—that moved Recompense Gardiner.
From A Little Girl in Old Boston by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
Miss Recompense had sent a special request for Betty on that particular afternoon and evening.
From A Little Girl in Old Boston by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
But Miss Recompense kept to her small rather plain cap, and looked very ladylike, quite fit to do the honors of the house.
From A Little Girl in Old Boston by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
Among her works of a more general nature, "Home Influence" is perhaps the most popular; and its sequel, "The Mother's Recompense," though only lately published, was written as far back as the year 1836.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various
Doris' delight in the room amply repaid Miss Recompense.
From A Little Girl in Old Boston by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
Vocabulary lists containing recompense
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Oedipus the King
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