repaid

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With such "Repaid a thousand-fold shall be," is a favourite line of a favourite hymn.

From Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales by Haggard, Henry Rider

Repaid Cost Most of the rules of hygiene cost nothing to observe.

From How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science by Fisher, Irving

All melancholy lying, Thus wailed she for her dear; Repaid each blast with sighing, Each billow with a tear.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

“Whatever, Lord, we lend to Thee, Repaid a thousand fold will be.”

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry

"Weep—for thy tears are Virtue's tears— Auspicious to these suffering isles: And be each drop, in future years, Repaid thee by thy people's smiles!"

From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle