unrecompensed

Example Sentences

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Never, perhaps, have sterner accents affirmed the sovereignty of impersonal and unrecompensed law.

From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by Cooke, George Willis

It is therefore purposely that the end presents no great event, and leaves Marian unrecompensed save by the effects her consistent well doing has produced on her companions.

From The Two Guardians or, Home in This World by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Man dies with unrecompensed merit and guilt: the brute does not.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

If Joseph Duncombe doted on this bright-haired, blue-eyed daughter, his love was not unrecompensed.

From Run to Earth A Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Meanwhile, Ashikaga Takauji in Kyoto had been secretly fanning the discontent of the unrecompensed bushi, and had assured himself that a reversion to the military system would be widely welcomed.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)