unrecompensed

Example Sentences

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And when the reaping time comes, He who has promised that the cup of cold water cannot go unrecompensed, will not suffer thee to lose thy reward!

From The Faithful Promiser by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)

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

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)

She meant that her sufferings would perhaps not go unrecompensed.

From Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House by Hope, Anthony

But the display of married happiness has none of these palliatives: it is throughout pure, unrecompensed, unqualified insult.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles