unrecompensed

Example Sentences

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The cabildo recommend that the archdeacon Juan de Bivero receive from the king some reward for his hitherto unrecompensed services in the Philippines.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 06 of 55 1583-1588 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

There is patient perseverance at unrecompensed, unrecorded, and unnoticed work.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Maclaren, Alexander

Her passion of gratitude could not let his service go all unrecompensed.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee

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

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