unrecompensed

Example Sentences

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

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

Good deeds performed on Gospel motives, though unknown and unvalued by the world, will not go unrecompensed or unowned by Him who values the cup of cold water given in His name.

From Memories of Bethany by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)

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)

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)

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