unrecompensed
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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)
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)
