unrecompensed

Example Sentences

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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

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)

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

She looked at her daughter with cold displeasure, but under the displeasure Miranda saw the expression of despair and weariness that comes of unrecompensed toil, and a pang of remorse went through her heart.

From Clover and Blue Grass by Hall, Eliza Calvert