Repaid

Examples

• By her grateful attention to me and mine, she has long since well repaid any little kindness I ever had it in my power to offer her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The kindness, the unceasing kindness of Mrs. Jennings, I had repaid with ungrateful contempt. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I suppressed my indignation; but I showed her that her intention was not lost upon me, and I repaid her annoyance by affecting humility. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I am already repaid, he said. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I hope your anxiety has been repaid, observed Maurice, with a smile. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But the child who had done so much for him and had been so poorly repaid, was never out of his mind. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He repaid this spirit of kindness with the fondest gratitude, and made her the treasure-house of all his hopes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And if they do none of these, as great men will forget little men's service, truly I shall hold me well repaid in having done that which is right. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Everybody was pleased and interested, and Clennam was well repaid for his trouble. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• How is half such a sum to be repaid? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• These exertions were but ill repaid. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Yes, I said; and to be repaid by such gratitude as hers is to be made rich, guardian. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He repaid her by breaking her fortune, and nearly breaking her heart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I repaid it, of course. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Charlotte assured her friend of her satisfaction in being useful, and that it amply repaid her for the little sacrifice of her time. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The present little sacrifice of your vanity will afterward be amply repaid. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

Edited by Georgina