Word: repay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening something is revealed to me, it will be because I shall have carried my heavy stones towards the building of the invisible structure. I am preparing a celebration. . . . There is nothing that I may expect of the hazard of war except this slow apprenticeship. Like grammar, it will repay me later...
...agent. And, having seen her off for the factory--or the red-light district, where she will have the honor of entertaining knights in khaki or tycoons in kimonos until she dies of syphilis or t.b.--he sighs with relief as he goes to cash the check which will repay a large part of his debt...
...never repay my debt to him. When I rewrote my doctor's thesis in book form, he offered to read it, and got Ginn and Company to publish it, and he reviewed it in the "Nation." Then he asked me to edit Gray's poems, and I mention this simply because Gosse's edition was so full of blunders and we were so diverted by them that I finally asked Kittredge to contribute a profactory article to my edition on "Gray's knowledge of Norse," and sign it with his initials. A look of delight came over his face. "Then...
...friendly sports relationship of several years standing," Mr. Palmedo stated, "and at the same time bind closer the tics which unite the Americas, North and South. We hope that through the tour which we have planned for the Chilean skiers during February and March we may be able to repay, in part, the generous hospitality which has been extended to our United States skiers by the Chilean Government, the Chilean ski clubs, and the individual Chilean skiers...
...Negro living nearby went to his rescue, but night fell on an unbudged wagon. So Meharry accepted the Negro's offer of shelter in his hut. Next morning they freed the wagon. Said the pious farmer to his helper: "I have no money to repay your great kindness. But I hope some day to be able to do something for you and your people." There were five Meharry brothers: Alexander, Hugh, Samuel, Jesse and David - all prosperous farmers or preachers, all pious Methodists, all filled with Abolitionist zeal...