Word: repays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these gentlemen I would commend one further word--'ARETE--which in its several and interrelated meanings will quite repay a voyage to the dictionary. EDWIN B. HOLT
Give them "hayseed," chaff from the barn floor, crumbs, scraps of meats, bones, and suet, anything eatable, and they will repay you a thousand fold by their work in the garden and the orchard...
...plan and achievement so vain. The law of requital is the law of the feud, whereby hate for the enemy is born and fostered in generation after generation, till the sum of accumulated hate will end in equal destruction. It is the law of the mob, which strives to repay by brutal sin the commission of a brutal sin. The talonic justice that demands suffering for the offender equal to that which he has inflicted is an outworn creed, fit only for the equity of barbarians...
That which is done may not be undone, even by the deepest suffering of the doer. We have that promise which says: "Vergeance is mine; I will repay." But we, for all we may do, cannot repay, not even to the barest fraction. That is the tragedy of justice...
...names of such places might be multiplied indefinitely A few hours devoted to visiting some of the more famous will amply repay anyone by a heightened interest in his surroundings and a sharpened sense of observation. It might be mentioned that the empty and profitless Sunday afternoons of winter will soon be here...