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With such "Repaid a thousand-fold shall be," is a favourite line of a favourite hymn.

From Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales by Haggard, Henry Rider

Repaid on account, 14,476 pesos, by decree of the governor, and with authority and transfer from the heirs of the said auditor.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 by Blair, Emma Helen

“Whatever, Lord, we lend to Thee, Repaid a thousand fold will be.”

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry

Honest Marplot, I thank thee for this Supply; I expect my Lawyer with a Thousand Pound I have order'd him to take up, and then you shall be Repaid.

From The Busie Body by Byrd, Jess

V. Shout for the Husband and the Sire, Whose children, train'd to truth, Repaid in feeling, grace, and fire, The lessons taught their youth.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various