Example Sentences

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I but want to show thee how I am repaying thee for thy sufferings here.

From The Pirate Woman by Dingle, Aylward Edward

Do not think, because I leave her alone, that I am repaying her coldness in the same coin.

From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Housman, Laurence

In a very small way I am repaying to you in kind—an item which I made, myself, and which I know that some spacemen use inside their Archers.

From The Planet Strappers by Gallun, Raymond Z.

"That was good of you, though I do not know that I am repaying the goodness properly," he said, with another smile, very wistful this time.

From A Houseful of Girls by Tytler, Sarah