Sentence examples for recompense him from inspiring English sources

It was the right of every man, Bellingham believed, to petition parliament for the redress of grievances, but Perceval insisted that the government had no obligation to recompense him, and refused to receive his petition.

To join the expedition, Joyce bought his release from the Navy; in later years he would claim that Shackleton had failed to recompense him for this, despite a promise to do so, one of several disputes over money which eventually strained his relations with Shackleton.

As recompense, she offered him a half slice of pastrami, steaming, with a speckled dollop of mustard, on a piece of parchment paper.

In recompense, the army give him a big hand – literally, as a replacement for his hook.

Former HealthSouth investors sued him seeking recompense for money lost due to the fraud of which Scrushy was convicted in 2005.

In recompense, he invited her to take some bauble from State House, but instead Mrs Chiluba tried to sue him for $400m her share of the riches he had allegedly stolen during a decade in power.

As recompense, he writes of apologising to the councillor in print and then in person, adding that he served him with "a nice cup of tea".

But the kindly care and love his daughter bestows on him to act in a measure as a recompense for the wrong done him in the long ago, and with the passing years the bitterness passes from his being.

He is rich, and offers to recompense Pearl if she conspires with him in his lovelorn plan to carry Holland off.

If any have labored long in fasting, let him now receive his recompense.

Last year, the members of an Icelandic rock group asked him to write them some choral arrangements but the only recompense they could offer, they said, was to make him a mojito.