Sentence examples for recompense was from inspiring English sources
Initially the right of distress was a mere passive right to detain goods distrained until payment or recompense was made; this right still exists in many places when there has been damage or trespass by cattle.
Simon Called Peters sequel, Recompense, was made into a film, and his later novels all attracted substantial attention.
The book's sequel, Recompense, was optioned as a film by Warner Brothers, starring Marie Prevost and Monte Blue.
Despite numerous earlier entreaties to a wide variety of parties, significant recompense was not made until 1791, when Congress granted two tracts of land as compensation.
No study recompense was offered.
No financial or other recompense was given.
The recompense is limited to the original capital.
But then, on the museum's top floor, it is as if political recompense were being made.
Recompense is duly extracted.And, in all of these countries, bribery is too widespread to be regarded by its beneficiaries as seriously unethical.
Wharton's novels, including those set in later periods like "The Children" and "The Mother's Recompense," are rich with examples of conventions in flux as they symbolize evolving social attitudes.
He was insured, but the recompense is basic and, more important, it takes two years for a vineyard to fully recover from such a storm — how was he going to live?
