paid

• “Just think, Sara, to be paid, actually _paid_, for having the biggest kind of a picnic," he cried rapturously.”

  Sara, a Princess

• “Save for the assistance of the hard-worked Tony whom she paid -- paid sparingly she confessed, but nevertheless _paid_ -- she attended to her own plowing, planting, and harvesting, and was beholden to nobody.”

  The Wall Between

• “Thus a _sestertius_, which was of silver, and was worth four _asses_, was paid with one _as_, which was of brass; or _the fourth part only of the debt was paid_.”

  Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War

• “I would not only have them paid, but _well paid_; but I would not have them sit in parliament while they received the pay.”

  Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3

• “I'll scrub and cook and haul wood for ye till I've paid ye back -- _paid ye_, "she repeated more softly,”

  The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

• “Again, his title paid tribute to a significant figure in the civil-rights struggle: "Rosa Parks.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Ten Years in Three Nights: A Decade's Triumph

• “That was a title paid for by the spilled blood of innocents.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Forgotten Garden

• “Then he'd sign the artist to a record company and pay him three or four percent out of the ten percent the label paid the middleman.”

  Willie

• “Mr. Richards had paid her school fees annually in advance, and as at the time of his demise several months of the term paid for were unexpired, Beatrice had a comfortable home secured for her at least during that period; for the future she would either have to perform menial services at the school, or go out in the cold world without a friend or protector.”

  The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician

• “Everyone at the beginning of the term paid twopence to the general account with which”

  The Loom of Youth

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