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Besides, he enjoined me time after time that if there was to be no recompense,
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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If a disproportion arise between the service required and the recompense,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Is there any who will pity me, to obtain my recompense,
Nights 32-36. The Story of Nur-Ed-din and Enis-El-Jelis. 1909
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Christ prayed not, Christ suffered not, my sins to recompense,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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And who offereth not favours to any one for the sake of recompense,
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That then he shall be recompensed with a most exact recompense,
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(Juno, Minerva, and Venus), presented their respective claims to beauty, which he awarded to Aphrodite, and by whom he was promised, in recompense,
Ancient States and Empires John Lord 1852
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