When they're not ignored completely, they're expected to provide tireless but unrecompensed support for people who matter more than them, as babysitters, carers or shoulders to cry on. ❋ David Cox (2010)
But Spitzer could have engaged in perfectly legal sadomasochism (which might explain the reference to dangerous behavior), or had consensual, unrecompensed sex (apart from paid companionship) with his hirelings. ❋ Unknown (2009)
We are here in a case where I may either live or die; but I would not willingly die an ungrateful man, or leave, so far as the Saints may place it in my power, either a friend or an enemy unrecompensed. ❋ Unknown (2008)
John Kerry, running for president in the immediate wake of Abu Ghraib — and perhaps remembering his own unrecompensed temerity in calling attention, as a young returning vet, to war crimes in Vietnam — hardly mentioned it. ❋ Danner, Mark (2008)
In the physiocratic model, economic rent was derived from unrecompensed work done by Nature since in setting food prices, cultivators take in account their labor and expenses as well as the surplus value contributed by the fertility of the soil. ❋ Unknown (2008)
When victory had been fully secured, we withdrew to our own shores unrecompensed save in the consciousness of duty done. 3 ❋ Unknown (1989)
When victory had been fully secured, we withdrew to our own shores unrecompensed save in the consciousness of duty done. ❋ United States. Presidents. (N/A)
She meant that her sufferings would perhaps not go unrecompensed. ❋ Anthony Hope (1898)
"I knocked at every door in Old Cavendish Street, not unrecompensed for the present pain by the remembrances of the different characters of voice and countenance with which my question was answered in all gradations, from gentle and hospitable kindness to downright brutality." ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)
For two hours did that wretched man prosecute his unhallowed calling, unrecompensed, and going round and round the court, apparently under the impression that it was some other place, while Melons surveyed him from an adjoining fence with calm satisfaction. ❋ Various (1887)
Takauji in Kyoto had been secretly fanning the discontent of the unrecompensed bushi, and had assured himself that a reversion to the military system would be widely welcomed. ❋ Dairoku Kikuchi (1886)
Never, perhaps, have sterner accents affirmed the sovereignty of impersonal and unrecompensed law. ❋ George Willis Cooke (1885)
The cabildo recommend that the archdeacon Juan de Bivero receive from the king some reward for his hitherto unrecompensed services in the Philippines. ❋ Emma Helen Blair (1884)
They are always paid justly for their work, and thus far it is not known that any grievance has been done them in any manner, nor have they been left unrecompensed. ❋ Emma Helen Blair (1884)
On what did that sentiment, unsolicited and unrecompensed, rest? what good, again -- for it was much like his question about Mr. Verver -- should he ever have done her? ❋ Henry James (1879)
