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Sentences starting with paid

Paid his bill the other day without saying a word about it. [6]
Paid it in gold,--had a great heap of twenty-dollar pieces. [6]

Sentences ending with paid

If we had, you'd have waited till the Gulf of Mexico freezes over before you got any coupons paid. [4]
Of course you will not have an instant's safety until the bank debts are paid. [5]
This letter, then, will contain cheque for the $100 which you have paid. [5]
But Philip wondered what would be the effect on his own character and on his intellect if he indulged much in the habit of making the worse appear the better cause, and taking up indifferently any side that paid. [4]
He will be well paid. [9]
The huge building was filled in all parts by the followers of the embassy, nearly three hundred in number, and by the high guests themselves, to whom every possible attention was paid. [10]
I ordered Harris to make the ascent, so I could put the thrill and horror of it in my book, and he accomplished the feat successfully, though a subagent, for three francs, which I paid. [5]
He is obliged to be at Pike court where he has a case, with a fee of five hundred dollars, two hundred dollars already paid. [7]
By the time they were ready to sail from Vancouver five thousand dollars had been remitted to Mr. Rogers against that day of settlement when the debts of Webster & Co. were to be paid. [5]
He said that the whole Ceramic world would be informed that it was now in my possession and would make a note of it, with the price paid. [5]

Short sentences using paid

We paid the visit. [5]
I have paid the price. [11]
You have paid the preacher! [5]
Haven't you paid the men? [5]
I'm paid by the dispensary. [4]
Get pay--why, I paid! [11]
Other attentions were paid me. [5]
But had she not paid? [11]
General Grant paid me compliments. [5]
We paid and left. [5]

Sentences containing paid two or more times

This morning I was told, by a gentleman who I have no doubt believes what he says, that in one case of assessments for $10,000 the different persons who paid compared receipts, and found they had paid $30,000. [7]
The deference paid to these two men is not so very far short of that which is paid to an earl in England, though the method of it differs. [5]
Their autocrat prefers the deep pleasures of these occupations, either well paid or ill paid, to any others in the market, at any price. [5]
When he paid the conductor and named his objective point, I dropped back several seats, while the conductor was changing a bill, and when he came to me I paid to the same place--about a hundred miles westward. [5]
I often think that the highest compliment ever paid to my poor efforts was paid by Darwin through President Eliot, of Harvard College. [5]
I bought Osgood's rights for $3,000 cash, I have paid Clark $800 and owe him $700 more, which must of course be paid whether I publish or not. [5]
They are not paid for thinking --they are not paid to fret about the world's concerns. [5]
The hands not paid by the piece are paid practically by the hour, not by the day. [9]
The rest I lent money to never paid; but they paid, the dummy and the harlot that was, they paid! [11]
I've, paid for it--I've paid for it. [9]

More example sentences with the word paid in them

Make the Mohar your ally, and it may easily happen that your rat-bites may be paid for with mortal wounds, and Rameses who, if you marched against him openly, might blow you to the ground, may be hit by a lance thrown from an ambush. [10]
He was a young man with a smooth face, and a frank brown eye which paid its tribute to Virginia. [9]
If I could you would say you were nearly paid for the trouble you took. [5]
That each of you will, in his sphere, do all he can to have the officers, soldiers, and seamen of the army and navy, while engaged in the effort to suppress the rebellion, paid, fed, clad, and otherwise well provided for and supported. [7]
Ursel will tell you what sinful prices we have paid since for butter and meat. [10]
The pilgrimage completed, you have purchased salvation, and paid for it. [5]
And are the worst wages paid in these mills anything short of death? [9]
And, if the world will no longer tolerate the old theories, a tribute may at least be paid to those who from conviction upheld them; who ruled, perhaps in affluence, yet were also willing to toil and, if need be, to die for the privilege. [9]
I have listened with the greatest pleasure to the compliments which the chairman has paid to Mr. Rogers and that road of his to-night, and I hope some of them are deserved. [5]
He never interfered with the acts of his fellow-servants, except in so far as those acts affected his master's comfort; and he paid no attention to their words except where they affected himself. [11]
He threatened her with his ax, as if to warn her not to come further, but she paid no heed, but went steadily on, until she was right in front of him--right under his ax. [5]
Things went wrong with him, and he paid the price we all must pay for work ill-done. [11]
And Mr. Weill, with a sigh of relief, paid his fine. [9]
The Dryfoos ladies will want to call on her as the last-comer, and if I treated myself 'en garcon' now, and paid the first visit, it might complicate matters. [8]
The above reward will be paid in cash to the person who will furnish the seeker, in a personal interview, the criminal's address. [5]
The high-priest alone, who, as Caesar's host, had gone up to the side of the throne, and two or three others, among them the governor of the town, a tall, elderly man of Macedonian descent, paid no heed to the brute. [10]
According to Houzeau, who paid particular attention to the subject, the domestic fowl utters at least a dozen significant sounds. [1]
Many a man who has come into some property after he has sold all his little antiquities has offered me ten times the price I have paid him to get them back again, generally in vain, unfortunately. [10]
Their older friends, who had turned their backs on the couple and were talking busily by a window, paid no heed to them, and the blissful conviction of being loved as ardently as she loved flooded her whole being. [10]
Mr. Alexander Ireland, who had paid him friendly attentions during his earlier visit, and whose impressions of him in the pulpit have been given on a previous page, urged his coming. [6]
There are operations which no surgeon should be willing to undertake unless he has paid a particular, if not an exclusive, attention to the cases demanding such operations. [6]
By the trenches, where five men had died so bravely, and a traitorous pasha had paid the full penalty of a crime and won a soldier's death, David spoke to his living comrades. [11]
By good luck, when I had paid into Mr. Dix's hand the thousand pounds I had received from Charles Fox, and cleared my outstanding bills, the sum I remained in Comyn's debt was not greatly above seven hundred pounds. [9]
My father failed when he came to Coniston--he was not meant for business, and Uncle Jethro took care of him all his life, and paid his debts. [9]
He knew that what the old quack said was true--the West might shake with scandal concerning a few who, no doubt, in remorse and secret fear, had more than paid the penalty of their offences. [11]
I have forgotten what it was, but I paid it. [5]
Most of them were unconscious and paid no attention to the newcomers. [2]
Offers of repurchase were made--offers of double the money that Mr. Barnum had paid for the house. [5]
She was pretty well paid, to be sure, and in answer to Selene's enquiry, he had stated the amount she earned and mentioned the name of the rich manufacturer to whom she had sold her social standing for gold. [10]
You know as well as I how dearly we've paid for our ranges in this wild country. [13]
The second day, we made the acquaintance of Mr. Street (since deceased) and put on white shirts and went and paid a state visit to the king. [5]
With Barop's permission we had a banquet in the peasant tavern there, whose cost was defrayed by the kreutzers which had been paid as fines for offences against table rules. [10]
We were where we could see the beacon lantern at the look-out house at the time, but thought it was a star and paid no attention to it. [5]
Going into Cairo, we came near killing a steamboat which paid no attention to our whistle and then tried to cross our bows. [5]
In Brooklyn, Baltimore, Washington, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago, the play paid me an average of nine hundred dollars a week. [5]
Whatever the law was, whatever wrong the old man had done, it had been atoned for; the price had been paid by both. [11]
The truth doubtless was, that the same precautions would have been taken against any travelers, because the English Company who have acquired the right to excavate Ephesus, and have paid a great sum for that right, need to be protected, and deserve to be. [5]
Mrs. John Grier was to be paid during her life a yearly stipend of twenty thousand dollars from the business; she also received a grant of seventy thousand dollars. [11]
He said it was the neatest match he had ever seen, and paid for the horses on the spot. [5]
The astonishing thing was that neither of them for the moment paid any attention to the infuriated man beside them. [9]
At Angers Stofflet was sent to his account, and Charette paid the price at Nantes. [11]
The deference that was paid to a desperado of wide reputation, and who "kept his private graveyard," as the phrase went, was marked, and cheerfully accorded. [5]
Whence the piper was paid I knew not, and the bailiff cared not. [9]
Half the price was paid by Macnamara to the sheikh before they left the shade of the palm-trees, and, striking through the hills, emerged again into the desert farther north. [11]
His good-natured Excellency was much annoyed at the gossip his henchmen created--especially when there arose a rumor that they were paid assassins of his, brought along to quietly reduce the democratic vote when desirable! [5]
When the dessert was finally eaten, and after sunset, in the brilliant light of the lamps and candles, greater attention was paid to the mixing vessels, all remained silent to listen to his fervid speech. [10]
My brother, who was escorting the caravan, told me the lady was no doubt running away, for she had paid the charge for the escort not in ready money, but with a gold signet-ring. [10]
In Johannesburg it was claimed that the Uitlanders (strangers, foreigners) paid thirteen-fifteenths of the Transvaal taxes, yet got little or nothing for it. [5]
When the chain was all paid out, the candle confirmed my suspicion; a considerable section of the wall was gone, exposing a good big fissure. [5]
I think he wanted to give back again all that John Grier had ever paid out to him or for him; and now, at last, he fights the man who gave him birth! [11]
At York we wandered to and through a flower-show, and _did_ the cathedral, as people _do_ all the sights they see under the lead of a paid exhibitor, who goes through his lesson like a sleepy old professor. [6]
He paid first-class wages; but said I, What's wages when your reputation's in danger? [5]
A mechanic's average wage was 3 cents a day, when he paid his own keep. [5]
The price per vote was paid in doughnuts, and it depended somewhat on the appetites of the individuals as to the price of the votes. [5]
I have already visits by the various German governments paid and for contracts prayed. [5]
She has the usual Upper River quota of factories, newspapers, and institutions of learning; she has telephones, local telegraphs, an electric alarm, and an admirable paid fire department, consisting of six hook and ladder companies, four steam fire engines, and thirty churches. [5]
Pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little meaning for him, that he paid no attention to it. [2]
But Gorgias treated us in the same way in Alexandria, so he is now paid in his own coin. [10]
This was impressed upon her by the deference paid to him not only at home but wherever they went, and by the deference shown to her as his daughter. [4]
To avoid further unpleasantness the firm had paid him all his wages; and he had straightway come to Vilray to earn his bed and board by other means than through a pen, a ledger and a gift for figures. [11]
Small shippers paid two per cent. [5]
He paid us two million francs for them. [5]
All of this twenty thousand dollars had been paid over. [11]
I paid, in truth, a very high price for my friendship with Mr. Fox. [9]
As she had truly observed, we were both conventional; conventionality was part of the price we had willingly paid for membership in that rarer world we had both achieved. [9]
If, however, he tried to keep a vow of silence in the chair of execution, he paid a heavy price; for Berry had his own methods of punishment. [11]
And no greater tribute can be paid to Janet Bumpus than that it pleased her, struck and set exquisitely vibrating within her responsive chords. [9]
His sister Isabella, too, was dear to him, in spite of her husband, the reckless Sir Seitz Siebenburg, in whose hands the gold paid from the coffers of the firm melted away, yet who was burdened with a mountain of debts. [10]
We paid it, too, for we were purposely spread very far apart over the vast side of the Pyramid. [5]
And Evelyn was told that this was one of the penalties a man paid for being popular. [4]
A British officer told me that in India he paid his servant 10 rupees a month, and he had 11 cousins, uncles, parents, etc., dependent upon him, and he supported them on his wages. [5]
Another little lassie to whom I paid attention in Hannibal when she was nine years old and I the same, is still alive--in London--and hale and hearty, just as I am. [5]
Every compliment paid to this bloated sensualist, this inflation of sack and sugar, turns to the keenest sarcasm. [4]
Everybody paid homage to their names; their praises were in all mouths. [5]
They looked neither to the right nor to the left; they paid no attention to our party, they did not even seem to see them. [5]
I am afraid to tell what I paid for it. [6]
Then their pleasure--not to say delirium--was so fresh and novel and inspiring that the sight of it paid me well for the interruptions which my sleep had suffered. [5]
He was willing to pay in kind; but what Oriental ever paid a debt without a gift in return, even as a bartering Irishman demands his lucky penny. [11]
It is due to Mr. Gridley's memory to mention that the expenses of his sanitary flour sack expedition of fifteen thousand miles, going and returning, were paid in large part if not entirely, out of his own pocket. [5]
He had returned to Memphis the day before, and yet he had not been to see her mother, to whom he usually paid a daily visit. [10]
Now it seems to me unfair, Dowley, and a deadly peril to all of us, that because you thoughtlessly confessed, a while ago, that within a week you have paid a cent and fifteen mil--" Oh, I tell _you_ it was a smasher! [5]
Every honor paid to me shall be offered to you likewise. [10]
Mr. Crozier came to live with us, and soon he was just part of our life--not a boarder; not some one staying the night who paid you what he owed you in the morning. [11]
He had said to her that some day he would be a great man, and she would be paid back a hundredfold. [11]
S'pose he contracted to do a thing, and you paid him, and didn't set down there and see that he done it--what did he do? [5]
Lastly, Bias was to deliver five talents to old Tabus, who kept the treasure of the pirate family on the Owl's Nest, and tell her that Ledscha, in this money, sent back the bridal dowry which Hanno had paid her father for his daughter. [10]
They were allowed to come in in that shape, because in another way it was paid for, considering that as a part of that system of measures called the Compromise of 1850, which finally included half-a-dozen acts. [7]
He was used to being neglected by the people who ran after his younger colleague; and the attention paid him in asking him to be present on an important occasion, as he understood this to be, pleased him greatly. [6]
Whatever the price to be paid, she must keep Lassiter close to her; she must shield from him the man who had led Milly Erne to Cottonwoods. [13]
Divine honours are to be paid to some newly attracted hero of the intellect. [10]
It has got to be paid now, too, or I'll confiscate this old Patent Office and everything in it. [5]
When money is to be paid and received, there is always some vehement jawing and gesticulating about it. [5]
He is said to be a mean sycophant, a spy paid by Caesar. [10]
I was going to America, and I paid an angry and reluctant visit to my London tailor thirty-six hours before I was to start. [11]
There were grand times and rejoicings at Hendon village when the couple paid their first visit to the Hall. [5]
During the same time they paid out $1,000,000,000 in pensions--a third of it unearned and undeserved. [5]
At the proper time he will put you in a cab or an omnibus, and drive you to the train or the boat; he has packed your luggage and transferred it, he has paid all the bills. [5]
I'm keeping it till Manitou's paid the price of it. [11]
It went abroad through the city that Pango Dooni and Cumner paid great homage to the dead Dakoon, and the dread of the hillsmen grew less. [11]
Why, you went through the ceremony as if it was the real thing, signed the papers, paid my fee, and kissed the bride. [11]

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