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Sentences starting with pay

Pay attention to what I tell you. [9]
Pay heed, you people. [10]
Pay attention to my Argus, and remember, we are in Egypt, the land of poison, as Homer long since said. [10]
Pay yours, my lord, to him that's beyond and away. [11]
Pay him. [6]

Sentences ending with pay

Get ye to your sick-room--you shall have treble pay. [5]
Question How much will you have to pay? [11]
It's the Climbers who won't pay. [11]
The Continental officers who fought in the East have half-pay for life or five years' full pay. [9]
Three years ago, when they made it fifty-six hours, we were fools to keep up the pay. [9]
And another thing, when I make a mistake in Hadleyburg nature the man that puts that error upon me is entitled to a high honorarium, and some one must pay. [5]
They do nothing whatever without pay. [5]
Dey ain't no way to make it pay. [5]
Mill-folks will build us a mill, and wait for their pay. [5]
He was a trifle more robust than when he came to Brampton in the summer, but perhaps she doubted his promise to pay. [9]

Short sentences using pay

You can pay your debt. [11]
I'd not pay up alone. [11]
Are you going to pay? [9]
There'll be hell to pay. [11]
I'll pay for the postage-stamps. [9]
I will pay the limit. [5]
No pay to the apprentice. [5]
How do the Records pay? [5]
They'll pay ten per cent. [5]
An epidemic don't pay. [5]

Sentences containing pay two or more times

The law of work does seem utterly unfair--but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, also. [5]
Ten pages of these sky-scrapers of yours would pay me only about three hundred dollars; in my simplified vocabulary the same space and the same labor would pay me eight hundred and forty dollars. [5]
And none of them pay any more than the principal of what they owe--they pay none of the interest either simple or compound. [5]
With these we should pay all the emancipation would cost, together with our other debt, easier than we should pay our other debt without it. [7]
He makes those people pay three or four times as much as an article is worth, whereas I never had the cheek to make them pay more than double. [5]
You pay his pension--next time you'll pay it to me. [11]
As to the pecuniary matter, I am willing to pay according to my ability; but I am the poorest hand living to get others to pay. [7]
I want to pay it; I intend to pay it every last cent of it. [5]
It may possibly pay for the barrel of beef that Sherman's soldiers captured, if you can get a relief bill through Congress making an appropriation for that purpose; but it will not pay for the twenty-nine barrels the Indians ate. [5]
And if you pay fifteen cents for registering it, the government will have to take extra care of it and even pay you back its full value if it is lost. [5]

More example sentences with the word pay in them

But you bring your own punishment,' he added, with a wicked smile, 'and you shall pay hereafter. [11]
What proportion of your earnings or income would you be willing to pay for that frame of mind, year in, year out? [5]
What proportion of your earnings or income would you be willing to pay for that frame of mind, year in year out? [5]
The stockholders of your corporation, perhaps, are bound to suffer some from the fact that you have taken its life-blood to pay dividends, and the public will demand that it be built up into a normal and healthy condition. [9]
He would make young Schopper pay some penalty yet more than a mere fine, to that he pledged his royal word, and as for young Welemisl, he was minded to devise some punishment that should hinder many an over-bold knight from drawing his sword! [10]
I appear before you to do little more than acknowledge the courtesy you pay me, and to thank you for it. [7]
But I'll tell you this: they'll take his pay and lie to him about whatever's goin' on inside the house. [11]
I can't pay you the great difference. [11]
I will give you something in my room which will pay the Nabathaean's charges ten times over. [10]
How much did you pay for her? [11]
Col. Youngs says you must rent Kinkead's room by all means--Government would rather pay $150 a month for your office than $75 for Gen. North's. [5]
For every master you have yet sent can find the way as well as he, so that an hundred pounds might be spared, which is more than we have all, that helps to pay him wages. [4]
I know what you have done for me--" "I pleaded with Monsieur Fournel, knowing how you loved the Seigneury-- pleaded and offered to pay three times the price--" "Yourself would have been a hundred million times the price. [11]
How much have you had to pay for this new witness, uncle? [10]
I can't pay you for your kindness to me, and I don't want to. [11]
Mr. Bass, have you ever done anything the pleasure of doing which was pay enough, and to spare? [9]
Now, after ten years, a bill was finally passed to pay to Moses the difference between what he earned in that unlucky year and what he received. [5]
In all the years he had taken no chance to pay tribute to the woman who, in a real sense, had been his mistress of body and mind for one short term of life, and who once, and once only, had yielded to him. [11]
However, he has written to a New York publisher, and if we are offered a bargain that will pay for a month's labor we will go to work and prepare the volume for the press. [5]
A dishonest man wouldn't pay me back, security or no security. [11]
My best possession would not have seemed too dear a price to pay for some magic spell that would have brought you to us when, at the festal games, I danced and sang to the tambourine while the loudest shouts of applause greeted me. [10]
The stone is worth a landed estate, and though I am not a rich man, I would pay down two talents for it at any moment, even if I had to borrow the money. [10]
We two will work the ledge, and have full control, and pay all expenses. [5]
A squalid old woman brought him this wretched supper, and it cut the duchess to the heart to see him hunt about for coppers enough to pay for it. [10]
I can live without the money, if I have to, but you would pay it back, I know. [11]
They were discussing with some heat the prospect of having their pay reduced by the fifty-four hour law which was to come into effect on Monday. [9]
But our intercourse with Nature had been limited to formal visits which we were permitted to pay the august lady at stated intervals. [10]
He rapped loudly with his knuckles on the inside of the door-post of the ante-room, coughed loudly, and then said, bowing deeply to the steward on the threshold of the sitting-room: "Noble Keraunus--I have come, as beseems me, to pay you my respects. [10]
Things went wrong with him, and he paid the price we all must pay for work ill-done. [11]
Luigi went on, with animation: "Both of us get a bath for one ticket, theater seat for one ticket, pew-rent is on the same basis, but at peep-shows we pay double. [5]
If the Cosmopolitan wishes to pay $600 for either of them or $1,200 for both, gather in the check, and I will use the money in America instead of breaking into your treasury. [5]
If you do, will you give me enough to live on--enough to buy a suit of clothes a year, to pay for food and a room? [11]
Also, if he will pay us an attention we will manage to remember it. [5]
I think it will pay to be merciful. [9]
And how they will pay for it when Russia turns her guns upon them again! [5]
Then your brow will grow smooth again; and if the model is a success, and you want to buy marble, or pay the founder, then out with your gold, out of the coffer and its hiding-place! [10]
The man upon whom they choose to confer your governorship is always able to pay the pipers. [9]
But this, Martin, who was only intent upon loading the return ship with "his phantastical gold," opposed, and Nelson did not think he had authority to allow it, unless they would bind themselves to pay the hire of the ships. [4]
The good American who hired me to go to his country is to pay me $12 a month, which is immense wages, you know--twenty times as much as one gets in China. [5]
He it was who arranged with my creditors to allow me to roam the face of the earth for four years and persecute the nations thereof with lectures, promising that at the end of four years I would pay dollar for dollar. [5]
The great majority who are unable to survive the test pay the price. [9]
But the reverence which is difficult, and which has personal merit in it, is the respect which you pay, without compulsion, to the political or religious attitude of a man whose beliefs are not yours. [5]
The railroads of which I have the honour to be president pay a heavy tag in this and other States. [9]
Three thousand gulden, which he had lent to the Convent of Vierzehnheiligen, and of which he might at any time require the repayment, he had set apart to ransom Herdegen and pay for his home-coming. [10]
The big dinner-parties which are commonly made to pay off social debts are generally of the sort that one would rather contribute to in money than in personal attendance. [4]
Are you serious when you propose to pay my expence--if that is the Susquehannian way of spelling it? [5]
And if and when Kunz should wed, then should he pay only half the profits to his brother instead of two-thirds. [10]
Thirty years later, when his fame was not much more extended, his pay for the same matter would have been fifteen times as great, that is to say, at the rate of thirty cents per word. [5]
We must pay what we can. [5]
I owe you what I can not pay back. [11]
If you yourself were such a son, and your ear had not perfectly caught the parting counsels of the dying-how many talents of silver would you not pay to be able to supply the missing words? [10]
The Magi, however, were not deceived; they shut themselves up in their palace, assembled an army in the Nisaean plain, promised the soldiers high pay, and used every effort to strengthen the belief of the people in Gaumata's disguise. [10]
My last dollar went to pay my last debt to-day. [11]
As the years went on he was still unable to pay off the mortgage; and sometimes, indeed, he could not even meet the interest, in spite of the princely sum he received from Mr. Willard of the Guardian. [9]
She knew quite well that she was doing a large and generous thing to pay for that lad, and that I ought in common fairness to come out with something handsome about it, but I couldn't--my mouth refused. [5]
You know as well as I that there is no money to pay them," said he, with a certain pompous attempt at severity which characterized his kind nature. [9]
To attach much weight to the few but strong differences is the most obvious and perhaps the safest course, though it appears more correct to pay great attention to the many small resemblances, as giving a truly natural classification. [1]
The Moffetts and Websters were living in Fredonia at this time, and Clemens had been to pay them a good-by visit. [5]
The shoes he wears were made in our workshop, but the master still whistles for his pay, and he owes everybody--the tailor, the lacemaker, the armourer, the girdlemaker, and the goldsmith. [10]
The first thing we did on that glad evening that landed us at St. Joseph was to hunt up the stage-office, and pay a hundred and fifty dollars apiece for tickets per overland coach to Carson City, Nevada. [5]
We pay as we can, in love; and in this coin practicing no economy. [5]
But why should we allow him to pay that out of his private pocket? [5]
Dear old darling, we all think the creditors are going to allow us to resume business; and if they do we shall pull through and pay the debts. [5]
By and by we all retired to our narrow German beds; and when Livy and I finished talking across the room, it was all decided that we would rest 24 hours then pay whatever damages were required, and straightway fly to the south of France. [5]
However, on our way to invite the others, I said: "You must allow me to have these friends come; and you must also allow me to pay the costs. [5]
But if the wasp nip, you make him pay for it, the head and the tail--yes, I think -me. [11]
My first thought was, that war was declared; but, as I should never pay much attention to war declared at that time in the morning, I went to sleep again. [4]
Barnum said he was willing to pay a fortune for Jumbo if he could get him. [5]
Not to pay was to tarnish the name of a Southern gentleman. [9]
Formerly this city was the emporium for all vessels, but now for the most part they only run in to pay the toll and to take in supplies for their crews. [10]
Besides, the law was that the State should pay half when a crossing was eliminated, and the State could not afford it. [9]
She continued: "It was that I might pay a debt--you know it. [11]
When our repast was over, and I had drunk a glass of wine with the proprietor, I offered to pay him, tendering what I knew was a fair price in this region. [4]
Though the position was now altered by his decision to pay his wife's debts and to rebuild his houses, Pierre still maintained that he had become three times as rich as before. [2]
Also his look was incredulous when Jean Jacques protested that he had enough to pay the fee. [11]
All this play was in Dicky's hands for himself to enjoy, in a perfect dress rehearsal ere ever one of the Cairene public or the English world could pay for admission and take their seats. [11]
That's why I was going to say to you that in my will I'm going to leave you this business, you to pay my wife every year twenty thousand dollars. [11]
So the gun was a purse; and very handy, too; you could pay out money in the dark with it, with accuracy; and you could carry it in your mouth; or in your vest pocket, if you had one. [5]
But if he wants good government, he must pay as careful attention to the machinery,--call it caucus, primary, convention, town-meeting,--as he does to the machinery of his own business. [4]
But what we wanted was money to carry on the work--money to pay the men. [5]
Everybody knows I want to be governor, everybody knows I've got twenty thousand dollars in the bank to pay for that privilege. [9]
But when, after waking the priest, she had asked how much a goat might cost for sacrifice, her countenance cleared, for her savings were enough to pay for it and for a young cock as well. [10]
Susan and Jane, waiting to give her comfort when she was recovered a little from this unknown but overwhelming affliction, were fain to stand mute when they saw her to pay a silent deference to one whom sorrow had lifted far above them and transfigured. [9]
Even the Moslem viceroy, the great general Amru, came over from the other side of the Nile, with his chief military and civil officers, to pay the last honors to the just and revered governor. [10]
In releasing the vessel, the ragamuffins seem to have had a touch of humor, for they gave the captain a "receipt" for what they had taken, and an order on the British consul at Messina to pay for the same. [4]
It may be very wrong to pay any attention to those speculations about the origin of mankind which seem to conflict with the Sacred Record. [6]
She instituted a vegetable garden there, got it farmed on shares by the nearest neighbor, and made it pay her a hundred per cent. [5]
Once more let us have one hour of pure and perfect enjoyment, and then we will pay up capital and interest when we must. [10]
He turned angrily upon the Prince, and said-- "The morrow must we pay two pennies to him that owns this hole; two pennies, mark ye--all this money for a half-year's rent, else out of this we go. [5]
You will give up your pay for the whole time you are absent,--portions of days to be caounted as whole days. [6]
He must pay up right away or the warships would be upon him. [5]
And by some untoward association she was reminded of a conversation she had had with Ditmar on the Saturday afternoon following their first Sunday excursion, when, on opening her pay envelope, she had found twenty dollars. [9]
Was she waiting until he should have crossed the bar before she should pay some inexorable penalty of which he knew nothing? [9]
He owed the United States a large debt--a debt which he could pay if allowed time, but time was denied him. [5]
The farm continued under the expert direction of a superintendent who was a graduate of the State Agricultural College, and a select clientele, which could afford to pay the prices, consumed the milk and cream and butter. [9]
One of the two standing in the door of the ruined chapel on the Ecrehos had the nature of those who buy but once and pay the price but once; the other was of those who keep open accounts in the markets of life. [11]
They pay me two groschen a week, besides my keep. [5]
There are only two claims which I dispute and which I mean to look into personally before I pay them. [5]
I was only trying to say that they pay more attention to appearances. [4]
I'm going to try to pay back by letting her keep her mother. [11]

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