What is "repays"

Usage examples of "repays".

When you read the passage in which Jade Scent, as the leading exponent of the most extraordinary wantonness of all, repays her husband's debts, you will finally realize that the previous few chapters have done well to go too far in their descriptions.

Lillie is immensely pleased, feeling that it alone repays the whole enterprise.

Actually, instead of fourteen you will demand twenty million: The extra six repays the six you—in your shrewdness—‘invested’ in Hong Kong on the Crown’s behalf.

They take from the sun the odorous they return—they are the emblem of the love that receives and repays tenfold—the emblem of the heart that drunk thy rays, and owes to thee the germ of the treasures that it proffers to thy smile.

A smile of such importance demands analysis, and in this case repays it.

Daniel repays because you placed yourself in front of his wife to protect her.