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The Mother’s Recompense is the fifth novel I’ve read by Wharton and she never disappoints me.
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The Mother’s Recompense is the story of Kate Clephane who sealed her fate in her youth by leaving a husband she detested and running off with another man.
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Of the fantasy stories, the most impressive is Pamela Kenza Taylor's "Recompense," in which the ghosts of Muslim slaves take revenge on the crew of a slave ship.
SF Gospel 2009
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It begins, “In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, Master of the Day of Recompense.”
For a Lent study, a Quebec Anglican Church invites imam to speak about Islam « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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It begins, “In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, Master of the Day of Recompense.”
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In such dreamlike, revelatory images as "The Soothsayer's Recompense" (1913), for example, de Chirico creates a haunting, modern locale for his painted evocation of the "Sleeping Ariadne," one of the most renowned sculptural remnants of antiquity (de Chirico knew life-size depictions in Italy of the mythic, abandoned nymph, not the smaller figure here on view).
A Dialogue Across Centuries Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011
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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
Global Voices in English » China: Prostitutes more trustworthy than government officials 2009
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Recompense for harm suffered is only one purpose of a damages award.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Crime Severity and Constitutional Line-Drawing: 2009
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I have two main ideas on file not my own to add to that: 1. Recompense to no man evil for evil.
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I have two main ideas on file not my own to add to that: 1. Recompense to no man evil for evil.
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