ill-rewarded

Mr. Gideon Gray, surgeon in the village of Middlemas, situated in one of the midland counties of Scotland, led the rough, active, and ill-rewarded course of life which we have endeavoured to describe.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

As dear Sam Johnson sits behind the screen, too proud to show his threadbare coat and patches among the more prosperous brethren of his trade, there is no want of dignity in HIM, in that homely image of labor ill-rewarded, genius as yet unrecognized, independence sturdy and uncomplaining.

Roundabout Papers 2006

Many of them are actively interested in promoting the improvement of the natives, but it is uphill work, and ill-rewarded, at least on earth.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

But as seen through the mists of intoxication, their fatigues seemed to them prodigious and but ill-rewarded.

Salammbo 2003

Among our teaching class, the apathy is not confined to the ill-rewarded incumbents of the lower positions; with rare exceptions, it is even more decided at the other extreme of the scale.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

It was an ugly thought that his confidence in human nature, and nature in general, was to be so ill-rewarded as by cutting his throat, and selling him in quarters.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Various

Assuredly the royal clemency had been ill-rewarded; the Knights had displayed a singular form of gratitude to the sparer of their lives; they had devoted themselves to him, indeed, but devoted themselves to his destruction.

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

This course is unhappily no novelty in the shifting life of genius, overworked and ill-rewarded, and seeking to throw off its cares in the pursuits and excitements of vulgar existence.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various

'Yes, very kind,' I murmured, but I was reflecting that the lady's kindness might not be so very ill-rewarded.

Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910

Outram's answer to the generous spirit of Havelock's reception was a proclamation which showed that he understood and appreciated the services which seemed so ill-rewarded by the government, and that he too would not be behindhand in generosity.

The Red Book of Heroes Mrs. Lang 1909