Read full poem →Such is my bond, none can discharge but I,
Yet paying is not paid until I die.
Dictionary Entry
To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
In a Sentence
“he paid her off the books and in kind where possible”
Origin
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Common Phrases
attention payingoff payingjobs payingany payingpaying without
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Poetry examples for “paying”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →were always after the beach boys, whenever the boys
had some paying business in hand. Between the sorority
and the fraternity down there in the Ditch the competi-
Read full poem →Of Merlin locked the harp within,--
Merlin paying the pain of sin,
Pent in a dungeon made of air,--
Read full poem →And bargain for his love, and stand,
Paying a price, at his right hand? 60
Read full poem →addressed to a Miss F. Nesbitt at Plymouth, whither the author
accompanied his eldest brother, to whom he was paying a visit, when he
was twenty-one years of age.' In a letter to his brother George, dated
Read full poem →phone your telegrams from coin tele-
phones, paying as you would for a
telephone call.
Read full poem →To the same. Oct. 13, 1792. Cowper's impatience for
the arrival of Hayley's portrait; his intention of paying
a poetical tribute to Romney 401
Read full poem →Have I not seen dwellers on form and favour
Lose all and more by paying too much rent
For compound sweet; forgoing simple savour,