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Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

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repay

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/ɹiˈpeɪ/Used In Literature ↓

To pay back.

In a Sentence

I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.

Origin

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Common Phrases

. repayrepay wellrepay neverrepay amply
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Poetry examples for repay

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

by no means certain, that there was attraction enough

to repay the pains of resuscitation, for, in fact, the

humours were those of its own day, and that day was

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