Read full poem →Might amusement, in wailing through volumes lo be at last
rewarded by a solitary gem, the value of which has been
diminished to nothing by the labour of the acquisition. The
Dictionary Entry
To give a reward to or for.
In a Sentence
“Why are you rewarding that bad behaviour?”
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Poetry examples for “rewarded”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The ... thou alone should be,
To spend years thus, and be rewarded, _15
As thou, sweet love, requited me
Read full poem →I am the man; and thus may still
True lovers be rewarded.
Read full poem →And the brood of titans that battled with God
Ages long; for which he rewarded them.
Read full poem →Sithens all alike, where ruleth craftiness,
Rewarded is both false and plain?
Soonest he speedeth that most can feign;
