To a woman brought up as I have been, a dependent, a brilliant marriage would represent the most successful thing, the most nearly Compensating thing, that life could offer.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
He cannot resist the conviction that the same Compensating laws are at work everywhere.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
The House of Lords, by having thrown out Peel's Bill for Compensating outgoing tenants for improvements their own money or exertions had created, was largely responsible for the violence and sedition now threatening life and property throughout Ireland.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond