"Recoup" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had driven a herd of cattle for his father and brother, and after selling them in the Black Hills, gambled away the proceeds. Some five or six of his outfit returned to Ogalalla with him, and being moneyless, concluded to recoup their losses at the expense of the railway company. Going eighteen miles up the river to Big Springs, seven of them robbed the express and passengers, the former yielding sixty thousand dollars in gold. The next morning ...
— The Log of a Cowboy - A Narrative of the Old Trail Days • Andy Adams
... bitter, deadly hatred against the man who with false promises had led him into so hopeless a quagmire? Probably the Hon. Robert owed a great deal of money to Beddingfield, which the latter hoped to recoup at usurious interest, with threats of scandal and ...
— The Old Man in the Corner • Baroness Orczy
... Catherine, misnamed the Great, to gaincontrol of the Dardanelles. Unceasing intrigues have been and are still going on in Stamboul. Russia's influence has been steadily undermined by Germany, in Turkey and Asia Minor. Since the disastrous campaign against Japan, Russia has made strenuous efforts to recoup her sphere of influence through her coalition of the principal Balkan States. Of this you will ...
— The Secrets of the German War Office • Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves
... in the continuity of the gas supply to offer to furnish us with gas for a sum per year equal to that hitherto annually paid for coal until the amount expended by them on piping had been repaid, and afterward at half that sum. It took us about eighteen months to recoup the gas company, and we are now working under the permanent arrangement of one-half the previous cost of fuel on cars at work. Since our success in the use of this new natural fuel at the rail mills, parties still bolder have invested in lines of piping to ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 • Various
... dozen whites could do nothing against Ambrose's strong party. Colina herself had suffered a moral defeat, and required time to recoup ...
— The Fur Bringers - A Story of the Canadian Northwest • Hulbert Footner |
