ill-requited

In many instances, no remembrances of wrongs received, of injuries sustained, of hopeless poverty and ill-requited toil, can sever that holiest, most sacred of ties, which binds, until his latest breath, the heart of the exile to his native land.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

The clergy, whose duties are very arduous and ill-requited, have been paid by the Society for Propagating the Gospel, and out of the proceeds of the clergy reserves.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

I cannot support my own reflections upon a decency so ill-requited. —

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Thence he must have learned to reverence himself and his profession, and to look upon its otherwise ill-requited toils as their own exceeding great reward.

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

Having pointed out their path, he gave them his blessing for brave men and expert horse-stealers, and his parting voice was as sweet as the voice of a maiden, who has died from ill-requited affection, and revisits the shades of earth in the form of a little white dove.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

The more passengers, beyond the complement of the "'bus," the more perquisites for an ill-requited profession.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 06, May 7, 1870 Various

Consequent from this a too resolute faith in any particular make of pig iron is likely to be at times ill-requited.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 Various

Thus, destitute of a leader at the time when they most needed one, they chose the gallant Captain John Smith, so well known from "the romantic tale of his own life and Englishmen's lives, for his sake, being saved once and again, by the personal devotion of the generous but ill-requited Pocahontas."

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various

In the absence of many subjects for self-congratulation, he rather piqued himself on a warm heart and sensitive feelings, and chose to consider them ill-requited by the cold words and sad glances of those whose happiness he was destroying.

My Little Lady Eleanor Frances Poynter

Did they have a vision of a future, great and wonderful, which was to grow out of their ill-requited toil?

King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923