"Prepaid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... deserving, that is absurd: he had to die in the endeavour to make us listen and receive. 'When ye shall have done all the things that are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which it was our duty to do.' Duty is a thing prepaid: it can never have desert. There is no claim on God that springs from us: ...
— Unspoken Sermons - Series I., II., and II. • George MacDonald
... the Duke saw that the message, with which was a prepaid form for reply, had been handed in at the Tankerton post-office. It ...
— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm
... "No; it's a prepaid telegram. It was delivered with another one for Colonel Colby. He signed for it, thinking you might be asleep. I hope you haven't got ...
— The Rover Boys Under Canvas - or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine • Arthur M. Winfield
... she found Alice waiting with a telegram in hand "its for you miss" she said "and the reply is prepaid." ...
— Daisy Ashford: Her Book • Daisy Ashford
... gray-haired man in the community, kept tavern and was an oracle on nearly all subjects. He was also postmaster, and a wash-stand drawer served as post office. It cost twenty-five cents in those times to pass a letter between Wisconsin and the East. Postage did not have to be prepaid, and I have known my father to go several days before he could raise the requisite cash to redeem a letter which he had heard awaited him in the wash-stand drawer, for Uncle Ben was not allowed to accept farm produce or even bank script ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 • Charles Sylvester
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