Gratitude-but in a sentence

My life's gratitude-but that will be your least reward.

There were his old comrades Ney, Prince de la Moskwa; Macdonald, Duke de Tarento; Lefebvre, Duke de Dantzic; Oudinot, Duke de Reggio-all of them owing their glory to Napoleon: it was, therefore, pardonable if he confided in their gratitude-but gratitude to the fallen, who had nothing more to give, and whose misfortunes resembled an infectious disease, repelling even his dearest friends.

Now, if Craik had any sense of gratitude-but he hasn't-it seems so natural, 'I built you a church, you marry my cousin.

But those, with which I introduced this article, are still worse; because they involve an erroneous view of constitutional history, and a most comprehensive act of ingratitude: the great men of the Long Parliament paid a heavy price for their efforts to purchase for their descendants a barrier to irresponsible power and security from the anarchy of undefined regal prerogative: in these efforts most of them made shipwreck of their own tranquillity and peace; that such sacrifices were made unavailingly (as it must have seemed to themselves), and that few of them lived to see the 'good old cause' finally triumphant, does not cancel their claims upon our gratitude-but rather strengthen them by the degree in which it aggravated the difficulty of bearing such sacrifices with patience.

My dear young lady," added he, addressing himself to Adrienne, "believe what I say-we will talk hereafter of gratitude-but we have now to talk of the present so important for you and your family.