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Sentences starting with gave

Gave Mr. Flint your pass did you? [9]
Gave you a twist? [2]
Gave it to some one else to read--to some other woman, perhaps. [11]
Gave us later another cup of tea, and bread the same, and then let us go to rest. [5]
Gave us first about a teaspoonful of spirits in water, and then to each a cup of warm tea, with a little bread. [5]

Sentences ending with gave

Several times a year she made this journey, landing at the Eperquerie Rocks as she had done one day long ago, and selling her beautiful wool caps and jackets to the farmers and fisher-folk, getting in kind for what she gave. [11]
Do you remember the cotillon, or whatever it was, that Cooke gave? [9]
It is singular that while he was engaged with his great event, he was also thinking what an air of authority the ring gave. [11]
Nothing could have replaced the affection which the village people had for her; no power could have made her happy as the pleasure her presence gave. [13]
Some were thrust off into the water, but so fierce was their onset that others gained the wharf, laying sharply about them in all directions, but getting full as many knocks as they gave. [9]
It was so little to get for the life she gave. [11]
At the door he turned, and looked back at the two --a long, lingering look he gave. [11]
Then she ate greedily the food which Soada should have eaten; snatching scraps of consolation in return for the sympathy she gave. [11]
It was exceedingly gratifying, as we spread the news of the recovered property that afternoon at every house on our way to the Toe, to see what pleasure it gave. [4]
What might he give in return for what she gave? [11]

Short sentences using gave

Who gave it you? [5]
This action gave Venters amusement. [13]
She gave her usual answer. [5]
I gave it up. [5]
I gave myself up. [10]
I gave you two myself. [11]
He gave it to me. [10]
Puss gave way to laughter. [9]
He gave it to her. [11]
So they gave their consent. [2]

Sentences containing gave two or more times

Yet Mab gave Young Aleck as much as he gave her. [11]
At first he was silent and embarrassed, but Henrica gave him no rest, and when he had once begun to answer her questions he was soon carried away by her glowing vivacity, and gave free, joyous play to his wit. [10]
But now there was fear in it, and fear gave it a vibrant sweetness, fear gave it a quality that made it mine--mine. [9]
Then he replied very sadly: "You gave Powhatan a white dog, which Powhatan fed as himself, but your king gave me nothing, and I am better than your white dog. [4]
All this gave us matter for thought, and also gave us good heart; only it weighed upon our souls that our departing was not to be yet for some weeks. [10]
The doctor gave Ulrich many an admonitory word, his wife kissed him, and as a parting remembrance hung a small gold ring, with a glittering stone, about his neck, and old Rahel gave him a kerchief full of freshly-baked cakes to eat on his way. [10]
He gave me twenty dollars--that is to say, he gave me life, as I considered it. [5]
The Duke was too blind with anger to see the start of recognition his visitors gave at sight of each other, and by a concurrence of feeling neither Detricand nor Philip gave sign of acquaintance. [11]
The colonel rode to the front, angrily gave some reply to questions put to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having his own way, gave an order. [2]
Food and fire, the priceless comfort of a blanket on the ground, and a saddle or kit for a pillow gave men compensation for all the hardships and dangers of the day; and they gave little thought to the morrow. [11]

More example sentences with the word gave in them

My thoughts gave zest to my actions, and I was climbing the steep, pine-clad slope with rapidity when I heard Miss Trevor below me calling out to wait for her. [9]
Money gave you yours,--to go to school and college until you were twenty four, and get an education,--such as it was. [9]
I think what you're doing is splendid, Brooks, only--" here she gave him an appealing, rather commiserating look--"only I do wish you would take more interest in--in underlying principles. [9]
Take off all your useless ornaments and only wear the chain the king gave you on your marriage. [10]
We gave you your option, to scale down on a fair estimate of the earnings of the short line (the A. and B. [4]
I gave you your life twice. [11]
Your Admiralty and your government first pardoned the man, and then gave him freedom on the island which you tried to prevent; and now they turn round and confine him to his acres. [11]
Caesar has made your father, and your neighbor Skopas, and every free man in the country a Roman citizen; but it is a pity that, while he gave each man his patent of citizenship, he should have filched the money out of his purse. [10]
In defiance of your command, my Sovereign, but in virtue of the full powers you once gave me, I have ordered the grandson of Amasis to be the executioner's first victim. [10]
When you had your armor on, to-day, it gave one a sort of notion of it; but in these pretty silks and velvets, you are only a dainty page, not a league-striding war-colossus, moving in clouds and darkness and breathing smoke and thunder. [5]
They gave me your address at the hotel--when I asked for a lawyer. [9]
He gave the young men a pretty fight indeed, and long before they had him conquered the elder guests had made their escape through door and window. [9]
This touched the young fellow's sympathetic nature, and at the same time gave him the painful sense of being an intruder upon a sacred privacy, an observer of emotions which a stranger ought not to witness. [5]
And we remembered you, too; I gave you her love. [10]
But I, I--If you--" At the same he threw up his hands and gave a dull, painful cry. [10]
Yet I'm glad you wrote me; it gave me time to think, and I can tell you the truth as I see it. [11]
This is why: you were fighting the man who gave you to the world. [11]
And Davy, do you think you can sing that song you gave us the other night? [9]
And what do you think it was that saved the ship, and Captain Coram, and so in due time gave to London that Foundling Hospital which he endowed, and under the floor of which he lies buried? [6]
And now do you know who gave you all this? [10]
That must make you happy, father.--But tell us, pray tell us where the wound hurts that the murderer gave you? [10]
I know that you gave the order that only three of the five ships which brought the contents of your winelofts should be unloaded. [10]
Your interpretation is wrong; Caesar gave me a far better one. [10]
He gave the wretch a sudden twist, pulling him clear of the hole, and wrenched the knife from his fingers at the same moment. [11]
They could neither wrestle, shoot, nor climb, so we gave them little thought, and anything like actual flirtation was unknown--we had so many better things in our heads. [10]
The cannonshots had wounded him fatally, he had crept to that unfriendly place in the fog, and there, surrounded by his enemies and in constant danger of detection, he had wasted away with hunger and suffering till death gave him peace. [5]
I said I wouldn't take any money, and gave it back to him. [9]
For instance, she would stamp four copies of each letter out of sweet honey-cakes, and when I knew them well she gave me these tiny little A. [10]
We gave the world tobacco and the potato, perhaps the most important contributions to the content and the fatness of the world made by any new country, and it was a noble ambition to give it new styles of art and literature also. [4]
But I was working ten hours a day packing tools in your shops, and all you gave me when the whistle blew was--Jesus. [9]
He gave the words of greeting, and the first regiment roared "Hurrah! [2]
That and Garotte's words gave him courage. [11]
I gave my word about that, and so did my father; and I'll keep it. [11]
He gave a wondering cry, and almost dropped the lantern. [11]
She grew to womanhood, and gave her heart to one who could not know its worth. [12]
Madame Gravois, elderly, wizened, primp in a starched cotton gown, opened the door herself, fell upon Monsieur Vigo in the Creole fashion; and within a quarter of an hour I was installed in her best room, which gave out on a little court behind. [9]
The fault lay without doubt in his Lordship's charter, which gave to the parishioners no voice in the choosing of their pastors. [9]
And the cordiality with which he gave help whenever it was asked, and his eagerness to acknowledge merit in others, secured him the affection of all the literary class, which is popularly supposed to have a rare appreciation of the defects of fellow craftsmen. [4]
He was often with us, in flying visits, and I can well remember that his coming and the expectation of it gave a kind of elation to the summer--that and Margaret's supreme and sunny happiness. [4]
They strode along, with their arms projecting straight out from their bodies; they did not hold them out themselves, but fellow-students walked beside them and gave the needed support. [5]
Now Mastor returned with the water and the blue phial, and gave them to the Bithynian. [10]
Still it took with the public, and gave me celebrity, as an original work was something remarkable and uncommon in America. [4]
His active connection with the paper he never gave up absolutely, nor did his interest in it ever cease. [4]
I got in with the French toughs over at Manitou, at Barbazon's Tavern, and I gave them gin--we made it a gin night. [11]
His voice broke with sheer grief; nevertheless his serving lad was carrying his lute after him, and as he gave me his hand to bid me good-day he told me that Ann was above tending her father. [10]
She tortured herself with questions, and the less peace her aunt gave her, the more unendurable her headache became, the more plainly she felt that the fever, against whose relaxing power she had struggled for days, would conquer her. [10]
The atmosphere, charged with presage for him, gave him nothing. [9]
He received me with much cordiality, and seemed interested in a long account which I gave him of our affairs. [6]
They became instinct with life to me, and have always remained so; for my mother gave them the form of dramas, in which I was permitted to be an actor. [10]
He was charmed with it; it gave him something to do. [5]
Losing all patience with him, gave Mithoo, one of the gang, 5 rupees ($2.50) to murder him, and take the sin upon himself. [5]
He probably brought with him in 1610 his wife, who gave birth to his daughter Bermuda, born on the Somers Islands at the time of the shipwreck. [4]
They were connected with each other by colonnades, or by little bridges, under which flowed canals, that watered the gardens and gave the palace-grounds the aspect of a town built on islands. [10]
She answered them with dignity, but one saw that they gave her pain. [5]
Didymus was filled with compassion for him, and, though he gladly welcomed Gorgias, he gave him to understand that the leech's absence vexed him. [10]
The broad forehead, with arching eyebrows, gave an intellectual cast to a face the special stamp of which was purity. [4]
These she gave with an instant decision which was part of her equipment, and then, when the butler had gone, she left the house on foot to take a cab at the corner of Piccadilly. [11]
These Jasmine gave with a smiling openness and apparent good-fellowship, which were not in the least compromising. [11]
So at last, with a sigh and a yawn, he gave it up. [5]
He was startled with a piece of information which gave him such an exquisite pang of delight that he could hardly keep the usual quiet of his demeanor. [6]
To all that wished him well, he gave thanks. [5]
I do not wish to run the risk of giving names to the ecclesiastical furniture which gave it such a Romish aspect; but there were pictures, and inscriptions in antiquated characters, and there were reading-stands, and flowers on the altar, and other elegant arrangements. [6]
It's ourselves we wish to change, we wish for a religious faith like yours, only the same teaching which gave it to you is powerless for us. [9]
And on this wise he gave us to know for certain that the vast sum demanded was not an error on his part. [10]
She gave the wine back to her daughter, saying good-humoredly: "I have tasted sweeter, but acid is refreshing in this heat. [10]
But the west windows gave a broad outlook across the common, beyond which the historical "Washington elm" and two companions in line with it, spread their leaves in summer and their networks in winter. [6]
She was a willing servant to Stephanus because as often as she went to him, she could hear his son's name from his lips, and he rejoiced at her coming because she always gave him the opportunity of talking of Hermas. [10]
Their Reverend Samuel Willard wrote us a not over-wise report of a case of hysteria; and our Jean Astruc gave them (if we may trust Dr. Smith's Dictionary of the Bible) the first discerning criticism on the authorship of the Pentateuch. [3]
Cloud-in-the-Sky gave a wild whoop, and from the mountain there came, a moment after, a faint replica of the sound. [11]
She gave a wild whinny of fright, and jumped cornerwise, clear out across the chasm, towards the moving bridge. [11]
She opened her wide eyes and gave him a stare, but answered nothing. [5]
This procrastinator Kutuzov, whose motto was "Patience and Time," this enemy of decisive action, gave battle at Borodino, investing the preparations for it with unparalleled solemnity. [2]
A horseman with whom we rode in the morning gave us a very low estimate of the trustworthiness of the inhabitants. [4]
The other citizens whom she met made up for Mr. Worthington's coldness, and gave her a hearty greeting, and some stopped to offer their congratulations. [9]
He put the whole matter by, and gave himself to the details of the work before him. [8]
Even the professor who gave the lectures had had the air of deploring them. [9]
It was Labasse who gave me this tip. [11]
If the woman who gave him birth wishes to make him feel new and deep gratitude, let her hasten at once to Luxemburg, where he has been for several hours in the deepest privacy. [10]
After that, the White Corps student gave many severe wounds, but got none of the consequence in return. [5]
A red and white awning, stretching up the length of the walk which once had run beside the tall pear trees, gave it an unrecognizable, gala air. [9]
She wore the whistle that Trevoor gave her. [11]
He gave a whining bark almost human in its meaning, and threw himself at the legs of his master, pushing him backwards and over towards the road leading upon the bridge, as a collie guides sheep. [11]
In a little while familiarity modified their fears and they gave the place a critical and interested examination, rather admiring their own boldness, and wondering at it, too. [5]
The next morning, while a score or more of delinquents sat in the anxious seats, Justice Garry recognized me and gave me precedence. [9]
The dread in which their sort was held was apparent in the fact that everybody gave them the road, and took their ribald insolences meekly, without venturing to talk back. [5]
The rock on which she stood gave her feet sufficient support, as it had done many times before. [10]
The trying months which she had described in her letters to Barine had completely blanched her grey hair, her cheeks were sunken, and a deep line between her mouth and nose gave her pleasant face a sorrowful expression. [10]
Whereupon his eyebrows, which met above his nose, were darkly knit, and he gave me to wit, shortly and well-nigh harshly, that he would abide by his own. [10]
The lion, too, which lay unchained by his master's seat, gave her a fright now and then; for if Caesar raised his voice in anger, he growled and stood up. [10]
The canal for which he was taxed gave his feddan of land no water, for the Pasha, the friend of the Government, took all the water for his own land. [11]
With the prosperity which he made attend his work he changed the character of the enterprise, and with Fulkerson's enthusiastic support he gave the public an art journal of as high grade as 'Les Lettres et les Arts', and very much that sort of thing. [8]
The hut in which he lived with his wife on another hill, ten miles from Shaknon, had but two rooms, and their little farm and the garden gave them only enough to live--no more. [11]
The tone in which he gave the order was such that even the nurse did not remonstrate; and Nilus, for his part obeyed in silence when Orion bid him return to his place among the judges. [10]
His great remedy, which he gave oftener than any other, was nitre; which he ordered in doses of twenty or thirty grains to adults, and of three grains to infants. [3]
There was nothing which gave the least reason to suspect insanity on the part of the writer, whoever he or she might be. [6]
It was that which gave promise that in due time the weight would be lifted from the shoulders of all men. [7]
The only thing which gave either any chance was the very thing Baker & I proposed,--an adjustment with themselves. [7]
The flaxen hair, which bristled around his head and hung over his broad, ugly face, gave him so unkempt and imbecile an appearance that it was repulsive to the almoner, and he harshly asked where he had been loitering. [10]
With some gesticulation which added greatly to the force of the story, he gave a most terse and vivid account of Mr. John's arrival at the embankment by the grove--of his charging a whole regiment of Union volunteers. [9]
He is crucified wherever his brothers are slain without cause; he lies buried wherever man, made in his Maker's image, is entombed in ignorance lest he should learn the rights which his Divine Master gave him! [6]

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