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Sentences starting with gift

Gift after gift, addresses of congratulation from every district of the country, priestly decrees drawn up in his honor and engraved on tablets of hard stone, lay on every table or leaned against the walls of the vast ball which the guests had just quitted. [10]

Sentences ending with gift

We offer you your lives; for the sake of your families, do not reject the gift. [5]
And it was your invention and your gift. [5]
How hard she would strive to be worthy of this incomparable gift! [9]
The sky, the woods, the waters, the storms, life, death love, the hope and vision of eternity,--these are images that write themselves in poetry in every soul which has anything of the divine gift. [6]
And yet he was not quite sure that it wasn't a fetching gift. [9]
You must wear this necklace, Ruth, as my first gift. [10]
Some fine pictures there, lent by the S. of A. several of them they bought, the others came to them by gift. [5]
Adrian ran to the workshops and told the men, Peter went to the town-hall with a more upright bearing, and Maria, who was obliged to go out, undertook to tell Wilhelm's mother of the good results produced by her son's gift. [10]
Will you take the offered gift? [6]
I gave him the butt again; a thing he seemed to hate, even as a gift. [4]

Short sentences using gift

It was a miraculous gift. [5]
My gift an' his. [11]
Send this good gift? [11]
I have the gift. [9]
You've got his gift. [11]
She has the gift. [11]
He has a gift. [11]
Accept my humble gift. [11]
She pulled her gift in. [5]
Is this a divine gift? [4]

Sentences containing gift two or more times

Kitty--it was she who had so thoughtfully served him; Kitty, with the instinct of strong, unselfish womanhood, with the gift of the outdoor life, with the unpurchasable gift of friendship. [11]
He found the way by a gift of the tools; and I wish I had the same gift now; for I've got no other gift that'll earn anything for me. [11]
And yet it seemed at times to Honora as though this higher life were the gift the fates would most begrudge: a gift reserved for others, the pretensions to which were a kind of knavery. [9]
The gift of second thinking is a great gift. [11]
Second by second it was becoming more and more difficult and seemingly more ungracious to return a gift so graciously given, a gift of no inconsiderable intrinsic value. [9]
This floral gift imitated, on an immense scale, the little bouquet which the famous young general had taken from her father's hand before the gate of the garden of Epicurus to present to her as his first gift. [10]
She had no idle moments after that, and wanted none; for the exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life, and it was manifest that Sally Sellers possessed a gift of that sort in the matter of costume-designing. [5]
His very presence had the gift of dispelling longings, even in the young; the gift of compelling delight in simple things. [9]
Medicine is a gift, surgery is a gift and an art. [11]
One is the gift to foretell things that are but a little way off, the other is the gift to foretell things that are whole ages and centuries away. [5]

More example sentences with the word gift in them

Among other presents Zopyrus received a gold hand-mill weighing six talents, the most honorable and distinguished gift a Persian monarch could bestow upon a subject. [10]
You have had your trials, you have them still; but every gift of man is yours, and every opportunity. [11]
He did not yet feel that he could stoop so low as to receive a gift from this young upstart. [10]
She could not yet feel any impulse of affection towards her, and she did not as yet understand that what was required of her was the one gift which the best will, the most loving heart in the world, could not offer at a command. [10]
This gift was worth twenty houses in the city, and made its owner a rich man. [10]
The gift of working miracles was not bestowed upon His Church at large. [5]
May the gift won at the gaming table profit the holy Brothers. [10]
The spell of woman's charms was also a gift of the goddess. [10]
She was carrying Wolf's gift to Frau Lerch, her dressmaker. [10]
He was not without the gift for popularity, and he saw now that he could best attain it by treating Dyck Calhoun well. [11]
Paulus did not withdraw, he accepted the blow from his victim as a gift or a greeting, thinking, "Aye, and I only wish you had a dagger in your hand; I would not resist you. [10]
To intoxicate themselves with wine, the gift of the god to whom they were paying homage, was not only permitted, but commanded, and the juice of the grape proved its all-equalizing power. [10]
Fate is always with me, and I will be the gift of the gods to the woman that takes me. [11]
Yet--there I agree with Archibius--life's greatest joy--love--is blended with pain, as yonder branch of exquisite roses from Dolabella, the last gift of friendship, has its sharp thorns. [10]
Ingenious and tasteful, with a gift for cooking and an educated hand, she had made her little home as pretty as their few possessions would permit. [11]
Now see--and Gombert will thank you too--that it is quenched with a fuller gift of this drink of the gods. [10]
Once in a while you will have a patient of sense, born with the gift of observation, from whom you may learn something. [3]
In a little while the waters widened into a lake, which was surrounded by a park, a gift to the city of the Hutchins family. [9]
With a tongue which made men gasp with laughter, with as comic a gift as ever woman had, and as equally comic a face, she had been a good-natured little tyrant in her way. [11]
What sound wit, what keenness of observation, what a happy gift of invention, the old comic writers had at their disposal! [10]
Others might have wealth and beauty, he thought to himself, but what were these to the gift of genius? [6]
When we give, we will, in remembrance of you, give in all love and willingness, and when we receive, even the smallest gift, we will only ask in what spirit it was offered. [10]
What the gift was to announce she read on the paper accompanying it, which contained the following simple lines: "The iron rude, when shaped by fire and blows, Delights our eyes as a most beauteous rose. [10]
His best gift was the precaution which he had taken that she should live apart from the old monkey. [10]
His brother Orion was ten years older, but he had not the gift of success. [5]
The fairest future was promised to Balbilla; the bull to whom she had to offer a cake, with her face averted, had approved of her gift and had touched her hand with his moist muzzle. [10]
Before the night was over everybody at Guidon Hill, save Hilton and Ida, knew what gift would come from Macavoy to the wedded pair. [11]
Perhaps, where speech was not given, a gift of divination entered into her instead, and she valued what others found useless, and held aloof from what others found good. [11]
Yet the tension was not constant, rising and falling with his moods and struggles, all of which she read--unguessed by him--as easily as a printed page by the gift that dispenses with laborious processes of the intellect. [9]
Not that Phil was at all pious, nor yet possessed of those abstemious qualities in language and appetite by which good men are known; but he had a gift of civic virtue--important in a wicked world, and of unusual importance in Viking. [11]
The unexpected gift was accepted with pleasure, and when he thanked her eagerly and with simple heartiness, she interrupted him with the assurance that in Alexandria art was not yet being borne to the grave. [10]
Behind the house was a little stable where four tiny horses with spotted skins, the rarest and prettiest creatures imaginable--a gift from the King of Media--were stamping the ground. [10]
With Eumedes he visited the unfamiliar scenes around him, and his newly restored gift of sight presented to him here many things that formerly he would scarcely have noticed, but which now filled him with grateful joy. [10]
Simplicity was his very life, and yet he had a gift for following the sinuosities of the Oriental mind; he had a quality almost clairvoyant, which came, perhaps, from his Irish forebears. [11]
Wolf's gift, the velvet robe with the marten border, would have been too heavy and oppressive for singing, and, besides, was not yet finished. [10]
He had the useful gift of reading the minds of people in their faces. [11]
To avoid further unpleasantness the firm had paid him all his wages; and he had straightway come to Vilray to earn his bed and board by other means than through a pen, a ledger and a gift for figures. [11]
She did not understand, was never satisfied with allusions, and she had no gift for catching the drift of things. [11]
And I want--the unattainable, the divine gift which is bestowed, which cannot be acquired. [9]
The fairy said true; in all her store there was but one gift which was precious, only one that was not valueless. [5]
The fruit of trees is a gift from Nature, and all that she brings forth has some good in it; but what you offer to the world is hollow and poisonous. [10]
Myrtle knew how to use her needle, and always had a dexterous way of shaping any article of dress or ornament,--a natural gift not very rare, but sometimes very needful, as it was now. [6]
He also vowed to the convent and its saint--which, come what might, should also be his--a rich gift whenever the Emperor or the gaming table again filled his purse. [10]
He was willing to pay in kind; but what Oriental ever paid a debt without a gift in return, even as a bartering Irishman demands his lucky penny. [11]
Paula's wedding gift to her was the great emerald, which had meanwhile been brought back again to Memphis. [10]
That's me gift to her an' Hilton, an' no other. [11]
He was permitted to do what no one else ventured, for his cheerfulness and wit, his gift of story-telling, and sharp tongue often succeeded in dispelling the clouds of melancholy from the brow of his imperial master. [10]
I once went to a church in London and heard the famous Edward Irving preach, and heard some of his congregation speak in the strange words characteristic of their miraculous gift of tongues. [6]
Even the youths, thy immediate attendants, are never seen to smile; though cheerfulness, that sweet gift of the gods, usually belongs to the young, as flowers to spring. [10]
Here and there, through the history of these centuries, there have been those who have entered into this belief of their own privilege and duty, and have used the gift which they recognized. [5]
And yet she threw the costly birthday gift aside as if the flowers were apple parings. [10]
More than a thousand blossoms were united in this peerless bouquet, and the singular gigantic gift was characteristic of its giver. [10]
How little, she thought, would have been taken from the wealthy Katharina by the trifling gift which would have restored to her happiness and peace. [10]
He had, besides, though there was little exuberance in his nature, a gift of dry humour, which did more than anything else, perhaps, to make his presence among them unrestrained. [11]
The giver of this good gift demands that his name be not known. [11]
Then she made them show her the lovely, richly-tinted and fragrant gift, first on one side and then on the other, buried her face in the flowers, and secretly kissed the delicate petals of a lovely, half-opened rose-bud. [10]
I will have them set with the most precious stones; even diamonds will seem worthless to me compared with this gift from you. [10]
And most of them had not only the gift of the imagination necessary to great eloquence, but also were so mentally disciplined by the classics that they handled the practical questions upon which they legislated with clearness and precision. [4]
Then there is the well-known example of the honest clerk on a small salary who was ruined by the gift of a repeating watch--an expensive timepiece that required at least ten thousand a year to sustain it: he is now in Canada. [4]
Cooper's gift in the way of invention was not a rich endowment; but such as it was he liked to work it, he was pleased with the effects, and indeed he did some quite sweet things with it. [5]
Any punishment, even the severest, will be pleasing in his sight which you may inflict on those guilty of high-treason, for you wear the purple as his gift and in his name; those who insult you sin also against the god. [10]
He involuntarily seized the saddlebag which contained the handsomest gift he had bought in Brussels for the person who had drawn him back to Ratisbon with a stronger power of attraction than anything else. [10]
In front of the pulpit were simple decorations, boughs of pine covered the desk, and in their centre was a harp of yellow jonquils, the gift of Miss Louisa M. Alcott. [6]
When he reached the palace-gate he begged one of the civic guard to conduct him to his brother, and as he backed his request with a gift of money he was led at once to the man whom he sought. [10]
Never before had the much-courted woman, who had full faith in her gift of prophesy, felt so bitter, sore, and irritated. [10]
The walls of the men's apartment were painted of a reddish-brown color, against which the outlines of some white marble carvings, the gift of a Chian sculptor, stood out in sharp relief. [10]
For some time the House had been aware that he had more than a gift for criticism of the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. [11]
It is as the Greek philosopher said, 'To conceive the human mind aright is the greatest gift from the gods. [11]
The bearer of the gift was the goddess of love, and the ornament she gave--so ran the legend--brought misfortune on those who inherited it. [10]
But he had the gift of waiting. [11]
She never had the gift of speech and yet I think I can understand her. [10]
Baron Malfalconnet possessed the gift of lending Time wings and using the simplest incident as the foundation for an entertaining story. [10]
It had been the gift of Diana Welldon on a certain day not long ago, when Flood Rawley had made a pledge to her, which was as vital to him and to his future as two thousand dollars were vital to Dan Welldon now. [11]
But what is the gift of a mourning ring to the bequest of a perpetual annuity? [6]
A snuffbox with the Emperor's portrait is a reward but not a distinction," said the diplomatist--"a gift, rather. [2]
When there, indemnify the driver by the gift of a gold piece, so that he may not betray us, and do not return here but proceed to the harbor. [10]
Before and during the dance with Heinz the latter had requested him to use the noble Arabian steed, a gift from the Sultan Kalaun to the Emperor, who had bestowed it upon her, and also expressed the hope of meeting the knight frequently. [10]
His home and the city had held high festival on his return, as at some gift of Fortune, in which she too had a goodly share. [10]
He called this the Cincinnatus theory: that any American, because he was an American, was fit for any job in the gift of state or city or government, from sheriff to Ambassador to Great Britain. [9]
The gift of the bloodhound is in him. [5]
He now possessed the best gift Ruth had asked him to beseech of the "word. [10]
It seemed fitting that this final word from one who had so long given happiness to the whole world should record a special gift to his neighbors. [5]
It is said that Satan often designs evil and yet works good, and if this late and very tender emotion is a gift of hell, it nevertheless affords our sovereign lord unexpected and therefore all the more exquisite joys. [10]
At the time that Mrs. Eddy had unloaded that dismal gift on to her National Association, she had followed her inveterate custom: she had tied a string to its hind leg, and kept one end of it hitched to her belt. [5]
Now he knew that it was beyond value, the one precious gift of life, and the knowledge had come too late. [9]
How is it that in barren sandy ground This little plant so sweet a gift has found? [10]
And pray also that he who has given us here a good gift may find his thanks in our better-ordered lives, and that he may consecrate his parts and talents to the redeeming actions of this world. [11]
In the days that followed, Venters balanced perpetually in mind this haunting conception of innocence over against the cold and sickening fact of an unintentional yet actual gift. [13]
Mighty few books that come strictly under the head of literature will sell by subscription; but if Uncle Remus won't, the gift of prophecy has departed out of me. [5]
And the names that be upon their tombs, even unto this time, are Johannes Smithianus, Trumps, Gift, High, and Low, Jack, and The Game. [5]
They felt confident that a man who could so carefully and secretly build up his own fortune had a gift which could be used to advantage. [11]
Never had Heinz thanked his imperial benefactor more warmly for any gift, but though the Emperor received his gallant favourite's expressions of gratitude and appreciation kindly, he did not yet permit him to enjoy his new happiness. [10]
It was a terrible moment for Jethro, and never had he desired the gift of speech as now. [9]
She had the tempting gift of silence. [9]
The faculty of telling a story is a much rarer gift than the ability to analyze character and even than the ability truly to draw character. [4]
At the supper- table spread by Norah Doyle, in spite of the protests of her visitors-- the Young Doctor, Louise and Patsy--Nolan Doyle, who had a fine gift for playful talk, had tried to keep the situation free from melodrama. [11]
Mathilde, with the sympathetic gift of her nation, shared the excitement of her mistress in this fete. [9]
The source of such a gift could not long be kept secret. [6]
His punishment would still be heavy; but whence had come such a wondrous gift to mitigate it? [9]
In unfastening the star, her lover's gift, she saw upon the gold at the back Charles's motto, "Plus ultra! [10]

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