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Sentences starting with gifts

Gifts will not help you, and charities are of no avail. [9]
Gifts of pretty and pleasing objects were displayed on a side table. [6]

Sentences ending with gifts

And what have you done with all these good gifts? [2]
The worthy man with the smooth face, firmly-closed lips, and long nose, which offered an excellent straight line to its owner's burin, sat on a throne in the costume of a Roman general, while Vulcan and Bacchus, Minerva and Poinona, offered him gifts. [10]
And when Jason, with Mopsus's assistance, put the same ribbons on his own lank pig, it looked neither better nor prouder than before, for it was no lucky animal and did not appreciate beautiful gifts. [10]
It was a vellum fan painted with the shipwreck, and was "one of Virginia's wedding gifts. [5]
I went and told the widow about it, and she said the thing a body could get by praying for it was "spiritual gifts. [5]
He stood face to face with the mighty monarch of colors, listened to gracious words from his lips, and saw the nonogenarian, whose tall figure was scarcely bowed, receive the king's gifts. [10]
On the birthdays these cakes were surrounded by as many candles as we numbered years, and provision was always made for a dainty arrangement of gifts. [10]
All that brings them to me is a care for my oblations and gifts. [10]
In fact, from that time the marquise entirely changed her manner, and instead of flattering her ward as before, she treated her with haughty coldness, and sometimes remarked that poverty and hostility were often easier to bear than intrusive kindness and humiliating gifts. [10]
You must remember that Number Seven has had a fair education, that he has been a wide reader in many directions, and that he belongs to a family of remarkable intellectual gifts. [6]

Short sentences using gifts

Gifts, 184, 185. [6]
Three gifts remain. [5]
He had gifts. [11]

Sentences containing gifts two or more times

If carried, it would recast the international position in the Orient, necessitating new adjustments in Europe, with cession of territory and gifts for gifts in the way of commercial treaties and the settlement of outstanding difficulties. [11]
The gifts, no, the more than well-earned payments for which he was indebted to the King, were only a bodiless shadow, a caricature of these lofty gifts of Heaven. [10]
What more can he want, and what abundant gifts that best of all gifts will gain for him! [10]
It's gifts are for gifts back again. [8]
How easily, when Caius sees Cnejus lavish gold where silver or copper would serve, he thinks of Martial's apt words: 'Who gives great gifts, expects great gifts again. [10]
You berate me, but you used incomparable gifts to hold me near you, and the same gifts to let me have no more of you than would keep me. [11]

More example sentences with the word gifts in them

It is not your rich gifts that have drawn me to you. [10]
They represented the young god Dionysius, the Hyades surrounding him, and in colored groups all the gifts of the divinities who watch over fields and gardens, as well as those of the Nysian god. [10]
Thy garners overflow with gifts from me. [10]
Then, after you, will come Komanus from me with greetings and gifts and promises. [10]
For his grandfather, who was indisposed, he was induced to preside at a political meeting in the interest of a wealthy local brewer, who confidently expected the seat, and, through gifts to the party, a knighthood. [11]
Toying with her, who so quickly understood and so gratefully accepted the gifts of the intellect which he offered, was so sweet, but in these days it must not be permitted to impair mental repose, keen thought. [10]
Under light awnings, which kept off the sun, were sold sandals and kerchiefs of every material and hue, ornaments, amulets, fans, and sun-shades, sweet essences of every kind, and other gifts for offerings or for the toilet. [10]
The good gifts which Heaven formerly permitted me to enjoy have lost their zest; instead of bread, it now gives me stones. [10]
Leicester's undoubted gifts were well and cautiously directed, and his talent of assumed passion--his heart was facile, and his gallantry knew no bounds--was put to dexterous use, convincing for the moment. [11]
His inventive gifts were taxed more than ever. [10]
Next evening there were more costly gifts, but albeit Puer natus was still to be heard in the streets, we no longer were moved to join in. [10]
Beyond that, there were a few gifts to hospitals and for the protection of horses, while to the clergyman of the parish went one thousand dollars. [11]
Then, if ever, we allow ourselves to go out to others in sympathy expressed by gifts and good wishes. [4]
Mr. Plimpton, who was wont to apply his gifts as a toastmaster to his own festivals, hailed him from the other end of the table. [9]
But extreme accuracy was not one of Emerson's special gifts, and vanity whispers to the misrepresented versifier that 'tis better to be quoted wrong Than to be quoted not at all. [6]
Even then it was not love I felt but an unnamed sentiment for one whom I clothed with gifts and attributes I admired: constancy, an ability to suffer and to hide, decision, wit, refuge for the weak, scorn for the false. [9]
No special haste was needful, and, as he loved good wine and did not lack gifts from those who desired an audience with his master, he went first to the English Greeting, where the travelling clergy lodged and often deigned to accost him. [10]
Her pawn, which was far from unbecoming, was in keeping with those gifts with which nature had endowed her. [9]
Surrounded as he was by servile favorites, whose superior he was in gifts and intellect, what had here come under his notice seemed to interest him above measure. [10]
It was Artemus Ward who first suspected the value of Mark Twain's gifts, and urged him to some more important use of them. [5]
He is a vessel full of beautiful gifts, but he has forfeited all that was good and noble in him--all! [10]
He was set upon complete renunciation; on going forth like a pilgrim from the place of his troubles and sorrows, taking no gifts, no mercies save those which heaven accorded him. [11]
Mr. Pardriff was under forty, and with these gifts many innocent citizens of Ripton naturally wondered why the columns of his newspaper, the Ripton Record, did not more closely resemble the spiciness of his talk in the office of Gales' Hotel. [9]
Then our talk turned to the interpretation of the seven pillars and steps of the Temple, the seven sciences, the seven virtues, the seven vices, and the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. [2]
What were these torturing gifts, and wherefore lent her? [6]
I know how to value his noble gifts, and I am his friend, but I am also his master, and I will find means of preventing my son from introducing the light conduct of the capital beneath his father's roof. [10]
What she embodies to us is the abstraction which you call the loving-kindness of the Father, revealed in his manifold gifts, wherever we turn our eyes. [10]
There she strove to think of the dead man, and she succeeded, but with the memory of the sturdy old hero constantly blended the image of the feeble man who to-day was voluntarily surrendering all the gifts of fortune which she--oh, how willingly! [10]
Him I knew to possess fewer gifts, but I knew him also to be what you could never be. [11]
He had first to help Dorippe cut the green branches, and, while thus engaged, sought pleasant gifts not only on the ground, but from his sweetheart's red lips, then moved up the mountain with his donkey, very slowly, without urging the animal. [10]
She rather tended to depreciate her own gifts, in comparison with those of her friend, Miss Lurida Vincent. [6]
Monsieur," he added to Charley, "if I had gifts like yours, nothing would hold me. [11]
For the first time in his life he believed himself completely happy, and bestowed his gifts, not only from a sense of his duty as king of Persia, but because the act of giving was in itself a pleasure. [10]
He felt as though his hand could grasp the shoulder of that son, too early snatched away, whose gifts had far transcended those of the surviving Orpheus--as though he too could gaze with him on the grand scene that lay before him. [10]
In proof of this, she would present to the library of the museum the two hundred thousand volumes from Pergamus, one of the most valuable gifts Mark Antony had ever bestowed upon her, and which she had hitherto regarded merely as a loan. [10]
The result of this universal demand for fiction is necessarily an enormous supply, and as everybody writes, without reference to gifts, the product is mainly trash, and trash of a deleterious sort; for bad art in literature is bad morals. [4]
Why, even in this house, which the gods have filled to the roof with gifts and favors, misfortune has crept in through the key hole. [10]
Who knows but they shone as brightly in the eyes of angels, as golden gifts that have been chronicled on tombs? [12]
During its progress there came and went a missionary from China, a pianist, an English lady who had heard of the Institution, a Southern spinster with literary gifts, a youthful architect who had not built anything, and a young lawyer interested in settlement work. [9]
Many, however, joined them in order to live an idle life, supported by the gifts of others. [10]
His gratitude for their gifts had always smote their consciences before--it cut deeper than ever, this time. [5]
She felt, as the years went on, that Sheila had gifts granted to few. [11]
It means, in the second place, that this shall be an agreeable country to live in, by reason of its impartial laws, social amenities, and a fair chance to enjoy the gifts of nature and Providence. [4]
I marvelled at the pith and depth of his observations; for though I agreed not with him once in ten times, I loved his great reflective cleverness and his fine penetration--singular gifts in a man of action. [11]
This task was the last she would ever perform for him, and the gifts were the last she would ever make him. [13]
Make use of the king's pioneer as you will, but do not, because you are indebted to him for gifts, neglect to judge him according to his imaginings and deeds if you would deserve your title of the Initiated and the Enlightened. [10]
I wonder if the giver of these gifts will ever see them on the walls where they now hang; it pleases me to fancy that one day he may. [14]
The pure enjoyed the gifts of paradise in peace and contentment.--All this was explained to me by a priest of the Fire-worshippers. [10]
Your daughter, whom the favour of Heaven has so richly endowed with beautiful gifts, has found, I have heard, a maternal guardian in the Marquise de Leria. [10]
The records of the early Church make it indisputable that powers of healing were recognized as among the gifts of the Spirit. [5]
Because she saw the awe in the other's face and a worshipping admiration of the great protectress of Protestantism, who had by large gifts of men and money in times past helped the Cause, she looked upon her here with kindness. [11]
You remind me that the Church in old time accepted gifts from the spoils of war, and I will add of rapine and murder. [9]
It was evident that neither promises nor gifts would have induced the old warrior to favour the tender wishes of his imperial master. [10]
He often thought, that he would gladly resign his untroubled, luxurious life, and all the other gifts of Fortune, if he could only succeed in accomplishing what Moor desired him to attain in art. [10]
The theory is that each citizen shall find his place, according to his gifts and abilities, and be satisfied therewith. [9]
It was only that beautiful, languishing young creature who was so lavishly endowed by Fortune with gifts enough and to spare for others without number. [10]
The suspicion followed swiftly on his recalling to mind her vehement repudiation of his proffered gifts did he think she wanted what he could buy for her! [9]
She admired intellect, supremacy, the gifts of temperament, deeds of war and adventure beyond all. [11]
Then came a stolen interview, and a fastening of the rivets of attraction--for Jim had gifts of a wonderful kind. [11]
The Oriental recklessly squandered her once noble gifts of intellect and the wealth of her people, yielded to the hasty impulses of her passionate nature. [10]
Slow let me speak it: From her lips and brow I took the gifts she only could endow. [11]
This grieved her sorely, and she wept bitterly, thinking of the ease of her other son, and resenting the injustice with which blind and cruel Fortune had bestowed her gifts. [10]
His house was soon the centre of attraction to all foreigners, by whom she was overwhelmed with gifts. [10]
Some people are so small as to be repelled by greatness, to be jealous of high gifts and power, and it was perhaps inevitable that a few of the humbler members whom Mr. Crewe had entertained should betray his hospitality, and misinterpret his pure motives. [9]
Your heart is so rich in warmth of feeling, grant me but a small share of it and ask tangible gifts in return. [10]
I have put so much dependence on his gifts, that we made but one man together; for I needed never to do what he could do by noble nature, much better than I. [6]
He had played so many tricks with Fate, had mocked while taking its gifts so often, that, like the son who has flouted his indulgent father through innumerable times, he conceived that he should never be disinherited. [11]
He thought that she shrank from what she had seen of his real self, much or little, and he was conscious of so many gifts and abilities and attractive personal qualities that he felt a sense of injury. [11]
In pained surprise she inquired what cause he, whom Heaven had hitherto loaded with its most precious gifts, had to complain of Fate, as whose spoiled favourite she, like all the rest of the world, had believed him happy. [10]
Byng had only seen Al'mah twice since the day when she first came to his rooms, and not at all during the past two years, save at the opera, where she tightened the cords of captivity to her gifts around her admirers. [11]
Visitors came to see her, and gifts of fruit and flowers were sent, which brought some cheer into her hard and gloomy cell. [5]
He had been sceptical about despair--feminine despair, which could always be cured by gifts and baubles. [9]
You know what sacrifices I have offered, what gifts I have brought. [10]
He was so rich that the gifts of the visitors to the temple, which his predecessors had insisted on, were of no importance to him. [10]
Emerson was not rich in some of those natural gifts which are considered the birthright of the New Englander. [6]
Perhaps Heaven, in return for such superabundant gifts, demanded a sacrifice, and denied complete enjoyment. [10]
St. Paul's letters render it certain that these gifts were not a privilege of the original twelve, merely, but that they were the heritage into which all the disciples entered. [5]
He had a remarkable facility for acquiring languages, excelled as a reader and as a writer, and was the object of general admiration for his many gifts. [6]
I dislike to refer to what I have already done in the matter of charities, but I hinted to you awhile ago of a project I have conceived and almost perfected of gifts on a much larger scale than I have ever attempted. [9]
No one is reared for the drawing-room; but where there is a drawing-room in which mental gifts are fostered and truth finds an abode, a true graduate of Keilhau will be an ornament. [10]
The common human qualities are more than all exceptional gifts. [6]
He had many professions, or rather many gifts, which he practised as it pleased him. [11]
So far from priding herself on her special gifts, she was disposed to be ashamed of them. [6]
This brought him praise and gifts of new clothes. [10]
Mr. Humphrey Crewe possessed, as may have been surmised, a dash of all these gifts. [9]
Charley and Jo Portugais, the infidel and the murderer, were thus the sentries to the peace of a parish, the bankers of its gifts, the security for the future of the church of Chaudiere. [11]
Elizabeth, the shady pine-woods of his home, its murmuring brooks and luxuriant meadows, again rose before his mind; he saw Ruth and himself listening to the birds, picking berries, gathering flowers, and beseeching beautiful gifts from the "word. [10]
He flattered the people by remitting their taxes, by large gifts and larger promises, and finding his clemency gratefully recognized, determined on an imposture, by which he hoped to win the crown of Persia for his own family. [10]
It, is all over with gifts and offerings, for I have nothing left; but there are two iron fists and a breast like the wall of a fortress. [10]
Klaus Van Aken, or as he preferred to be called, Nicolaus Aquanus, was a singular man, who had received good gifts from more than one of the Olympians; for besides his business he zealously devoted himself to science and several of the arts. [10]
They were already opened, but the unpacking was left to us--a wise thing; for what pleasure it afforded us to take out the various gifts, unwrap them, admire, examine, and show them to others! [10]
Life in the open had developed in him the physical astuteness of the wild man, and he had all the gifts that make a supreme open-air fighter. [11]
They were gifts only to be borne by those who had ambitions. [11]
No magic spell, only the gifts of mind and soul which the vanquished victor, the woman Cleopatra, owed to the favour of the immortals, had compelled his lofty manhood to yield. [10]
I am not one of the feeble lambs whom you have beguiled by the misuse of your gifts and advantages; and who then are eager to kiss your hands. [10]
There is still one hitch about it, and a bad one just now, namely, that many people think they can buy its spirit by jerks of liberality, by costly gifts. [4]
This is the old trick illustrated in Lord Bacon's story of the gifts of the shipwrecked people, hung up in the temple.--Behold! [3]
To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all. [6]
Enjoy the gifts of the present--who knows how long this golden hour may last! [10]
For her gifts of place or fortune she puts some impossible hunger in the soul of the victim which leads him at last to his own destruction. [11]

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