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Sentences starting with given

Given character, many things are possible, even to those who are not of the elect. [11]
Given a certain position, one's sense of fitness and taste mast be maintained. [4]
Given a land originally peopled by a thousand Saxons and a thousand Celts--and in a dozen generations five-sixths of the population would be Celts, but five- sixths of the property, of the power, of the intellect, would belong to the one-sixth of Saxons that remained. [1]
Given a heart-aching longing in every human being for happiness, here was high warrant for going in pursuit of it. [4]
Given certain characters in a writer's conception, if they are real to him, as they ought to be they will act in such or such a way, according to the law of their nature. [6]
Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, this 7th day of May, A. D. 1861, and in the eighty-fifth year of the independence of the United States. [7]
Given under my hand at the city of Washington, the sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and the eighty-eighth of the Independence of the United States. [7]
Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washington, the twenty eighth day of February A.D. 1863, and of the independence of the United States of America, the eighty-seventh. [7]
Given under my hand and the seal of the United States at the city of Washington, this second day of July, A.D. 1861, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-fifth. [7]
Given a dinner company of six gentlemen to-day, it can easily happen that four of them--and possibly five--were not in the field at all. [5]

Sentences ending with given

Everything was done without any orders being given. [2]
I thought it was treating me lightly--to do it so soon after the pledge was given. [11]
References in regard to the assemblages of other birds have already been given. [1]
She had love to give, and it must be given. [11]
There were things to be said to Nahoum before he left on the morrow, last suggestions to be given. [11]
It was some time in 1850 that these interrogatories were put and the answer given. [7]
But a second's thought was not given. [5]
Ample evidence on this head has been advanced in my work on 'Variation under Domestication,' but a few instances may here be given. [1]
I have to think how my lawyer shall answer the evidence given. [11]
Only extracts from these letters are given. [5]

Short sentences using given

Who has given you peace? [11]
I've given it up. [2]
I have given the order. [10]
I have given my word. [11]
I was given my liberty. [9]
You have given me success. [11]
Philip had given his word. [4]
The word was given. [9]
What has she given you? [2]
The gate has given way. [10]

Sentences containing given two or more times

I have given you all I could, and I have given you very nearly, if not quite, 35,000. [7]
Do you think that those who do not see as you do are wicked because they were not given what you were given? [11]
In pointing out that more has been given you, you cannot be justified in taking away the little which has been given him. [7]
He realised now that he had given Kathleen only what might be given across a dinner-table--the sensuous tribute of a temperament, passionate without true passion or faith or friendship. [11]
I add, too, that all the protection which, consistently with the Constitution and the laws, can be given, will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause--as cheerfully to one section as to another. [7]
I admit that such a vote should not be given in mere party wantonness, and that the one given is justly censurable if it have no other or better foundation. [7]
It had gained meaning to me, and Herr Middendorf had given us an excellent proof of a fundamental requirement of Friedrich Froebel, the founder of the institution: "The external must be spiritualized and given an inner significance. [10]
In June, after many balls and fetes given by the Polish magnates, by the courtiers, and by the Emperor himself, it occurred to one of the Polish aides-de-camp in attendance that a dinner and ball should be given for the Emperor by his aides-de-camp. [2]
Why, if, as Judge Douglas says, the honor is to be divided and due credit is to be given to other parties, why is just so much given as is consonant with the wishes, the interests, and advancement of the twenty? [7]
To the old is given counsel, and device, and wisdom, and holding; but to the young is given hope, and vision, and action, and building, and peace. [11]

More example sentences with the word given in them

You were given your instructions and put to work. [5]
I don't want your book; my shelves are full of books now," though the reader may remember that it was Carlton himself who had given the frog story to the Saturday Press and had seen it become famous. [5]
A very interesting young man, the Deacon said, much given to the reading of pious books. [6]
I will tell you,--I said.---When a given symbol which represents a thought has lain for a certain length of time in the mind, it undergoes a change like that which rest in a certain position gives to iron. [6]
And insomuch as you were even then serving the country faithfully and bravely, and had a clean and honourable record of service, the whole of the lands were given to you. [9]
Was it because you thought she deserved it, and that you had given her reason to expect it? [7]
Genius has given you the freedom of the universe, why then come within any walls? [6]
I have given you the estimate of the value of a single developed mine. [5]
The red scarfs you have given to the Romany and the Gorgio fly- aways would make a tent for all the Fawes in all the world. [11]
I have given you every advantage, and not interfered. [5]
He has given you a son whom all men may look in the face, of whom you need never be ashamed. [9]
It has given you a nobility of which we did not suspect you. [9]
They were hostile; yet when the favourite intimated that he, too, ought to be given up to justice, she showed so much hesitation, that Alexas stopped abruptly and turned the conversation upon Barine. [10]
She could not yet obtain a clear insight into the result of the promise which she had given her son; it seemed as though a veil was drawn over her active mind. [10]
Through all the years, down beneath everything, there had been the helpless knowledge in her own small, garish mind that she had little sense; now she realized that she was given a chance to atone for all her pettiness by doing one great sensible thing. [11]
And as the years went on we'd realise how every form of success was offset by something undone in another direction, something which would have given us joy and memory and content--so it seems. [11]
Philippus had, some years since, been called to the old man's bedside in sickness, and being then a beginner and in no great request, he had given the best of his time and powers to the case. [10]
Hardy was thirty years old, and a bachelor; pale, given to reverie and reading. [5]
In all the years Krool had been in England he had never been inside a place of worship or given any sign of that fanaticism which, all at once, he made manifest. [11]
For her the years had given many compensations, and so she told the Cure, one midsummer day, when she brought to visit him the orphaned son of Paulette Dubois, graduated from his college in France and making ready to go to the far East. [11]
That was the year that Miss Virginia Carvel was given charge of the booth in Dr. Posthelwaite's church,--the booth next one of the great arches through which prancing horses and lowing cattle came. [9]
The amount of writing against it is no more test of its desuetude, than the number of religious tracts distributed in a given district is a criterion of its piety. [4]
How willingly, then, would she have given up that credit to the many who coveted it--if it were a credit. [9]
From these it would readily appear where a given amount of expenditure would do the most good. [7]
The narrator's expressions would only be intelligible to a select few, and, I should have done my Margery injustice, had I left the ideas and descriptions, whose meaning I thoroughly understood, in the clumsy form she had given them. [10]
Nevertheless, Herr Ernst would not have gone to the entertainment had his wife's condition given cause for anxiety. [10]
You ragged ruffians would never have given over the tops in this marsh and moorland, to any but a rightful master, and I know where the Sow is lurking--for the murderer of a messenger is no more to be called a Boar. [10]
Many a person would have given up and descended, but I stuck to my task, and would not yield until I had accomplished it. [5]
These reasons he would have given to Nic Lavilette, but other ulterior and malicious ideas were in his mind. [11]
Sellers's face, and would have given the world, the next moment, if he could have spared her that. [5]
What her mother would have called policy and reasonable concessions she would have given different names. [4]
For bushrangers he would have a modern Tyburn, but this and other tragic suggestions lacked conviction when confronted with his verdicts given as Justice of the Peace. [11]
Even now he would be quite incapable of walking forward in a given straight line. [10]
Perhaps also it would be given him, in the name of the law, to deal with a man he hated. [11]
What delight it would also have given her to provide her son's linen, and how much finer was the Flanders material than that made at Villagarcia! [10]
The opportunity for working a miracle is not given to one of us every day, and happily for me, you yourself bring a powerful coadjutor to help me. [10]
He might have worked it up with more art, and given it a finish which the narration now lacks, but I think best to insert it in its simplicity. [4]
I--I was a woman--but sometimes I've thought I'd ought to have given him some sign. [9]
With such a woman life is a failure, either tragic or pathetic, without a great passion given and returned. [4]
There is no woman but thinks that her husband, the green-grocer, could write poetry if he had given his mind to it, or else she thinks small beer of poetry in comparison with an occupation or accomplishment purely vegetable. [4]
He must have witnessed something very terrible, for his face was as pale as death, and his usually confident and swaggering manner had given place to a stricken and care-worn air. [10]
They went away without thinking of the tremendous significance of that immense and wealthy city being given over to destruction, for a great city with wooden buildings was certain when abandoned by its inhabitants to be burned. [2]
I entirely agree with the spirit of the verses I have looked over, in this point at least, that a true man's allegiance is given to that which is highest in his own nature. [6]
Besides, the escutcheon with the count's coronet had given the knight assurance that he would have no cause to be ashamed, in an assembly of his peers, of his alliance with the Nuremberg maiden. [10]
You came hither with the assurance of your favour; but the flattering words of promise which you bestowed upon the unhappy woman were probably only the drops of poppy-juice given to soothe the ravings of fever. [10]
Nicholas was somewhere with the army and had not sent a word since his last letter, in which he had given a detailed account of his meeting with Princess Mary. [2]
I was racked with anxiety about Farrar; at last, when I had all but given up hope, I received a telegram from him dated at Detroit, saying he would arrive with the doctor that evening. [9]
Was it not with a divine purpose that this measureless force of patriotism and high ideal had been given to this youngest of the nations, that its high mission might be fulfilled? [9]
Against his daughter's wish, he had given to the richest and most aristocratic among them, the Sicilian baron Don Fabrizio di Moncada, the hope of gaining her hand. [10]
I do not wish to name the day when it will end, lest the end should not come at the given time. [7]
Still, if you wish to go there, you will have no trouble about finding it if you follow the directions given by Robert Louis Stevenson to Dr. Conan Doyle and to Mr. J. M. Barrie. [5]
The devoted daughter, wife, mother, whose life has been given to unselfish labors, who has filled a place which it seems to others only an angel would make good, reproaches herself with incompetence and neglect of duty. [6]
Your heart says: 'Why did she break off our betrothal,' and your right feeling tells you that you would have given her a happier lot. [10]
He asked himself why Byng had not been content to buy one of the great mansions which could always be had in London for a price, where time had softened all the outlines, had given that subdued harmony in architecture which only belongs to age. [11]
Shorter," said Honora, whose surprise had given place to a very natural resentment, since she had not the honour of knowing Mrs. Grainger. [9]
The man for whose sake the woman he loved had given him up must be Baron Malfalconnet. [10]
The young man whose name had set her thoughts roving was handsome, as the glance at him already given might have foreshadowed. [6]
How the brother whom she had given to his imperial father would some day tower above him! [10]
Some people, to whom nature and Providence have not been generous live up to things; to you it is given to live down to them; and no one can do it so well. [11]
There she was whom he had spared--himself; whose happiness had lain in his hands, and he had given it to her. [11]
Have we ever wholly given up everything of the kind? [10]
The English critics, who say we have taken the government from the capable few and given it to the people, speak of universal suffrage as a quack panacea of this "era of progress. [4]
Mr. Alexander Ireland, who had paid him friendly attentions during his earlier visit, and whose impressions of him in the pulpit have been given on a previous page, urged his coming. [6]
An infamous Persian, who had lived many years in Egypt, and travelled here with us, had given them a list of all the things and actions, which we consider unclean. [10]
It was Lise who had given the note of ornamentation to the bedroom. [9]
It was he who had given the alarm and had rescued the silver altar-vessels from the sacristy. [11]
The diabolical voice whispered loudest when Geta had done anything to vex me; or if things had been given him which I did not wish him to have. [10]
Twelve years before, while still sharing the tent of the Walloon captain Grandgagnage, it had been given her, she could not say how or by whom. [10]
Nilus, who wrote while Orion dictated, giving the document a legal form, was deeply touched by the young man's fore thought and kindness; for in truth, since his desecration of the judgment-seat, he had given him up for a lost soul. [10]
The tale of which the title is given at the beginning of this section had been written several years before the date of its publication. [6]
The rich clothes which the princess had given her became her as if she had never worn any others; she could obey discreetly, disappear at the right moment, and, when she was invited, chatter delightfully. [10]
The temperature at which the bath is given is ninety-eight. [4]
Serious questions to which she had never given a thought had been brought before her; and yet, in this brief period of anxiety she had gained the precious sense of youthfulness and of capacity for action when she had to depend on herself. [10]
If the spirit which imbued the founders of this nation means anything, Mr. Bass, it means that the able men who are given a chance to rise by their own efforts must still retain the duties and responsibilities of the humblest citizens. [9]
May I ask whether you only feel his personality repugnant to you, or whether actual circumstances have given rise to your aversion--nay, if I have judged rightly, to a very bitterly hostile feeling against him? [10]
It matters little whether the needle prick him by accident or blunder or design, he will burst all bounds, and establish again the old truth that each of us will prove himself a fool given perfect opportunity. [11]
I asked her whether she had ever taken opium, as the description given of its effects in "Villette" was so exactly like what I had experienced,--vivid and exaggerated presence of objects, of which the outlines were indistinct, or lost in golden mist , etc. [14]
But often nowadays, when you a mile-long sentence from you given and you yourself somewhat have rested, then must you have a touching inquisitiveness have yourself to determine what you actually spoken have. [5]
On the day when the last morsel of meat and biscuit had been given away the storm had not abated, and he saw with misgiving the gloomy, stolid faces of the Indians round him. [11]
He knew that, when she had given her heart, it was for all time. [9]
I laughed out when I got to the mention of Frederika's special accomplishment, given by you with a distinct simplicity that, to my taste, is what the French would call 'impayable. [14]
Somehow, the day when he had seen Carnac and his mother at the political meeting had given him new emotions. [11]
With what pleasure, when again permitted to go out in the evening, I witnessed the performances of Plautus's pieces given by Professor Geppert's pupils! [10]
I know not what, but something frightful must have come between them even in Rome, and I have given up all attempts to guide her heart back to him. [10]
Gamaliel knew in what peril Orion stood, and the fate that hung over the noble maiden who had once given him the costliest of gems, and afterwards entrusted to him a portion of her fortune. [10]
A little of what Mr. Bolton has weakly given to unworthy people would now establish his family in a sort of comfort, and relieve Ruth of the excessive toil for which she inherited no adequate physical vigor. [5]
I have said what I have said, and I am not given to changing my mind. [10]
I don't think we've given Miss Dryfoos a pleasure, but perhaps nobody could. [8]
And at least we've given her the opportunity of enjoying herself. [8]
The alternate sections were to be given for the purpose of constructing roads, and the reserved sections were to be enhanced in value in consequence. [7]
Why and how were the battles of Shevardino and Borodino given and accepted? [2]
But new senses were suddenly born in her, new eyes were given to her mind, new powers for endurance to her soul. [11]
The last touches were now being given to the work. [10]
The occasional voices were not given to much speaking--you simply heard a gentle ejaculation of "Ow! [5]
To her cousin were given the most explicit directions for his care, and after she had started for the train she returned to give further injunctions. [4]
The right words were easy to the master, and with them he had given the clumsy sentence meaning and significance. [10]
Indeed, if monuments were always given in India for high achievements, duty straitly performed, and smirchless records, the landscape would be monotonous with them. [5]
Then Herr Ueberhell went back to his search for the unknown element which had given to his son's elixir the power that had been exhibited in such wonderful fashion. [10]
Then the Lady Wendula remembered her eldest son, and the fraternal tendance which Biberli had given him. [10]
Nevertheless it is well-known that I have given up to the town a larger measure of time and labor and moneys than many a town-mayor and captain of watch. [10]

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