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Sentences ending with offering

But perhaps it was only Satan striving to hinder him from approaching the Most High with so noble an offering. [10]
The high-priest then pledged him, and thanked him emphatically in the name of the brethren of the temple, for the noble tract of arable land which he had that morning given them as a votive offering. [10]
The very lavishness of her gift brought to him irresistibly the reminder of another offering. [9]
Janet was by no means ungrateful for the warmth of such affection, though in moments conscious of a certain perplexity and sadness because she was able to give such a meagre return for the wealth of its offering. [9]
Nor shall you lack an offering. [10]
Rhodopis had advised her to take this to the king in Bartja's name, as a propitiatory offering. [10]
Cambyses received them graciously and assured them of his friendship; but repulsed the messengers from Cyrene and Barka indignantly, and flung, with his own hand, their tribute of five hundred silver mince among his soldiers, disdaining to accept so contemptible an offering. [10]
I. had something for me, then, besides the cover, which was all it claimed to have worth offering. [6]
If the god disdained his offering? [10]

Sentences containing offering two or more times

She felt that in most part it was true, that it was meant; and, whatever he was, he was yet a man offering his heart and life, offering a love that she despised, and yet which was love and passion of a kind. [11]
Along at first I was mentally offering a reward of five--six--seven--ten--dollars for that mouse; but toward the last I was offering rewards which were entirely beyond my means. [5]

More example sentences with the word offering in them

Take them into your keeping, man; and tomorrow morning we will see who has left this suspicious offering in our vestibule.--You were the first to reach the spot, fair Paula. [10]
See, my Sheila, your drunken, reckless lover pulls this sweet offering from his garden and offers it to you. [11]
When I kissed you, I set the seal upon my eternal offering to you. [11]
You are young yet, and I am offering myself for all time. [9]
The Torzhok peddler woman, in a whining voice, went on offering her wares, especially a pair of goatskin slippers. [2]
He shook hands with, and nodded good-humouredly at, Medallion and the Little Chemist, bowed to the avocat, and touched off his greeting to Monsieur De la Riviere with deliberation, not offering his hand--this very reserve a sign of equality not lost on the young Seigneur. [11]
He always remembered with satisfaction that once when the Cure was absent and he was supposed to be dying, a priest from another parish came, and, the ministrations over, he had made an offering of a gold piece. [11]
The postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling Torzhok embroidery came into the room offering their services. [2]
He denounces all who question the correctness of that decision, as offering violent resistance to it. [7]
After the offering was made to the sea, we partook of the cocoanut and returned home, when my mother gave me some food; but Tookaram did not partake of any food that night. [5]
While her mind was engaged subconsciously with what Lord Windlehurst and David said, comprehending it all, and, when Lord Windlehurst appealed to her, offering by a word contribution to the 'pourparler', she was studying David as steadily as her heated senses would permit her. [11]
When his mother was alive, she once told the lad to give her the best of some freshly-baked cakes, that she might take it to the temple for an offering, and what was his answer? [10]
When you see us offering sacrifice at the foot of a marble image you must not suppose that the lifeless, perishable stone is the object of our adoration. [10]
Her husband, however, tried to detain her, offering to go to their young guest in her place. [10]
We tried to trade him off at private vendue next, offering him at a sacrifice for second-hand tombstones, old iron, temperance tracts--any kind of property. [5]
Malfalconnet glanced significantly toward Martina, and, while offering Barbara a goblet of lemonade, said, "There is candied lemon and other seasoning in it, so it will probably suit your taste, exacting beauty, since you appear to dislike what is pure. [10]
Clemens was deeply touched by the offering from those "western isles"--the memory of which was always so sweet to him. [5]
An earlier offering to the magazine had been returned. [5]
So he wrote to Shiz, asking a cessation of hostilities, and offering to give up his kingdom to save his people. [5]
She suffered him to seal his vows with kisses, herself offering him her lips, as her heart swelled with fervent thanksgiving for so much joy and such a full measure of love. [10]
His thoughts recurred to his unfinished marble, as offering the one mode in which he could find a silent outlet to the feelings and thoughts which it was torture to keep imprisoned in his soul. [6]
You now belong to a party that I am opposed to, but that doesn't stop me offering you support. [11]
It was upon this rock that Abraham came so near offering up his son Isaac--this, at least, is authentic--it is very much more to be relied on than most of the traditions, at any rate. [5]
In offering you this position I have only one stipulation to make--(he clears his throat)--it's about Minnie Farrell. [9]
For eighty years this opportunity has been offering itself in one new town or region after another straight westward, step by step, all the way from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. [5]
So skillfully was this managed that one of the city officials was on the point of offering a reward for the discovery of the missing Diedrich. [4]
You must not think of offering me pay for this. [7]
Two years ago they tried to buy him off by offering to send him to the Senate, and Wallis Plimpton has never got through his head to this why he refused. [9]
For an instant they stood thus regarding each other, neither offering a hand. [9]
And the French there were loyal, too, offering their militia for service in the place of those men of Bowman's company who would not reenlist. [9]
At this juncture there came a giggle from within that made him turn scarlet, and he scarcely heard Miss Lucretia offering to discuss the whole range of letters. [9]
During the offering the priests sang prayers in a loud voice, enumerated the virtues of their king, and, that blame might in no case light on the head of their ruler, made his bad advisers responsible for every deadly sin committed in ignorance. [10]
In this picture the presiding genius of the paper is offering to Mark Twain health, long life, and happiness from "The Punch Bowl. [5]
Ferrol consulted with the officers, advising a truce and parley, offering himself as mediator to induce Nic to surrender. [11]
The finding of the knife was verified, the advertisement minutely describing it and offering a reward for it was put in evidence, and its exact correspondence with that description proved. [5]
Smith, still holding the King by the hair, made them a bold address, offering peace or war. [4]
He recalled on the instant the token of fealty of the ancient House of d'Avranche--the offering of a sword. [11]
In offering you the fruit of my garden, which has been gathered from week to week, without much reference to the progress of the crops or the drought, I desire to acknowledge an influence which has lent half the charm to my labor. [4]
And it is the custom of men of war who have been wounded to make such offering there. [5]
And as to the counsel she thought of offering to the man she had once looked up to? [10]
My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars. [5]
She warmly replied that he must surely feel that she did; and now, as the others came into the room, she nodded to her mother, whom she had already seen quite early, and offering him her hand shook his heartily. [10]
Then it was that he had the impulse to go to the woman's home, express his sorrow, and in some small sense wipe out his wrong by offering her marriage. [11]
I will now teach, offering my way of life to whomsoever desires to commit suicide by the scheme which has enabled me to beat the doctor and the hangman for seventy years. [5]
The stranger was startled, and took his hand away, and there was Joan standing before him offering him her bowl of porridge. [5]
Sunday came up smiling, a lovely day, but offering no church privileges, for the ordinance of preaching is only occasional in this region. [4]
On the eastern side of the camp stood a canopy, under which the standards were kept, and there numbers of priests were occupied in their office of blessing the warriors, offering sacrifices, and singing hymns and litanies. [10]
All along the shore the inhabitants stood in clusters, offering food to the strangers. [4]
At his suggestion she then assumed a variety of attitudes; she stood as Hebe, offering nectar to the gods--as Nausicae, listening to the tale of Odysseus--and as Sappho, singing to her lyre. [10]
Yesterday and to-day she had given a three-farthing candle to her saint as a thank offering that this horror had not reached their mother's ears. [10]
How often had she flown hither from her home near at hand to pour oil on the altar of the god of healing--to make some small offering and find comfort in prayer! [10]
It was when she asked herself what his intentions were that her resentment burned, pride and a sense of her own value convinced her that he had deeply insulted her in not offering marriage. [9]
I understand that Senator [William K.] Sebastian, of Arkansas, thinks of offering to resume his place in the Senate. [7]
Would it not seem as though Fate desired to help us to bring to our blessed Nile the offering which for so many centuries has been withheld? [10]
On reaching the seashore, my mother made the offering to the sea, and prayed to be pardoned for what we had done. [5]
On this sustaining repast we fared on nearly twelve miles farther, through a rolling, good farming country, offering little for comment, in search of a night's lodging with one of the brothers Snap. [4]
The obliging daughter put a speedy end to her father's embarrassment by offering to go in search of Wolf in person; she by no means shunned the Hiltners. [10]
Jim solved the problem by offering to go alone and bring the chief into the post. [11]
What are the poor dips which flare and flicker on the crowns of spikes that stand at the corners of St. Genevieve's filigree-cased sarcophagus to this perpetual offering of sacrifice? [6]
When the market place was filling, however, the sturdy old soldier kindly fulfilled his duties as host by offering to show his guests the sights of the fortified seaport. [10]
And when had Paula ever felt happier than at the moment when this offering from her lover, this humble prison-flower, first reached her. [10]
Rhodopis, by her own peculiar attractions, soon won the heart of Kassandane, and the queen knew no better way of proving this than by offering, in Persian fashion, to grant her some wish. [10]
We next addressed ourselves to the Cone, which is a loose hill of ashes and sand,--a natural slope, I should say, of about one and a half to one, offering no foothold. [4]
Another was Friendship's Offering, full of beautiful stuff and poetry; but I didn't read the poetry. [5]
We had intended offering up these roses to Aphrodite, but lo! [10]
He wrote, therefore, offering to sell out his interest in the enterprise for two thousand dollars, in addition to the five hundred which he had already received--an amount considered to be less than he was to have received as joint author and compiler. [5]
They ended by offering to marry her to Farette, the old miller, to whom they owed money for flour. [11]
He also had offered her a pinch of snuff, which she acknowledged by gravely offering a pinch of her own from a dirty twist of brown paper. [11]
The remaining point of your letter is a protest against any person offering to vote being put to any test not found in the laws of Maryland. [7]
More than half of what I earn goes in them--" "In the first grief of losing my poor wife," said the baker, "I promised a small offering every new moon, and a greater one every year. [10]
There could be no doubt as to their identity; so he went up to them and gave Rustem the merchant's message, offering in Philip's name to advance the money for the journey. [10]
Therefore, I shall need forgiveness from you and the god, if I beseech you to defer the offering, were it only until to-morrow. [10]
Within were two narrow seats, facing each other, affording no room for the legs of passengers, and offering them no position but a strictly upright one. [4]
When they heard Napoleon's proclamation offering them, as compensation for mutilation and death, the words of posterity about their having been in the battle before Moscow, they cried "Vive l'Empereur! [2]
Somehow it was more like an offering to the dead than a lover's tribute to the living. [11]
To place him more advantageously the President sent to Powhatan, offering to buy the place called Powhatan, promising to defend him against the Monacans, to pay him in copper, and make a general alliance of trade and friendship. [4]
Men, provisions, and money were offering in plenty now, and Joan appointed Blois as a recruiting-station and depot of supplies, and ordered up La Hire from the front to take charge. [5]
The question of mesmerism will be discussed with little reserve, I believe, in a forthcoming work of Miss Martineau's; and I have some painful anticipations of the manner in which other subjects, offering less legitimate ground for speculation, will be handled. [14]
Instead of following Mary to breakfast, or offering herself as usual to play draughts with her uncle, she went back to the sick-room. [10]
The sham old man, however, was so clever at making way for the damsel, whose face and form were effectually screened by her kerchief from the passers-by, that Alexander had no opportunity for offering her his aid, or proving his devotion by some gallant act. [10]
The conflict of magnanimity between the mother and the daughter, ending in the mother's sacrificing herself and offering her daughter in marriage to her lover, even now agitated the captain, though it was the memory of a distant past. [2]
He then asked, laughingly, if the wits of Alexandria were going to treat him to another offering like the one on his arrival. [10]
I used to know one who came round every morning to sell molasses candy, offering two sticks for a cent apiece; it was worth fifty cents a day to see his cheery face. [4]
Some of the jokers used to call at the association rooms and have a good time chaffing the members and offering them the charity of taking them as steersmen for a trip, so that they could see what the forgotten river looked like. [5]
Your regard,--your friendly interest, tell me that I shall always have these, but do not distress me with offering more than these. [6]
He sat absorbed in sullen gloom, muttering frantic curses, and haughtily desired the high-priest to restore the offering he had wasted on a god who was so malignant, and as hostile to him as all else in this city of abomination. [10]
The chief trouble in offering such papers as these to the readers of to-day is that their heresies have become so familiar among intelligent people that they have too commonplace an aspect. [6]
By the way, I have just found the letter he wrote me, offering this staff position. [9]
Had he not, I had the full intention of leaving him to post it alone, and of offering myself to the master of the first schooner. [9]
His note offering his services if she needed the services of any one had not been answered. [4]
When Charley made his offering, with a statement of his goods and income, the Seigneur and Notary did not know what to do. [11]
Honestly believing that his affection was returned, Caesar was offering her the highest honor in his power; if she fled from him, he would have every right to complain of having been basely deceived, and to call her a heartless wanton. [10]
Mrs. Mavick received him politely, and, without offering her hand, asked him to be seated. [4]
Men were supporting him in their arms and offering him a glass of water, but his trembling, swollen lips could not grasp its rim. [2]
His looks thanked her for offering him his freedom and told her that one way or another he would never cease to love her, for that would be impossible. [2]
An enquiry from Heliodora, as to the fate of the little white dog that she had given him as a remembrance, recalled to his mind that luckless emerald which was to have been his return offering or antidoron. [10]
As soon as he saw Semestre's offering, he had hurried home to anticipate her with his own, and first win the goddess's heart for his young master. [10]
No one would have thought of offering to carry National Improvement Directors Relief stock for him. [5]
With his left hand he drew Bagration toward him, and with his right, on which he wore a ring, he made the sign of the cross over him with a gesture evidently habitual, offering his puffy cheek, but Bagration kissed him on the neck instead. [2]
But ere he had reached the point of offering his hand, the question had arisen in his mind whether he might not love another still more ardently. [10]

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