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Example sentences for "and gave"

  • The eye of their Father seemed to be withdrawn, and gave them no encouragement.

  • There was likewise, at times, a vein of something like poetry in him; it was the moss or wall-flower of his mind in its small dilapidation, and gave a charm to what might have been vulgar and commonplace in his earlier and middle life.

  • Here and there, a few drops of this freshness were scattered on a human heart, and gave it youth again, and sympathy with the eternal youth of nature.

  • So young Maule went straight to the principal entrance, beneath a portal of carved oak, and gave such a peal of the iron knocker that you would have imagined the stern old wizard himself to be standing at the threshold.

  • Phoebe merely glanced at it, and gave it back.

  • When we came into the Channel, the captain kept his word with me, and gave me an opportunity of examining the bag for the governor's letters.

  • This was much spoken of as a useful piece, and gave rise to a project, which soon followed it, of forming a company for the more ready extinguishing of fires, and mutual assistance in removing and securing the goods when in danger.

  • One of them testified that my sins were forgiven me; another stripped me of my rags, and gave me this broidered coat which you see; and the third set the mark which you see in my forehead, and gave me this sealed roll.

  • There was also that met them with harps and crowns, and gave them to them--the harps to praise withal, and the crowns in token of honour.

  • Lifting one day a heavy load, a tub fell against my shin, and gave me great pain.

  • His steady, bold step, and the whole air of his person, bursting as it were from a cloud, pleased her, and gave an outline to the imagination to sketch the individual form she wished to recognize.

  • The furrows of reflection and care contracted the youthful cheek, and gave a sort of supernatural wildness to the ever watchful eye.

  • So the trumpeter went, and did as he was commanded: he went up to Ear-gate, and sounded his trumpet, and gave a third summons to Mansoul.

  • So when Emmanuel saw that Mansoul was thus involved in sin, he calls his army together, (since now also his words were despised,) and gave out a commandment throughout all his host to be ready against the time appointed.

  • So the old mother smartened up their clothes, and gave them a store of provisions for their journey, not forgetting to add a bottle of brandy.

  • The wife received them both very kindly, spread a long table, and gave them a large plate of porridge.

  • Instead of helping me up, the poor thing stole her hand into mine, and gave it a little squeeze.

  • When Rachel declined eating anything, and gave as a reason for it that she was suffering from a headache, the lawyer's cunning instantly saw, and seized, the chance that she had given him.

  • Sergeant Cuff looked at Mr. Seegrave, as he had looked at the gravel walks in the rosery, and gave us, in his melancholy way, the first taste of his quality which we had had yet.

  • My lady got me put under the bailiff, and I did my best, and gave satisfaction, and got promotion accordingly.

  • Before I could get on my legs, he plumped down on the sand by the side of me, put his arm round my neck, foreign fashion, and gave me a hug that fairly squeezed the breath out of my body.

  • He rested his basket on the top of the stone, placed his elbows on it, and gave way to a convulsive twitch, which was worse than a sob, because it was so hard and so dry.

  • Here he leant against one of the staddles, and gave himself up to patience.

  • I have myself seen grottos appropriated to this purpose.

  • If you adopt the Arab life for the sake of seclusion you will be horribly disappointed, for you will find yourself in perpetual contact with a mass of hot fellow-creatures.

  • The first night, I remember, with my books and maps about me, I wanted light; they brought me a taper, and immediately from out of the silent Desert there rushed in a flood of life unseen before.

  • The stunted shrub growing at intervals through the sand in this part of the Desert enables the camel mares to yield a little milk, which furnishes the sole food and drink of their owner and his people.

  • At the time of my visit to Cairo he seemed to be much respected by his brother Mahometans, and gave pledge of his sincere alienation from Christianity by keeping a couple of wives.

  • They were rather difficult fellows to manage, and gave Dthemetri a good deal of trouble, but I liked them all the better for that.

  • I had marked out the east for my path, and gave me good promise that sooner or later the time would come for me to rest and drink.

  • I made him sit down by my side, and gave him a piece of bread and a cup of water from out of my goat-skins.

  • Thomas had a key to the east entry, and gave it to her.

  • Once in a while he came over to me, and gave me a reassuring pat on the shoulder.

  • The Arabian Nights, Robinson crusoe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, and such like, were his favourites, and gave a healthy filip to his imagination.

  • Mr. Miller was pleased with the action of the ratchet-wheel contrivance, and gave Symington an order to make a pair of engines of that construction.

  • He looked over my tools, mostly of my own making, and gave me every encouragement.

  • Over it he told me of a diary kept by Jonathan Harker when abroad, and gave me a typewritten copy of it, as also of Mrs. Harker's diary at Whitby.

  • A man came out of the shop with a small parcel, and gave it to the lady, who then drove off.

  • It was certainly a surprise to me, and gave me a considerable shock, but Van Helsing was unmoved.

  • I crept behind It, and gave it my knife, but the knife went through It, empty as the air.

  • I scolded him for it, but he argued quietly that it was very good and very wholesome, that it was life, strong life, and gave life to him.

  • It was covered with strange carvings and he mistook them for hieroglyphics, and gave me ten dollars for the thing.

  • Oh, he was a rich find," answered Gaff Caven, and gave a short laugh.

  • If this new suit gets soaked it will be ruined," grumbled Ned, and gave a sigh.

  • Then, of a sudden the boy ducked under the man's arm, turned, and gave him a quick shove that sent him with a splash into the lake.

  • He did, and gave me fifty dollars in cash for it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aid him; and blessed; and built; and came; and departed; and fell; and from; and laid; and laughed; and looked; and out; and said; and set; and take; and they; and this; and thy; and took; buttonhole stitch; good height; lettuce leaf; made use; mile wide; readily recognized; strange adventures; vnto whom