And Angus boldly bestowed a kiss upon the girl's cheek.
The boy shook his blond head vigorously, as he bestowed the letter in the pocket of his coat.
This is a gift bestowed by their guardian angels, that no gloomy shadows may darken the sunny brightness of their souls.
We shared everything, and on my birthday, gifts were bestowed on him too; on his, upon me.
Fraulein Kron always deeply appreciated the intellectual development she owed to her employer, while the latter never forgot the comfort and support bestowed by the faithful governess in the most sorrowful days of her life.
She gladly permitted us to share in the distribution of the alms liberally bestowed on the needy.
I find here that Don Pedro hath bestowed much honour on a young Florentine called Claudio.
I would she had bestowed this dotage on me; I would have daffed all other respects and made her half myself.
The Mohammedan and other writers of the twelfth century bestowed the name of Zabians indifferently upon the ancient Chaldeans, the Buddhists, even the ante-Zoroastrian Persians; and Bryant has followed their mistaken example.
There was a strain of poetry in their faith, in their customs, in their language at once laconic and picturesque, even in the names full of meaning which they bestowed on each tribe, and chief, and warrior.
In one of the sections an eulogium isbestowed upon the beauty of virtue as a means of self-enjoyment.
There they remained drinking till their wine got the better of them and the host treated my brother like a familiar friend, so that he became as it were his brother, and bestowed on him a robe of honour and loved him with exceeding love.
The King rejoiced at his words and said, "Thanks be to Allah who hath bestowed thee upon me!
Thereupon he sent for the writer to his sitting chamber and said to him, "Thou art from this day forth my boon-companion and I appoint to thee a monthly solde of a thousand dirhams, over and above that I bestowed on thee aforetime.
Then the King of China bade record this tale, so they recorded it and placed it in the royal muniment-rooms; after which he bestowed costly robes of honour upon the Jew, the Nazarene and the Reeve, and bade them depart in all esteem.
It appeared to me that the protection he had so suddenly bestowed was only a cloak to entrap me.
The first was what nature had bestowed upon him, the last came from his immature studies.
And so he held all sacred things in great reverence and treated the ministers of the same with honour, and bestowed on them favours and largess.
Since, then, you are well instructed in this art, and nature has given you a large share of it, with much reason ought I and the chiefs of my Realm and the Captains thereof to consider any benefit bestowed on you as well employed.
Excellent servant though he was, nature had not bestowed upon him those gifts which enable a man to meet a crisis firmly.
Tell him, if indeed he has the courage which fame has bestowed upon him, to come here and bid me farewell.
The name was bestowed in honour of Mr. Charles Lawson, the then head of the firm, and by this name it is generally known in Europe, but in the United States it is the Port Orford Cypress.
The name babylonica was bestowed in the belief that its headquarters were on the banks of the Euphrates.
Nature has been comparatively lavish in the matter of Cherries, for she has bestowed three species upon the British Islands.
When the black Devil heard that forgiveness had been bestowed on Adam, (he said) "I will go in a distinguished brilliant form to Eve again.
Let the oil of mercy and the herb "ornamentum" bebestowed about the body of Adam to cleanse it from its vileness.
King who bestowed the pleasurable earth upon Adam after the fall, he had no (reason for) displeasure towards God, save that he should perish after a time.
King who bestowed them according to their posts, around the world with many adjustments, each two winds of them about a separate curb, and one curb for the whole of them.
Her stepmother's way of begrudging her the friendship which school-life had bestowed upon Janetta was as distasteful to her as Miss Polehampton's conviction of its unsuitability had been.
She was nearly choked by the fervent embraces they all bestowed upon her before she went downstairs.
His second marriage had been in some respects a failure; and it did not seem as if he regarded his younger children with anything approaching the tenderness which he bestowed upon Janetta.
He retained the Red House, but he bestowed on his brother enough to give him an ample income for the life that Cuthbert and Nora wished to lead.
Mild Mrs. Dent talked with good-natured Mrs. Eshton; and the two sometimes bestowed a courteous word or smile on me.
All my confidence is bestowed on him, all his confidence is devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character--perfect concord is the result.
Humility is a Christian grace, and one peculiarly appropriate to the pupils of Lowood; I, therefore, direct that especial care shall be bestowed on its cultivation amongst them.
Not now as a word barely tendered, but backed by the strength of heaven: 'Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God!
That is, by faith have put on the righteousness of Christ, with the rest of that which Christ hath bestowed upon you, having accomplished it for you.
Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God" (1 John 3:1).
Unless any shall conclude, that God by thus doing preferred the Jew to a state of gentileism; or that he bestowed on them, by thus doing, some high Gentile privilege.
This will make a man run through ten thousand difficulties, to answer God, though he never can, for the grace he hath bestowed on him.
Dost thou so covet more, as not to be Affected with the grace bestowed on thee?
The amiable Archduchess nobly redeemed her pledge; and the reception which she accorded to the errant Duke was as honourable as that already bestowed upon his mother.
The giants in livery not only tolerated this, but might be said to observe them individually with favor--seeing how much of their admiration was bestowed on themselves and their fine clothes.
The labour recentlybestowed upon the places connected with Shakespeare, Scott, and Burns sufficiently attests this.
Guelphic Order bestowed on Englishmen is innumerable, it would actually invest the King with such a power, which, considering how much such things are sought after, might be extremely inconvenient.
He is indeed most keenly sensible of the favour which bestowedthem all.
He therefore had bestowed it carefully out of sight of the king's spies and their borrowed troop, whom he was now expecting to meet.
Of these one has a name which--risking due castigation if I betray gross ignorance by the supposition--I think he must certainly have himself bestowed on it, as it excels the most outrageous pranks of the alliterative age.
But it is necessary to be impartial; and having bestowed so much on the Cavalier annalist, let us take a glimpse at the other side.
There was no strain, and it was evident that the great care which Mr. Blakeney had bestowed on the making had not been thrown away.
In the thorns, through which the fierce brute had dragged its victim, were to be seen shreds of the poor wild boy's old flannel shirt and knickerbockers, bestowed upon him by his young master.
But when a man has brought his suffering and misfortunes upon himself, then, good master, sympathy is bestowed upon a worthless object.
Many of these men were specialists, that is to say, they bestowed the whole of their labour and attention upon some one particular disease, or part of the human body.
There is perhaps too much obloquy bestowed upon the toady and tuft hunter.
The porter fulfilled his obligations and bestowed her in an empty first-class carriage, even exerting himself to fetch a newspaper boy from whom she purchased a small sheaf of magazines.
She had had one instant of anxiety lest he should suggest that, instead of lunching, as arranged, from the picnic basket safely bestowed in the back of the car, they should lunch at the Hall.
But the smile he bestowed on Nan when he answered her redeemed the ugliness of his face considerably.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bestowed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: allowed; given; granted; gratuitous; providential
