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Example sentences for "donation"

Lexicographically close words:
donas; donate; donated; donating; donatio; donations; donative; donatives; donc; doncellas
  1. So that I can do nothing, unless the full authority of this realm be devolved to the King of France, and this cannot be except by donation of the crown-matrimonial.

  2. The smokers were well provided for by a generous donation of Capstan tobaccos, cigarettes and cigars from the British American Tobacco Company in London.

  3. Another donation she proposes giving the 'Tract Society,' an excellent institution, in high favor at the South.

  4. Yes, I dare say he will make us a liberal donation if you will explain the case to him.

  5. I am sure he will make a liberal donation to our Tramp Reform Association as soon as he is advised of your friendly intercession in his behalf.

  6. At the session of the commissioners for August, the donation of John L.

  7. The State, in 1887, located here its reformatory school, receiving a donation of two hundred acres of land, covered with gray and variegated granite.

  8. He conveyed, as a donation to Washington county, a half interest in the block of land on which the court house stands.

  9. Antonio Franco Coronel, after whom Coronel Street is named, had just entered upon the duties of Mayor, and was busy enough with the disposal of donation lots when I first commenced to observe Los Angeles' government.

  10. He is pleased to accept this loving donation for an enterprise so dear to all our hearts—and one which is fulfilling one of the Master’s cherished plans.

  11. Constantine's donation was illegal: no single Emperor nor Pope can disturb the everlasting foundations of their respective thrones: the one had no right to bestow, nor the other to receive, such a gift.

  12. They represent scenes in the life of the Saint, more particularly the making of the famous donation to him by Constantine, who submissively holds the bridle of his palfrey.

  13. Thus some civilians held Constantine's Donation null; but the canonists, we are told, were clear as to its legality.

  14. Caius, without being asked, gives a small donation towards the erection of a pagan temple.

  15. Hence, if a judge has received a pure gift and no corruption was intended or practised, he sinned in taking it, but the donation was valid and there is no obligation to return it.

  16. Consider that Philometor will not confirm the donation of the land unless he quits the temple deeply penetrated by the greatness of our god.

  17. The New York firemen have procured a testimonial to be presented to her in acknowledgment of her munificent donation of $3000 to the funds of the Department.

  18. He actually saved two shillings a week out of his salary, not to mention an occasional donation of a shilling on high days and holidays from his master.

  19. Should a need arise, not provided for by the specific donations given above, a Special Donation is collected to meet it.

  20. Pope Adrian the Fourth, who was himself an Englishman, claimed possession of Ireland under the supposed donation of Constantine, as being an island.

  21. Time after time one is reminded, in looking into these claims, of the retort of a lay ruler, referring to the forged donation by the first Christian Emperor to the bishops of Rome.

  22. The king read the article relative to the donation of the house.

  23. Louis, absent from the cardinal for two days; Louis, with his eyes fixed upon that same donation which so constantly preoccupied the cardinal; Louis did not exactly know how to make out Mazarin's conduct.

  24. Besides, the longer the donation was in coming back, the more Mazarin thought that forty millions were worth a little risk, particularly of so hypothetic a thing as the soul.

  25. The prudent Monk--others would say the generous Monk--had commuted the donation into a sale, and acknowledged the receipt of the sum of fifteen thousand crowns as the price of the property ceded.

  26. Colbert resumed his place at Mazarin's pillow at the first interval of pain, and persuaded him to dictate a donation thus conceived.

  27. Exactly: if the donation were made in a certain form he would refuse it.

  28. If this money belonged to the family, I, who drew up the deed of donation in favor of your majesty, should have added the sum of thirteen millions to that of forty millions which was offered to you.

  29. I have however found a Latin copy of the letter of donation in a work pointed out to me by Professor Reuss[584].

  30. Charlemagne’s donation to the Chair of St. Peter, § 82, 2.

  31. He also lashed violently the extravagances as well as the greed of the popes, and declared that the donation of Constantine was a pure fabrication (§ 87, 4).

  32. Pepin’s donation to the Chair of St. Peter, § 82, 1.

  33. Thus the donation document is met with first in the Pseudo-Isidore.

  34. The second part embraces, besides the original document of the Donation of Constantine, genuine synodal decrees falsified apparently only in one passage.

  35. A peculiar adaptation of the Roman Catholic tradition of the baptism and donation of Constantine, which seems to have found no acceptance among the French, became a favourite legend among all the Lombard and German Waldensians.

  36. According to the Donation of Constantine document (§ 87, 4), Constantine the Great had himself performed this office of equerry to Pope Sylvester.

  37. The donation of Constantine first gave him power and dignity over the rest.

  38. Did you not hear of the donation party at brother Funny's, last new year's?

  39. I saw her drunk at the donation visit of dominie Grinoble, last winter.

  40. In this introduction von Hutten says that by the publication of Pincern’s translation of the supposed donation of Constantine Julius II.

  41. A treatise of the donation or gift and endowment of possessions given (by Constantine) with the judgement of certain great men, 1517, Thomas Godfray.

  42. Valla, of course, condemns the supposed donation of Constantine to the Pope as spurious, and declares against the temporal claims the See of Rome had founded upon it.

  43. For all these nations and countries (they say) are contained in the instrument and writ of the donation or grant.

  44. It was a translation of several tracts that had been published abroad on the debated matter of Constantine’s donation to the Pope, and it was issued from the press of Thomas Godfray in a well-printed folio.

  45. Added to this was a princely donation from Robert Morris of the contents of a ship fully laden with military stores and clothing, which had unexpectedly arrived.

  46. Person Hall, of the university at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was so named to commemorate a munificent donation which he made to that institution.

  47. The arrival of Colonel Laurens from France, on the twenty-fifth of August, with two millions and a half of livers, a part of a donation of six millions by Louis XVI.

  48. Harrild agreed to let Mr. Murray have it, on condition that he should procure a donation to the Printers' Pension Society of London.


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    Other words:
    accommodation; accordance; award; benevolence; bestowal; charity; collection; communication; concession; contribution; deliverance; delivery; dole; donation; endowment; gift; grant; granting; investiture; liberality; offer; offering; offertory; philanthropy; pittance; present; presentation; presentment; provision; subscription; surrender; tithe