Ireland; more common and mortal in England; and though the ancients gave that disease* very good words, yet now that bell+ makes no strange sound which rings out for the effects thereof.
And, perhaps, not fully disused till Christianity fully established, whichgave the final extinction to these sepulchral bonfires.
Many gave up all hopes of rescue, for every time the boats approached the ship, the attempt became more and more dangerous.
At nine o'clock, the captain gave orders that soundings should be taken every hour, under the immediate direction of the pilot of the watch.
A south-west wind gave us hopes of the ice setting off from the land, but it produced no good effect during the whole of the 24th.
His measures inspired confidence and hope, while his personal example in the hour of danger gave courage and animation to all around him.
The tackling was let go, the men gave a cheer, and the boat, with its occupant, was borne away by the current.
First the white canvas was seen, then the dark hull became visible; but as yet no signsgave token that those on board were aware of their proximity.
This, however, gave them no uneasiness, as it was supposed that he had gone in search of assistance.
The ship then heeled on her larboard broadside, and the captain gave orders to cut away the masts.
The captain gave orders to fire minute guns, and cut away the masts.
There he found Captain Le Gros in consultation with the master, who, being of opinion that the fire was on the larboard side, gave orders to wear the ship, so as to allow the water which had been hove in to flow over her.
I personally attended those I could; but where this was not possible I gave the patients the necessary instructions and also sent medicine.
And it is said that Zaradusht the head of the Magians came to Bishtasb the king and told him, "I am the Apostle of God to you", and gave him the Book which the Magians possess.
It is quite possible that Ar Rayhani interested himself in Persian of ethics and morality literature and in Persian Adab and gave his book the name of the 'Book Light' which treated of questions of this nature.
But here and there I caught a word which gave me enough of her meaning.
Well, I worked blindly ahead at the things that college gave me to work at--the football team and the newspaper and all that--and soon enough I knew that I had been working into manhood by the only right road.
It gaveme a creepy sense of the place's antiquity.
I repeated to her slowly the words of apology which the near-sighted junior had spoken to me at our parting, and, when they did not convince her, gave up the task and went to bed without any supper.
My courage gave me only the power to glare and sneer at him--and once, as he spoke, he looked down and saw my face, I think.
I know it was only self-consciousness that gave me this feeling--but after all, comfort must play a big part in our companionships.
For it was my school days which gave me that Faith.
The dull interpretergave me this in flat, spiritless tones; but I could see the clenched hands and the earnest face of Mr. Cohen, and I nodded quickly.
The big mass of men there, the lights, the noise of their clapping, ten times louder from within--all of it gave a tightening to my throat.
And she carried on so hysterically that, after a while, I gave in and promised I would not go--not for a while, anyhow.
The answer seemed to reassure her and she gave me gracious permission to go.
Before Thanksgiving Fallon gave promise of becoming one of the college's best discus throwers.
So I reached for a book which was on a table nearby, and gave it to her.
The asthmatic youth wheezily ventured a remark, but Myron's reply was not encouraging and the youth gave all his attention again to dropping bits of biscuit in his stewed pears and salvaging them noisily.
Myron shook his head helplessly, signifying he gave it up and that no matter what the answer proved to be he was beyond surprise!
On defence he showed up decidedly well, and Warren, an earnest little shock-headed youth, gave him praise more than once.
A skin-tackle play, Brounker carrying, gavethe Brown five yards more.
Myron gave a little toward the side-line, slackened his pace and then, with a final demand on his strength, sprang forward again at renewed speed.
The terrier gave a last growl and retired to the box.
That was certainly a peach of a licking you gave Chancellor.
Warren, acting on instructions, gave him plenty of work, and he didn't do it so badly, all things considered.
When the hands of the clock on the dresser indicated seventeen minutes to seven he gave up and tried to find consolation in arranging the eloquent remarks he meant to deliver to Joe Dobbins when that offensive youth returned.
Myron groaned at the utter inadequacy of that appellation and gave up the attempt to do justice to his feelings.
In flattery completely doused He gave the "Jewel Song" from "Faust.
And you all will applaud her the more, I am sure, When I add that the money she gave to the poor.
There was an old person of Bow, Whom nobody happened to know; So they gave him some soap, and said coldly, "We hope You will go back directly to Bow!
But the cook was Dutch and behaved as such; For the diet hegave the crew Was a number of tons of hot-cross buns Prepared with sugar and glue.
As a general rule she was head of her school, And at six was so notably smart That they gave her a check for reciting The Wreck Of the Hesperus wholly by heart.
The launch was laden to the brim; three of our biggest boats were in tow; an abundant collation, in charge of a corps of cabin-boys, gave assurance of success in one line at least.
The chief, in a cast-off military jacket, gave me welcome with a mouthful of low gutterals.
Meanwhile we had schooled our ears to detect the most delicate shades of sound; to measure or weigh each individual echo with an accuracy that gave us the utmost self-satisfaction.
It was still more ticklish receiving the shaggy hero on deck; for he gave one wild bound and alighted in the midst of a group of terrified ladies and scattered the rest of us in dismay.
He flew back to New York laden with the glittering proofs of wealth; gave a whole page of the Tribune to his tale of the golden fleece; and a rush to the new diggings followed as a matter of course.
I thought it a happy coincidence that, having met him first under Old Glory, then floating in the trade wind that blew over southern seas, I should find him last in the lone land that gavename to the ship that brought him over.
A late official gave me out of his cabinet a relic of the past.
These figures, half veiled in shadow, were most impressive, and gave a kind of Egyptian solemnity to the dimly lighted apartment.
Unfortunately, some simple voyager gave the rude silversmiths a bangle of the conventional type, and this is now so cunningly imitated that it is almost impossible to secure a specimen of Haida work of the true Indian pattern.
The possession of these gave an impetus to trade, and brought to Canada a number of merchants and others who were consumers of natural products and money spenders.
He attended personally to details, gave orders for the levy of troops and for the shipping of the men and supplies, and urged on the officials in charge so that everything should be ready early in the spring.
In 1669 Courcelle gave him letters patent for an exploring journey towards the Ohio and the Meschacebe, or Mississippi.
Talon's tact and firmness of purpose had their reward, for the next year Colbert gave ample proof that he understood Canada's situation and requirements.
The governor gavethese Indians a message for the Senecas and the other nations, stating that he wished to keep the peace, but that, if necessary, he could come and devastate their country.
Louis XIV gave him leave to return to France and appointed Claude de Bouteroue in his stead.
Talon gave the necessary orders for the erection of about forty dwellings which should be ready to receive new settlers during the following year.
On his advice the council gave out an ordinance fixing the price of wheat.
He appropriated ample funds, gave urgent orders, and seemed to make the Canadian reinforcements his personal affair.
He seized all the thread in the shops andgave notice that nobody could procure thread except in exchange for hemp.
The intendant gave fifty livres in household supplies and some provisions to each young woman who contracted marriage.
The children brought an action to have the will set aside, but the court decided against them, and gave judgment confirming the trusts.
A testator was betrothed to a lady, and by a codicil to his will, after mentioning her name, and alluding to his intended marriage with her, he gave L3,000 to his wife.
A testator declared that if either Jane or Mary married into the families of Prudence or Resignation, and had a son, then he gave all his estate to such son; but if they did not marry, then the estate was to go to A.
If any one of the three can save a soul, I desire they will return it to him who gave it to me.
But it was said that if the party whogave the portion had limited it to another, in the case of her marriage without the consent of A, there it would have been otherwise.
Stephen gave me a bright nod as the general cantered along, praising the men, bidding them hold out a little longer, and assuring us all that the battle was practically won.
The general, who, since the opening of the campaign, had grown very fond of my brother, gave orders that he should have a grand military funeral, and assisted at the ceremony himself.
Unbuckling my sword, I gave it to Rakoczy, and, in case of accidents, wished him good-bye.
Well, my young wiseacre, if you can show me one single loophole, you've more brains than I ever gave you credit for.
The hussars stayed to extricate their leader, and the delay gave me a little breathing space.
In addition, the Austrians gave us plenty of employment in the fighting line, especially near the summit, where they occupied the passes in force.
At this my heart gave one great throb, and then seemed to cease beating.
It was the fourth of May when the answer came, and Goergei, who had established his headquarters at Schwabenberg, immediately gave orders for the beginning of the siege operations.
However, they gave me plenty of rope instead, and I was firmly fastened on Ober's horse, while two men with levelled pistols rode one on either side of me.
Round us rose the cries and groans of wounded men, the cheers and counter-cheers of the combatants, the sound of clashing swords; but to all I gave but a passing thought.
Let the rest take a turn;" and he gave Stephen another squeeze to show his goodwill.
Nicholas Szondi and I rode on either side of the general, who once more gave the word to charge.
So he gavethe word, and we retired in good order, but at a gallop.
Having plenty of provisions, we followed in the track of the army, as being the safest and most direct route; and everywhere the inhabitants of the villages through which we passed gaveus a hearty welcome.
The people of the villages, who freely gave us food and shelter, were filled with strange rumours which totally contradicted one another.
When the purchase was agreed,” he writes, “great promises passed between us of kindness and good neighborhood, and that the Indians and English must live in love as long as the sun gave light.
On the same day he gave to his kinsman, William Markham, whom he had selected to be his deputy-governor, and who was to precede him to Pennsylvania, instructions regarding the first business to be transacted.
Purchas’s Pilgrimage gave his own form and language to the accounts of the voyages which he collected, and those in his eighth and ninth book concern America.
He gave the passage in Peter Martyr, the conversation in Ramusio, the extract from Gomara, added to those documents reprinted from the quarto tract, all of which have been here noticed in the order in which they appeared in print.
It gave earnest of a restoration of the natural alliance of the Protestant powers against France, the common enemy.
This gave the colony, in English law, an absolute title to the soil as against any foreign State or its subjects.
In 1852 Mr. George Peabody gave to the Maryland Historical Society a manuscript index, prepared by Henry Stevens, to the Maryland papers, then accessible in that office.
Mr. Brinley issued a private reprint of it, following this copy, in which he gave a fac-simile of the title and an historical introduction.
The union of the two communities under one charter gave strength to both, and the colony prospered, while Winthrop felt the strong control of a robust spirit in John Allyn, the secretary of the colony.
Presently the Roman Empire gave one of those flickers which showed that there was still some fire among the ashes.
There is a story told of an illiterate millionaire whogave a wholesale dealer an order for a copy of all books in any language treating of any aspect of Napoleon's career.
Perhaps in Gibbon's case the omission matters little, for, save in the instance of his well-controlled passion for the future Madame Neckar, his heart was never an organ which gave him much trouble.
A young Frenchman, dying of fever on the west coast of Africa, gave it to me as a professional fee.
When he was in the Argentina, the country outside the Settlements was covered with roving bands of horse Indians, whogave no quarter to any whites.
And this expedition of Greely's gave rise to another example which seems to me hardly less remarkable.
In his lament, one of the items is that his colonel's example encouraged the daily practice of hard and even excessive drinking, which gave him the gout.
The fault, I am sure, is my own, but I always seemed to crave stronger fare than he gave me.
Harking back and talking of pugilism, I recall an incident which gave me pleasure.
Fielding, using the third person, broke all the fetters which bound his rival, and gave a freedom and personal authority to the novel which it had never before enjoyed.
The Germans lifted the mailed fist and Lenine instantly gave way, but others commenced howling about the necessity to defend the fatherland, not only my Russia, but the newly invented fatherland.
Mr. Perris, in a dispatch dated June 12, gave these further particulars: Faces that wore a serious expression yesterday morning are decidedly cheerful today.
The enthusiastic reception which Paris gave us then has since been extended by all your people to the American Army.
These gave up their berths to me and the master of the Hattie Dunn, and the Germans of the crew gave up their bunks to the sailors and slept in hammocks themselves.
The German officers were killed, after which the troops gave themselves up to acts of anarchy.
Again the devoted battalions were subjected to a terrible bombardment amid trees that gave no protection.
This battle gave us, in the military sense, a victory such as naval history has never yet recorded.
But others of us put as bright a face on a black outlook as we could, and gave them such cheer as a waterless and breadless situation would allow.
They said we gave them inspiration; so it was a fifty-fifty exchange.
It did not end the war, but it gave us more confidence and startled England, who always thought she had an invincible fleet.
My father in his lifetime gave hospitality To all strangers, And distressed travellers; His table was never empty of bread, beef, and beer; He was wont to keep a hundred tall men in his hall.
Were it not good, thinkest thou, we gave him leave To stifle such caterpillars as corrupt the commonwealth?
Twas not for nothing thy godfathers a cogging name gave thee.
Right well; thanks unto Him thatgave the day to us.
My manners and misbehaviour is mended half in half, since I gave over my mealman, and came to dwell in London: ye may see time doth much.
Ay, but he gave nothing for God's sake, except it were Hard words, or blows; and they had been better kept than given.
And yet, in faith, he gave me nothing at his death But good counsel, how to live in the world.
It grinds my gall they should slander me on this sort: They are some old-cankered currish corrupt carls, that gave me this report.
I refused it at first; but at last by his entreaty I was content to take his pawn, and thinking he had given me the right purse of gold, he had another like it, which he gave me with counters, and so went away.
He came, though, and I gavehim my tricks in my best possible style.
His make-up gavehim something of a foreign air, and was the most exquisite imaginable.
He had wanted to make a change, Bristol said, but his long and varied experience had made him cautious, and he never gave up one good thing until he had secured a better.
She then gave her her card, upon which she was called some Madam or other, a clairvoyant, and she had some shabby rooms on Wisconsin Street, near the theatres.
In mentioning the fact he sat down by the fireplace andgave her some money for use while he was away, and also counted over quite an amount which he had provided for his travelling expenses.
She gave him her hand as firmly and frankly as though she had been a pure woman, and said, "I'm yours, Dick.
She, for whom he gave up all, in turn gave up all for him.
Shakspeare would himself have exulted in finding that he gave way only to dramatists so excellent.
Both daughters survived their father; both married; both left issue, and thusgave a chance for continuing the succession from the great poet.
When you follow him there, you will thank that nameless poet who gave our humble Aquarius the title he bears.
She put the keys in the Butler's hand, and if he asked for money she gave it.
He WOULD lay the table in a way which almost gave me a crick in neck, and certainly dislocated my temper, and he would not see that there was anything wrong.
Was it the beauty of the scene which gave rise to these emotions?
Selecting a small apple, hegave the old woman a penny; then, after looking at me scrutinisingly for a moment, he moved from the booth in the direction of Southwark.
The village had been turned by the Bosche into a veritable fortress; trenches and strong points, bristling with machine-guns, commanded every point which gave vantage to the enemy.
I am proud to think that the task of doing this has been mine, and in doing it, I have tried "to do my bit" for the land that gave me birth.
Evidently I gave them too vigorous a push, for the next moment they came toppling down.
They wished me all good luck on my venture, and gave me an extra relay of men to get me to the front.
Before leaving, the officer gaveme a final warning about drawing the Germans' fire.
I turned and gave a parting wave of the hand to a group of officers standing by.
They gave me a parting cheer, and a smile that they knew would be seen by the people in England--perchance by their own parents.
To save men the German high command gave orders for a further retirement to their Hindenburg defences, a fortified line of such strength as had never been equalled.
With his aid I gave the chief officer full explanation, and pledged my word of honour that neither names, districts, nor details of positions should ever be mentioned.
Hindenburg threw in his divisions with reckless extravagance; he knew that if this section gave way all hope of holding on to Northern France was gone.
It was emitting clouds of bluish-grey smoke from its exhaust which gave it a rather ghostly appearance in the mist.
Having read my letter of introduction, he promptly gave his consent.
The heavy billows of sea-mist gave it a somewhat mystic appearance.
She gave me a warm handshake and said, "I have been expecting you, and now that you are here, I will take pleasure in showing you the workings of the department over which I have the honor to preside.
The Minister of Health gave me the reasons why the marriage law was passed fixing twenty-one years of age as the time when young men and women could marry.
The Government paid over to him what money he had earned, and gave him a dress suit and a working suit of clothes and two changes of underclothing-by those acts of justice giving him encouragement to become a useful member of society.
There was no charge for membership in the labor union and no walking delegates, for the Government gave them permission to hold their meetings in the churches, which were all Government property, and in the public schools.
Starmidge gave Mrs. Lester a keen glance, and realized an idea of her innocence in financial matters.
She gave a swift glance at the Earl, and then fixed her eyes steadily on Gabriel.
At his suggestion she gave him a cheque for ten thousand pounds: he was to see Markham and endeavour to get a settlement for that sum.
He gave one glance at it, and laid it flat on the table before his companions.
A first quick glance gave him a general idea of his surroundings.
And he gave me a swift, queer look which was gone as quickly as it came--it meant 'So you know!
He gave them a full, accurate, and precise description of Mrs. Carswell, and a detailed account of her doings that morning, and begged them to make inquiry at the three great stations in their town.
Instead, he gave the housekeeper a swift look which sent her away in haste, and he turned to Betty with an air of annoyance.
Easleby gave Starmidge an almost imperceptible wink as he lighted a cigar.
Neale sat down at last on the settee, and in the silence and darkness gave himself up to thoughts of a nature which he had never known in his life before.
Merely to look at him gave her profound and poignant pleasure.
And he gave Ranny a copy of the Prospectus with a beautiful picture of the house on it.
He filled it up again with boiling water from the kettle on the gas ring, and poured out a cup and gave it her to drink, supporting her stooping head tenderly with his hand.
Things would happen, they were bound to happen if he gave them time.
But beyond that the letter gave him no solid practical information.
In all that she did there was something unsanctioned, something that gave her the secret and essential thrill of sin.
With that he kissed her, and between the kisses he asked her, with delirious rapidity: "Who gave you a drawing-room suite?
He gave her the opening when he asked her what she'd like to do next.
She gave a little gasp and shrank back with a movement that brought her nearer to Ransome and to his side.
The door gave on a passage that ran the whole length of the room, dividing it in two.
One or two of these heads positively lit up the procession with their red and gold, gave it the splendor and beauty of a pageant.
Well, toward morning the wood gave out and my wife wanted me to go down cellar and get some more.
I got up every twenty minutes and renewed ours, and this gave Mrs. McWilliams the opportunity to shorten the times of giving the medicines by ten minutes, which was a great satisfaction to her.
In the midst of "Now I lay me down to sleep," she gave a slight cough!
In his will he gave the contract bill to his uncle, by the name of O-be-joyful Johnson.
He had had a grudge against me for a long time; but in his last moments he sent for me, and forgave me everything, and, weeping, gave me the beef contract.
So he gave her something that sent her into a spasm of coughing, and presently up came a little wood splinter or so.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gave" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
