I longed for the gift of speech to represent to him, that if he would but leave off looking at me, I should give him no offence; but alas, I was silent, and could only stare as hard as ever.
Americans, both men and women, have an extraordinary self-poise, a gift for remaining normal in the most abnormal surroundings.
Big advertisers made a gift of their newspaper space to the nation.
Its first act was to convey a monetary gift to the French hospitals.
Officers were selected to go to Paris to do the purchasing of the presents, and I know of at least one case in which the men's gift was so generous that there was enough money left over to provide for the children throughout the coming year.
Once more he exhibited his easy mastery of the art of navigation and his extraordinary gift for estimating dead-reckoning.
The effect of this ingenuous speech was heightened by a gift of hawks' bells and pieces of broken glass; upon receiving which the good old man fell down on his knees, and said that the Spaniards must surely have come from heaven.
Without stopping in the least to think why he did it, he broke the bread and meat into two portions, and held out one, in silence, awkwardly, as a child who does not know whether hisgift will be accepted or cast upon the ground.
Canst not leave me the thought that there was one gift which I gave honestly--or is it with thee as ever with stony-hearted youth, swift to condemn, slow to understand?
Rathumus bowed his head and entered his house, and to Susanna, his wife, he said: "The gift of our father Melchior hath fallen upon the child.
He mentioned one poor widow to whom he had just sent three hundred dollars as a gift from the railway.
It is a rare thing not to find a Bible, thegift of a Society, in every bedroom and drawing-room in the hotel.
The idea of the Roman Church was imperfectly embodied at the best; the divine gift was in earthen vessels.
He was pre-eminently endowed with the faculty of judgment, characterized by Canon Scott Holland as the gift of "high and fine and sane and robust decision.
He was converted by a hermit; but as he had neither the gift of fasting nor that of prayer, he decided to devote himself to a work of charity, and set himself to carry wayfarers over a bridgeless river.
At the same time it was believed that the Spirit imparted different gifts to different believers, and each gift fitted its recipient for the performance of some service, being intended not for his own good but for the good of his brethren (cf.
Those who were endowed more largely than their fellows with this gift were commonly known as apostles, prophets and teachers (cf.
The chief of these was the gift of teaching, that is, of understanding and interpreting to others the will and truth of God.
The giftof tongues is not vouchsafed to all," I responded with dignity.
Of this, the greatest private collection in the world, a large part has now become the property of the Museum through the princely gift of Mr. Morgan’s son, the present J.
Then the good wife turned to her son and said "Child by the gift of thy head, the king's life may be spared, and the kingdom remain unshaken.
Philosophy, says Shankharacharya, is either a gift of nature or the reward of study.
In the present age of the world, the Brahman may not accept a gift of cows or of gold; of course he despises the law.
The immortal mind is, according to you, an ignoble viscus; the god-like gift of reason is the instinct of a dog somewhat highly developed.
In direct contrast with Virchow, I lack alike the gift and the training for it, as well as taste and vocation.
They bear the name of the giver, and the day which is the most distinguished in our lives through some remarkable event, on which day such a gift is generally given.
There, such Faculty Schools stood forth with especial prominence; the one for medical science at Salerno; for jurisprudence at Bologna, which possessed distinguished privileges as the gift of the Emperor Henry I.
And this glass, too, I see, is the gift of a friend," I added.
The gift of eloquence he had always possessed, and his eight years of study and meditation had furnished him with new weapons, which he wielded with the same fiery zeal that had characterised the first years of his apostolic championship.
The sultan, astonished by the gift of jewels, set Aladdin to perform prodigies of wonder, but all these he accomplished by aid of the genie, so that at last the sultan was obliged to give him the princess in marriage.
The gift of language--of talking easily and gracefully, either in private or public--was not one of their possessions.
He enjoyed a special gift in prayer, and not infrequently, in the absence of the minister, read the burial service over the dead.
The jewels which were seized at the moment he was engaged in selling them were the free gift of Marie Lothundiaz, from whom I had refused to accept them.
Quinola (to Monipodio) Don't you think that my master has pre-eminently the gift of drawing down the lightning on his own head?
Marie Accept the gift which is all that the woman who intends to be your wife can and ought to offer.
The gift had surely its special quality, multiple and rare.
He turned out an excellent coachman with an instinct for keeping the road amongst the snow-covered fields and a natural gift of getting the best out of his horses.
This gift and this special food rejoice and adorn all the great festivals and all the banquets in heaven and on earth.
Every giftof God makes the soul ready to receive a new gift, greater than itself.
For God at every giftgives Himself with all His gifts, and the spirit whenever it turns inwards, gives itself with all its works.
In this gift Christ gives Himself to us in three manners; He gives us His flesh and blood and His bodily life, glorified and full of joys and griefs.
For we may say: the most noble and gracious gift that is bestowed on any creature is the Reason and the Will.
He gives us also, in this sublime gift of the sacrament, His spirit full of glory, and the richest gifts of the virtues, and ineffable marvels of charity and nobleness.
Refusal is so keenly resented that in one instance a couple decline to allow their daughter to marry a man whose emissaries reject this gift (p.
He follows directions and spirits carry giftto their mistress.
The Chair was in the gift of the Crown, that is, of the Prime Minister, and Lord Rosebery appointed Lord Acton.
A certain letter of mine acknowledging the gift of the Lancashire Canvassing Speeches was written between the election and the summons to Windsor, in November 1868.
Secondly, for a reason which I cannot explain without saying what you may think bad psychology or bad dogma--I think that faith implies sincerity, that it is a gift that does not dwell in dishonest minds.
The impeding facts will be there, but the strong will[151] and the untimely gift of self-disparagement may be too much for the facts.
It is rather a gift of inventing picturesque, and often grotesque epithets and nicknames, than general power of expression.
Representation on the stage, delivery as a lecture, a gift or loan of the manuscript to a friend do not ipso facto determine the author's right of property.
If he does not excel Stothard in the gift of grace, he does in range and variety; and he more than rivals him in composition.
The thing is more than the gift of parody; it amounts (as Mr. Frederic Harrison has rightly said) to positive forgery.
Sir Richard," quoth Robin, "thou wilt pleasure us all if thou wilt keep that money as a gift from us of Sherwood.
Along with this money I have brought a little gift to thee and thy brave men from my dear lady and myself.
Also, good Cook, I have ten shillings that I mean to give as a gift to thee.
Yet he had the Hebrew gift for home and family life.
He had the gift of winning friends, even among those who might naturally have been his enemies, for example Jonathan and Michal, son and daughter of Saul, and Achish, the Philistine king.
They were industrious and they had brains and a special giftfor trade.
Bartlett Tripp; we hastened to meet the royal greeting of the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden, at their beautiful island of Minau in Lake Constance--the weddinggift of the Grand Duke to his young princess bride forty-three years ago.
Howland, the editor of the Outlook, as the gift of the readers of that popular periodical, the Red Cross is gratefully indebted.
A small sum for fowls would be a gift that would furnish more than its value in eggs for food for present use.
This had the effect in ten days to shut off all free railroad transportation into the State, and thus it remains to-day, and the freight on a carload of gift oats from the grain centres of the Northwest would exceed their value when there.
The danger lurked in the air that all breathed, and the apparently pure, limpid water, God's greatest gift to man, became his deadliest enemy.
This was the home of Senora Jorrin, given her as a weddinggift many years before by her husband, a man of great power in the island, and who had three times represented Cuba in the Senate of Madrid.
Bakshish is a gift of money which an Oriental expects and demands for the most trifling service.
And for your magnificent alms accept from me this humble gift which I send to the entire American people for your great beneficence, from all the hearts of the poor, filled with feelings of joy.
I once asked my friend Carson from Colorado if he could choose but one gift in all the world, what would it be?
But morning dawned, and with the miracle of a new-born day came the magic gift of life.
