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Example sentences for "give away"

  • So she made a very little cake, But as it baking lay, She looked at it, and thought it seemed Too large to give away.

  • Formed long ago, yet made to-day, Employed while others sleep; What few would like to give away, Nor any wish to keep.

  • For she said, "My cakes that seem too small When I eat of them myself, Are yet too large to give away.

  • He would have preferred to send the gold, which he had resolved to give away, by the hand of one of his slaves, like a tributary prince.

  • I hear she has some pretty playthings by her now to give away; but don't you be greedy of them, my dears.

  • In one corner of the parlour was a cupboard with glass doors, where Mrs. Howard had placed such of those pretty toys (as I before spoke of) which she meant to give away in the afternoon.

  • It is for this that the ancients say that one should wish for many sons, so that even one among them may visit Gaya, celebrate the horse-sacrifice or give away a nila bull, and thereby deliver ten generations of his race up and down.

  • I give away, because it is my duty to give; I sacrifice because it is my duty to sacrifice!

  • It is difficult to go to Pushkara; it is difficult to undergo ascetic austerities at Pushkara; it is difficult to give away at Pushkara; and it is difficult to live at Pushkara.

  • Therefore, O king, the man who wishes to win the way of heaven, should under all conditions, make gifts unto Brahmanas of everything that he wishes to give away.

  • I give away Penini's love as I please just now.

  • Some men lay by what they mean to give away, and put that in a bag by itself, saying, This I design to give away, this I purpose to bestow upon the poor.

  • He has life to give away to such as want it, and that hath not a penny to purchase it; and he will give it freely.

  • He has mercy yet to give away, yet to bestow upon his Israel.

  • Though I am not persuading you to make no provision, or to give away all; yet I must tell you, that it is exceeding folly to put off any present duty, upon distrust of God, or expectation of living to be old.

  • She had little of this world's goods to give away, but she was one of the greatest sunshine missionaries I ever knew.

  • When our vines are pruned, we can make as many cuttings as we choose, either to sell or give away.

  • It speedily propagated itself by suckers, or young sprouts from the roots, and he had plants to sell or give away.

  • Here then I give away my heart to you; As true a heart as ever widow gave.

  • He was not only full of joy, but he had fullness of joy to give away.

  • He not only was wholly at peace in his own soul, but felt that he had peace in abundance to give away.

  • If in the hour of his deepest humiliation and suffering he had joy and peace to give away, how much more now, when he is exalted at the right hand of God, to give gifts unto men!

  • He spoke of his peace as something which he had a divine power to give away.

  • Young men who occupied chambers there never had to give away or sell old clothes, because they were never found to be in the way.

  • Forty-eight and two would make fifty, and if the bank could not afford to give away one in consideration of getting back the forty-nine--Bah!

  • Jack had his name down for a couple of dances, and a few more were bestowed upon eager aspirants, and then she had no more to give away--so sorry!

  • As she turned the cake, it seemed to her too large to give away.

  • But that also looked too large to give away.

  • My cakes seem very small when I eat them, but they are far too large to give away.

  • But when it was done, she shook her head, for it also was too large to give away.

  • It ain't much I got to give away, but it's warm even if it's nothing.

  • The blood from under my nails I'll give away, only my child should have a chance to marry herself well.

  • I'd give away everything in the world only to have something pretty to wear for him.

  • Those who were going to give away blankets or elk-skins managed to get a bearer for every one, and exhibited them by making the persons walk in single file to the house of the chief.

  • This one thing referred to is a giving away of property on account of a deceased brother whose effects he took charge of, and promised to give away property, and put up a carved pole to his memory.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    give alms; give credit; give forth; give here; give his; give lessons; give life; give money; give motion; give testimony; give thee; give vent; given away; given here; given moment; given number; given period; given them; given unto; gives birth; gives the; giveth thee; more curious; righteousness shall; said constitution; select committee