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Example sentences for "give their"

  • It now seemed desirable to make an alteration in this respect, as well because the sixths were not properly divided, as that, wishing to give their proportion to the great, it became desirable to increase the number.

  • At this meeting, ladies were especially invited to vote, as though they had a heart in it, and were urged also to give their money to aid these very men by whom every soul of us had been insulted.

  • Let the sex, then, give their influence in promoting a system of education that will, if carried out, secure to every woman in the land the blessings of thorough practical instruction.

  • To read these rules, one feels tempted to say that the Dominicans sacrificed everything to give their men a first-rate course of studies.

  • Now, setting aside the religious motives which influence their application, have they not a right as citizens to give their opinion of public measures?

  • As to consulting persons out of doors, the House had a right to call Heads of Departments to give their opinions on any particular subject, if they thought proper.

  • Marriage Negotiations When parents have chosen their son's bride they send to her parents a fully qualified delegate (navodagjya) to inquire whether or not they would consent to give their daughter to the young man.

  • When old age overtook him and the hour came for him to die he called his children to him, and desired his sons to give their sisters to the first wooers who might ask them in marriage.

  • The Victorian greyness of page led some printers and publishers to resort to the use of heavier type to give their pages a richer black.

  • There is no possibility of securing the cancellation of the manufacturing requirement unless, or until, the book manufacturing unions can be persuaded to give their assent.

  • The dramatist and the novelist were by comparison mere providers of entertainment and were required at most to give their work a flavour of good morals as a proof of decent intentions.

  • When first the Atoms to the Congress came, And by their Concourse form'd the mighty Frame, What did the Liquid to th' Assembly call To give their Aid to form the ponderous Ball?

  • There cannot be a greater Argument of the general good Understanding of a People, than a sudden Consent to give their Approbation of a Sentiment which has no Emotion in it.

  • People came of themselves to give their names.

  • As for the secular princes, if there were any who did not unite with the others to give their approbation, their number was inconsiderable.

  • When the day appointed was come, and the people summoned to give their votes, the rich men seized upon the voting urns, and carried them away by force; thus all things were in confusion.

  • But they refused to give their confidence to any one except Tiberius, and required that he should be sent to treat with them.

  • If the people are now ready to give their sanction to the propositions contained in the Virginia resolutions, they would send delegates here who would accept these propositions without debate or discussion.

  • When men meet to save the country, they must be prepared to give up every thing--to give their lives if necessary.

  • Many men must determine not only to assist to wrest the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels, but to give their lives, so long as they might last, to retaining it.

  • Thus then, when bidden or forced to give their hands to the Norman knights, they speedily accepted their lot, and for the most part grew contented and happy enough.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    church work; give advice; give back; give birth; give command; give ground; give here; give him; give his; give more; give over; give pleasure; give satisfaction; give thee; give utterance; give warning; given here; given him; given line; given over; given the; given three; given unto; gives himself; lift them; regenerate ones