He demanded "why his majesty would not grant to him as a favor, that which was his right, and why he hesitated to confide in the fidelity of one who had been reared in his house.
Two eloquent friars, also, Nicholas Vincenti and Gilbert de Tripoli, were sent with them, with powers to ordain priests and bishops and to grant absolution.
Some, Columbus had been obliged to grant to these men by the articles of capitulation; others they had brought away clandestinely.
Being considered a man in important trust and authority, the captains did not hesitate to grant all his requests for supplies.
The pilot brought a file of newspapers, and the lieutenant learned thatGrant was still "hammering away" at the Confederate forces in Virginia, though without any decided success.
Grant all that you say, and where does the flanking come in?
Such things grant us our only vision into Natural History's big book; and it isn't a book in first-class condition.
Highway Patrolman Harry Grant, who was chasing that car in from our suburbs, says both horribly drunk, Antor grazing four cars, Madam shouting and singing wildly, with Grant arriving too tardily to ward off that final crash.
Zerubbabel, by the grantand aid of Cyrus, King of Persia.
Here I presented my mark with a request for a small favor; you say you cannot grant it, and offer to return my MARK alone?
At first the lesser gifts are sought for and given, but as spiritual life ripens what man craves most for and what God is most eager to grant is that the Father's will may be wholly worked out in His child.
Do not, for the sake of such a matter, make foes of the Lacedaemonians; rather God grant that (1) each of you may safely reach the goal of his desire.
I thank you, and am grateful, and my prayer is that the gods may grant me to be an instrument of blessing to you.
The prayer has been attributed to him, "God grant I may live along enough to recompense my friends and requite my foes with a strong arm.
I grant thee pardon, damsel, more learned than the Sapphic muse: for charmingly has the Mighty Mother been sung by Caecilius.
Grant Chalybon perish the whole of the race, Eke who in primal times ore seeking under the surface Showed th' example, and spalled iron however so hard.
He would have a low tariff for the United States, if the United States would grant Canada a low tariff--he had answered; but the United States would notgrant Canada any tariff concessions.
She would like to see the lassie Grant earn two shillings of a Saturday night singing in the High street or the Lawnmarket.
So speaks Verplanck, and his utterance is endorsed by Richard Grant White.
In 846 the saint made his appearance at the celebrated battle of Clavijo, where he slew sixty thousand Moors, and was rewarded by a grant of a bushel of grain from every acre in Spain.
So that to grant to a Company of Merchants to be a Corporation, or Body Politique, is to grant them a double Monopoly, whereof one is to be sole buyers; another to be sole sellers.
The same also is to be observed in Baptisme: for to a converted Jew, or Gentile, the Apostles had not the Power to deny Baptisme; nor to grant it to the Un-penitent.
For she remembered how that she had promised to granthim the boon that he should ask, and much she feared that she knew what that boon was.
Therefore when I get me home again, one boon will I ask of you, and I pray you of your mercy grant it me.
Whatever else you crave, that shall you have, and gladly will I grant it you.
Previous to the planting of grain, they place before it a basin of cool beverage made of corn, also lighted wax candles and sweet-smelling copal, imploring the god to grant an abundant harvest.
Grant me, Father of Light, whenever my eyes droop heavily with the rain of grief, at least to see the reflection of thy signet-bow upon the waves over which I am sailing unto thee.
Well, you haven't hit the nail; if you did me the honor to want my services it would be impossible for me to grant them.
Grant me a short delay; and have the goodness to accept my note, which I am ready to sign, if that will give you patience.
I grant exceptions; and even in the New School, as it is called, I can admire the real genius, the vital and creative power of Victor Hugo.
Grant the Ballot, and the new corollary of enlarged suffrage.
Some zealous churchmen in the Commons suggested that it might be desirable to grant the toleration only for a term of seven years, and thus to bind over the nonconformists to good behaviour.
Swift cannot have been ignorant that the Church was indebted for the grant chiefly to Burnet's persevering exertions.
In their despite, he would grant an amnesty to his people.
He was indefatigable and at length successful in his attempts to obtain for them from the Crown that grant which is known by the name of Queen Anne's Bounty.
Footnote 80: Swift, writing under the name of Gregory Misosarum, most malignantly and dishonestly represents Burnet as grudging this grant to the Church.
It was an Act purporting to grantentire liberty of conscience to all Christian sects.
He obtained a grant of all the lands that could be discovered belonging to Jesuits in five or six counties.
He was not to have it in his power to grant a capitulation which should secure to Irish Roman Catholics the enjoyment of their hereditary lands.
Some zealous Whigs were unwilling to grant even this indulgence: but the Commons were content with the victory which they had won, and justly thought that it would be ungracious to refuse so slight a concession.
At length I came out upon a clearing where fifteen log houses marked the grant of the Federal government to Clark's regiment.
Now, gentlemen, there's a man named Grant down in that part of the country.
She thanked him with one fleeting, tearful glance that was as a grant of all her priceless possessions.
Presently the automobile, after speeding up the asphalt of Grant Avenue, stopped before the new house.
Well, I just thought as much," was the energetic reply; "minute I seen the rig I knew Captain Grant was behind it.
Suppose I were to grant you, for the sake of argument, that the Northeastern Railroads, being the largest taxpayers in this State, have taken an interest in seeing that conservative men fill responsible offices.
Before they came to me this morning I had made a plan to reorganize the shops, to grant many privileges.
Some of the western states grant divorces on--on much easier terms," he said politely.
You are ready to grant anything but a constitution.
Sergeant Thomas McChesney, as a reward for his services in one of the severest campaigns in history, received a grant of two hundred and sixteen acres!
Ephraim was in the corridor regaling his friend, Mr. Beard, with that wonderful encounter with General Grantwhich sounded so much like a Fifth Reader anecdote of a chance meeting with royalty.
I've bought that lot on Grant Avenue, next to the Ogilvys'.
I find in relating those parts of my experience that seem to be of most significance I have neglected to tell of my mother's death, which occurred the year before we moved to Grant Avenue.
The mediaeval conception of the Church, before Luther's day, was consistent, at any rate, if you once grant the premises on which it was based.
I was wrong, I grant you, grievously wrong in the course I took, even though it were not consciously deliberate.
I grant you that those who are overworked and underfed, who are burning with the consciousness of wrongs, who have no outlook ahead, are essentially hopeless and miserable.
On the other hand, they grant that the motive-power of the world is spiritual.
At the home of Edward Clodd he argued with Grant Allen.
Dog tents in Grant Park, sprung up overnight like brown mushrooms.
They got to go to Camp Grant to be, now, demobilized.
The ideal would be to ensure that the whole of the industrial population had that original grant of health, security, and hope which is required to give reality to the idea of equality of opportunity.
Until that is accomplished, it is probable that the most advisable policy is to grant "nominal variations" for casual and irregular employment.
You mention the employers' attitude towards the molders' application--a refusal to grant to molders any separate consideration because other classes of workers would also expect it.
Under certain conditions it might also prove advisable to grant "nominal variations" of the standard wage.
But it is probable that in the future public opinion will be more positive and will grant to labor organizations fuller recognition and greater participation in the control of industrial activity than heretofore.
It is this: A certain woman went to a judge for a certain favor, and he would not granther request.
One excommunicated king lay for three days and nights in the snow in the courtyard before the Pope would grant him an audience!
Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.
God grant your lordship may quickly feel the comfort I now enjoy in my unfettered conversion, but that you may never feel the torments I have suffered for my long delaying it.
Warburton's own explanation of his amendment confutes it; if hest be a regal comnand, they were, by the grant of Lear, to have rather the hest than the execution.
Grant that this becomes him, and if it can become him, he must have in him something very uncommon; yet, &c.
