On a momentous day for Keats, Cowden Clarke introduced him for the first time to Spenser, reading him the Epithalamion in the afternoon and at his own eager request lending him the Faerie Queene to take away the same evening.
Courier of that city, it is stated: "The clergy of all denominations attended in a body, lending their sanction to the proceedings, and adding by their presence to the impressive character of the scene!
No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.
And wherever we go with Johnson there is the lively traffic in ideas, lending vitality and significance to everything about him.
Allow a son to disinherit himself, merely because he had fallen into the hands of a money-lending Jew before he had left college!
She now wore a cap, thus concealing the short, grey bristles of hair, and lending to her countenance a little of that softness which is a requisite of female character.
But others saw and felt the new charm; for no deep experience bravely borne can fail to leave its mark, often giving power in return for patience, and lending a subtle loveliness to faces whose bloom it has destroyed.
Here, as in the matter of "Patience," he could not forgo the perversity of lendingcolour to other people's parodies of himself.
I wish to thank an anonymous author for lending me the proof-sheets of a forthcoming book, which will contain a full and accurate account of the legal proceedings for and against Wilde.
And here, again, almost as wondrous, stood a real bear of the dark forest, lending each of his forepaws to the grasp of a human hand and as ready for the dance as any in that circle.
Governor Hancock, lending her his support with all the reverence that a courtier would have shown to a queen, "your life has been prolonged until the world has changed around you.
Then, lending their guidance to the blinded cynic, who uttered not a word, and even stifled his groans in his own most wretched heart, they began to descend the mountain.
Turn we again to the fireside and sit musing there, lending our ears to the wind till perhaps it shall seem like an articulate voice and dictate wild and airy matter for the pen.
In contemplating this curious system of banking, or money lending (trifling as it may appear,) it is almost impossible not to be forcibly struck with the immense profits that are derived from it.
The wide, empty space before them was lending itself to a second grand entree, by a party of one.
Such exposure is detrimental to the financial health of the lending institution.
Its anxious owners are preoccupied with legitimising their stillborn cash through the conduit of tax-fearing enterprises, or with lending it to same.
This encourages irresponsible lending and investments ("why worry, the IMF will bail me out in case of default").
They are amenable to "lending trends" and display a herd-like mentality.
This encourages irresponsible lending and investments (why worry, the IMF will bail me out in case of default).
His farming had prospered, though the bare and laborious life had tried him hard; and he had made some money by more questionable means, lending to unfortunate neighbors at extortionate interest and foreclosing on their possessions.
My friend, the taxidermist, insisted on lending it and his winter gloves to me.
I asked at last; and at the sound of my voice a smile broke over his small, sallow features, lending them strange beauty, but dying away instantly again into an expression of startled suspicion.
All, both teachers and pupils, met on a platform of the most absolute equality, and willingly took turns in lending a hand wherever it was needed.
Truly utilitarian in purpose, and solending itself more logically to elaboration for the sake of decorative effect, the doorway became the principal single feature of a Colonial exterior.
They not only charm the eye as interior features, but when viewed outdoors relieve the severity of many ranging square-headed windows and provide a center of interest in the fenestration, lending grace and distinction to the entire façade.
On the landing dainty little fluted pilasters support the surbase, their fine scale lending much grace and refinement.
The enthusiasts of a second before, lending ear to the idle whisper, now hesitated; and in revolts the man who hesitates or meets with hesitation is lost.
Lending libraries are now quite out of date in the French capital, and persons really interested in a new work do not get it to read at so much a volume or a subscription of so much a year, but buy it once and for all.
They are of a docile character, and good disposition, lending a ready ear to instruction, but have not embraced the Catholic religion.
But his fate and fortunes have not been such as to give much encouragement to chiefs of the native race in lending their influence to European, or Anglo-European powers, who may be engaged in hostilities against each other on this continent.
Mr. Mortomley was beginning fully to understand what "lending a name" means.
For years he had helped his step-brother by going security for him, by lending his name, by giving him money, by paying his debts.
It was left for our wills to do, our hearts to conceive, God lending us the world, so to speak, to work on!
They walked slowly up the nave, conscious of a strange tumult in the pulse, as though the great building with its immemorial history were half lending itself to, half resisting, the emotion that filled them.
And, ladies and gentlemen,' he continued aloud, 'I was to request that you would unite in lending your highly superior aid to the neophyte.
But, on the other hand, if there were no advantage attached to the lending of money, none would be found willing to lend; consequently the benefits arising from a facility of borrowing money to carry on trade would be defeated.
The Mosaic law indeed prohibited the lending of money upon usury.
Flannery: I see no sense or charity in lending to another anything that might be of profit to myself.
You were saying, Thomas Flannery, you would be lending me the loan of your umbrella.
Not content with lending me his wings that I might fly while he was left to crawl, he proposed to heap other favours upon the friend of his friends.
It belonged to his son, a romantic-looking young fellow, whose sympathetic soul delighted in lending the national aid to courtship, without asking a single question.
And this would be but to give up his leave—or at least the going home with us—and lending you his uniform, which I’m sure would fit you sweetly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lending" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: advance; advancement; borrowing; usury
