It lendsthe quality of a goddess to what is already earthly majesty.
A Londoner never lends his umbrella, for everybody has his own, and he never loses it.
The fields are all cultivated, the farm houses, ancient and peculiar, have an air of solidity and comfort, and an occasional castle lends variety to the scene and makes the picture perfect.
But the scenery depicted by Scott is only the setting of a curious and paradoxical life, and it is the light thrown on this life that lends the chief interest to Mr. Lang's History.
It is, when rightly considered, this same question that lends dramatic unity and human value to the long debate of the mediaeval schoolmen.
Possibly it is something in the pose of Sir Joshua's picture which lends itself to this transformation, helped by a feeling that the Shandean world, over which Sterne presides, is at times as real as the actualities that surround us.
For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old; One sound to all, yet eachLends a meaning to their speech, And the meaning is manifold.
The air of the place is called salubrious; The neighborhood of Vesuvius lends it Au odor volcanic, that rather mends it, And the building's have an aspect lugubrious, That inspires a feeling of awe and terror Into the heart of the beholder.
VII He gives her homeliness in desert air, And sovereignty in spaciousness; he leads Through widening chambers of surprise to where Throbs rapture near an end that aye recedes, Because his touch is infinite and lends A yonder to all ends.
Of love, the grand impulsion, we behold The love that lends her grace Among the starry fold.
First, he knows the best places for a meeting; then he lends the combatants weapons when they have none; he procures a physician; and he is on excellent terms with the journalists, who publish reports of these encounters.
And lends the pearls which deck her hat And rubies too from off her gown, To be your own fit ornament.
She fears more for your health than for her own, she is acquainted with your tastes and knows how to anticipate them, she satisfies all your desires, and lends herself to all your fancies.
I lends nothing on the security of the whigs or the Poles either.
The boldness of the landscape, as in the Mediterranean, was relieved by the softness of a low latitude, which throws some such witchery around rocks and promontories, as a sunny smile lends to female beauty.
George Herbert O Lord, that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
It is couched, like so much of his work, in the autobiographic form, which next to the dramatic form is the most natural, and which lends itself with such flexibility to the purpose of the author.
Roger was struck by these words, spoken with the glad unrestraint that always carries a woman further than she intended, just as prudery often lends her greater cruelty than she feels.
How should he be keen to note coldness, dignity, and reserve in the woman to whom he ascribes the excitement he himself feels, and lends the glow of the fire that burns within him?
Patchwork is a sort of mosaic work in textile materials; and, far beyond the homely patchwork quilt of country cottages, patchwork lends itself to the production of ingenious counterchanges of form and colour in complex patterns.
Facetious, lively, and poetical, the cream of every thing that is agreeable, society cannot be dull if Horace lends his presence.
Grierson also adds (in the passage first quoted): "I may note here a word which lends a singular confirmation to the theory.
They usually rub powdered turmeric on their face and hands, and this lends an unpleasant greenish tinge to the skin.
Tell me good my Friend What Torch is yond that vainely lends his light To grubs, and eyelesse Sculles?
It is under government administration and lendsimmense sums each year.
It is as true of the mind as of the eye, that distance lends enchantment to the view.
This punning character has of late obtained much favour, and wherever a name lends itself to a pun the effort seems nowadays to be made that the motto shall be of this nature.
The dragon is one of the most artistic of heraldic creations, and lends itself very readily to the genius of any artist.
Barrels and Casks, which in heraldry are always known as tuns, naturally figure in many shields where the name lends itself to a pun, as in the arms of Bolton.
The Cape Colony, in bearing a share in the defence of the most important of these stations, lends a hand to Australia in the event of war.
To this suggestion Sir Charles Tupper lends not only the great weight of his personal authority, but he supports his proposal by the expressed opinion of men like Earl Grey, the Marquis of Lorne, W.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lends" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
