He was much more disposed, at least for the present, to regard it merely as a piquant possibility, towards which his very attitude of indecision lent him an extra weapon of power in his relations with the other sex.
In Cleopatra, however, as he surveyed her then, he discerned a degree of nobility and pride, which were apparent neither in her mother nor her sister, and which lent a singular queenliness to her impelling charms.
Lord Henry demanded, scrutinising his image without a trace of recognition, in the long wardrobe mirror of his room, and lightly fingering a tie that St. Maur had lent him.
To have pronounced it would have lent it a reality that it must not possess.
She probably knew that she was sunburnt, for instance; but she was not aware of the depth which the dark natural virginal pigmentation of her neck, eyes, and knuckles, lent to the warm tanning of her skin.
The crimson rambler in his button-hole, and his red silk socks, which matched it, lentan artistic touch of colour to the conventional black and white of his evening clothes.
They welcomed the Reformer; some of them were in the company who challenged the authorities by eating meat during Lent in 1522; but a fundamental difference soon emerged.
Quite time for him thatLent was come," said another.
For between day and night there is twilight, but the transition from Carnival to Lent is as sudden as a plunge from sunshine into cold water.
On the first morning in Lent one is tolerably safe not to fall in with early risers.
But in the days to which the incidents here narrated belong, the difference between Carnival and Lent was as marked as that between day and night.
Let me have this last Carnival; then Lent is of no use: after that we will see about it.
On the contrary, the delicate milky whiteness of her cheeks, which before had been a golden brown, lent her a new, soft charm.
Moreover, an event occurred which lent new wings to her being and flushed her with the intoxication of bold hopes.
Although he never betted, his pockets were stuffed with crumpled tips; chances and pedigrees constituted his sole topic of conversation, and Lilly, who took not the least interest in it all, willingly lent him her undivided attention.
Gye, who was lent to me from the Egyptian Ministry of Finance; Messrs.
He not only did this, but lent me some of his men as well to carry it up to my little camp, where they helped me to fix it in the ground.
Brushing through the rickety gate with an accession of new strength that the idea had lent me, I had not proceeded many yards in the stubble-field beyond ere I knew that at last I had come to a farmstead.
The deep crimson in Cynthia's cheeks, that her late eminent exertions had induced, lent her even more of an adorable appearance than even I had ever observed in her.
It was Friday, and Lent besides, and possibly there was some other peculiar propriety in the consumption of fritters just then.
This lent a liveliness and piquancy to his musical style,[45] and rendered it essentially French.
The Countess Thun would have lentme her beautiful pianoforte by Stein for the purpose.
But they were Italian throats, Italian ways of singing and acting which lent all their powers to the interpretation of opera buffa, with its polished, pleasing form, simply and easily grasped harmonies, and sustained melodies.
However, moral support was lent by the government in the promulgation of the May Laws which closely followed.
All these facts lent strength to the feeling of the Jews that they had nothing to hope for under the existing regime.
Poppi was in uncommon tune that night, and the voice of this pensive rheumatic lent a unique interest to every change of the Virginia reel.
They thronged the village in their passage to the levels beside the Rhone, where afterwards they lent their music and their picturesqueness to the meadows.
Helene was touched by the kindliness with which Monsieur Rambaud lent himself to the fun; she was well aware that, with Provencal frugality, he had long limited his daily fare to an anchovy and half-a-dozen olives.
And because I had naught but rags upon me he lent me some trifle in money, wherewith I equipped myself like to an apprentice-lad.
But when by reason of ill weather I could not take my walks abroad in the wood, then I read all manner of books which the bailiff of the convent lent me.
But from this I could well judge how 'twas managed with the Russian robe of state of which my colonel made use; for 'tis all but lent finery which, like all else in Russia, pertaineth to the Czar alone.
Excitement and mental disturbance have lent a dangerous brilliancy to her eyes, a touch of color to her cheek.
For the habits of a rough and unscrupulous life had lent a grim and unfeeling hardness to a visage which had strong evidence of force and character depicted in it.
He has followed my fortunes, and lent the prowess of himself and his mercenaries in furthering my interests, in return for which he was to receive your hand in marriage; and I gave him my solemn promise to that effect.
So towards the dismal winding stair of the tower they hastened, and there in the semi-darkness they came across the cloak which Alice had lent the fugitive.
Remember this Story, and take Care whom you trust; but don't be covetous, sordid and miserable; for the Gold we have is but lent us to do Good with.
The copy from which the reprint is made was kindlylent to the publishers by Mr Ernest Hartley Coleridge, whose collection at the South Kensington Museum of eighteenth century books for children is well known.
Late one evening he visited me in a state of great excitement, and told me that he had manifolded a memorandum by Prince Lichnowsky which had been lent to him, and that, without asking the author, he had sent it to the 'leading men.
I rode home on a horse my host lent me; and Lord Castleton rode part of the way with me, accompanied by his two boys, who bestrode manfully their Shetland ponies, and cantered on before us.
Devoid of any sparkling wit, devoid of any charm of manner, singularly devoid of the least sense of proportion, he lent himself to every sort of social rancour.
But there was an old custom on Refreshment[7] or Mid-Lent Sunday for people to visit their mother-church and make offerings on the altar.
A new, lithe and lovely dignity seemed to possess her--an exquisite, graceful, indefinable something which lent a hint of splendour to her as she turned and looked down at him.
Daintily chopped green herbs lent a savoury garnish to the whole.
But an expression of discontent, as though she were already weary looking for something that might have been expected to happen but did not, lent an unbecoming droop to her well cut lips.
There, sit down, woman, and make an entry about Lady Drelincourt's diamonds and the money I've lent on them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
