She found it difficult to scorn the proffers of help of a man who helped without proffering.
Completely baffled in my expectation of touching this strange being by proffers of kindness, I turned toward the parsonage.
Brown Robin proffers his help, but it is declined; nevertheless, with an apparent but not a real inconsistency, the lady asks him to blow her horn, for she has a brother at the court who will come to her upon the sound.
The lady proffers large sums of gold to save her life, but Lamkin does not care for gold now.
To the proffers and entreaties of her nurse she made no reply.
The fashioning spirit, working upwards from the clod to man, proffers as its last, highest essay, the brain of man.
Her mother is old--infirm; and for her sake, the daughter will listen to your proffers of love.
Speak not to me of love--dare not approach the sister of your victim with proffers of affection.
There is a fine bit of unconscious humor in Miss Anthony's remark that "Woman must accept marriage as man proffers it, or not at all.
But it takes back with one hand what it proffers with the other.
The temptation to postpone is much increased because the present offers so many wonderful opportunities andproffers such invitations to adventure.
But these, nor all the proffers you can make, Are worth the heifer which I set to stake.
He arrived in season, accompanied by some of his principal men, and with great proffers and courtesy, he presented many shawls and deer-skins.
The Governor received him with much pleasure, thanking him for the proffers and gift.
A man proffers tobacco to a friend in trouble as instinctively as a womanproffers a caress.
Peering down into the stone-pit, Dante then timidly proffers his request, only to be hotly reviled by Pope Nicholas III, who first mistakes his interlocutor for Pope Boniface, and confesses he was brought to this state by nepotism.
When questioned, the trees one after another declare they are unfit for ship-building, until the oak proffers its strong trunk.
Whatever may have been his secret thoughts, he certainly sent his son, a young man of eighteen, with a retinue of warriors, to meet De Soto with proffers of friendship.
He also sent by them presents to their fathers and relations, with proffers of friendship.
De Soto sent several Indian messengers daily to the retreat of the chief with proffers of peace and friendship.
With great cordiality he approached De Soto, reiterating his proffers of friendship, and his earnest desire that kindly feelings should be cherished between them.
De Soto sent couriers in advance to the chief with proffers of friendship.
To the ear somewhat unused to French this proffers a frequent comedy that the well-accustomed ear, even of an Englishman, no longer detects.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proffers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
