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Example sentences for "who gave"

  • So, like poor Edgar Poe, who had to suffer from the machinations of a profligate brother, who gave Edgar's name whenever he got into a scrape, I may have sometimes been credited with the sins of strangers.

  • Who gave you an order for these," said I.

  • De Nouë had charge of the eight or ten workmen employed by the mission, who gave him at times no little trouble by their repinings and complaints.

  • I gathered only a few fragments of his speech from the mouth of the interpreter, who gave us but broken portions of it, and did not translate consecutively.

  • Footnote 265: This agreement was crossed by the Pangran of Bantam, who gave us leave to beat the bush, and thought to have caught the birds himself, but was deceived in the end.

  • China-bata, which we found to be truly laid down in a chart made by a Hollander called Jan Janson Mole, which he gave to Mr Hippon, who gave it to the company.

  • I went accordingly ashore with about 140 men, part pikes, and part firelocks, who gave me a volley of small arms as I entered the nabob's tent.

  • These bonds I deposited with a money-changer, who gave me an acknowledgment in writing, with which I returned to my Khan.

  • Then asked we those elders, and said to them thus, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?

  • Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers?

  • Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?

  • We were fortunate in not giving up our medals, for we learned afterwards, from our traders, that the chiefs high up the Mississippi, who gave theirs, never received any in exchange for them.

  • That fall I visited Malden with several of my band, and was well treated by the agent of our British Father, who gave us a variety of presents.

  • He whispered a Friend the other Day, so as to be overheard by a young Officer, who gave Symptoms of Cocking upon the Company, That Gentleman has very much of the Air of a General Officer.

  • This gave me opportunity to hold up a Crown to her Coachman, who gave me the Signal, that he would hurry on, and make no Haste, as you know the Way is when they favour a Chase.

  • Who gave to thee the glittering bands That lace thine azure veins?

  • I was treated in the kindest manner by captain Bunting, and Mr. Bowden, the mate, who gave me everything I needed.

  • The Pension Clerk gave me a letter to Mr. Boyle, the Chief Clerk, who gave me another letter to Commodore Patterson, the commandant of the Navy-Yard.

  • On reaching the town, I hobbled up to the merchant, who gave me a very indifferent reception.

  • In less than three months after I left him, I was back again with my old landlord, who gave me my hundred dollars without any difficulty.

  • We now passed within hail of the commodore, who gave us orders to form a new line of battle, which we did in the following manner.

  • He who gave to all so readily thought this demand exorbitant and almost odious.

  • I moved back hastily, and came into collision with a very stout old gentleman, who gave me a rough push forward.

  • Duchesne, who gave up his whole time, night and day, to the care of my poor men during the five months that this truly frightful nightmare lasted.

  • But I had no idea that there were passengers in those carriages, and it was I who gave permission to these men to dance and drink.

  • I wish I had space to tell all about this old man, who gave me hospitality out there.

  • A flock of sheep passed me with their shepherd, who gave me a good-night.

  • It was Réaumur, the originator of the famous thermometer, who gave a name to the wonderful bags discovered by Trembley.

  • You are aware now that the learned, unknown sponsors, who gave names to the different parts of the body, bestowed the odd-enough one of chyme on that pasty substance which passes out of the stomach when the cooking is over.

  • When the dust returns to the earth as it was, the spirit ascends to God, who gave it.

  • He who gave me this child, and crowned my hopes and wishes by the manifest signs of his love towards her, merits from me a tribute of gratitude and praise to which I desire and expect that eternity itself may bear witness.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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