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She was repulsed, she was forsaken, she was outraged where she had bestowed her young heart with all its hopes and wishes.
Thinking to enlist some good feeling from Mark's generosity, she frankly acknowledged to him that her affections were entirely bestowed upon the absent Luke.
Enough, if not too much, praise was bestowed on the skill with which her pretty hands touched the lute and guided the embroidery needle.
Contrivance and inventive power, enabling him to utilize the objects and forces of nature, replace in him the material powers bestowed on lower animals.
The king was charmed, and at once made him a privy councillor, giving him a private banquet, and bestowing other marks of royal favor.
Three hundred slaves were employed in the gardens tending the animals, upon which great care was bestowed, and scrupulous attention paid to their cleanliness.
Her power in heaven was great: she could hurl the thunders of Jupiter, prolong the life of men, and bestow the gift of prophecy.
Because you are an old lady, I will have you be acquainted with this grave citizen, pray bestow your lips upon him, and bid him welcome.
Then he sauntered into the public room, and opened his heart so far as to bestow a pint or two of ale upon his old acquaintances.
That godliness has the promise of the life that is to come, multitudes may passively concede, for they bestow no thought upon the subject.
They subsisted entirely by hunting, and looked with proud disdain on their neighbors who consented to bestow on the soil even the smallest cultivation.
The sums lavished upon exotic warblers would have supported an army; the applause bestowed upon some of them would have turned the brain of a saint.
The regimental emblems were chosen or bestowed for various reasons; some legions had several badges, and the same badges are found with several legions.
Special attention was bestowed on the business side of the enterprise, and no department was more carefully scrutinized than that of Finance and Supply.
These flowers bestow an additional sprinkling of bright color over the scene, and counteract any closeness in the atmosphere by their pungent aromatic scent.
His greatest ambition is to make a mash on some indecent woman whose worst crime is her bad taste in bestowing caresses on such a creature.
They had a charter, empowering them variously, and bestowing inter alia the right of appointing "a king of the minstrels with four subordinate officers."
Purchasing Goods from the Great American Catalog insures prestige and the confidence your customers will bestow upon you will be apparent in increased patronage.
Yet, notwithstanding all the attention which these people bestow upon this savage art, for which they have public schools, they are outdone by savages.
For the skipper had rigged a boat with a suit of sails with that loving care that only a good sailor bestows upon a pet hobby.
Fortunately, however, the man had sufficient clothes about him, to be able to bestow enough on them to cover them in their way to his house.
Its first introduction as an honorary reward is attributable to the athletic games, in some of which it was bestowed as a prize upon the victor.
The look of triumph that he bestowed upon Beverly Calhoun, who lounged gracefully beside the stone balustrade, brought the red flying to her cheeks.
In a character where it should exist as the chief attribute, it would bestow on its possessor an exquisite taste, and an enviable susceptibility of happiness.
In that thorn-choked graveyard lay the crude man whose knotted hand had rested on his head just before death stiffened it bestowing a mission.
Bestowed upon a man, and a poet, such honors might seem exaggerated; but Jasmin, under the circumstances, represented more than poetry: he represented Charity.
She never bestows false praise even upon her friends; but a simple approval from her is of more value than the finest panegyric from another.
Small, therefore, as is the consideration bestowed by Neo-Platonism on the affairs of practical life, it has no disposition to shirk the burden of them.
Then it is hung up in the hut and the Indians consider that a token of great reverence has been thus bestowed on the deceased.
Marion demanded, and one might almost have imagined from her manner that she had half a kingdom to bestow on the rescuers of her father.
It had bestowed beauty and fortune and accomplishments on her, and sent dashing cavaliers to seek her hand when she came to the romance-reading age.
Occasionally, after having sat for his portrait to one of the painters, the King was advised to bestow on him a knighthood or an order.
Already the accounts they sent home were stirring up many more subscribers, and the commendations bestowed on them in the periodical accounts pained their humility.
Upstairs, Francois, the brilliant man of the world and of politics, assumed a regal air, bestowed courtesies and promises, and made himself agreeable to all.
After all the skill and labor that had been bestowed on their construction, the enemy evacuated Yorktown just as our batteries were about to open.
With this promise Hal Randall bestowed his still dulled and half-stunned nephew carefully on the pallet provided by the care of the purveyors.
The short Indian, whose life he had just saved, bestowed on him and his companions one look of surprise, and joined him in the rush.
Not a glance must be bestowed on the world; the young recluses must even deny themselves the pleasure of looking out of the parlor windows.
First, it was attempted to bestow me inside, to which, if I had been a bale of goods, susceptible of injury by water, I might have assented.
This office entitled its holder to the first place in the provincial council, and was the highest honor that the province could bestow.
The post-graduate course of every school of journalism is a roped arena where you wrestle, catch as catch can, for the honors bestowed by experience.
Sir Henry has not bestowed upon us here any of those erudite annotations, which have customarily enhanced the interest of works edited under his care.
After a few years the King of Spain bestowed on Gerard's family a title and the confiscated property of the Prince of Orange in Burgundy.
Moreover, while the teacher is bestowing his small modicum of time upon one scholar, all the other members of the class are idle, or worse.
That is a favor he bestows but sparingly and after careful choice, yet he acceded to my request as though the choice were his own.
When he had done speaking Cortes gave him a hearty embrace, thanked him for his good advice, and promised to bestow valuable townships upon him.
This elegant butterfly is one of those in which the choicest ornamentation is bestowed upon the under surface, to the comparative neglect of the upper.
It seems that the conspicuous attention thus bestowed by a new aspirant for her favor was not entirely displeasing to the youthful beauty.
When an artificial fish came to be invented, capable of giving a very nasty shock to anyone touching its snout, that name was bestowed upon it too.
Nature, that inspires the creole maiden to give her whole heart away and without any reserve, has also taught her to bestow it with judgment.
In the very defiant look, too, that she bestowed on the body of the court she seemed to accept the imputation, and to dare it.
When all the gifts were bestowed, Elizabeth bowed and lifted the sacred otter skin and placed it across the bowl of corn meal.
There the gardener finds him on the morrow, and in spite of all the care bestowed upon him by the sisterhood he dies before sundown.
When I went away I meant to be magnanimous in bestowing upon you a partial freedom; it could only be partial, since you knew me still bound.
I mean those prodigious graces, and so numerous, that he has already bestowed and continues to bestow through her intercession, on every sort of people.
Theodore seemed annoyed at the praise bestowed upon her, and she had scarcely finished her song when he began vehemently to press Francisca to sing.
Not that she avowed her antipathy; but I now knew her well enough to detect it even in the caresses which she bestowed on him.
"She must be a dandy, then," was the response of Micky O'Brady, on whom she bestowed one, taking it up awkwardly in his left hand.
Much as they were attached to each other, they seemed to draw inexhaustible stores of affection from a very mine of love to bestow them upon me.
Peter and Paul and the other saints, he besought us, in order to make secure the whole undertaking, to bestow complete immunity upon the monastery.
They think them ill-treated, bestow on them a good deal of unmerited sympathy, and credit them with many good qualities which they do not possess.
And even should you change your mind, and bestow your affections upon another woman, and scorn and loathe me, never to think upon another man.
After a scanty meal came hunger, and he waited patiently for the next poor crumbs which charity bestowed him, and which he received without gratitude.
"Were honor to bestow her crowns on those who had a right to them, the skull up on the battlefield would often wear a diadem."
While sending millions to their death he yet consents to live, and protects his life with the anxious care a miser bestows on his gold.
The walls stood up enormously high, covered with tufts of grass and prickly weeds, and had the solidity that is bestowed by centuries.
The love is not even universal, since it is conceived as an especial grace more or less arbitrarily bestowed or withheld, according to the dogma of predestination.
Suddenly the figure of a man strode under the feeble glimmer of the lamps and bestowed a few hearty curses on the tribe of mendicants.
Man was commanded to have dominion over the whole earth, to replenish and subdue, in proportion to the talent bestowed on him for that purpose.
This gratifying tribute, when merited, should never be withheld from the meanest, and it must ever honorably characterize the man who bestows it.
I recall, with more pleasure than I then endured, the cordial hugs she surreptitiously bestowed upon me when we met by accident in the passages.
He received the honor of knighthood from the late Queen personally in recognition of his great public services; this honor was never more worthily bestowed.
The Iroquois, alike the enemies of farmer and of trader, bestowed their malice impartially upon the two callings, so that the risk was fairly divided.
My resemblance to her seemed to delight him; but as I am neither of the two epithets bestowed upon her, I am afraid it will wear off.
They had expended a vast amount of labor, and skilled labor, too; but they had bestowed it all on the park immediately around the house.
He bestowed such critical, not to say professional, scrutiny upon these marks that she made haste to take up another branch of the ancient fable.
It might be reasonable to believe that the king built the abbey as a receptacle for this sacred relic, as he bestowed it upon this religious house.
After his death I tried to return in some small degree what his unselfish kindness had bestowed by accepting the invitation to become his biographer.
Where the object, in dignity or importance, corresponds to the passion bestowed on it, the gratification is complete and there is no occasion for artifice.
Face to face with her now, in the garden, she seemed an all-powerful divinity, who had bestowed upon him gifts that had no earthly price.
He resented those others who, more elderly or more detached, roused themselves from their absorption to bestow a friendly word on the solitary young Englishman.
He wept at this new misfortune, and implored the Almighty to bestow patience on his wife, and enable her to bear whatever should befall her.
Previous to the introduction of Whitney's cotton gins there had been much attention bestowed by the people of the State upon the cultivation of flax.
The moment we appeared the French battery bestowed on us its undivided attention, which we quickly acknowledged by an uncommonly well-directed fire of spherical case.
As a river gathers force and strength from every tributary stream, so he made every gift heaven had bestowed upon him tributary to his pride.
If he obtained, during his day's journey, some more succulent morsel than another, he bestowed it upon his grandson Jacques, whom he loved most dearly.
Much as they were attached to each other, they seemed to draw inexhaustible stores of affection from a very mine of love to bestow them upon me.
If there were any methods by which I might be prevented from sharing in gifts bestowed upon my wife, I would eagerly concur in them.
Bestow coronets and crowns and principalities and purses, and pudding and power, upon the great and noble and fat ones of the earth.
With this promise Hal Randall bestowed his still dulled and half-stunned nephew carefully on the pallet provided by the care of the purveyors.
Those who were too weak to sit sprawled upon the straw and often had barely room in which to turn over, so closely were they bestowed.
As soon as he opens his eyes on the light, he is surrounded by all the enjoyments which opulence can furnish, ingenuity contrive, or fondness bestow.
It is this that has bestowed upon it that attractive form which has always secured the attachment of its disciples and its own perpetuity.
Angelina's children were literally as her own, on whom she ever bestowed the tenderest care, and with whose welfare her holiest affections were intertwined.
Last time he would pardon him every thing except the fulsome eulogy he is in the habit of bestowing upon his friends, even to their faces.
Each of us has his own particular "stunt," in which he takes that personal and rather egotistical pride which only increasing proficiency can bestow.
Her rueful visage and the sympathetic glance she bestowed on me seemed to assure me that she, too, was pining for the grandest of old grands.
By this time they had entered the dazzling hall, and, reclining on sumptuous seats, were prepared to bestow their best attention upon the proceedings.
The present moment was full fraught with happiness; and on futurity I bestowed not a thought, excepting to anticipate my success with the attorney.
Not finding them, he turned to the cause which had been so ruthlessly attacked, and this is the sort of care which he bestowed upon it.