If it's only a cheerful giver the Lord loves, He didn't feel much affection for me.

He was also one of the most generous gift givers to the toothless old people.

Although attending worship, although manifesting an interest and zeal in the subject to which we are little accustomed, although assiduous church-goers, and liberal givers, they have not yet felt within themselves a conviction strong and clear enough to make a public profession of faith.

The "stern law-giver" of Israel was Duty.

"I'm going to buy a beautiful present for every one," added the now fatuous giver.

Then he demanded what they wanted there, as a haughty giver of gifts would speak to a suppliant.

In one of her letters, written while at Belleville, she says: "I cannot grasp the idea of an Infinite Being; but, without perplexing myself with questions which I cannot solve, everything around me proclaims the presence and the government of an intelligent, law-abiding Law-giver, and I believe implicitly in his power and his love.

" "Good little comfort-giver!"

Prudent givers (what a word for such a nothing) disparage their gifts; 'tis an art we have.

The Divine Law was so perfect that I could not hope to meet its requirementsthe Divine Law-giver so alert that no sin could escape detection.

Two rival party-givers rejoiced in the aristocratic names of Johnson and Thompson.

But as the days and weeks passed, and brought no word from the recipient of "Hilltop Days," Polly hardly knew how to comfort the sorrowful giver.

But Kate had a sneaking kindness for Nick, the splendid giver of the golden bag, and would not, by offering her services as cutter-up-of-food for the queen, rob him of the privilege.

" "Bitter-sweet," "giver of pain," "the weaver of fictions," are some expressions of Sappho's preserved by Maximus Tyrius; and Libanius, the rhetorician, refers to Sappho, the Lesbian, as praying "that night might be doubled for her."

Accept me, O thou giver of proper respect.' "Arjuna replied, 'O beautiful lady of features perfectly faultless, listen.

Tea-and-sugar borrowing friends have told them jocularly, or with threats, of a good time coming when things will go hard with the uncheerful giver.

The Deae Matres would seem to correspond in some degree to the Roman Ceres and the Greek Demeter, the bountiful givers of the fruits of the earth.

We could not see that welcome giver of warmth and life, but the beautiful orange and purple halo embraced half the world.

Therefore the table, as it now stood before him in all but complete readiness for the feast, bore such witness to the warmth of esteem in which the neighbourhood held him, not to mention its resourcefulness in fitting together adjuncts not originally intended for partnership, as must have touched the heart of a dinner-giver less comprehending than Donald Brown, late of St. Timothy's great and prosperous parish.

In this enlightened age of the universal subscription-paper, exhausted givers are familiar objects, but a receiver who finds the labors of his calling excessive is as non-existent as the harpy, his mythological prototype.

Only so much had her fatherthe giver of the giftand Marcantonio, on this day of honor to his namebeen able to obtain of the imperious Republic.