All her gifts to the unknown old man were the best she had.

"Take it, if it is thy wish, Harold," said Edward; "but the gift will be thy ruin; against the duke and his barons thy power will not suffice.

Froebel's "Gifts" were an attempt to supply right play material.

"This gift," said Leodegrance, "is the Table Round which King Uther Pendragon gave to me and around which can sit a hundred and fifty knights.

"A new-year's-gift is a present made on the first day of the year."See

"His gift was but a poor offering, when we consider his estate.

The fight had become a symbol, almost a message to him, even as his gift to the Mullah had become a message to the people of Chiltistan.

All her experience had now gone to prove that her special gift was hospital work, and on rejoining her mother she definitely laid before her her wish to devote herself to the work of nursing, and with her consent entered into a correspondence with Miss Nightingale with the idea of entering St. Thomas's Hospital as a Nightingale probationer.

The gift of trade is a gift of God, as much as the gift of prophecy or song.

Uncle John's gift was a substantial check that would furnish the newly married couple with modest capital to promote their business or which they could use in case of emergencies.

The Gift becomes his Bane.

In the eyeI must not write the blind eyeof the law, this parliamentary gift to the United Free Church is not a giving back but an original free gift from the State by way of endowment to a particular denomination of Presbyterian dissenters.

The particular gift will still be a surprise and yet of permanent value.

My gift was a pretty young Swiss matron in holiday attire, really more picturesque, and quite as costly as Georgia's, but lacking that daintiness which made the lady-doll untouchable.

These were the gifts of the magi, but their gift was love.

Dr. Hume says: "The gift was charity, but the system was business."

Friendship's gifts are priceless all.' IDYLL XXIX.

Most necessary is it that in all we say we should keep clear in mind that the first gift is God's.

The greatest gift which fortune can make a state is a citizen full of zeal for the welfare of his country and his prince.

Explaining to myself that Mr. Abrahams had clearly intimated that his gift to the Government was alternatively a cheque for five pounds or a note for a hundred francs, I put my cheque into the "Suspense" basket and pocketed the note, thus making five francs profit.

The extraordinary gifts of the Apostles, and the privilege of being eye and ear witnesses to Christ, were abilities which they had for the infallible discharge of their function, but they were not the ground of their power and authority to govern the Church.

Born in the lowest class, "he could inherit neither dignity nor fortune; and the gift of a liberal education, which they painfully bestowed, was the cause of his glory and his untimely end."

" Nature's wedding gift to us was a week of glorious weather, and its first five days we passed in San Francisco, the bustling, historic city, which I knew so well, yet had never seen before.

The gods' most precious gift is minstrelsy.

Perhaps the very fact, however, of none of his poems having been preserved, is some argument that such poetic gift as he had was rather facility than genius.