168810 examples of gave in sentences

"Then you didn't get my message?" "Yesthey gave it to me when I 'phoned in that the Westchester business was a fake.

"Because the man who owned it gave it to me," and he got a paper out of his pocket-book and handed it across to me.

That question was answered, before long, in an unexpected waya way which filled many columns in the papers, which delighted the comedy-loving French, and which gave Crochard a unique advertisement.

But Johnnie did not miss it; she was used to such as he gave, or less.

As it did so, the driver gave another glance toward where the mountain girl stood, a swift, kind glance, and a smile that stayed with her after the shining car had disappeared in the direction of the wide-porched building where people were laughing and calling to each other and moving aboutpeople dressed in beautiful garments which Johnnie would fain have inspected more closely.

Johnnie repeated her title and gave him one of those smiles that went with most of her speeches.

To do this as he conceived it should be done, he had hired himself to the Hardwick Spinning Company in an office position which gave him a fair outlook on the business, and put him in complete touch with the practical side of it; yet the facts of the case made the situation evident to those under him as well as his peers.

The furthest line was big Unaka, but this passionate lover of her native highlands gave it neither thought nor glance, as she tramped steadily with lifted face, following unconsciously the beckoning finger of Fate.

The sight gave Mandy a curious satisfaction, as though it uttered what she would fain have said to the classes above her.

She treated herself to a trolley ride in to Watauga to select this dress, going on the Saturday half-holiday which the mills gave their workers, lest the labour laws regulating the hours per week which women and children may be employed be infringed upon.

Its more unconventional lines suited him well; the dust-brown Norfolk, the leathern puttees, gave an adventurous turn to the expression of a personality which was only so on the mental side.

" The old man gave him no heed.

To the incomparable child, who lived seventeen years, and undeserving [of death] gave up life in the peace of the Lord."

Did you ever know a woman who gave up a man she loved because she was warned against him?or even if she knew his character well, herself?

I rather liked him; his manner was good, his perceptions acute, his tastes refined, and he had a certain strength of will that gave force to a character otherwise common-place.

I hoped all from the delicate ministrations of Nature; though the physician we called gave me no hope of her final recovery.

Just then the roots of the great sycamore thundered against the dam; the already heavily pressed structure gave way; with the freed roar of a hurricane, the barrier, the dam, the foot-bridge swept down toward us.

Curious vases adorned the hall and side-board; and numberless quaint trinkets, whose use the villagers could not even imagine, gave to the richly-furnished rooms an air of Oriental magnificence.

And though the Squire naturally felt more affection for his motherless daughter, yet he was proud of his step-son, gave him the advantages of the best schools, and afterwards sent him for a year to college.

"It is merely a legal form, embracing the items which you gave to me; it must be returned at the next Probate term.

Hugh ground his teeth, but there was no escape; no feint nor sudden movement could reverse their positions; and, out of breath, he gave up in sullen despair.

It was impossible to resist such persevering affection, and at length Mr. Hardwick gave up the contest, and allowed Caesar to travel when and where he chose.

Opium, the concrete juice of the poppy, was known in the earliest ages; and probably it was opium that Helen mixed with wine, and gave to the guests of Menelaus, under the expressive name of Nepenthe, to drown their cares, and encrease their hilarity.

To this priest I had made some handsome presents, and he, in return, gave me twelve gris gris, and assured me that they would inevitably secure me from all danger, at the same time he gave me directions how to dispose of them.

To this priest I had made some handsome presents, and he, in return, gave me twelve gris gris, and assured me that they would inevitably secure me from all danger, at the same time he gave me directions how to dispose of them.

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