Yes, happy, for I knew that thou hadst given me thy love, Precious the gift to lonely hearts all other gifts above.

"After your gift to hima noble gift of £3,000he called at my chambers, spoke in high terms of your generosity, and wished all the world to know it, so elated was he.

"Thou and I, my brother, have attained by penances and years of abnegation to that mood which hath been granted the boy as a gift to fit him for the cloister life.

You gave us lief to make some laws Then tied our hands behind; That gift to us was just the same As pictures to the blind.

Her heart, filled with passionate sympathy for Cyril, had lost all zest for its task, and she handed her gift to her father with tightly closed lips and heaving breast.

" A flush of gratified feeling passed over Mrs. Katy's face;for one flower laid on the shrine which we keep in our hearts for the dead is worth more than any gift to our living selves.

"Thus they understand my gift to the Mullah?"

A big lamb, though; not a miserable little one by any means, and he delivered it with these words: "'Tis rare tough meat on a wether, and no sort of a gift to bring.

Concealing his alarm, however, he urged his steed to a quicker pace, and proceeded briskly on his way, glad, at least, that he had not lost Solomon Eagle's gift to Nizza.

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.

He came, untaught in academic bowers, A gift to Glory from the Sylvan powers:

All man's powers are God's gift to him.

And faith is His gift; a gift to be won by prayerprayer persistent, patient, determined; prayer that will take no denial; prayer that if it goes away one day unsatisfied, keeps on saying, "Well, there's to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow; God may wait to be gracious, and I can wait to receive, but receive I must and will."

"They have the gift to know it.

The tidings of Pompey's death came to Caesar at Alexandria, and with them the head of the murdered man, which was sent by the government of Ptolemy, they supposing that it would be an acceptable gift to Caesar.

"Tell mewhy do you say you have one more gift to bring?

God's gift to women.

Here's a gift to take and treasure, England's gift as well as mine, Symbol of her clean-spent leisure, Of her youth and strength a sign; Gleams of sunlight on old meadows O'er these varnished toys are cast, And within that box's shadows Stir the triumphs of the Past.

Thus as a curiosity first, and as a small mountain of fat beef afterward, he proved a generous gift to the suffering operatives in the manufacturing districts.

Still they brought in their severed hands a common homage-gift to the memory of the Writer of Abbotsford.

When the officer came to burn the cotton, and gave a portion to the negroes to fill their beds, he made no gift to Mrs. B." "Certainly he did.

The gift to the University included his estate of Clifton (three hundred and thirty acres of land), fifteen thousand shares of the common stock of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and other securities which were valued at seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Agricola, it appeared, had commissioned him to buy the most beautiful lady's maid that in his extended journeyings he might be able to find; he wanted to make her a gift to his niece, Honoré's sister.

" "Was it your gift to her, Mr. Axtell?" He answered, "Yes"; and I, drawing it off, handed it to him, saying, "It should have been returned to you long ago.

The paintings he thought masterpieces, his gift to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, are for the most part consigned to the lumber-room.