74 Verbs to Use for the Word boons

But ere it come, that doom of death which fills us with alarms, May Allah grant to me the boon of resting in thine arms!

Upon my word, if he had asked this boon from Saturn, he would not have got it, though he kept up Saturn's feast all the year round, a truly Saturnalian prince.

We have known you for years, and receive you into our family with as free a welcome as we could receive any precious boon from Providence.

It is suggested that he would confer a still greater boon on his fellow-townsmen if he would provide a few more taxis for them not to whistle for.

And did I crave the boon of love, a thousand knights were fain To fight for me in service true on yonder flowery plain.

For at his feet is a native Askari looking upward, with adoring eye, to the "Bwona Kuba" who has given him the priceless boon of militarism, while with both hands the soldier lays a flagthe imperial flag of Germanyacross a prostrate lion at his feet.

One more deadly I might have added, but I have refrained, "Write upon my tomb, that here he lies who forbore to perpetuate human affliction, and bestowed a fatal boon where alone it could be innoxious.

It is true that the state was still in its infancy, being an offshoot from another and larger realm, and having obtained the boon of freedom and self-government only as recently as 1871, after a series of political convulsions of a violent character, which may be studied with advantage in the well-known history of "The Making of Aureataland," by a learned professor of the Jeremiah P. Jecks University in the United States of America.

And know I not that even if I would accept the boon, thou would'st never give it?"

To be sure, the Legenda Aurea, of which I shall speak later, although not intended primarily for children, proved a great boon to them.

so I was taught by the noble knight, Sir Launcelot, to refuse no boon asked upon my knighthood that I was able to grant.

I now claim the promised boon, which it will be in no way inconsistent with thy functions to grant, seeing that it is a work of mercy.

THE GIFT OF THE GODS There was once a man who sought a boon of the gods.

What wayward boy Disdains to yield thee joy for joy? Soon shall he court the bliss he flies; Soon beg the boon he now denies, And, hastening back to love and thee, Repay the wrong with extacy.

We were all so near death just then that it surely seemed as if we should have forgiveness in our hearts for such as Cox, lest we be denied that same boon in the next world.

That their representation will produce a powerful effect upon the minds of the people of this country, we feel as confident as we do that our gracious Queen will concede any boon in her royal gift, necessary to the welfare of her colored subjects.

Whenever we are beset by perils, thy reverence is always our refuge; for this reason it is that we solicit a boon from thee; as thou ever grantest the boon solicited (of thee).

Is it necessary for mankind to win its greatest boons by going through a sea of anarchies, madness, assassinations, and massacres?

If these, dear friend, a dowry can confer Richer than land, thou hast them all in her; And beauty, which some hold the chiefest boon, Is in thy bargain for a make-weight thrown.

It is to them that it has brought the greatest boon, and made them triumphant over the evils of life.

Imogen then fixing her eye on Iachimo, demanded no other boon than this, that Iachimo should be made to confess whence he had the ring he wore on his finger.

But I will quell, by virtues of the mind, Long years misspent in many luckless chances, Thoughts full of wrath, yet little worth succeeding, These are the means for those whom fate advances: But I, whose wounds are fresh, my heart still bleeding, Live to entreat this blessed boon from fate, That I might die with grief to live in state.

A corresponding excitement has been long going on among the apprentices themselves, but still they have rested in sober and quiet hopes, relying on your generosity, that you will extend to them that boon which has been granted to their class in other Colonies.

" I gained no boon from her for labor spent: "Who tries the tried will in the end repent.

" Then let us inherit the sweet boon of the ballot alike.

74 Verbs to Use for the Word  boons