35 Verbs to Use for the Word givings

Ruin meant a giving up and going out, while the auctioneer's hammer smote upon one's heart with cruel blows, and one could not see to say farewell because one's eyes were full of tears.

Now we should naturally think that this was a very free quotationso free that it substitutes 'giving' for 'receiving.'

He had explained the giving unto seven angels of seven golden vials of the wrath of God, but later came upon a verse that gave him pause: "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.

Let society then turn over a new leaf in the wedding-present line, and cease this senseless giving of cut-glass and silver to those who may go to a mining-camp in the Rockies or to Mexico, or even into a ten-by-twelve New York apartment.

The day was that which commemorated the giving of the law on Mount Sinai.

I borrow from Canon Ainger an interesting letter from a sister of Dibdin on the beginning of the correspondence: My brother ... had constant occasion to conduct the giving or taking of cheques, as it might be, at the India House.

Of its early days Mrs. Croly wrote: "The social events of the first year were memorable, for they were the first of their kind, and practically changed the custom of confining public dinner-giving to men.

That damned prize-giving!

As his aviators signalled that the Germans were again advancing, Captain Raleigh gave the command that had been long eagerly awaited by the mena command which the commander of the Queen Mary had delayed giving until the last moment because he desired to give his men all the rest he could.

Three days after his inauguration, he wrote to Colonel Monroe, "I have firmly refused to follow the counsels of those who have desired the giving of offices to some of the Federalist leaders in order to reconcile.

I will, if you will, devote my Christmas giving to the children and the needy, reserving only the privilege of, once in a while, giving to a dear friend a gift which then will have the old charm of being a genuine surprise.

Tou didhonai kahi dhechesthai lhogon](the giving and receiving of reasons) competent alike to examine others, or to be examined by them, on philosophy.

Mr. Young was an obsolete revival exhorter, whose life did little to illustrate and enforce his givings out.

This, however, entailed the giving of securities, generally in the form of economic privileges.

It borders exceedingly hard upon absurdity; it very much resembles the nonsense of "expressing receptively the giving of something!"

Home-work the unions will have none of, and therefore, wherever the collective bargain has been struck and kept, there we find the giving out of work from the factory absolutely forbidden, the home guarded from the entrance of the contractor, motherhood respected, babyhood defended from the outrage of child labor, and a higher standard of living secured for the family by the higher and securer earnings of the normal breadwinners.

They comprehended so clearly that it was chiefly these honors which had bereft him of his senses that they at once forbade explicitly the giving of excessive marks of esteem to any one, as also the taking of oaths in the name of any one other than the emperor.

But it's the thought that goes wi' the giving that makes it worth whilethat makes it do real good.

Easy, beautiful summer work: only to be shone upon; to lift up one's branching life, and bereverentlyglad; to grow sweet and helpful and good-giving, in one's turn,could she not begin to do that?

Still he wished his uncle had not kept the giving of it a secret, and, while he was dressing, the details of that last conversation, the falling snow, the failing light, and the high, thin voice, changed, and yet so much more impressive for the change, recurred to his thoughts more freshly than ever, perhaps because before he went down he meant to open the parcel, which accordingly he did.

But while I am speaking of Colonel Gardiner's charity in this respect, I must not omit that of another kind, which has indeed engrossed the name of charity, excellent as it is, much more than it oughtI mean alms-giving for which he was very remarkable.

The purveyor was counting the soldiers' money, and noting its amount, when he should have been marketing, or ordering the giving out of the provisions for the day.

During this period I married again: your tender age, and the care you required, which my business and absence prevented my giving you, were the motives which induced me to take this step.

The infant Christ could make no use of gold or frankincense or myrrh, nor could Della and Jim make use of the combs and the chain; but the love that prompted the giving shines all the more resplendent because the gifts, humanly speaking, were egregious misfits.

A person so testifying shall not thereafter be liable to indictment, prosecution, or punishment for the offense with reference to which his testimony was given and may plead or prove the giving of testimony accordingly, in bar of such an indictment or prosecution.

35 Verbs to Use for the Word  givings