Example Sentences

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Give me swift transportance to those fields, Where I may wallow in the Lily beds Proposed for the deserver.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

O, be thou my Charon, And give me swift transportance to these fields Where I may wallow in the lily beds Propos'd for the deserver!

From Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare, William

To the truly accomplished gentleman, and worthy deserver of all men's loves, Master Endymion Porter.

From Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

He accounts it an idle, vainglorious, and suspected bounty to be full of good words; his rewarding, therefore, of the deserver arrives so timely, that his liberality can never be said to be gouty-handed.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

If affection lead a man to favor the less worthy in desert, let him do it, without depraving or disabling the better deserver.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis