Example Sentences

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Learned men have tasked their ingenuity to account for the phenomenon on which we have been bestowing so many words.

From The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by Burgon, John William

Now, here are Claribel and Imogen who have been bestowing their smiles on everybody but Clarence and Harry.

From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by Yellott, George

He held out a shaking hand, so uncertain, that it might have been begging pity, or it might have been bestowing it.

From The Convert by Robins, Elizabeth

Where are these broad acres of arable and pasture,—these verdant forests and swelling lawns, that I have been bestowing with such boundless munificence?

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James