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I would appoint him doctor to the estate and also give him charge of a cottage hospital which I was endowing, with liberty to build and arrange it as he liked.

From When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by Haggard, Henry Rider

As he spoke he turned his head and looked at his vis-à-vis with a glance which seemed to imply that he was endowing her with an empire.

From The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma by Croker, B. M. (Bithia Mary)

Already, by the saintly grace of a mother's heart, she was endowing her offspring with all the virtues.

From A Top-Floor Idyl by Van Schaick, George