bestowment

Example Sentences

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For the Muses, however often and earnestly invoked, are never lavish in the bestowment of their favors.

From Music and Some Highly Musical People by Trotter, James M.

If by sovereingty we mean that God has absolute power to do whatsoever He pleases, then it will comprehend the penalty of transgression, as well as the bestowment of good.

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert

True charity is not that feeling which prompts merely to the bestowment of worldly goods for the benefit of others—in fact, true charity has very little to do with alms-giving and public benefactions.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

"The power to laugh, to cease work and begin to frolic and make merry in forgetfulness of all the conflict of life," says Campbell Morgan, "is a divine bestowment upon man."

From Cheerfulness as a Life Power by Marden, Orison Swett

It created, no doubt, considerable bitterness and jealousy in certain sections of society in England, as it was believed that the King was unduly partial to his own countrymen in the bestowment of his favours.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert