All 22 Uses
bestow
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David Copperfield
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- The tea table was ready, and our little locker was put out in its old place, but instead of coming to sit by me, she went and bestowed her company upon that grumbling Mrs. Gummidge: and on Mr. Peggotty's inquiring why, rumpled her hair all over her face to hide it, and could do nothing but laugh.†
Chpt 10-12bestowed = gave
- I discovered, however, that this youth had not been christened by that name, but that it had been bestowed upon him in the warehouse, on account of his complexion, which was pale or mealy.†
Chpt 10-12
- I had also bestowed a shilling on the Orfling, who was about to be disbanded.†
Chpt 10-12
- At present, and until something turns up (which I am, I may say, hourly expecting), I have nothing to bestow but advice.†
Chpt 10-12 *bestow = give
- In fact, there was a story current among us (I have no idea, and never had, on what authority, but I have believed it for so many years that I feel quite certain it is true), that on a frosty day, one winter-time, he actually did bestow his gaiters on a beggar-woman, who occasioned some scandal in the neighbourhood by exhibiting a fine infant from door to door, wrapped in those garments, which were universally recognized, being as well known in the vicinity as the Cathedral.†
Chpt 16-18
- Soft, seedy biscuits, also, I bestow upon Miss Shepherd; and oranges innumerable.†
Chpt 16-18
- We are not going to confide in any such cross people, Jip and I. We mean to bestow our confidence where we like, and to find out our own friends, instead of having them found out for us — don't we, Jip?'†
Chpt 25-27
- If ever I bestowed a thought upon the cases, as they dragged their slow length before me, it was only to wonder, in the matrimonial cases (remembering Dora), how it was that married people could ever be otherwise than happy; and, in the Prerogative cases, to consider, if the money in question had been left to me, what were the foremost steps I should immediately have taken in regard to Dora.†
Chpt 25-27bestowed = gave
- Mr. Micawber roused me from this reflection, which was blended with a certain remorseful apprehension of seeing Steerforth himself, by bestowing many encomiums on the absent Littimer as a most respectable fellow, and a thoroughly admirable servant.†
Chpt 28-30bestowing = giving
- 'When he was waiting to be the object of your munificence, so freely bestowed for my sake, and when I was unhappy in the mercenary shape I was made to wear, I thought it would have become him better to have worked his own way on.†
Chpt 43-45bestowed = gave
- 'To wish her dead,' said I, 'may be the kindest wish that one of her own sex could bestow upon her.†
Chpt 46-48bestow = give
- Without such assurance I should certainly have left it alone, and bestowed my energy on some other endeavour.†
Chpt 46-48bestowed = gave
- The amount of practical wisdom I bestowed upon Traddles in this manner was immense, and of the best quality; but it had no other effect upon Dora than to depress her spirits, and make her always nervous with the dread that it would be her turn next.†
Chpt 46-48
- Do you imagine that I bestow a thought on it, or suppose you could do any harm to that low place, which money would not pay for, and handsomely?†
Chpt 49-51bestow = give
- All next day, he was occupied in disposing of his fishing-boat and tackle; in packing up, and sending to London by waggon, such of his little domestic possessions as he thought would be useful to him; and in parting with the rest, or bestowing them on Mrs. Gummidge.†
Chpt 49-51bestowing = giving
- Copperfield,' returned Mr. Micawber, 'your confidence is not, at the existing juncture, ill-bestowed.†
Chpt 52-54bestowed = gave
- I had bestowed my passionate tenderness upon another object; and what I might have done, I had not done; and what Agnes was to me, I and her own noble heart had made her.†
Chpt 58-60
- My aunt was mightily amused, when we began to talk composedly, by my account of my meeting with Mr. Chillip, and of his holding her in such dread remembrance; and both she and Peggotty had a great deal to say about my poor mother's second husband, and 'that murdering woman of a sister', — on whom I think no pain or penalty would have induced my aunt to bestow any Christian or Proper Name, or any other designation.†
Chpt 58-60bestow = give
- If I knew higher praise, Trot, I would bestow it on her.'†
Chpt 58-60
- That I truly devoted myself to it with my strongest earnestness, and bestowed upon it every energy of my soul, I have already said.†
Chpt 61-62bestowed = gave
- 'I could hardly fail to know, even if I had not heard — but from other lips than yours, Agnes, which seems strange — that there is someone upon whom you have bestowed the treasure of your love.†
Chpt 61-62
- 'Some thinks,' he said, 'as her affection was ill-bestowed; some, as her marriage was broken off by death.†
Chpt 63-64
Definitions:
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(bestow) to give -- typically to present as an honor or give as a gift
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, in classic literature, bestow can also mean to give more generally or to put, place, or store (to stow) something somewhere.