All 8 Uses of
bestow
in
Mansfield Park
- Mrs. Price, in her turn, was injured and angry; and an answer, which comprehended each sister in its bitterness, and bestowed such very disrespectful reflections on the pride of Sir Thomas as Mrs. Norris could not possibly keep to herself, put an end to all intercourse between them for a considerable period.†
Chpt 1
- Having no children of my own, who should I look to in any little matter I may ever have to bestow, but the children of my sisters?†
Chpt 1 *
- Now I may say that even I could not require William Price to excite a greater interest, or be followed by warmer wishes and higher commendation, than were most voluntarily bestowed by my uncle after the evening they had passed together.†
Chpt 31
- Gladly would I have bestowed either of my own daughters on him.†
Chpt 32
- A stare or two at Fanny, as William helped her out of the carriage, was all the voluntary notice which this brother bestowed; but he made no objection to her kissing him, though still entirely engaged in detailing farther particulars of the Thrush's going out of harbour, in which he had a strong right of interest, being to commence his career of seamanship in her at this very time.†
Chpt 38
- Her heart and her time were already quite full; she had neither leisure nor affection to bestow on Fanny.†
Chpt 39
- But she was so wholly unused to confer favours, except on the very poor, so unpractised in removing evils, or bestowing kindnesses among her equals, and so fearful of appearing to elevate herself as a great lady at home, that it took some time to determine that it would not be unbecoming in her to make such a present.†
Chpt 40
- Would he have persevered, and uprightly, Fanny must have been his reward, and a reward very voluntarily bestowed, within a reasonable period from Edmund's marrying Mary.†
Chpt 48
Definition:
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(bestow) to give -- typically to present as an honor or give as a gift