All 13 Uses of
bestow
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Did the child feign what she did not feel? or was her mother jealous of the mite of love she bestowed on me?†
Chpt 4
- If God has bestowed beauty upon her, it will prove her greatest curse.
Chpt 5 *bestowed = given as a gift
- I let them pass, as if I did not understand what he meant; and many were the curses and threats bestowed on me for my stupidity.†
Chpt 6
- In that respect, she was never satisfied; but, in her angry moods, no terms were too vile for her to bestow upon me.†
Chpt 6
- If I merited kindness from him, he assured me that it would be lavishly bestowed.†
Chpt 7
- He was not unwilling that he should bear his name; but he had no legal claim to it; and if I had bestowed it upon him, my master would have regarded it as a new crime, a new piece of insolence, and would, perhaps, revenge it on the boy.†
Chpt 11
- He honestly confessed that he bestowed more pains upon those sermons than upon any others; for the slaves were reared in such ignorance that it was a difficult task to adapt himself to their comprehension.†
Chpt 13
- I loved my father; but it mortified me to be obliged to bestow his name on my children.†
Chpt 14
- The good old soul did not dream that I was planning to bestow peace upon her, with regard to myself and my children; not by death, but by securing our freedom.†
Chpt 16
- That their masters sleep in safety is owing to their superabundance of heart; and yet they look upon their sufferings with less pity than they would bestow on those of a horse or a dog.†
Chpt 16
- The news spread through the town, and many a kind word was bestowed on the little ones.†
Chpt 19
- My relatives had been foiled in all their efforts, but God had raised me up a friend among strangers, who had bestowed on me the precious, long-desired boon.†
Chpt 41
- It is a privilege to serve her who pities my oppressed people, and who has bestowed the inestimable boon of freedom on me and my children.†
Chpt 41
Definition:
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(bestow) to give -- typically to present as an honor or give as a gift