gratisin a sentence
- About five hundred Cuban doctors worked gratis in Haiti now—not very effectively, because they lacked equipment, but even as a gesture it meant a lot to Farmer.† (source)
- Sometimes the registrars were kind enough to supply that material gratis.† (source)
- "Deo gratis," the choir sang back and the people stood to leave.† (source)
- When I find out, and I will find out, I'll let you know, gratis.† (source)
- I tried to tell her, but I could not get her to understand how hard it was to start anew, especially since for years I had given programs for gratis, for organizations that had little to no funds.† (source)
- GEORGE: Et gratis tua illis succurrente, mereantur evadere judicium ultionis.† (source)
- "Gratis," Trina announced in a tone that was the vocal equivalent of rusted iron.† (source)
- It may only be a thou or two, or it may go to twenty, or it may be gratis, who knows?† (source)
- Two items, both vital, and the first I'll give you-gratis.† (source)
- He did this gratis.† (source)
- She smelled the thick bit of punk which was given gratis with each purchase and which, when lit, smoldered for hours and was used to set off the firecrackers.† (source)
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- My smile was changed, because they had given me some lower teeth gratis to replace the ones I lost in Mexico.† (source)
- All they do is to get hold of our good Russian money free, gratis, and for nothing.† (source)
- Rigby and Lowndes to give the information gratis, that it was half-past one.† (source)
- All that I do _gratis_—_anamatyer_ (_en amateur_).† (source)
- As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a man gratis.† (source)
- I'll give you half of the first cargo for yourself, free gratis for nothing—just to make a good start.'† (source)
- THE TROOPER: I enter gratis.† (source)
- Routes cross here—people bound for private sanitariums or tuberculosis resorts in the mountains, people who are no longer persona gratis in France or Italy.† (source)
- That she had already permitted him to make love to her he read as an additional assurance, not fully trowing that in the fields and pastures to "sigh gratis" is by no means deemed waste; love-making being here more often accepted inconsiderately and for its own sweet sake than in the carking, anxious homes of the ambitious, where a girl's craving for an establishment paralyzes her healthy thought of a passion as an end.† (source)
- The next morning he had no difficulty learning the name of this unsettling fellow traveler, including the gratis news that the two of them had taken adjoining rooms on the second floor.† (source)
- Idiot though he was, the noble scion tried to cheat his professor, and they say he succeeded in getting him to continue the treatment gratis for two years, by concealing the death of his benefactor.† (source)
- One does not have kings gratis.† (source)
- Either the diplomatist must give his lessons gratis, and I will tolerate him, or he must never set his foot again in my house;—do you understand, madame?† (source)
- "I am willing to shave Your Grace two or even three times a week gratis," answered Ivan Jakovlevitch.† (source)
- That pamphlet is translated into Russian by some Russian philanthropists of aristocratic rank and evangelical aspirations, and has been distributed gratis for the enlightenment of the people.† (source)
- There were pears and apples, clustered high in blooming pyramids; there were bunches of grapes, made, in the shopkeepers' benevolence to dangle from conspicuous hooks, that people's mouths might water gratis as they passed; there were piles of filberts, mossy and brown, recalling, in their fragrance, ancient walks among the woods, and pleasant shufflings ankle deep through withered leaves; there were Norfolk Biffins, squat and swarthy, setting off the yellow of the oranges and lemons,…† (source)
- And here were these freemen assembled in the early morning to work on their lord the bishop's road three days each—gratis; every head of a family, and every son of a family, three days each, gratis, and a day or so added for their servants.† (source)
- He also observed that he would throw in a couple of miller-guns for the Marcos gratis—that everybody was using them now.† (source)
- "I commence gratis," said the stranger.† (source)
- Half of it should consist of nobles, who should fill all the places up to Major-General, and serve gratis and pay their own expenses; and they would be glad to do this when they should learn that the rest of the regiment would consist exclusively of princes of the blood.† (source)
- …the same; they could not sell a piece of their own property without paying him a handsome percentage of the proceeds, nor buy a piece of somebody else's without remembering him in cash for the privilege; they had to harvest his grain for him gratis, and be ready to come at a moment's notice, leaving their own crop to destruction by the threatened storm; they had to let him plant fruit trees in their fields, and then keep their indignation to themselves when his heedless fruit-gatherers…† (source)
- He goes to the spectacles which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the creation amid which he beams.† (source)
- He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces.† (source)
- She had lived many years in that garret, being permitted to remain there gratis by successive Catholic tenants of the house below, as they deemed it a blessing to have her there.† (source)
- Without my having made any application for that honor, they chose me a member, and voted that I should be excus'd the customary payments, which would have amounted to twenty-five guineas; and ever since have given me their Transactions gratis.† (source)
- This I distributed among the principal inhabitants gratis; and as soon as I could suppose their minds a little prepared by the perusal of it, I set on foot a subscription for opening and supporting an academy; it was to be paid in quotas yearly for five years; by so dividing it, I judg'd the subscription might be larger, and I believe it was so, amounting to no less, if I remember right, than five thousand pounds.† (source)
- The piece, being universally approved, was copied in all the newspapers of the Continent; reprinted in Britain on a broad side, to be stuck up in houses; two translations were made of it in French, and great numbers bought by the clergy and gentry, to distribute gratis among their poor parishioners and tenants.† (source)
- Sin: Principes persecuti sunt me gratis: et a verbis tuis formidavit cor meum.† (source)
- Calculate when it burns out and you receive gratis 1 pair of our special non-compo boots, guaranteed 1 candle power.† (source)
- Thinkest thou I'll endanger my soul gratis?† (source)
- A halter gratis; nothing else, for God's sake!† (source)
- Tell not me of mercy; This is the fool that lent out money gratis: Gaoler, look to him.† (source)
- I hate him for he is a Christian; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice.† (source)
- I know not how they sold themselves: but thou, like a kind fellow, gavest thyself away gratis; and I thank thee for thee.† (source)
- He that plays the king shall be welcome,—his majesty shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o' the sere; and the lady shall say her mind freely, or the blank verse shall halt for't.† (source)
- They spoke to me with great humanity, and said, "they were sure the captain would carry me gratis to Lisbon, whence I might return to my own country; that two of the seamen would go back to the ship, inform the captain of what they had seen, and receive his orders; in the mean time, unless I would give my solemn oath not to fly, they would secure me by force.† (source)
- "Thou art right, Sancho my friend," said Don Quixote, "and Altisidora has behaved very badly in not giving thee the smocks she promised; and although that virtue of thine is gratis data—as it has cost thee no study whatever, any more than such study as thy personal sufferings may be—I can say for myself that if thou wouldst have payment for the lashes on account of the disenchant of Dulcinea, I would have given it to thee freely ere this.† (source)
- But sins may bee pardoned to the repentant, either Gratis, or upon such penalty, as God is pleased to accept.† (source)
- That, if the ship was recovered, they should afford Friday and myself a passage gratis to England.† (source)
- At which words, without taking any leave, she flung out of the room; for the lower sort of people are very tenacious of respect; and though they are contented to give this gratis to persons of quality, yet they never confer it on those of their own order without taking care to be well paid for their pains.† (source)
- The next day I sent him his fine sword and cane gratis, and demanded nothing of him, but I had no mind to see him, unless it had been so that he might be satisfied I knew who he was, which he was not willing to.† (source)
- …and the Proclaiming whereof, was the Preaching of the Apostles; and to which men are prepared, by the Teachers of the Gospel; to embrace which Gospel, (that is to say, to promise obedience to Gods government) is, to bee in the Kingdome of Grace, because God hath gratis given to such the power to bee the subjects (that is, Children) of God hereafter, when Christ shall come in Majesty to judge the world, and actually to govern his owne people, which is called the Kingdome of Glory.† (source)
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