All 11 Uses of
bestow
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Mr. Cruncher himself always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.†
Chpt 2.1bestowed = gave
- Hence Monseigneur had taken his sister from a convent, while there was yet time to ward off the impending veil, the cheapest garment she could wear, and had bestowed her as a prize upon a very rich Farmer-General, poor in family.†
Chpt 2.7
- Bestowing a word of promise here and a smile there, a whisper on one happy slave and a wave of the hand on another, Monseigneur affably passed through his rooms to the remote region of the Circumference of Truth.†
Chpt 2.7 *bestowing = giving
- Mr. Stryver having made up his mind to that magnanimous bestowal of good fortune on the Doctor's daughter, resolved to make her happiness known to her before he left town for the Long Vacation.†
Chpt 2.12
- And it was from the gifts bestowed upon him towards the execution of this benevolent purpose, that he recruited his finances, as just now observed.†
Chpt 2.14bestowed = gave
- Disposing these articles about him in skilful manner, he bestowed a parting defiance on Mrs. Cruncher, extinguished the light, and went out.†
Chpt 2.14
- He embraced her, solemnly commended her to Heaven, and humbly thanked Heaven for having bestowed her on him.†
Chpt 2.17
- She also bestowed a British cough on Madame Defarge; but, neither of the two took much heed of her.†
Chpt 3.3
- Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death;—the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!†
Chpt 3.5bestow = give
- No sooner was the acquittal pronounced, than tears were shed as freely as blood at another time, and such fraternal embraces were bestowed upon the prisoner by as many of both sexes as could rush at him, that after his long and unwholesome confinement he was in danger of fainting from exhaustion; none the less because he knew very well, that the very same people, carried by another current, would have rushed at him with the very same intensity, to rend him to pieces and strew him over the streets.†
Chpt 3.6bestowed = gave
- What I have left to call my own—it is little beyond the worth of a few jewels—I will make it the first charge of his life to bestow, with the compassion and lamenting of his dead mother, on this injured family, if the sister can be discovered.'†
Chpt 3.10bestow = give
Definition:
to give -- typically to present as an honor or give as a gift