bestowment

Example Sentences

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This gift is alike creditable to the venerable men of your Association in its bestowment and to the State of Oregon in its acceptance.

From Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon by Holman, Frederick Van Voorhies

"The power to laugh, to cease work and begin to frolic and make merry in forgetfulness of all the conflict of life," says Campbell Morgan, "is a divine bestowment upon man."

From Cheerfulness as a Life Power by Marden, Orison Swett

Will they be worthy to tread the earth as children of the common Parent, and to look forward, not only for His blessing here, but for His benignant bestowment of happiness hereafter?

From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon

It will be easy to devote the accessories, when the principal bestowment has been rendered. 

From The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 by King, Knowles

He had nothing of that choice prudence which seems to have been the guide of others, of our family in the bestowment of their affections.

From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by Simms, William Gilmore