I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. From LearnThat.org. [Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962).]
H an empty name endow'd his fpoufe, jr Tullia, who, fome authors feign, er her father's corpfe a rumbling wain t more guilty numerous wains did drive. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the English Poets] Reference
Constantinople to endow with his name and fortune. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
I now endow you with what will ensure you a rapid fortune. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
The furniture and plate would have served to endow a cathedral. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Child 1894] Reference
I do not endow her with my worldly goods, for thou knowest I have none. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Hephæstus, that they all determined to endow her with some special gift. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
Convent of Bisham, and to endow them with all the Manors late belonging to. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
He was reluctant to endow a Sabine city with the privilege of Roman citizenship. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
Having no fortune to endow his children with, old Pat McGee gave his offspring as. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
I mean, this is a time to begin to endow the organizations that I really believe in. From Wordnik.com. [Soros Donates $100 Million To Human Rights Watch] Reference
It can endow him with energy, courage and endurance, and can as easily take these away. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Good Lord, endow me with a will like "an iron pillar," and help me to "stand in the evil day.". From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Age does not endow all things with strength and virtue, nor are all new things to be despised. From Wordnik.com. [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference
Mostly, however, the press releases simply attempt to endow the art with undeserved profundity. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Publicity] Reference
Nature had been pleased to endow me withal, and such report as I had been able to win from them. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
He does not promise to make us eloquent, but to endow our words with the "demonstration of power.". From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
It is considered a very meritorious act to give land for the erection of such shrines and to endow them. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
A large inheritance on which he had relied as coming to his wife went elsewhere -- to endow a charity hospital. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Nay, more, with it we build churches, endow schools, and provide hospitals and asylums for the weak and helpless. From Wordnik.com. [Education and the Higher Life] Reference
She gave you, indeed, good advice, but she could not endow you with the good sense that would enable you to follow it. From Wordnik.com. [The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale] Reference
There's plenty of colleges and hospitals to endow, and enough other ways of putting all I've got where it'll do some good. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Now I hold that the same Creator who gave to the bee the mathematical instinct could endow man with the instinct of speech. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
I have, however, thought it desirable to endow the Martians with bodies resembling ours, but glorified in form and features. From Wordnik.com. [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference
The man or men who shall thus endow Fisk, will have ever the favor of Him who has declared Himself the friend of the poor and needy. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 01, January, 1900] Reference
Not that I would endow Ariel with the stature and sinews of a Titan; this were to miss his distinctive qualities: delicacy, elegance, charm. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Scilly Isles from this high ground, and vowed that if he returned safely from their conquest he would endow a collegiate establishment here. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
We can, it is true, resolve the organism into its structural elements, but we cannot recompose it or endow it with life by joining up the parts. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
So it will be harder than once expected to come up with the funds to endow the new members with the infrastructure most of them desperately need. From Wordnik.com. [European Union: Divided They Stand] Reference
That, plus a growing number of minor parties and independents, could endow Congress with the frenetic irrepressibility of the Italian Parliament. From Wordnik.com. [What Took Them So Long?] Reference
Yet so manifest are the advantages of a printed catalogue, that all public libraries should make every effort to endow their readers with its benefits. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
With what a magnificent generosity does the Author of life endow a little mortal pilgrim in giving him at the outset of his career such a body as this!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
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