Gave

Examples

• A hinge gave out a resentful groan. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The aspect of piteous distress on his face, almost as imploring a merciful and kind judgment from his child, gave her a sudden sickening. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Mr. Bruff took her hand, and gave it a little squeeze. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He gave battle at Kadessia (637). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• With trembling hand she gave him the paper, and sat white and motionless looking at him while he read it. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The man touched his hat, got out of the fly immediately, and gave me the letter. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I gave him a little time to recover. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• So the world was kind enough to call him; and so he was, if more than twenty years of residence gave him a claim to the title. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Before leaving this period of his career, it is to be noted that it gave Edison many favorable opportunities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Gudrun gave a little cry of excitement, as if pierced with delight. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Monsieur curled his lip, gave me a vicious glance of the eye, and strode to his estrade. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• With which he took them out, and gave them, not to Miss Havisham, but to me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He gave a reckless shrug. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I got into the cab and gave the driver the address of Simmons, one of the men I knew who was studying singing. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• She turned to me, and gave me her hand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Receive at parting;' here he gave him a southern embrace, and kissed him soundly on both cheeks; 'the word of a gentleman! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• This gave a clear, but not a permanent, light. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He then took himself to a neighbouring hospice and gave himself up to scourgings and austerities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Joe gave me some more gravy. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He said so repeatedly; other things he said too, which marked the turn of his feelings and gave the lie to his actions. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• He had no money to pay him, and so gave him all his clothes except those he had on. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The glance she gave was at once explanatory and defiant. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He gave me another significant look as he passed on into the sitting-room. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Such were the gentle murmurs of Mrs. Bennet, and they gave way only to the greater distress of Mr. Bingley's continued absence. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The enemy gave up all idea of detaching troops from Columbus. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I put her in her cab as I was coming in, and she gave the driver the Trenors' address. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• That's very kind of him, considering the battering I gave him yesterday. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• His health soon gave out, when he was succeeded by Captain Comstock, also of the Engineer Corps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The ex-butler had obtained a small freehold there likewise, which gave him a vote for the borough. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The person of the house gave a weird little laugh here, and gave them another look out of the corners of her eyes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Typist: Ora