Gifted

Examples

• I mean to say that there do exist natures gifted with those opposite qualities. Plato. The Republic.
• The contest,' said Pott, 'shall be prolonged so long as I have health and strength, and that portion of talent with which I am gifted. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Who was better framed than this highly-gifted youth to love and be beloved, and to reap unalienable joy from an unblamed passion? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The directness and endurance of the influence of this trained veteran on his gifted son a hundred fine incidents attest. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But observation shows that children are gifted with an equipment of the first order for social intercourse. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill-educated, become pre-eminently bad? Plato. The Republic.
• America had also received the taint; and, were it yellow fever or plague, the epidemic was gifted with a virulence before unfelt. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He was gifted with an imagination to tur n observations to account. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• At one time he said, Whoever wishes to enjoy peace, and is gifted with great talents, must labor for posterity. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A magnificent sermon was preached by my gifted friend on the heathen indifference of the world to the sinfulness of little sins. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• These are the routineers gifted with historical sense. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• My gifted townsman stood gloomily apart, with folded arms, and I could have wished that his curls and forehead had been more probable. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• To be sure, the listeners about Tipton were not highly gifted! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The reasoning is perilously like that of the gifted lady amateur who expects to achieve greatness by imitating the paint box and palette, oils and canvases of an artist. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• My gifted friend made her one of the most truly evangelical answers I ever heard in my life. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Gifted men found a companion in him. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He is gifted with far greater dramatic invention than any one who succeeded him, with the exception of Swift. Plato. The Republic.
• Here was Alexander in many ways gifted above any man of his time, and he was vain, suspicious, and passionate, with a mind set awry by his mother. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To formulate new truths in the world of ideas is the prerogative o f minds gifted with exceptional reason. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It was not a general movement; it was the movement of a small group of people exceptionally placed and gifted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These gifted Latin monks never do any thing by halves. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I believe they thought he was gifted like a god. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In justice to myself, let me here add that, once reinstated in his place in my estimation, my gifted friend never lost that place again. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I was ready to quit you all, my beloved and gifted companions, and to live only with him, for him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But stripped to their personalities, Louis XVI was hardly gifted enough or noble-minded enough to be Franklin's valet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• All men are not gifted alike. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Your father was gifted as few men are. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Were he but gifted with imagination he might rise to great heights in his profession. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The truly gifted flourish only in the by-ways of Pera and Stamboul. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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