Grants

Examples

• The entrance of the Grants and Crawfords was a favourable epoch. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• It now demanded grants in aid from the State--in order to build at a profit. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Grants showing a disposition to be friendly and sociable, gave great satisfaction in the main among their new acquaintance. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• It affords no rent to the landlord, who generally grants the use of it to whoever takes the trouble of asking it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is quite settled that the Grants go to Bath; they leave Mansfield on Monday. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The princes who lived upon the worst terms with their barons, seem accordingly to have been the most liberal in grants of this kind to their burghs. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If one grants all this there is still the fact that it was the _Clermont’s_ success that opened the watercourses of the world to steam. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Edmund did not wonder that such should be his father's feelings, nor could he regret anything but the exclusion of the Grants. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• My object is to confine it to Mrs. Rushworth and the Grants. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

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