1 A few slight indications of a rather petted and capricious manner, which I observed in the Beauty, were manifestly considered, by Traddles and his wife, as her birthright and natural endowment.
2 The last time I saw him, which was a few months before he died, he gave me fifty thousand dollars toward our endowment fund.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XII. 3 In a castle of Westphalia, belonging to the Baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh, lived a youth, whom nature had endowed with the most gentle manners.
4 The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE 5 He is endowed with a certain indescribable, unexpected joviality; he upsets the composure of the shopkeeper with his wild laughter.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS 6 The titi is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed with wings and soaring.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE 7 He had lost the faculty of working and of moving firmly towards any fixed goal, but he was endowed with more clear-sightedness and rectitude than ever.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW 8 The host, who was not endowed with great perspicacity, did not observe the expression which his words had given to the physiognomy of the stranger.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER 9 Like those unfortunate persons endowed with a fatal gift, she brought misfortune upon everything she touched.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL 10 I practiced this exercise, and as nature has endowed me with some faculties, at this day I can throw the lasso with any man in the world.
11 Amy especially enjoyed this high honor, and became quite a belle among them, for her ladyship early felt and learned to use the gift of fascination with which she was endowed.
12 Such, then, were the splendours with which the gods had endowed the house of king Alcinous.
13 Mercury himself had endowed him with this gift, for he used to burn the thigh bones of goats and kids to him, so he took pleasure in his companionship.
14 My dear," said he, "heaven has endowed you with a heart more unyielding than woman ever yet had.
15 He had always wanted girls to flirt and frolic with him as they did with boys much less handsome and less endowed with this world's goods than he.