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Now Honey-Sweet and I are going to do a little shopping alone and then we'll rest and wait for you in the ladies' room." "I like to do what you say," said Anne, thoughtfully. "Maybe I won't hate so bad to give them presents if I make a play of it. I'll try." She counted out her silver pieces and decided on the price of the gifts that she would choose for each of her teachers and classmates.
Here also lay his curved bow and the quiver for his arrows, and many grievous shafts were in it still, gifts which a friend had given Ulysses when he met him once in Lacedæmon, Iphitus, son of Eurytus, a man like the Immortals. At Messene the two met, in the house of wise Orsilochus.
But it is meet that a man cherish good hope: and meet also that I, whom seven-gated Thebes reared, proffer chiefly unto Aigina the choicest of the Graces' gifts, for that from one sire were two daughters born, youngest of the children of Asopos, and found favour in the eyes of the king Zeus.
He has no children to delight with his trophies; no tribe to honor by his deeds; he is a lone man in this world, and yet he stands true to his training and his gifts! There is something honest and respectable in these, you must allow, Jasper."
He was a man of whom 'twas said that he was the most magnificent gentleman in Europe; that there was none to compare with him in the combination of gifts given both by Nature and Fortune. His beauty both of feature and carriage was of the greatest, his mind was of the highest, and his education far beyond that of the age he lived in.
Something always had turned up in the old days, and doubtless, with the march of civilization, opportunities had multiplied. Somewhere behind those tall buildings the Goddess of Luck awaited him, her hands full of gifts, but precisely what those gifts would be he was not in a position to say. "I shall ah how shall I put it ?" "Look round?" suggested Jill. "Precisely," said Uncle Chris gratefully.
He could hold his own with the best on the eighth judicial circuit, or anywhere else in the State. He made friends wherever he went. In politics, in daily conversation, in his work as a lawyer, his life was gradually broadening. Slowly but surely, too, his gifts as an attractive public speaker were becoming known.
The evening of my birthday, the 10th of January, was spent in our own home, which was in full bloom with an immense profusion of flowers, and enriched with beautiful gifts from many generous hearts.
He had given all that had been given him and she knew she would never forget that phrase of his willingly, and it seemed to her that the gifts he had been entrusted with were rare and precious ones steadfast, unflinching courage, compassion, and the fine sense of honour which had sent him out on that forlorn hope.
The Slovaks are a race whose artistic and musical gifts, whose innate sense of colour and poetry have won the sympathy and admiration of all who know them; and their systematic oppression at the hands of the Magyar oligarchy is one of the greatest infamies of the last fifty years.
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