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  • Albus Dumbledore was never proud or vain; he could find something to value in anyone, however apparently insignificant or wretched, and I believe that his early losses endowed him with great humanity and sympathy.†   (source)
  • She was not endowed with, or old enough to possess, such independence of spirit.†   (source)
  • As Erwin Smigel wrote in The Wall Street Lawyer, his study of the New York legal establishment of that era, they were looking for: lawyers who are Nordic, have pleasing personalities and "clean-cut" appearances, are graduates of the "right schools," have the "right" social background and experience in the affairs of the world, and are endowed with tremendous stamina.†   (source)
  • Clearly certain sites were endowed more richly than others.†   (source)
  • WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, THAT AMONG THESE ARE LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.†   (source)
  • I endowed that word "all" with special meaning, and pressed dresses and packed trunks in a delirium of anticipation.†   (source)
  • My personal opinion is that everyone is endowed with this ability, so in other words, conscience is innate.†   (source)
  • Slavin realized he probably wasn't the only patient with valuable blood, so he recruited other similarly endowed people and started a company, Essential Biologicals, which eventually merged with another, larger biological-product corporation.†   (source)
  • Then the lord defiant, the prince defiant, the king defiant, Enki, the lord of abundance, whose commands are trustworthy, The lord of wisdom, who scans the land, The leader of the gods, The lord of Eridu, endowed with wisdom, Changed the speech in their mouths, put contention into it, Into the speech of man that had been one.†   (source)
  • At first she thought it was an instrument of the devil endowed with a life of its own, and refused to go anywhere near it, but Esteban was unyielding and in the end she mastered it.†   (source)
  • Little by little he idealized her, endowing her with improbable virtues and imaginary sentiments, and after two weeks he thought of nothing else but her.†   (source)
  • In contrast to viscosity's cellular coma, velocity endows every platelet and muscle fiber with a mind of its own, a means of knowing and commenting on its own behavior.†   (source)
  • Of all the plants we gathered none was endowed with so much magic as the yerba del manso.†   (source)
  • She was a huntress, and endowed with all the savage beauty that the term implied.†   (source)
  • He had stated that his wife was extremely well endowed in the bosom and that this made him uneasy because she drew stares from men on the street.†   (source)
  • In a ringing preamble, drafted by Thomas Jefferson, the document declared it "self-evident" that "all men are created equal," and were endowed with the "unalienable" rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."†   (source)
  • Some ran desperately from the favor of a regime that wanted to endow them with the honor of displaying them side by side with its new leaders.†   (source)
  • Small-breasted women everywhere rejoiced as their more endowed sisters were forced to purchase chest "flatteners" in order to fit into the most popular fashions.†   (source)
  • In Sura (Chapter) 4, Verse 34, I found this distressing counsel from Mohammed: The men are placed in charge of the women, since God has endowed them with the necessary qualities, and made them the bread earners.†   (source)
  • Her skin was gray, and her dress was brown; the combined effect was suggestive of some sort of enormous, dusky vegetable that had been uprooted and unwisely endowed with teeth.†   (source)
  • But then my mother got her endowed chair, which was very prestigious, and he got dropped from his publisher, which wasn't, and things started to get ugly.†   (source)
  • I give all my estate, house, land, goods, and chattels, moveable and unmoveable, quick and dead, that it has pleased God to endow me with, to my son Seth, my daughter Charity, and to Brand Rigney, formerly servant of Bradford Hall, whom I do assign as my heir equally with mine own natural children in the hope that he will dwell with them as a brother and be guardian over them.†   (source)
  • What if I endowed a foundation and made you the director?†   (source)
  • Reason was to be subordinate, logically, to Quality, and he was sure he would find the cause of its not being so back among the ancient Greeks, whose mythos had endowed our culture with the tendency underlying all the evil of our technology, the tendency to do what is "reasonable" even when it isn't any good.†   (source)
  • What does my beloved and well-endowed army tell me?†   (source)
  • But a week later they announced, with an inordinate amount of publicity, that they were endowing the construction of a playground for the children of the unemployed.†   (source)
  • It is the faith that we are all equal and endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.†   (source)
  • When 89-58 begins to exhibit paranormal abilities, he proves to be phenomenally endowed.†   (source)
  • In profile, you saw the same blunt line descend the back of their necks, those high, flat ears, but then little else because Lelia-or maybe her father-had endowed Mitt with that other, potent sprawl of limbs, those round, vigilant eyes, the upturned ancestral nose (like a scrivener's, in my imagination), his boy's form already so beautifully jumbled and subversive and historic.†   (source)
  • Then he saw her his sister, no shadow; her arms reached up the trembling car hood, the rough motor endowing her fine fingers, her knobby wrists, with strangely nervous life.†   (source)
  • From the rear—particularly where his vertebrae were visible—he might almost have passed for one of those needy metropolitan children who are sent out every summer to endowed camps to be fattened and sunned.†   (source)
  • He also said, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."†   (source)
  • "She is endowed with beauty," Old Granny said.†   (source)
  • But these words were left intact: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."†   (source)
  • Even Emory Bortz, with his copy of Blobb's Peregrinations (bought, she had no doubt he'd tell her in the event she asked, also at Zapf's), taught now at San Narciso College, heavily endowed by the dead man.†   (source)
  • "Surely," said Samuel, "so ill endowed a creature deserved, I thought, one grand possession.†   (source)
  • Your generation of Americans is uniquely endowed by history to give new meaning to the pride and spirit of America.†   (source)
  • I mean they are sufficiently endowed to do it simultaneously with other thinking, rather than serially.†   (source)
  • Did she always have to do everything, poor old woman, just because nature had made her reliable and endowed her with a sense of duty?†   (source)
  • It's endowed by a group of millionaire factory owners, for the benefit of their workers principally, but you're eligible to go there because you're a resident.†   (source)
  • Only frailty, it seems, can divine it-and I was not endowed with that property.†   (source)
  • It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them.†   (source)
  • Mary did not have to learn this, because it was natural to her, and because she had expected nothing in the first place—at any rate, not from this man, who was flesh and blood, and therefore rather ridiculous—not the creature of her imagination whom she endowed with hands and lips but left bodiless.†   (source)
  • The country is endowed with enormous oil reserves.
  • She is endowed with a sharp mind.
  • It was the scarlet letter in another form: the scarlet letter endowed with life!   (source)
    endowed = equipped
  • See ye not, she is the scarlet letter, only capable of being loved, and so endowed with a millionfold the power of retribution for my sin?   (source)
  • Walking to and fro, with those lonely footsteps, in the little world with which she was outwardly connected, it now and then appeared to Hester—if altogether fancy, it was nevertheless too potent to be resisted—she felt or fancied, then, that the scarlet letter had endowed her with a new sense.   (source)
  • There were men, too, of a sturdier texture of mind than his, and endowed with a far greater share of shrewd, hard iron, or granite understanding; which, duly mingled with a fair proportion of doctrinal ingredient, constitutes a highly respectable, efficacious, and unamiable variety of the clerical species.   (source)
  • Maybe he'll endow Crake with horns, and wings of fire, and allow him a tail for good measure.†   (source)
  • I knew the combination of the safe, and fortunately it was well endowed.†   (source)
  • He endowed the CAI with a million dollars before entering the hospital.†   (source)
  • He endowed me with a scripture, and appointed me a prophet.†   (source)
  • To endow the person who says it with Christ-Consciousness.†   (source)
  • It might have been an electronics laboratory in a well-endowed medical centre, but it was not.†   (source)
  • The Lunar Observatory was endowed in the year two thousand—" Reich slammed down the phone.†   (source)
  • Something nature endowed her with, something to which she had a birthright.†   (source)
  • He would walk along groping in the air, although he passed between objects with an inexplicable fluidity, as if be were endowed with some instinct of direction based on an immediate prescience.†   (source)
  • This is why they made no effort to prepare the child for life, since the stars had already conspired to endow her with so many gifts.†   (source)
  • He did not have the pretext of climate to hasten their return because nature had endowed him with a colonial liver which resisted the drowsiness of siesta time and water that had vinegar worms in it.†   (source)
  • They would form a ring around him, holding each other by the hand, trying to suffuse him with their healing fluids, but that too failed to endow Nicolas with mental powers.†   (source)
  • He was a full-blooded Indian, untamed, illiterate, and endowed with quiet wiles and a messianic vocation that aroused a demented fanaticism in his men.†   (source)
  • Active, small, and indomitable like Ursula, and almost as pretty and provocative as Remedios the Beauty, she was endowed with a rare instinct for anticipating fashion.†   (source)
  • She was tall and well endowed, of a rather helpless and tearful temperament that roused men's ancestral instinct for protection.†   (source)
  • I was looked after by a male nurse named Rojas, a heavyset man with a round face, who always wore a dirty blue smock and was endowed with enormous kindness.†   (source)
  • Endowed with means that had been reserved for Divine Providence in former times, they changed the pattern of the rams, accelerated the cycle of harvest, and moved the river from where it had always been and put it with its white stones and icy currents on the other side of the town, behind the cemetery.†   (source)
  • As he was of an optimistic bent and endowed with the common sense typical of all his countrymen, he opted for the second interpretation, and by the end of the week he had begun to relax.†   (source)
  • He copied the model of a prewar German zeppelin, which lifted off by means of a hot-air system and could accommodate one or more passengers endowed with adventurous temperaments.†   (source)
  • She was an immense mountain of a woman endowed with a majestic triple chin and tiny Oriental eyes sunk in folds congealed with grease; she wore rings on all her fingers, and used the affected gestures of a novice.†   (source)
  • She was immune to vanity and that day she was more absent than usual, dreaming of new beasts to embroider on her tablecloth, creatures that were half bird and half mammal, covered with iridescent feathers and endowed with horns and hooves, and so fat and with such stubby wings that they defied the laws of biology and aerodynamics.†   (source)
  • As recalled in the family years later, he was endowed for the profession of law with the natural gifts of "a clear and sonorous voice," a "ready elocution," stubbornness, but with the "counter-check" of self-control, and a strong moral sense.†   (source)
  • The ambassador's head resembled an ancient and sickly vulture that had been skinned and endowed with the large and multifaceted eyes of an insect.†   (source)
  • She doesn't care if they're not beautiful, in fact hopes that they aren't, for she has seen already how some of the prettiest girls in her class have become distant and superior and wholly ungenerous, and particularly how the blond, slim, protuberantly endowed Brittany, the self-appointed head of the shrinking cadre of candy stripers, will hardly even look at her, as if doing so would be to invite certain personal doom.†   (source)
  • He spent longer placing the wards around his cousin—for it was likely Roran would confront a greater number of threats—and he endowed the spells with more energy than he thought Roran would have approved of, but Eragon did not care.†   (source)
  • Partly, it was because so many of them were jealous: of her intelligence (practically Mensa level), her scholarship (four books, countless articles, one endowed chair), or her looks (tall and curvy with very long jet-black hair she usually wore loose and wild, the only out-of-control thing about her).†   (source)
  • Increasing years had added more grease to his bulk, more flesh to his paunch; they had not sweetened his nature or endowed him with more kindliness.†   (source)
  • Jefferson was unsparing: "Mr. Adams is vain, irritable, stubborn, endowed with excessive self-love, and still suffering pique at the preference accorded Franklin over him in Paris."†   (source)
  • He believes that physical objects are endowed with a mysterious volition, moved by causeless, unpredictable whims, while he is a helpless pawn at the mercy of forces beyond his control.†   (source)
  • A body without a soul is a corpse, a soul without a body is a ghost-yet such is their image of man's nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost, a corpse endowed with some evil volition of its own and a ghost endowed with the knowledge that everything known to man is non-existent, that only the unknowable exists.†   (source)
  • It was Jefferson who had written them for all time : We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.†   (source)
  • The strength with which a prince of Amber is naturally endowed, which had allowed me to lift a Mercedes, served me that day, so that I could raise a man with one hand and hurl him over the rail.†   (source)
  • But a native, although conveniently endowed by nature with the ability to walk long distances without feeling fatigue, cannot carry sacks of flour and mealiemeal; and once a month the trip was made by car.†   (source)
  • This uniqueness endowed it with an awesome quality; it was like a living and conscious creature, a local dragon or winged serpent who levied tribute and preyed upon the countryside.†   (source)
  • Andres was a man endowed with almost supreme patience.†   (source)
  • For, to endow a college would necessitate the suppression of families altogether.†   (source)
  • "With this varvel," the Wart heard, "I thee endow ...love, honour and obey ...till jess us do part."†   (source)
  • But the suffering and ill-endowed came to him.†   (source)
  • Her pharaoh-bobbed hair grew out of a head mostly physically endowed; she couldn't ever tell what they might take it into their minds to do.†   (source)
  • As her words fell upon my new ears, I endowed them with a reality that welled up from somewhere within me.†   (source)
  • We believe that God endows men with diverse gifts, and that human life depends for its fullness on their employment and enjoyment, but we are afraid to explore this belief too deeply.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Perrault, if a little beyond such human passions as friendship or affection, was yet endowed with a rich benignity of mind which touched the youth as water upon a parched soil.†   (source)
  • They looked, indeed, like very old posts, well seasoned and polished by time, miraculously endowed with the power to burst into delicate foliage and flowers, to cover themselves with long brooms of lavender-pink blossom.†   (source)
  • When we said that men are "endowed with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," we did not pause to define "happiness."†   (source)
  • The smile of benevolent irony that always played on it had seemed to endow it with perpetual youth; now, abruptly left out of control, with a trickle of saliva between the slightly parted lips, it betrayed its age and the wastage of the years.†   (source)
  • With that very murky background, what could he do except set up as being simple and charming, particularly as he isn't very well endowed in the Top Storey.†   (source)
  • Since he belonged, even at the age of six, to that great clan which cannot keep this feeling separate from that, but must let future prospects, with their joys and sorrows, cloud what is actually at hand, since to such people even in earliest childhood any turn in the wheel of sensation has the power to crystallise and transfix the moment upon which its gloom or radiance rests, James Ramsay, sitting on the floor cutting out pictures from the illustrated catalogue of the Army and Navy stores, endowed the picture of a refrigerator, as his mother spoke, with heavenly bliss.†   (source)
  • She was hardly less pretty than Maria, even though not so blooming; and she was more constrained, and not so richly endowed in the little arts of making love.†   (source)
  • It didn't matter a damn to whom he gave it, for the fact of giving was what mattered, and if you happened to be handy you were automatically endowed with all the appropriate attributes of a friend and forever after your reality is irrelevant.†   (source)
  • I hereby endow you with them I Take them, peruse them — commit them to memory, even 1 I think it's wonderfully fitting that Belle Reve should finally be this bunch of old papers in your big, capable hands!†   (source)
  • The goddess guardian of the inexhaustible well—whether as Fergus, or as Actaeon, or as the Prince of the Lonesome Isle discovered her—requires that the hero should be endowed with what the troubadours and minnesingers termed the "gentle heart."†   (source)
  • I will seek out a face, a composed, a monumental face, and will endow it with omniscience, and wear it under my dress like a talisman and then (I promise this) I will find some dingle in a wood where I can display my assortment of curious treasures.†   (source)
  • They simply existed, unrelated to each other" the snow and the daylight and the soft sound of breathing cast a strange spell upon him, a spell that waited for the wand of fear to touch it and endow it with reality and meaning.†   (source)
  • Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.†   (source)
  • All her art and the whole task she set herself lay in extracting the utmost delight from the senses she had been endowed with, and from her particular figure, her color, her hair, her voice, her skin, her temperament; and in employing every faculty, every curve and line and every softest modeling of her body to find responsive perceptions in her lovers and to conjure up in them an answering quickness of delight.†   (source)
  • I will start at Sandwich in my shirt, and walk barefoot to Carlisle, and I will endow a chantry for him every ten miles in between.†   (source)
  • but from the chests of merchants and manufacturers, from the purses of men who had made, say, a fortune from industry, and returned, in their wills, a bounteous share of it to endow more chairs, more lectureships, more fellowships in the university where they had learnt their craft.†   (source)
  • Moreover, they were all endowed with a calm intelligence which pleasantly overflowed into measured and well-balanced opinions.†   (source)
  • It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, the tendency has always been to endow the hero with extraordinary powers from the moment of birth, or even the moment of conception.†   (source)
  • So that if it was her beauty merely that one thought of, one must remember the quivering thing, the living thing (they were carrying bricks up a little plank as he watched them), and work it into the picture; or if one thought of her simply as a woman, one must endow her with some freak of idiosyncrasy—she did not like admiration—or suppose some latent desire to doff her royalty of form as if her beauty bored her and all that men say of beauty, and she wanted only to be like other people, insignificant.†   (source)
  • The frustrated wretch who professes love for the inferior and clings to those less endowed, in order to establish his own superiority by comparison.†   (source)
  • Desdemona robbed of life or honour is nothing to a Mordred, robbed of himself—his soul stolen, overlaid, wizened, while the mother-character lives in triumph, superfluously and with stifling love endowed on him, seemingly innocent of ill-intention.†   (source)
  • They were, on the contrary, a little or, rather, a big world, authoritative and beautiful, many sided, containing a multiplicity of things all of which had the one and only aim of serving love, refining the senses, giving life to the dead world around us, endowing it in a magical way with new instruments of love, from powder and scent to the dancing show, from ring to cigarette case, from waist-buckle to handbag.†   (source)
  • Every penny I earn, they may have said, will be taken from me and disposed of according to my husband's wisdom—perhaps to found a scholarship or to endow a fellowship in Balliol or Kings, so that to earn money, even if I could earn money, is not a matter that interests me very greatly.†   (source)
  • 4' In Australia a basic conception is that the spirits have removed the intestines of the medicine man and substituted pebbles, quartz crystals, a quantity of rope, and sometimes also a little snake endowed with power.42 The first formula is abreaction in fantasy (my inside has already been destroyed) followed by reaction-formation (my inside is not something corruptible and full of faeces, but incorruptible, full of quartz crystals).†   (source)
  • The Garveyites had embraced a totally racialistic outlook which endowed them with a dignity that I had never seen before in Negroes.†   (source)
  • For she talked to me about Herman and about childhood, mine and her own, and about those years of childhood when the capacity for love, in its first youth, embraces not only both sexes, but all and everything, sensuous and spiritual, and endows all things with a spell of love and a fairylike ease of transformation such as in later years comes again only to a chosen few and to poets, and to them rarely.†   (source)
  • Endowed with a pure understanding, restraining the self with firmness, turning away from sound and other objects, and abandoning love and hatred; dwelling in solitude, eating but little, controlling the speech, body, and mind, ever engaged in meditation and concentration, and cultivating freedom from passion; forsaking conceit and power, pride and lust, wrath and possessions, tranquil in heart, and free from ego—he becomes worthy of becoming one with the imperishable.†   (source)
  • And when the age of faith was over and the age of reason had come, still the same flow of gold and silver went on; fellowships were founded; lectureships endowed; only the gold and silver flowed now, not from the coffers of the king.†   (source)
  • If only Mrs Seton and her mother and her mother before her had learnt the great art of making money and had left their money, like their fathers and their grandfathers before them, to found fellowships and lectureships and prizes and scholarships appropriated to the use of their own sex, we might have dined very tolerably up here alone off a bird and a bottle of wine; we might have looked forward without undue confidence to a pleasant and honourable lifetime spent in the shelter of one of the liberally endowed professions.†   (source)
  • Was she ready to resign her share of it and her memories (for they had been a happy family, though a large one) of games and quarrels up in Scotland, which she is never tired of praising for the fineness of its air and the quality of its cakes, in order that Fernham might have been endowed with fifty thousand pounds or so by a stroke of the pen?†   (source)
  • Because no harm could come to it he endowed it with power.†   (source)
  • She called every one darling, endowing the endearment with careless, individual comraderie.†   (source)
  • [despairingly] Oh, you are witty: at the supreme moment the Life Force endows you with every quality†   (source)
  • I, whom that same popular rumour had endowed with the sharpest wits in France!†   (source)
  • For where, Fanny, shall we find a woman whom nature had so richly endowed?†   (source)
  • The King endowed several other charities at the same time.†   (source)
  • 'Number two, you mean,' said Mr. Bolter, who was largely endowed with the quality of selfishness.†   (source)
  • The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there.†   (source)
  • The novelty of Truth endowed her with special strength, but now we need much more powerful methods.†   (source)
  • Now I ask you: what can be expected of man since he is a being endowed with strange qualities?†   (source)
  • Though better endowed than the elder sister, Mary had not Anne's understanding nor temper.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it is a word which she believes to be endowed with some magic and secret virtue.†   (source)
  • It was as potent, and perhaps endowed with the same kind of efficacy, as a galvanic ring!†   (source)
  • In this way the elders are endowed in certain cases with unbounded and inexplicable authority.†   (source)
  • How lucky he, whose gifts his station
    With such advantages endow!†   (source)
  • Madame de Villefort has nothing of her own, and hates me for being so richly endowed.†   (source)
  • But how many, my dear Madam, are endowed with your prodigious strength of mind?†   (source)
  • Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction.†   (source)
  • I am weak, but surely the spirits who assist my vengeance will endow me with sufficient strength.†   (source)
  • To part with money is a sacrifice beyond almost all men endowed with a sense of order.†   (source)
  • Both ladies are endowed with EVERY MORAL AND RELIGIOUS VIRTUE.†   (source)
  • I felt endowed with a sudden strength.†   (source)
  • Instead, it would set his imagination to make that duchess appear, in Legrandin's eyes, endowed with all the graces.†   (source)
  • —the fact that (opportunity aiding, precious opportunity which had now come) it would be preposterous, with a child so endowed, to forego the help one might wrest from absolute intelligence?†   (source)
  • In fact, she was reimpressed by his ability and efficiency, qualities with which, up to this time at least, she had endowed him.†   (source)
  • She could never again be quite so awed by the power with which she herself had endowed the Vidas and Blaussers and Bogarts.†   (source)
  • A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.†   (source)
  • Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning.†   (source)
  • Undershaft and Bodger: their hands stretch everywhere: when we feed a starving fellow creature, it is with their bread, because there is no other bread; when we tend the sick, it is in the hospitals they endow; if we turn from the churches they build, we must kneel on the stones of the streets they pave.†   (source)
  • Thus nobly endowed, and keyed high by the discovery that he was a natural orator, he was popular with audiences, and he raged through the campaign, renowned not only in the Seventh and Eighth Wards but even in parts of the Sixteenth.†   (source)
  • Seeking light and air, and endowed with more strength than man or his works, they soar above the lower deposit to greet one another with branches and beckoning leaves, and to build a city for the birds.†   (source)
  • But if he can conceive of her, then in some sort she exists, he thinks, and advancing down the path with his eyes upon sky and branches he rapidly endows them with womanhood; sees with amazement how grave they become; how majestically, as the breeze stirs them, they dispense with a dark flutter of the leaves charity, comprehension, absolution, and then, flinging themselves suddenly aloft, confound the piety of their aspect with a wild carouse.†   (source)
  • Her own father had been a white; a high official; one of the brilliantly endowed men who are not dull enough to nurse a success, and whose careers so often end under a cloud.†   (source)
  • Man is endowed with reason and the power to create, so that he may increase that which has been given him, but until now he has not created, but demolished.†   (source)
  • It was a Byzantine cistern, which the popular fancy had endowed with fantastic vastness; and the legend which he read told that a boat was always moored at the entrance to tempt the unwary, but no traveller venturing into the darkness had ever been seen again.†   (source)
  • But, as it was, I stood there with only the weapons and the powers that Nature had endowed me with—hands, feet, and teeth; these, and four safety-matches that still remained to me.†   (source)
  • I WAS born in the year 18— to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of the respect of the wise and good among my fellow-men, and thus, as might have been supposed, with every guarantee of an honourable and distinguished future.†   (source)
  • If the cloak, spurs and brilliants in which Rosemary had walked off were things with which he had endowed her, it was nice in contrast to watch her mother's grace knowing it was surely something he had not evoked.†   (source)
  • Indeed, they had all seemed remarkably taciturn, and when they did speak, endowed with very uncanny voices.†   (source)
  • The ballot, which before he had looked upon as a visible sign of freedom, he now regarded as the chief means of gaining and perfecting the liberty with which war had partially endowed him.†   (source)
  • Those friends who knew, laughed to scorn the idea that Marguerite St. Just had married a fool for the sake of the worldly advantages with which he might endow her.†   (source)
  • It was a typical summer evening in June, the atmosphere being in such delicate equilibrium and so transmissive that inanimate objects seemed endowed with two or three senses, if not five.†   (source)
  • And yet, more likely, if satire it was in effect, it was hardly so by intention, for Billy, tho' happily endowed with the gayety of high health, youth, and a free heart, was yet by no means of a satirical turn.†   (source)
  • He had once heard about a woman, a long-dead forebear on the Tienappel side of the family, who was said to have been endowed or cursed with a troublesome talent that she had borne in all humility and that had caused her to see anyone who would soon die as just a skeleton.†   (source)
  • From where she stood she could see them embodied in the form of Mr. Gryce, who, in a light overcoat and muffler, sat somewhat nervously on the edge of his chair, while Carry Fisher, with all the energy of eye and gesture with which nature and art had combined to endow her, pressed on him the duty of taking part in the task of municipal reform.†   (source)
  • The only things to be said against him were that he was rather masterful in his ways and endowed with a very hasty temper.†   (source)
  • And he is a chilly Londoner who does not endow his stations with some personality, and extend to them, however shyly, the emotions of fear and love.†   (source)
  • If his father can endow him with a good physique and his mother with some common sense in his early education, that should be his heritage.†   (source)
  • Well educated, well endowed, and not deficient physically, he remained in the grip of a certain devil whom the modern world knows as self-consciousness, and whom the medieval, with dimmer vision, worshipped as asceticism.†   (source)
  • The prince has this to do with it—that I see in him for the first time in all my life, a man endowed with real truthfulness of spirit, and I trust him.†   (source)
  • The bare skin had obviously been painted with feeling, and despite a certain aura of sweetness, the artist had been able to endow it with scientific reality and lifelike accuracy.†   (source)
  • Endowed with two memories, a temporary and a permanent, he had hitherto relegated the caves to the former.†   (source)
  • Endowed with a rich tropical imagination and a keen, delicate appreciation of Nature, the transplanted African lived in a world animate with gods and devils, elves and witches; full of strange influences,—of Good to be implored, of Evil to be propitiated.†   (source)
  • In reality the devil is a great and terrible spirit, with neither hoofs, nor tail, nor horns; it is you who have endowed him with these attributes!†   (source)
  • "That must be delightful," sighed my grandfather, in whose mind nature had unfortunately forgotten to include any capacity whatsoever for becoming passionately interested in the co-operative movement among the ladies of Sweden or in the methods employed by Maubant to get up his parts, just as it had forgotten to endow my grandmother's two sisters with a grain of that precious salt which one has oneself to 'add to taste' in order to extract any savour from a narrative of the private life of Mole or of the Comte de Paris.†   (source)
  • While the children, scarcely awake, awe-stricken at her manner, their eyes growing larger and larger, remained in this position, she took the baby from her bed—a child's child—so immature as scarce to seem a sufficient personality to endow its producer with the maternal title.†   (source)
  • One would have to be a Renaissance man of letters, a verbal dandy, a Gongorist, a Marinist, a fop of the estilo culto, to endow the disciplines of reading and writing with such exaggerated educational importance and imagine that intellectual night reigned where such skills were lacking.†   (source)
  • By every civilized and peaceful method we must strive for the rights which the world accords to men, clinging unwaveringly to those great words which the sons of the Fathers would fain forget: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."†   (source)
  • And there was revived in her the wretched sentiment which had often come to her before, that in inhabiting the fleshly tabernacle with which Nature had endowed her she was somehow doing wrong.†   (source)
  • "Are you really a connoisseur, now?" she would say to him; "I ask for your own sake, as you are likely to have 'fakes' palmed off on you by the dealers," for she did not, in fact, endow him with any critical faculty, and had no great opinion of the intelligence of a man who, in conversation, would avoid serious topics and shewed a very dull preciseness, not only when he gave us kitchen recipes, going into the most minute details, but even when my grandmother's sisters were talking to him about art.†   (source)
  • But now the joy (which, his reason had never ceased to assure him, was not, that evening at least, to be realised) was suddenly apparent, and more real than ever before; for he himself had contributed nothing to it by anticipating probabilities,—it remained integral and external to himself; there was no need for him to draw on his own resources to endow it with truth—'twas from itself that there emanated, 'twas itself that projected towards him that truth whose glorious rays melted and scattered like the cloud of a dream the sense of loneliness which had lowered over him, that truth upon which he had supported, nay founded, albeit unconsciously, his vision of bliss.†   (source)
  • Her back seemed to be endowed with a sensitiveness to ocular beams—even her clothing—so alive was she to a fancied gaze which might be resting upon her from the outside of that barn.†   (source)
  • In this respect the personality, with which my great-aunt endowed him, of 'young Swann,' as distinct from the more individual personality of Charles Swann, was that in which he now most delighted.†   (source)
  • No prophet had told him, and he was not prophet enough to tell himself, that essentially this young wife of his was as deserving of the praise of King Lemuel as any other woman endowed with the same dislike of evil, her moral value having to be reckoned not by achievement but by tendency.†   (source)
  • And so was wafted to my ears the name of Gilberte, bestowed on me like a talisman which might, perhaps, enable me some day to rediscover her whom its syllables had just endowed with a definite personality, whereas, a moment earlier, she had been only something vaguely seen.†   (source)
  • At this dim inceptive stage of the day Tess seemed to Clare to exhibit a dignified largeness both of disposition and physique, an almost regnant power, possibly because he knew that at that preternatural time hardly any woman so well endowed in person as she was likely to be walking in the open air within the boundaries of his horizon; very few in all England.†   (source)
  • For at that time everything which was not myself, the earth and the creatures upon it, seemed to me more precious, more important, endowed with a more real existence than they appear to full-grown men.†   (source)
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