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Example sentences for "might give"

  • In conclusion, he recommended to Anilco to discontinue any farther intercourse with him, lest he might give umbrage to the confederated caciques.

  • Would to God that I might give; eluabun chi!

  • Well, money is a thing that every person is always glad to get hold of; and he might give me 1d.

  • Occasionally I sold a shawl to a stranger in the place in the summer time, and I might give it to him for a shilling less.

  • Perhaps he might give me something sometimes when I did not have it to get, if I asked him for it.

  • They also thought that some misbehaviour of Mr. Desires-awake the last time, might give distaste to his Highness, and so cause that he returned from so merciful a Prince empty, and without countenance.

  • And when we treated with Moses forty nights; then ye took the calfl for your God, and did evil; yet afterwards we forgave you, that peradventure ye might give thanks.

  • But this difference, whatever force it might give to the claims of the purchasing holder of certificates, could diminish nothing from the claims of the original holders who assigned them.

  • As to the house, the President was not confined to it; he might give it up when he pleased, and take another if he thought proper.

  • Might give us some clew," I goes on, "as to what him and your Paw had a run-in about.

  • The Son of God was crowded in his inn, that he might give us a spacious dwelling in the kingdom of heaven, if we obey his will.

  • He was wrapped in mean swaddling clothes, that he might give us the immortal garment which we lost by the first created man's transgression.

  • Jesus was moved with compassion for the mother, that he might give us an example of his piety; and he afterwards raised the dead, that he might confirm us to his faith.

  • Because of the past, when Pierre had shown himself so quick-witted and having such a good idea of military matters, I made no protest against his proposition; but stood ready to obey implicitly any orders he might give.

  • I might give you a place at storing stoves.

  • He might give up Suzanne--he might--he might.

  • Burgess, the prospective father-in-law of Sylvia and the editor and proprietor of the Morning Appeal, might give him a place as a reporter or type-setter in order that he might learn the business from the ground up.

  • Burgess says he might give you a position as a type-setter or a reporter on the Appeal if you'd come in and see him some day," he explained, looking over to where his son was reading by the lamp.

  • This is, then, one of the greatest demonstrations of the love of God, that God is made man, and has showed himself a true lover of men, having taken upon him what is human that he might give us what is divine.

  • But he always found resources for their necessities in the hearts of his people; and he refused himself everything that he might give all to the poor.

  • That he might give to Christ in the persons of the poor all that was in his power, he deprived himself of his own little conveniences and necessaries for that purpose in whatever it was possible for him to retrench from his own use.

  • His contempt of the world appeared by the disinterestedness with which he rejected legacies and presents whenever they might give occasion to complaints.

  • P: Then We revived you after your extinction, that ye might give thanks.

  • P: Then, even after that, We pardoned you in order that ye might give thanks.

  • P: And Allah brought you forth from the wombs of your mothers knowing nothing, and gave you hearing and sight and hearts that haply ye might give thanks.

  • She'd win in a walk; unless The Dutchman was at his best when he might give her an argument.

  • I might give you a thousand for a contract, an' losin' and winnin' mounts when you had a leg up.

  • Mr Carbury has a small property there, and he might give it to me to-morrow.

  • And a little child came and said: "I saw the dragon taking off his head in the barn so that he might give a kiss to my sister Minnie.

  • Although the development among them of certain muscles, due to the particular nature of their work, might give a false idea of their strength, they presented sure signs of morbid debility.

  • And the holy Mael knew that the Devil had taken the features of the monk, Magis, in order that he might give clothes to the daughter of Alca.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    evident truths; great people; hexameter verse; might appear; might become; might expect; might fall; might happen; might have; might have been the; might hope; might obtain; might seem; might serve; might speak; might still; mighty blow; mighty effort; mighty good; mighty great; mighty hand; mighty hard; mighty hunter; mighty shout; sent messengers; steam shovel