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    1. It was felt that God, in a moment of revelation, would vouchsafe to each of His elect knowledge of his having


    2. The four guardsmen stared at the strangers with wonder, but asked no question, nor did Techotl vouchsafe any information


    3. I pray thee, by the precious blood which thy divine son Jesus shed in the garden, deliver the souls in purgatory and especially that soul amongst them all which is most destitute of spiritual aid; and vouchsafe to bring to thy glory, there to praise and bless thee forever


    4. Whence said I: Master, now vouchsafe to me,


    5. The which to heare, vouchsafe, O dearest dred a-while


    6. That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court


    7. The king, sir, hath laid, that in a dozen passes between yourself and him, he shall not exceed you three hits: he hath laid on twelve for nine; and it would come to immediate trial, if your lordship would vouchsafe the answer


    8. Still grander are the gifts of heaven which Musaeus and his son vouchsafe to the just; they take them down into the world below, where they have the saints lying on couches at a feast, everlastingly drunk, crowned with garlands; their idea seems to be that an immortality of drunkenness is the highest meed of virtue


    9. Let us try to conform to them and follow them, and let us be persuaded that the less we let our feeble human minds roam, the better we shall please God, who rejects all knowledge that does not come from Him; and the less we seek to fathom what He has been pleased to conceal from us, the sooner will He vouchsafe its revelation to us through His divine Spirit


    10. And how impossible did it appear to touch the inmates of this house with concern on my behalf; to make them believe in the truth of my wants and woes—to induce them to vouchsafe a rest for my wanderings! As I groped out the

    11. No sound reached me from the world above and no word would my jailer vouchsafe when my food was brought to me, although I at first bombarded him with questions


    12. " Don't answer further, don't vouchsafe me an answer ! I know that such questions from me are impossible ! I only \\anted to know whether he is worthy of you or not, but I will find out for myself


    13. She did not even vouchsafe the usual courteous smile of etiquette


    1. " I said unto her "Lady since you have vouchsafed to reveal all to me this once reveal it


    2. And as I walked alone I prayed the Lord to complete the revelations which He had made to me through His holy Church that He might strengthen me and give repentance to all His servants who were going astray that His great and glorious name might be glorified because He vouchsafed to show me His marvels


    3. I asked him again and said "Since the Lord has vouchsafed to dwell always with me hear with me while I utter a few words; for I understand nothing and my heart has been hardened by my previous mode of life


    4. My Father is no respecter of races or generations in that the word of truth is vouchsafed one age and withheld from another


    5. He vouchsafed no information as to what had caused him to flee the Barachas, but the knowledge that he was capable of a deed bloody enough to have exiled him from that wild band increased the respect felt toward him by the fierce Freebooters


    6. 'And all Joey vouchsafed as a reward for my ebullition of real feeling was the information that he considered me quite a decent sort


    7. When I came up my mountain three months ago, alone and so miserable, no vision was vouchsafed me that I would go down it again one of four people, each of whom would leave the little house full of renewed life, of restored hope, of wholesome looking-forward, clarified, set on their feet, made useful once more to themselves and the world


    8. (3) Or lastly, it may be held that children are born under the legal curse of total mortality as sons of Adam; but, as the objects of the redeeming mercy which contemplates the whole race of mankind (as is asserted in numerous passages of apostolic teaching), their spirits pass—if they die before reaching years of serious responsibility, of which God alone is the judge—into a state, 'with the Lord,’ where they partake of the grace vouchsafed to the dead who have not known Christ; and that they are there tenderly developed and educated under the care of 'their angels’ into the knowledge and service of Christ, receiving the gift of the Regenerating Spirit, and awaiting the resurrection of glory


    9. If the Eternal Cause is good as well as powerful, it is not improbable that He may have vouchsafed a message of pardon and eternal life to man, the 'paragon of nature


    10. these vouchsafed to thee,

    11. With ray of light, steady, ineffable, vouchsafed of Thee,


    12. She took a tremendous list which made the minutes of grace vouchsafed her of not much use for the saving of lives


    13. When the note was shown to Elinor, as it was within ten minutes after its arrival, it gave her, for the first time, some share in the expectations of Lucy; for such a mark of uncommon kindness, vouchsafed on so short an acquaintance, seemed to declare that the good-will towards her arose from something more than merely malice against herself; and might be brought, by time and address, to do every thing that Lucy wished


    14. dressed in nothing but a white morning gown, he vouchsafed to play the


    15. "Ha, ha," said Chateau-Renaud, "here comes some friends of yours, viscount! What are you looking at there? don't you see they are trying to catch your eye?" Albert turned round, just in time to receive a gracious wave of the fan from the baroness; as for Mademoiselle Eugenie, she scarcely vouchsafed to waste the glances of her large black eyes even upon the business of the stage


    16. But, gracious heaven, was I left with but a crust in my wallet and a cupful of water from the well, my God, I would accept of them and find it in my heart to kneel down upon the ground and give thanks to the powers above for the happiness vouchsafed me by the Giver of good things


    17. My father and mother were, and for aught I know, are still, farmers in the country, not above forty miles from town: their barbarity to me, in favour of a son, on whom alone they vouchsafed to bestow their tenderness, had a thousand times determined me to fly their house, and throw myself on the wide world; but, at length, an accident forced me on this desperate attempt at the age of


    18. I was now handed by him to the cockpit of our match, where, as I was dressed in nothing but a white morning gown, he vouchsafed to play the male Abigail on this occasion, and spared me the confusion that would have attended the forwardness of


    19. There were also interviews he had given as a businessman in Berlin in which he vouchsafed that he had been born more or less on the streets


    20. ‘The change is not in his external position,’ Countess Lidia Ivanovna said sternly, following with eyes of love the figure of Alexey Alexandrovitch as he got up and crossed over to Landau; ‘his heart is changed, a new heart has been vouchsafed him, and I fear you don’t fully apprehend the change that has taken place in him

    21. He was struck at first by the idea that the apprehension of divine truths had not been vouchsafed to man, but to a corporation of men bound together by love—to the church


    22. My welfare and that of the passengers around me is vouchsafed


    23. This consciousness upon which he had intruded was the single opportunity of existence ever vouchsafed to Tess by an unsympathetic First Cause—her all; her every and only chance


    24. Casaubon, kissing her candid brow, and feeling that heaven had vouchsafed him a blessing in every way suited to his peculiar wants


    25. The standard of reasonable completeness for annual reports, suggested above, by no means includes all the information which might be vouchsafed to shareholders


    26. No statement relating to these amazing entries was vouchsafed to the stockholders in the annual reports or to the New York Stock Exchange in subsequent listing applications


    27. Earnshaw vouchsafed no answer


    28. “Once again, seriously; may I enjoy the great good that has been vouchsafed to me, without fearing that any one else is suffering the bitter pain I myself felt a while ago?”


    29. I have brought you a book for evening solace,” and he laid on the table a new publication—a poem: one of those genuine productions so often vouchsafed to the fortunate public of those days—the golden age of modern literature


    30. In spite of their predisposition to obedience very many of them, through a playfulness of nature, sometimes vouchsafed even to the cow, like to imagine themselves advanced people, ‘destroyers,’ and to push themselves into the ‘new movement,’ and this quite sincerely

    31. ‘I divined then, Sonia,’ he went on eagerly, ‘that power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up


    32. "Why, so you,too,are sometimes distressed at the impossibility of putting thought into words ! That's a noble sorrow, my dear fellow, and it's only vouchsafed to the elect : the fool is always satisfied with what he has said, and alwaj^s, too, says more than he need ; they love to have something to spare


    33. ' Of course you'll be disposed to be severe with them if it has been vouchsafed to you to be ever so little more intelligent than the average


    34. Only to the Russian, even in our day, has been vouchsafed the capacity to become most of all Russian only when he is most European, and this is true even in our day, that is, long before the millennium has been reached


    35. Depravity in such a place, depravity of the last aspirations, depravity of sodden and rotten corpses—and not even sparing the last moments of consciousness! Those moments have been granted, vouchsafed to them, and


    36. He wrote to the court himself that he was a monster, but that in the end God had vouchsafed him light and shown grace


    37. Seek no reward, for great is your reward on this earth: the spiritual joy which is only vouchsafed to the righteous man


    38. The young man had listened without disguising his boredom, had rudely yawned, had vouchsafed no word of praise; but on leaving had asked for the manuscript that he might form an opinion of it at his leisure, and Andrey Antonovitch had given it him


    39. Almost the same information was vouchsafed by different generals, telegraph operators, and dealers in groceries


    40. It would indeed be so were it not that to men, and therefore to the world, there has been vouchsafed the capacity for a loftier conception of life, which has the power to set free, and at once, from all fetters, however firmly riveted

    41. Golyadkin senior, while the latter held on to it with all the strength that had been vouchsafed to him by nature


    42. But she would at least have the painful joy of the Brahmin woman’s hope, who trusts by some fresh incantation to secure a blessing, formerly vouchsafed her by the gods, but which now old-time petitions fail to renew


    1. Without vouchsafing a syllable in reply to Vassenka’s protestations that it had been quite dry there, Levin worked in silence with the coachman at extricating the horses


    2. And without adding another syllable he turned, went out, and walked downstairs, without vouchsafing a glance in the landlady's direction, though she was evidently expecting news and explanations


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    Synonyms for "vouchsafe"

    vouchsafe endow award accord confer present give heap

    "vouchsafe" definitions

    grant in a condescending manner