She told him that she could bestow only a broken spirit.

It is brimming over, as you see, with delicious wine, such as I bestow only on those who are worthy of it!

The title of doctor, however, was for a considerable time bestowed only on physicians.

Mrs. Marshall was beginning to expand- amarkof high favour which she bestowed only upon the few.

But this regard was bestowed only upon the women of their own household, by the rich and powerful.

He bestowed only a single glance upon them, as if his victory over such insignificant opponents were already assured.

Mr. Converse bestowed only a careless glance at the stranger who was waiting at the foot of the club-house steps.

Heaven has bestowed only one daughter upon me, who is beautiful as you are handsome, and now fit for marriage.

When profit is the only object, economy would dictate that labor shall be bestowed only where there will be a remuneration.

Not every Ptolemy king was named pharaoh throughout greater Egypt, because that honor was bestowed only by the sacred Priests of Ra.

He was born at Eastertide, and the Almighty blessed him with a happy temper such as he bestows only on a Sunday-child.

But with such grand displays as Nature is making here, how grand are her reservations, bestowed only upon those who devotedly seek them!

You have that awful paper hat which, despite its pathetic efforts to ape a coronet, bestows only very limited majesty on the wearer.

It was a worthy and honorable kind of patronage, and bestowed only as the great abilities of the recipient vindicated his claim to it.

Being able to hook the system up to the big color TV in the living room was a privilege bestowed only on special occasions.

"It is an order," he said in a quick aside, " bestowed only upon men of world-wide fame.