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Be given   /bi gˈɪvən/   Listen
Be given

verb
1.
Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined.  Synonyms: incline, lean, run, tend.  "These dresses run small" , "He inclined to corpulence"






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"Be given" Quotes from Famous Books



... which, to say the least of it, must be regarded with some apprehension. The "plant," in the way of money and writing industry invested in the production of juvenile literature, is so large and is so permanent an interest, that it requires more discriminating consideration than can be given to ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... and be diverse from the first, and he should subdue three kings, [4] and speak great words against the most High, and wear out the saints, and think to change times and laws: and that they should be given into his hands until a time and times and half a time. Kings are put for kingdoms, as above; and therefore the little horn is a little kingdom. It was a horn of the fourth Beast, and rooted up three of his first horns; and therefore we are to look for it among the nations ...
— Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John • Isaac Newton

... mess to themselves, and ordered that they should not be interfered with in their devotions? Or than the record of the godly sergeants of the 3rd Grenadiers at Waterloo, who went into action praying that it might be given to them to aid in the final overthrow of the tyrant who threatened the ...
— From Aldershot to Pretoria - A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa • W. E. Sellers

... man acquiesced in one thing and communicated Zoie's wish to the waiter, than the flighty young person found something else on the menu that she considered more tempting to her palate. Time and again the waiter had to be recalled and the order had to be given over until Jimmy felt himself laying up a store of nervous indigestion that would doubtless last him ...
— Baby Mine • Margaret Mayo

... There's orders to be given.... There's a whole company of soldiers ... soldiers from the manoeuvres.... The town-hall is upside down.... He's the only one to ...
— The Frontier • Maurice LeBlanc


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