What is "gifted"

Usage examples of "gifted".

The sky had turned crimson and saffron in the east, and the deep midnight blue Dasaratha had seen from the akasa chamber had turned to a lighter blue, the exact blue shade of the white-and-blue china vase he had been gifted with by the Greek envoy just last week.

Emily Moseley had just completed her eighteenth year, and was gifted by nature with a vivacity and ardency of feeling that gave a heightened zest to the enjoyments of that happy age.

A day or two after Myrtle Hazard returned to the village, Master Byles Gridley, accompanied by Gifted Hopkins, followed her, as has been already mentioned, to the same scene of the principal events of this narrative.

Gifted lived there with his Susan,--and what had happened might happen again,--and gave Master Byles Gridley a formal and most persuasively worded invitation to come up and make his home with them at The Poplars.

Ascendant or demarch is greatly gifted or has some uncommon ability, he must marry and produce an heir before going into battle, to pass it down.

This has been exemplified in our own day in Bembo, in Sanazzaro, in Caro, in Guidoccione, in the Marchioness of Pescara, and in other writers and lovers of the Tuscan rhyme, who, although gifted with the highest and most singular genius, none the less, not being able of themselves to do better than nature exemplifies in Petrarca, they set themselves to follow him, but so happily that they are judged worthy to be read and counted with the best.

The jerboas or jumping mice are not only skilled athletes in the art of jumping, but they are gifted food conservers and producers as well.

She never suspected that the Rede held higher importance, but Kyre knew instinctually that its existence had gifted both families.

I might add that Donald Rumbelow, a former police officer, a gifted author, and one of the greatest experts on the case, agrees with the assessment that of all the communications, the Lusk letter is the only one likely to be genuine.

It was true that he had been a gifted chymist, maugre of his wayward character.

A Gifted healer, even a fully trained one like Naf Morikan, could stretch his Gift only so far before depleting his own energy.

But, though the Norteamericanos had been fairly generous to Panama, most of what had been gifted had gone to the regulars, not little bands of militia like hers.

Like certain gifted men who have no ear for music, Penche had only small taste for the accouterments of civilization.

In prehistoric and early historic times, the mountainous region which forms the basin of these two rivers was occupied by a gifted military race, the Etruscans, who possest a singular assimilative power for Oriental and Hellenic culture.

Some, indeed, were both handsome and gifted, not the least pulchritudinous being one Rachel Good.