"Sylv," said he, one evening, while they were finishing the bestowment of the day's catch in the shed at one side of the cabin, where they kept the fish cool by means of spring water-"Sylv, I'd like right well to have you do somethin' for me."
"True and Other Stories"
George Parsons Lathrop
She had attained all that any woman could desire in the way of the world's bestowment.
"A Manifest Destiny"
Julia Magruder
Yet this sense has been overlaid and underrun and shot through with that other and disparate idea of salvation, as of a pure bestowment, something achieved apart from us, or, if one may so say, some alteration of ourselves upon other than moral and spiritual terms.
"Edward Caldwell Moore Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant"
Edward Moore