How To Use Stowing In A Sentence
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As soon as she was alongside and made fast I went on board and had a good look at her interior, not forgetting to inscribe my name legibly on the most conveniently situated locker in the midshipmen's berth, after which I watched the operation of shipping and stowing her ballast.
A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy
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Gregory's procedure was little less revolutionary than that of the King, but the claim to depose might appear as only a concomitant to the power already wielded by Popes in bestowing crowns, while for Gregory it had by this time become the copingstone in the fabric of those relations between Church and State which he and his party were building up.
The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304
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Even at its zenith in the mid-20th century, mink had few rivals, with only sable and the pelts of big cats bestowing anywhere near the same prestige.
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If your poverty of expression compel you to make any distinction between the two, we would certainly recommend your bestowing more admiration on his garden than his wine.
Sketches by Boz
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We thought it was pretty lousy that rides weve been going on for years and taking the bag on, or stowing it in a cubby-hole on the platform, now suddenly charged a buck each.
Six Flags Requires You To Check All Bags Before Each Rollercoaster For $1 Per Ride - The Consumerist
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Flavonoids are the most powerful health bestowing constituent of tonic herbs.
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Stowing away his "dunnage," therefore, in the after deck - house, and flinging his bedding into the berth which he selected for his own occupation, he quickly rejoined the mate, who furnished him with book and pencil, and stationed him at the after hatchway to take account of everything which passed down that receptacle.
The Missing Merchantman
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She isn't one to ask to spend time looking at old pictures, so stowing them on a high shelf requiring a stepladder to reach won't be a problem.
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In bestowing the sovereignty on the King of Prussia, care was taken that he should confirm all the doubtful privileges of the people; for it is a fundamental maxim of this little state, "_that the sovereignty resides not in the person of the prince, but in the state_".
A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium
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Pop described how he escaped Mayo poverty, four years before the Easter Rising, by stowing away on a boat to England, where he planned to earn passage to America.
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Despite the fact that nature has been harsh and cruel to Afghanistan it has been generous in bestowing bounties of sorts.
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Himself in Himself, after a fashion which we can neither describe nor conceive, predestinating all things, formed them as He pleased, bestowing harmony on all things, and assigning them their own place, and the beginning of their creation.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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They seemed to feel they had me under their protection, and vied with each other in bestowing upon me the most considerate attention of which they were capable.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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Such a nice bibliomaniacal fancy must have delighted Dibdin; and as he was at one time librarian at Althorpe, he doubtless was the medium of bestowing this charm upon the binding of his own work for his friend.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
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His character is oily and unctuous, bestowing kisses upon any woman in reach, including cringing audience members.
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I am obliged always to use the English word 'Grace' in two senses, but remember that the Greek [Greek: charis] includes them both (the bestowing, that is to say, of Beauty and Mercy); and especially it includes these in the passage of Pindar's first ode, which gives us the key to the right interpretation of the power of sculpture in Greece.
Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870
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The rich tolerate the poor by taxpaying and contribution, i. e. bestowing on the poor their own resources and wealth.
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For the mental toiler, also, it is equally important that the period devoted to the restoration of brain material and the imbibition of a fresh supply of nerve power for the ensuing day's requirements should be passed under circumstances the most favourable for bestowing them.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken
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After stowing the shotgun in the self-locking rack on the dashboard, I settled in for what I hoped would be a mistake free night for my first tour of duty.
April 5th, 2005
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There are two stages to alpenglow, a first surge that waxes and wanes, fooling amateur photographers into stowing away their cameras, and then a sudden short-lived second rush of colors.
The Wall
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Last time I checked, the Greatest Hits double album is technically a Led Zeppelin album, thus instantly bestowing the tracks contained therein with magic album power, making them suitable for official Zep-sanctioned listening.
Led Zeppelin Makes Bold, Artistic Decision to Put Catalogue Online to Promote Greatest Hits Album | Best Week Ever
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Well, this is what I call luck!" exclaimed Ferd Stowing.
Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island The Mystery of the Wreck
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Their fellow natives pass and repass without noticing them or thought of bestowing aid or alms, and here it is not expected; they have passed beyond the pale of charity; it is the last ditch; they are here to die, not to receive alms.
Archive 2009-09-01
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She motioned to the sisters and after stowing away all loose belongings, the women retired to the cabana to change into ceremonial dress.
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He was responsible for securing the fenders and stowing mooring ropes when the vessel left berth.
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Quickly stowing the teddy bear under her bed (it enraged her father to see it), she grabbed one of her schoolbooks and pretended to be reading about biology.
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stinting in bestowing gifts
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He unlocked it and the trunk, stowing our stuff in there.
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Most of us immediately wipe up spills in the fridge, and we all know we should tightly seal food before stowing it, and toss out edibles past their prime.
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Stowing away on a meat truck, animal carcasses swung from hooks.
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And what of dignity or meaning could be said? where talking of sacred subjects is not allowed, under the pretext that it scatters those blessings which should be carefully treasured up; and bestowing much information concerning the secular plans of economy practiced by your own to the other sex is not approved; and where to talk of literary matters would be termed bombastic pedantry and small display, and would serve to exhibit accomplishments which might be enticingly dangerous.
The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation
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At last, their dispute came near to an open declaration of hostilities, the incensed episcopalian bestowing on the recusants the whole thunders of the commination, and receiving from them, in return, the denunciations of a Calvinistic excommunication.
Old Mortality
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Outside, the cook and cookee were stowing articles in the already loaded wanigan.
The Blazed Trail
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Eliza once saved an African shaman who repaid her kindness by bestowing her with the ability to talk with critters.
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When an immortal grants a longer life to a mortal, temporarily bestowing our powers to them, there is no written or unwritten rule that states the Childe must stay with their Sire.
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Dobbin helped him to it; for the lady of the house, before whom the tureen was placed, was so ignorant of the contents, that she was going to help Mr. Sedley without bestowing upon him either calipash or calipee.
Vanity Fair
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It is true that God was good to Canada in bestowing upon it untold riches but it took a great people to overcome the difficulties that Providence placed in your way.
An Address by Raymond Daniell and Tania Long
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He, with a noble goodness all his own, took infinite delight in bestowing to prodigality the treasures of his mind and fortune on the long-neglected son of his father's friend, the offspring of that gifted being whose excellencies and talents he had heard commemorated from infancy.
I.2
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There is a ceremony for bestowing the temporary stripes on students before the six-week period of general military training.
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Isn't it grand for a name to reverberate with meaning for the parents in the sense of their bestowing a blessing on a child?
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The act of being robed in white by the heavenly benefactor speaks of the divine patron bestowing honor upon them in their hour of shame.
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And then some of their cargo showed up, and they were all busy stowing it in the cargo hold.
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I know that the Samoan people honoured him by bestowing a matai title of Tagaloa.
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He destroys the wonderful peripeteia of the original story, jettisons the power of the over-the-top surreal insanity by bestowing it on a minor character, and replaces it all with a fatalistic conclusion to a psycho-drama.
Dread
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He next mounted the footboard, and, having peered in through the window of the sealed compartment, produced from his pocket a small insufflator or powder-blower, with which he blew a stream of impalpable smoke-like powder on to the edges of the middle window, bestowing the closest attention on the irregular dusty patches in which it settled, and even measuring one on the jamb of the window with a pocket-rule.
John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman
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The Englishmen extricated themselves from their importunity by bestowing, as is usual on such occasions, a donative of small coin upon those who appeared most needy, or most deserving of their charity one tall woman stood on the steps close to the door, and extended her hand to the elder Philipson, who, struck with her appearance, exchanged for a piece of silver the copper coins which he had been distributing amongst others.
Anne of Geierstein
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The dermatologists and plastic surgeons I interviewed noted that creases bestowing an angry or saturnine look (usually forehead furrows) on their bearers are particularly irksome.
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Returning to Metro had taken him several months of stowing away on cargo ships and transports before finally reaching the city.
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They had a light lunch on board the ship, after stowing their purchases.
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She laughed, stowing the twenty-five thousand pesetas away, leaned across the counter, and took my hand warmly.
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Afterwards, officials and people from all walks of life took turns bestowing garlands and bouquets of flowers before a magnificent picture of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, honoring and celebrating the occasion.
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He was for bestowing on Zuleika the half of his immensurable estates.
Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
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Maria carefully rolled the piece, winding a length of sticky tape around the tube, stowing it in her bag.
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It is not by many, or any, chances that I have to wet my feet; so there is small generosity in bestowing two pairs on you or the Doctor.
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Britt gave to this blunderheaded news purveyor the tail end of the malevolent stare that he had been bestowing on the Prophet's back.
When Egypt Went Broke
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Club, which is the British shrine of boxing, where I saw a fight for one of the championship belts that Lord Lonsdale is forever bestowing on this or that worshipful fisticuffer.
Europe Revised
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The American Library Association, in bestowing on me their highest honor, turned me from a frog into a prince.
Archive 2009-08-01
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He is the Giant who most frequently bequeaths nicknames, and he's the most free in bestowing identities too.
A Provocateur and a Role Model
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The bear was stowing the cables in a locker near the starboard side of the cargo arena.
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Chapter Thirteen Brother Cadfael walked the crest of the dunes in the early evening of the third day, and saw the Danish cargo ships beached in the shallows below him, and the line of men, stripped half-naked to wade from shore to ships, ferrying the barrels of silver pence aboard, and stowing them under foredeck and afterdeck.
His Disposition
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Stowing away on a tramper bound for Leopoldville as was, he evaded the attentions of a colonial government ill disposed towards stray white missionaries, and attached himself to a remote community of friars dedicated to bringing the One True Faith to the two hundred-odd tribes of the Eastern Congo, an ambitious commitment at any time.
The mission song
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Princes to differre the bestowing of their great liberalities as
The Arte of English Poesie
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Mrs. McKay rapidly reads it as Uncle Jack is bestowing bags and bundles in the omnibus and feeing the acceptive porter, who now rushes back to the boat in the nick of time.
Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier
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In stowing shell-rooms, filled shells are to be stowed together in boxes or bags; those having fuzes of different times of burning, and each kind of fuze, will be placed in tiers or ranges distinctly separate.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
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Pym shows absolutely no surprise at the notion that he is to encoffin himself and sit around in the dark for a few days; it is treated as an entirely routine part of stowing away.
Kaleidoglide
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She ran me to earth just as I was stowing my kit; I salaamed respectfully, and she fixed me with a glittering eye and demanded if I spoke English.
Fiancée
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You have to give them some space, she said, staring askance at my storage methods, which involved squishing together as many garments as possible and stowing the overspill under the bed, which was itself overspilling.
Creating Your Own Clearance Rack
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Despite the fact that nature has been harsh and cruel to Afghanistan it has been generous in bestowing bounties of sorts.
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Halifax Bay (immediately to the north of Cleveland Bay) perpetuates the title; "Mount" Hinchinbrook (from his course Cook could not see the channel and did not realise that he was bestowing a name upon an island) commemorates the family seat of the Montagus; Cape Sandwich
Confessions of a Beachcomber
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The fact that Angie went postal on the guy when she did not get the ring, busting open his lip and scratching his cornea while calling him four-letter names that would make a dockworker blush, evidently did not dissuade the board from bestowing on her the honor.
Parents Behaving Badly
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Sea gulls screech over head, their noiseless chatter bestowing fresh fish onto the heads of tourists who know not how to treat a gull.
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Having filled the ship up, in this way, to within four feet of her beams, the process of steeving commenced, by which an hundred hides are got into a place where one could not be forced by hand, and which presses the hides to the utmost, sometimes starting the beams of the ship, resembling in its effects the jack-screws which are used in stowing cotton.
Chapter XXIX. Loading for Home-A Surprise-Last of an Old Friend-The Last Hide-A Hard Case-Up Anchor, for Home!-Homeward Bound
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And if to deny His power in revenging the injuries committed against Him, would be a great blasphemy, it would be worse to deny it in that wherein He is most desirous of manifesting it – viz., in bestowing favours.
The Letters of St. Teresa
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Bentley having spoken thus, Scaliger, bestowing him a sour look, “Miscreant prater!” said he,
The Battle of the Books
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But then, given their penchant for revenging themselves on their enemies by holding them down and nailing their knees to the floor, perhaps no-one wanted to give offence by bestowing on them the wrong sort of nickname.
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He rode a wave, and Repubs controlled the government, and laurel-bestowing ceremonies were held to bestew his brow with honorific leafiness.
Why Twitter Matters & The Left Should Be Nervous
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And Bacon did not allude to the tragic sequel - incest and parricide - as if his Oedipus has emerged triumphant, blessed by his wound and thereby bestowing blessings.
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Bestowing her name on the childcreating a namesakeestablished an enduring bond that complemented or stood in place of ties of blood or affinal kinship, since a midwife might be a female relative (usually an affine), a nsungukati 80 from a neighboring homestead, or a female member of the staff of a mission or state hospital.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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I stopped and looked round me anxiously, but not a living thing besides had been disturbed, and presently I was stowing the parachute away in a bed of high rank grass and docken just under the wall.
The Man from the Clouds
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Age, while bestowing on this garment a patine worthy of a Renaissance bronze, had deprived it of whatever curves the wearer's pre-Raphaelite figure had once been able to impress on it; but this stiffness of outline gave it an air of sacerdotal state which seemed to emphasize the importance of the occasion.
Bunner Sisters
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He slipped into the trench coat, getting up and stowing the ammo and gun.
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The stowing of the rubbish seemed surreptitious, even furtive, to a young and ignorant mind.
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Immediately after stowing our goggles, a blinding bright light flashed in front of my windscreen.
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We looked at the issues around bestowing property on another party, when people die intestate.
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Belinda was silent; but, after a pause, she said, 'That it was certainly very dangerous, especially for women, to trust to fancy in bestowing their affections.'
Belinda
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Nor was he interested, primarily, in bestowing honors, either upon the living or the dead.
Nobel Prize in Physics 1939 - Presentation Speech
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God receives men into His fatherly favor, manifested in bestowing prosperity [Calvin].
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Having filled the ship up, in this way, to within four feet of her beams, the process of steeving began, by which a hundred hides are got into a place where scarce one could be forced by hand, and which presses the hides to the utmost, sometimes starting the beams of the ship, -- resembling in its effects the jack-screws which are used in stowing cotton.
Two Years Before the Mast
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So much did the Badshah appreciate the society of his admiral that he grudged him to the sea, but compromised matters by bestowing on him a _jaghir_ with a river frontage, which the Habshi's descendants, in the break-up of the empire, contrived to erect into the independent state of Habshiabad.
The Path to Honour
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In the altarpiece Mantegna portrays the Madonna extending her hand and bestowing special favor on the marquis, who is dressed in full armor.
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I am obliged always to use the English word "Grace" in two senses, but remember that the Greek [Greek: charis] includes them both (the bestowing, that is to say of Beauty and Mercy); and especially it includes these in the passage of Pindar's first ode, which gives us the key to the right interpretation of the power of sculpture in Greece.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
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By bestowing gifts of monopoly and protection, mercantilist policies paralyzed the body politic.
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Polonius reports that he will spy on Hamlet's visit to Queen Gertrude by stowing himself behind an arras in her bedroom.
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But after one wearing, most women were shamed into stowing them in their jewelry cases.
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Statuta antiqua" (fifth century): "Subdiaconus cum ordinatur ... accipiat ... de manu archidiaconi urceolum, aquamanile et manutergium" (when a subdeacon is ordained he shall receive from the hand of the archdeacon a water-pitcher, a finger-bowl, and a manuterge) is written regarding the rite used in bestowing the subdiaconate, a ceremony in practice, of course, today.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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Bestowing favor on a dubious sycophant often lead to the downfall of dynasties.
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When the brethren had heard and observed all these occurrences; in most bitter manner they railed on Arriguccio, bestowing some good bastinadoes on him beside, concluding thus with him in the end.
The Decameron
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Spirit Airlines, the low-cost carrier that soon will charge passengers for stowing carry-on bags in overhead bins, is now installing seats that can't move backward or forward on some of its aircraft.
Spirit Airlines installs pre-reclined seats
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The selection of the Annunciation was an emphasis on the glorious event of God bestowing a son upon a most blessed woman.
The Poet Prince
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After stowing the gaff, the skipper picked up the anglers trace and showed it to him.
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After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.
Chapter 4
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They organised elaborate hoaxes like the bestowing of imaginary honours, which he appears to have accepted with due solemnity.
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Even at its zenith in the mid-20th century, mink had few rivals, with only sable and the pelts of big cats bestowing anywhere near the same prestige.
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The rivers are female divinities, food and life bestowing mothers.
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Upon his death in 1377, the emperor decided to honor him posthumously by bestowing on him the status of deity in charge of protecting the land.
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If the heart is not inspired by sincerity in bestowing alms then almsgiving becomes mere display.
