GIFT ( page 184 ).
Questions.
1. What is a gift? Is gift used in the good or the bad sense? Does the legal agree with the popular sense? 2. What synonymous word is always used in the evil sense? 3. What is a benefaction? a donation? What difference of usage is recognized between the two words? 4. What is a gratuity, and to whom given? 5. What is the sense and use of largess? 6. What is a present, and to whom given? 7. What is the special sense of boon? 8. What is a grant, and by whom made?
Examples.
He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,
Dominion absolute; that right we hold
By his ——.
True love's the —— which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven.
"——, ——, noble knights," cried the heralds.
The courts of justice had fallen so low that it was practically impossible to win a cause without a ——.