Never once did he buy me a single gift and for our third anniversary he gave me a dislocated jaw.

The teachers of Mr. Uno's school gave me a small gift to thank me for coming.

He allowed a synagogue to be built in Rome, and he gave as a gift to this synagogue a scroll of the Torah known as the Severus Scroll.

The Lord Jesus Christ gave His Spirit to His Apostles ; they in turn laid their hands on those who should succeed them ; and these again on others ; and so the sacred gift has been handed down to our present bishops, who have appointed us as their assistants, and in some sense representatives.

Eleanor's grandfather, William IX of Aquitaine, gave her this rock crystal vase, which she in turn gave to Louis as a wedding gift.

He gave Marion the world's first portable radio as a wedding gift.

Zeus gave her the gift to be able to take her eyes out to rest, and then put them back in.

Since Zeus could not undo what she had done, he gave him the gift of prophecy.

Hephaestus also created the gift that the gods gave to man, the woman Pandora and her pithos.

Terrified by his words, and conscience of my own timidity and cowardice, I gave up my journey and attempted to apply whatever gift I had in defense of my faith.

Herod originally leased Jericho from Cleopatra, after Mark Antony gave it to her as a gift.

Mark Antony supposedly gave Cleopatra over 200, 000 scrolls ( taken from the great Library of Pergamum ) for the library as a wedding gift, but this is regarded by some historians as a propagandist claim meant to show Antony's allegiance to Egypt rather than Rome.

Amazingly, the physicist Pyotr Kapitsa refused to work with Beria even after he gave him a hunting rifle as a gift.

It became Stalin ’ s favorite film and he gave it as a gift to President Roosevelt during WWII.

Following criticisms of the statue, Al-Fayed said " If some stupid fans don't understand and appreciate such a gift this guy gave to the world they can go to hell.

In mid-1823, Professor Rasmussen gave Abel a gift of 100 speciedaler so he could travel to Copenhagen and visit Ferdinand Degen and other mathematicians there.

After their escape, they stayed with Aeolus, the master of the winds and he gave Odysseus a leather bag containing all the winds, except the west wind, a gift that should have ensured a safe return home.

Finally, Hermes gives this woman a name: Pandora – " All-gifted " – " because all the Olympians gave her a gift " ( 81 ).

The decree records that Ptolemy V gave a gift of silver and grain to the temples.

In the Doctor Who spin-off series, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Sarah Jane Smith uses a " sonic lipstick ", which is a gift the Tenth Doctor gave her alongside a new model of K-9 and her scanner watch.

The government of UAE by an order from Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan the President of UAE, gave Egypt cargo ships carrying 850, 000 tonnes of wheat as a food gift to the people of Egypt.

Baron Fassini Camossi, the former Italian diplomat to China, gave Puccini as a gift a music box which played a number of Chinese melodies.

Maximilian also gave a bizarre jousting helmet as a gift to King Henry VIII – the helmet's visor featured a human face, with eyes, nose and a grinning mouth, and was modeled after the appearance of Maximilian himself.

Both later amended their conflict when Susanoo gave her the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi sword as a reconciliation gift.

This law conferred the Chequers Estate owned by Sir Arthur and Lady Lee, as a gift to the Crown for use as a country home for future Prime Ministers.

As they build, Lady Rectitude informs Christine with examples and “ stories of pagan, Hebrew, and Christian ladies ” who possessed the gift of prophecy, chastity, or devotion to their families and others.

He used the gift of earth given to him by the Lady Galadriel, which caused the saplings he planted to grow at an accelerated rate.

Major bequests include Reverend Chauncy Hare Townshend's collection of 154 gems bequeathed in 1869, Lady Cory's 1951 gift of major diamond jewellery from the 18th and 19th centuries, and jewellery scholar Dame Joan Evans ' 1977 gift of more than 800 jewels dating from the Middle Ages to the early 19th century.

Lady Godiva statue by Sir William Reid Dick unveiled at midday on 22 October 1949 in Broadgate, Coventry, a £ 20, 000 gift from Mr WH Bassett-Green, a Coventrian.

Godiva (, " god gift "), often referred to as Lady Godiva, was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants.

According to interviews with Judge in the 1840s, the First Lady had promised the young woman as a wedding gift to her granddaughter Elizabeth Parke Custis in Virginia and Judge feared she would never gain freedom.

He visited the Wall Market to find a gift for his sweetheart Daisy Hempstock, and ended up fathering Tristran by Madame Semele's abused slave girl, Lady Una.

BeatlesandBeyond Radio presenter Pete Dicks reports that the title is actually " Lady is a Champ "; it was a surprise gift for Maureen's 21st birthday.

The film's opening sequence, in which Darling unwraps a hat box on Christmas morning and finds Lady inside, is based on an incident when Walt Disney presented his wife Lily with a Chow puppy as a gift in a hat box.

According to some non-official primary sources, Taichang's illness was brought about by excessive sexual indulgence after he was presented with eight beautiful serving girls by his nemesis Lady Zheng as a coronation gift.

In mid-April 1205, Llywelyn the Great married Joan, Lady of Wales illegitimate daughter of King John and Ellesmere was given to them as a wedding gift.

Mortimer was awarded Montfort's severed head and other parts of his anatomy, which he sent home to Wigmore Castle as a gift for his wife, Lady Mortimer.

Fresco: the " Lady of Mycenae " accepts a gift of a necklace.

She became famous following the posthumous publication of her Nature Notes for 1906, in facsimile form, as the book The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady in 1977, which was an enormous publishing success, frequently given as a gift.

Similarly to many early 20th century refurbishments of old estates, the immediate grounds, which fall away behind the house, were shaped into overlapping rectilinear terraces and garden plats, in lawn and mixed herbaceous gardens in the Lutyens-Jekyll manner, linked by steps descending to lakes that Churchill created by a series of small dams, the water garden where he fed his fish, Lady Churchill's Rose garden and the Golden Rose Walk, a Golden Wedding anniversary gift from their children.

" He is then visited by several Twin Peaks residents all played by SNL cast members: Audrey Horne, played by Victoria Jackson, who gives Cooper a going away gift and ties the ribbon with her tongue ; Leland Palmer, played by Phil Hartman, who requests that Cooper dance with him ; Nadine Hurley ( Jan Hooks ), who wants Cooper to take her silent drape runners to the patent office ; The Log Lady, also played by Hooks, following Truman's observation that there were only two female SNL cast members ; and finally Leo in custody of Deputy Andy Brennan ( Conan O ' Brien ).

He also received encouragement from outside his family ; Lat's primary school teacher Mrs Moira Hew ( the inspiration for one of his characters, the Butterfly-Glassed Lady ), helped nurture his gift, frequently asking him to illustrate lessons in class.

Merlin himself kills Vortigern with the aid of the magical sword Excalibur, given to him as a gift by the Lady of the Lake.

A lover of animals, among the many philanthropic causes Lady Beaverbrook supported, the established the Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre at the University of Prince Edward Island with a $ 2. 2 million gift.

After commencing in 1882 with a gift of £ 200, 000, construction would not be completed until 1910, nearly 23 years after Lady Flora's death in 1887.

A replica installed in Moscow was a gift from First Lady of the United States | United States First Lady Barbara Bush to Soviet First Lady Raisa Gorbachyova | Raisa Gorbachev.