Sentence examples for as a present from from inspiring English sources

She remembered receiving a book as a present from her parents every Christmas.

"They're going to get a taste of Yonkers as a present from me".

The second recounts the journey in 1551of an elephant sent as a present from Lisbon to Vienna and is enchanting.

Here is the poem, translated by Arthur Waley: Sent as a present from Annam— A red cockatoo.

On coming to his senses he slew himself with the sword that he had received as a present from Hector.

By E. B. White The New Yorker, January 9, 1932 P. 9 Hoover receives a six-month's subscription to the New Yorker as a present from a friend.

Set in the Great Depression, it was based on an anthology of the Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie he bought as a Christmas present from the now defunct Doubleday book store on New York's Fifth Avenue.

Such a sweetheart deal would certainly look as though the president had accepted a "present" from a foreign state.

When I let him in, he is beyond apologetic and has swiped some tulips from somewhere as a present for me.

In this group is an ink drawing he received as a birthday present from Jackson Pollock, an ink drawing by the sculptor David Smith, and gouaches by Adolph Gottlieb and Hans Hofmann.

In 1887, Abdul Karim, a servant sent as a Golden Jubilee present from India, who taught Hindi and Urdu to the Queen, became a brown Brown.