vouchsafed

• No answer was vouchsafed, the fact being that the title is a pure invention, and no such collection has ever existed. —  Charles Dickens and Music
• He had seen what few men are vouchsafed, the material fulfilment of his year-long dreams, and knew it was by his own tireless energy and overmastering faith that they had been wrought upon the soil of his native land. —  Mahomet
• This supernatural light is rarely vouchsafed, and it is accordingly in the highest degree presumptuous in any person to overstep the ordinary routine of distinctly ordered duty, under the idea that he is called by God to break the rules given for the guidance of mankind in general. —  The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others
• However, the day was not over, and we landed for lunch, believing that better fortune would be vouchsafed--lunch, too, in open, warm sunshine Harling and the notebook were resumed, and lest we should settle down too readily to monotony, a flutter down stream betrayed the whereabouts of the Black Dog, betrayed also a wretched little kelt (about 5 lb called in these parts a "kelt grilse." —  Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
• Even to me monosyllables only were vouchsafed, and matters assumed a lowering aspect. —  Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island

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