"So now I have given you a bargaining token in return for your earlier gift."

She then sought a refund of her earlier $20,000 gift tax payment.

He showed an early gift for organizing, founding his first athletic club, called Marcomannia, in 1899.

Two earlier gifts totaling $50 million went for minority scholarships and assistance to young scholars and junior faculty members.

Combined with an earlier gift of $72,696, their collection totals $126,714.

An early substantial gift was £5000 as the beginning of a fund to present a battleship to England.

A later charter from Bernard's nephew to the monks, which confirms the earlier gift, is couched in precisely the same words.

He showed an early gift for mathematics.

An early gift of a Douglas motorcycle from his father had started him on a successful motorcycle racing path.

He displayed an early gift for public speaking, winning a high school orating contest in 1976.