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Bounty
Generosity; also an act of generosity.
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(quote-journal) review|journal=Review (London)|The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged|location=London|publisher=Printed by Strahan|Strahan and Spottiswoode|Spottiswoode,(nb...); and sold by J. Porter, successor to the late Thomas Becket,(nb...)|year=1819|volume=LXXXVIII|page=536|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/monthlyreview82unkngoog/page/n538/mode/1up|oclc=901376714|passage=His &91;(w)'s&93; gifts, though conferred for the interest of his ambition, appeared always scattered with an easy bounty.
(RQ:Mary Shelley Frankenstein)
(quote-journal)|journal=Year Book No. 10 of the Oneida Historical Society, at Utica, N.Y.|location=Utica, N.Y.|publisher=Oneida Historical Society at Utica|date=12 October 1903|year_published=1905|page=50|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/transactionsofon09onei/page/102/mode/1up|oclc=40314158|passage=The enervating character of the climate, combined with the bounty of nature, which supplies the limited wants of the natives, in return for little labor, has from time immemorial produced a population within these zones essentially inefficient as compared with that of the temperate zone.
(quote-book),(nb...)|date=3 November 1704|year_published=1736|page=257|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=2XJbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA257|oclc=728284596|passage=... We have given and granted, and by theſe Preſents for Us, Our Heirs, and Succeſſors, do give and grant unto the ſaid Governors of the Queen Anne's Bounty|Bounty of Queen ANNE, for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the poor Clergy, hereby conſtituted, and their Succeſſors, all the Revenues of Firſt Fruits and yearly perpetual Tenths of all Dignities, Offices, Benefices, and Promotions Spiritual whatſoever, ...
(quote-journal)|month=March|year=1829|volume=II|issue=3|page=130|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/spiritofpilgrims02bost/page/130/mode/1up|oclc=1065758585|passage=That in this age of boasted liberality, of peculiar Christian effort, of enlightened intelligence, and, let us add, in this free Commonwealth, the church should not be allowed to receive, use, control, and appropriate the bounties and charities of its pious friends, which accompany their prayers for her prosperity, we confess has not a little alarmed and astonished us.
A reward for some specific act, especially one given by an authority or a government.
(quote-book)|location=Aberdeen?|publisher=s.n.|year=1792|page=3|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xc1VAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA3|oclc=519511472|passage=Let us therefore conſider ſeparately the encouraging of exportation of corn by bounties, the allowing it to be exported without any bounty, and the prohibiting it to be exported at all in certain caſes— ... It is not for the ſake of the farmer, but for the good of the nation at large, that this bounty exporting corn is granted. The idea is, that it is more adviſeable to have food raiſed at home, than to truſt to other countries for the neceſſaries of life; and the bounty is held out as a temptation to the farmer, to induce him to raiſe at leaſt a ſufficiency of corn.
(quote-book)|series=States House of Representatives|House Document, 17th States Congress|Congress, 1st session|seriesvolume=No. 85|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Printed by Gales & Seaton|date=5 March 1822|page=7|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3983055&view=1up&seq=221|oclc=191258413|passage=In addition to the above reservations, a number of small conditional grants were made to the descendants of Indians and white persons, forming a mixed race, .... Particular care was taken by the commissioners, when these grants were made, to confine the bounty of government to those alone who had claims to consideration, or their descendants, on account of services rendered, either by restraining the Indians from war, or in producing peace. ... Particular care was taken, in agreeing to these grants, that the bounty extended to the individuals who were thus favored, should not be abused.
(quote-video game)|location=Redwood City|publisher=Electronic Arts|year=2008|system=PC|genre=fiction|Science Fiction|scene=Systems Alliance: Geological Survey Codex entry|isbn=9780784546642|oclc=246633669|passage=In recent years, AGeS, the Alliance Geological Service, has offered bounties to private individuals or teams willing to perform mineralogical surveys on the frontier.
A monetary reward for capturing (or, in the past, killing) a person accused or convicted of a crime and who is large; also, a similar reward for capturing or killing an animal which is dangerous or causing a nuisance.
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(quote-book)|year=2000|page=76|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=mLwbKTlQ2nYC&pg=PA76|isbn=978-0-595-15073-1|passage=In her six years as a bounty hunter she witnessed many things. Professional gunfighters who worked for hire. A U.S. Marshal who walked into a bar where five killers waited for him and strolled out a few minutes later with a warm gun in his hand and five bodies to bring back to Colorado.
Money paid to a person when becoming a member of the forces, or as a reward for some service therein.
(quote-journal)|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Printed and published by Gales and Seaton|date=1 March 1831|volume=VII|page=cxvii|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/registerdebates29seatgoog/page/n553/mode/1up|column=1|oclc=635017932|passage=It was in the army to which bounties were thus given to privates, that the memorialists were officers; and gallant officers the history of that war amply proves they were. If the soldiers of that army and even the heirs of those who volunteered their services for a given and short period, but who were killed or died in service, had such large recognized claims on the bounty of the nation, it is not, ... easily to be perceived why their officers, ... have not claims equally strong.
(quote-book)|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=States Government Publishing Office|Government Printing Office|date=23 March 1904|volume=XIV|page=377|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOIqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA377|oclc=10827906|passage=There is, in this case, not a particle of evidence tending even to show that the soldier ever received any bounty or gratuity on account of any or all of his service except $66.66, two-thirds of the amount of bounty payable under the act of July 22, 1861, ...
(quote-book) Publication|seriesvolume=no. XLIX|location=Denton, Tex.|publisher=University of North Texas Press|year=1990|page=1|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=9deOl6TVRdUC&pg=PA1|isbn=978-0-929398-14-3|passage=The bounty of Texas consists of a state full of rich living and traditions, stretching centuries back to the Indians, through the Spanish, Mexicans, and Anglos, to all the many nationalities that moved in and then spread out through Texas and the Southwest.
(RQ:Rushdie Fury)
(quote-journal)&93; would come to attach her name to a bounty of products, and ideas: home goods and china and towels and so much else, all of it poised atop the thin line between accessibility and luxury.|accessdate=6 June 2018
To offer a monetary reward for the capturing or killing of.