Sentence:  Sometimes I am caught by a delightful fragment in a magazine, and blaze up into the fiercest interest, <WSD>bestow</WSD> maledictions on the delay which the intervening month creates, but am burnt out by the time it expires, and so lose the thread. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To give; confer; impart gratuitously; present something to someone or something, especially as a gift or honour.