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  • I wrote the song as a tribute to all parents who sacrifice for their children.
    tribute = expression of admiration
  • A SMALL TRIBUTE TO ARTHUR BERG, A STILL-LIVING MAN   (source)
  • I couldn't see her very clearly amid all the tributes, but there didn't seem to be much to hate—she seemed to be mostly a professional sick person, like me, which made me worry that when I died they'd have nothing to say about me except that I fought heroically, as if the only thing I'd ever done was Have Cancer.   (source)
    tributes = expressions of admiration
  • The promoters had renamed the marquee event in tribute to Louie, who was still believed dead by virtually everyone outside of his family.   (source)
    tribute = expression of admiration
  • Once I'd gotten a bottle from Massachusetts, which I kept as a tribute to how far something can go in life.   (source)
    tribute = symbol of something worthy of praise
  • Finally the Chief Elder paid tribute to the hard work of her committee, which had performed the observations so meticulously all year.   (source)
    tribute = praise
  • Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right.   (source)
    tribute = expression of admiration
  • That's probably the strangest tribute this school has had in a hundred and sixty years.   (source)
  • They stood together over the grave in final tribute.   (source)
  • The girl laughed delightedly, evidently taking this as a tribute to the excellence of her disguise.   (source)
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  • "What on earth for?" she wondered, astonished, but at the same time touched by this strange tribute to her power.   (source)
  • He levies tribute on Kropp's tin of beans, swallows some, then considers for a while and says: "You might get drunk first, of course, but then you'd take the next train for home and mother."   (source)
  • Almost any exhibition of complete self-sufficiency draws a stunned tribute from me.   (source)
  • Every time a man died, or a woman died, or a child died, she would be on hand with her "tribute" before he was cold.   (source)
  • Pardon this gush of sorrow; these ineffectual words are but a slight tribute to the unexampled worth of Henry, but they soothe my heart, overflowing with the anguish which his remembrance creates.   (source)
  • In a quiet way, very little attended to, she paid her tribute of admiration to Miss Crawford's beauty; but as she still continued to think Mr. Crawford very plain, in spite of her two cousins having repeatedly proved the contrary, she never mentioned him.   (source)
    tribute = praise
  • So I turned on my computer to listen to some music, and with Augustus's favorite band, The Hectic Glow, as my sound track, I went back to Caroline Mathers's tribute pages, reading about how heroic her fight was, and how much she was missed, and how she was in a better place, and how she would live forever in their memories, and how everyone who knew her—everyone—was laid low by her leaving.   (source)
    tribute = expression of admiration
  • It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro's warm little heart.   (source)
  • She called them tributes.   (source)
    tributes = expressions of admiration
  • But I can still read the gray names, and they will give you a better impression than my generalities of those who accepted Gatsby's hospitality and paid him the subtle tribute of knowing nothing whatever about him.   (source)
    tribute = praise
  • I wish you could have overheard her tribute of praise; I wish you could have seen her countenance, when she said that you should be Henry's wife.   (source)
    tribute = expression of admiration
  • Elizabeth was sad and desponding; she no longer took delight in her ordinary occupations; all pleasure seemed to her sacrilege toward the dead; eternal woe and tears she then thought was the just tribute she should pay to innocence so blasted and destroyed.   (source)
    tribute = respect
  • Now so long divided from everybody who knew the place, she felt it quite the voice of a friend when he mentioned it, and led the way to her fond exclamations in praise of its beauties and comforts, and by his honourable tribute to its inhabitants allowed her to gratify her own heart in the warmest eulogium, in speaking of her uncle as all that was clever and good, and her aunt as having the sweetest of all sweet tempers.   (source)
    tribute = expression of admiration
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  • The Federalist Party adopted the slogan, "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."
  • All of them would be turned out of their cottage if they could not give their lord the tribute he levied.   (source)
    tribute = payment demanded for protection
  • There are fewer of these tributes than there used to be, though still more than enough.†   (source)
  • Stone tributes to real men.†   (source)
  • From the way it looked here, where you could hardly be bothered to lift your feet to step over a dead woman's arm, he did not think he would be needing apologies or tributes.†   (source)
  • Looking surprisingly beautiful in a dark green dress with a broad white lace collar, Gitl made sure all the tributes were piled onto two wagons: crocks of butter, lengths of cloth, a white lace tablecloth, wooden bowls, and a pair of truly ugly silver candlesticks that Shmuel announced had been sent over by the rendar himself.†   (source)
  • It carried a cargo of ancient ladies, their white and wind-fluffed heads like floral tributes on a coffin.†   (source)
  • She left out individual tributes since she had nothing to say about Miriam and her party.†   (source)
  • Have you seen the comments and tributes?†   (source)
  • They were there to attend tributes to the dead.†   (source)
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  • Your heads shall both be tributes to Poseidon!†   (source)
  • Responding to such tributes, Washington was duly modest and gracious, and in truth they meant more than he showed.†   (source)
  • The kings from whom they'd taken tributes of treasure they now asked for tributes of men.†   (source)
  • "The knowledge of the affection in which my husband was held by all of you has sustained me," Jackie says firmly to the camera, "and the warmth of these tributes is something we shall never forget."†   (source)
  • He permits no divided allegiance, no war between your mind and your body, no gulf between your values and your actions, no tributes to Caesar.†   (source)
  • It was Celebrate Walker County Day, and one of the tributes read by the clerk recognized "Pancho Roberts and his wife, Sugar, as great Americans and great Texans" and concluded, "What a great time to live in Texas!"†   (source)
  • His school picture has been blown up, and they have left the case open so that we can all post tributes around it—Dear Finch, they all begin.†   (source)
  • But eventually, under proper management, it will help discharge the domestic public debt and furnish, for a certain period, liberal tributes to the federal treasury.†   (source)
  • "So I should've just gone with the program and let the other tributes take their chances?†   (source)
  • Haymitch finally joins us, contributing twenty-three years of tributes he was forced to mentor.†   (source)
  • " "A tribute to your tributes, as it were," says Plutarch.†   (source)
  • In each one, we would feature one of the dead tributes.†   (source)
  • And then they begin to show images of the dead, just as they did with the tributes in the arena.†   (source)
  • The tributes were necessary to the Games, too.†   (source)
  • But I made her promise to give the other tributes immunity if the rebels won," I tell him.†   (source)
  • The same goes for the other captured tributes, Johanna and Enobaria.†   (source)
  • You've seen how eager their children are to volunteer to be tributes.†   (source)
  • The sight of the wolf mutts with the dead tributes' eyes.†   (source)
  • In all, it was one of the handsomest tributes ever paid to Adams.†   (source)
  • Miss Lumley knows what the conventions are and pays her own rigid tributes to them.†   (source)
  • After that, he knew Mohammed only through stories, photos, and tributes, and the monument to him that stood on the waterfront in Jableh, just down the street from their home.†   (source)
  • From amongst the floral tributes the female chooses four flowers, and the sexual ardour of the unsuccessful candidates dissipates immediately, with no hard feelings left.†   (source)
  • Tributes.†   (source)
  • Farther down the wall, Langdon saw tributes to the Earth's four temporal seasons-primavera, estate, autunno, inverno.†   (source)
  • The labor in the kitchen had been long and hard all day in the heat, and the residue was everywhere: the flagstone floor was slick with the spilt grease of roasted meat and trodden-in peel; sodden tea towels, tributes to heroic forgotten labors, drooped above the range like decaying regimental banners in church; nudging Cecilia's shin, an overflowing basket of vegetable trimmings which Betty would take home to feed to her Gloucester Old Spot, fattening for December.†   (source)
  • Tomorrow, I'll show you his fresco The Last Supper, which is one of the most astonishing tributes to the sacred feminine you will ever see.†   (source)
  • So this Illuminati artist created four pieces of art that looked religious, but were actually tributes to Earth, Air, Fire, and Water?†   (source)
  • He incorporated in many of his Christian paintings hidden symbolism that was anything but Christian—tributes to his own beliefs and a subtle thumbing of his nose at the Church.†   (source)
  • That tributes--who are the actual children involved here, not your trio of freaks--are forced to fight to the death?†   (source)
  • The pink sky and the monsters in the jungle and the tributes who want your blood become your final reality, the only one that ever mattered.†   (source)
  • As we walk, we pass sculpted tributes of wood and copper to a priest from Auschwitz, and also St. Therese of Lisieux, who was known as "The Little Flower of Jesus."†   (source)
  • Such were the tributes and entertainments in his honor en route, it was not until June 3 that he reached the boundary line of the ten-mile square of the District of Columbia.†   (source)
  • But as the encomiums to Washington continued, in speeches, sermons, and editorials—tributes that seemed often as contrived for show as the black plumes and fans—Abigail grew extremely impatient.†   (source)
  • The friar tells me how the church and the tributes and the grounds we are walking on were designed and built by former chaplains from the Polish army, who came to the States after World War II and fulfilled their dream of creating a monastery in Indiana.†   (source)
  • Like all beautiful women who have been brought up amid continual tributes to her beauty she assumed without cynicism that it must necessarily be the basis of anyone's attachment to herself; henceforth any attention paid to her must spring from a pity full of condescension and faintly perfumed with satisfaction at so complete a reversal.†   (source)
  • But this and his pleasure in it, his glory in the phrases he made, in the ardour of youth, in his wife's beauty, in the tributes that reached him from Swansea, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton, Kidderminster, Oxford, Cambridge—all had to be deprecated and concealed under the phrase "talking nonsense," because, in effect, he had not done the thing he might have done.†   (source)
  • And, like some queen who, finding her people gathered in the hall, looks down upon them, and descends among them, and acknowledges their tributes silently, and accepts their devotion and their prostration before her (Paul did not move a muscle but looked straight before him as she passed) she went down, and crossed the hall and bowed her head very slightly, as if she accepted what they could not say: their tribute to her beauty.†   (source)
  • He received the gifts as tributes, from admirers, to a public character.†   (source)
  • When the Great Call sounds, Doctor, and it's time for you to face your reward, will you be satisfied by a big Masonic funeral and tributes from Grateful Patients if you have failed to lay up provision for the kiddies, and faithful wife who has shared your tribulations?†   (source)
  • Speech and silence pleased her equally, and while Mr. Wilcox made some preliminary inquiries about cheese, her eyes surveyed the restaurant, and aired its well-calculated tributes to the solidity of our past.†   (source)
  • She tried to persuade them to confine their tributes to flowers and sweets, which had at least the merit of mortality; but she was never successful, and the house was gradually filled with a collection of foot-warmers, cushions, clocks, screens, barometers and vases, a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.†   (source)
  • A table banked with flowers formed a screen behind it, and against the orchids and azaleas which the young man recognised as tributes from the Beaufort hot-houses, Madame Olenska sat half-reclined, her head propped on a hand and her wide sleeve leaving the arm bare to the elbow.†   (source)
  • Here and there was one of those uncomfortable tributes to elegance in which the upholsterer's art, in France, is so prolific; a curtain recess with a sheet of looking-glass in which, among the shadows, you could see nothing; a divan on which, for its festoons and furbelows, you could not sit; a fireplace draped, flounced, and frilled to the complete exclusion of fire.†   (source)
  • Besides these, and the little mare, the General, her slave and worshipper, had made her many very handsome presents, in the shape of cashmere shawls bought at the auction of a bankrupt French general's lady, and numerous tributes from the jewellers' shops, all of which betokened her admirer's taste and wealth.†   (source)
  • It has become a—hum—not infrequent custom for my—ha—personal admirers—personal admirers solely—to be pleased to express their desire to acknowledge my semi-official position here, by offering—ha—little tributes, which usually take the form of—ha—voluntary recognitions of my humble endeavours to—hum—to uphold a Tone here—a Tone—I beg it to be understood that I do not consider myself compromised.†   (source)
  • In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate.   (source)
    tributes = things paid for protection
  • It looks like most of the other tributes learn something about their trades early on.   (source)
    tributes = payments by one nation for protection by another;
    or: payments extorted by gangsters on threat of violence
  • After the anthem, the tributes file back into the Training Center lobby and onto the elevators.   (source)
  • Maybe, in the beginning, he tried to help the tributes.   (source)
  • Not as a free person but as an Avox or something, waiting on the future tributes of District 12.   (source)
  • The other tributes begin to line up as well.   (source)
  • I do not want to watch my twenty-two fellow tributes die.   (source)
  • There will be three days in which all the tributes practice together.   (source)
  • By ten o'clock, only about half of the tributes have shown up.   (source)
  • Some of our tributes have still been strong enough to make a go of it.   (source)
  • There are twelve spokes, each with two tributes balanced on metal plates between them.   (source)
  • The victor tributes from 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 11 had varying degrees of knowledge about it.   (source)
  • And then, even if I reach it, it's sure to be heavily guarded by some of the Career Tributes.   (source)
  • What we did, who watched us, how the other tributes size up.   (source)
  • The death toll of the tributes is now available.   (source)
  • Rolling my eyes, I head over to another vacant station where tributes can learn to build fires.   (source)
  • He plays up the baker's son thing, comparing the tributes to the breads from their districts.   (source)
  • Then the gong will sound and the tributes will be free to move off their metal plates.   (source)
  • I've never seen tributes on the Training Center roof before.   (source)
  • 6 The Training Center has a tower designed exclusively for the tributes and their teams.   (source)
  • What happens when they reach the final eight tributes in the Games?   (source)
  • It still seems like a really long leap for some of the tributes.   (source)
  • Keeping not only one but two tributes alive.   (source)
  • The tributes' faces come up, district by district, and their scores flash under their pictures.   (source)
  • Thanks us for being the best tributes it has ever been her privilege to sponsor.   (source)
  • I remember seeing the winning tributes with their mentors and stylists.   (source)
  • It's what all of us tributes wore in the arena.   (source)
  • If there wasn't a Cornucopia to duck behind, they'd be dead, both of the tributes from District 2.   (source)
  • There are no faces tonight, no tributes died today.   (source)
  • The dining room gets quieter and quieter as the tributes file out to go perform.   (source)
  • The time allotted for the tributes to say goodbye to their loved ones.   (source)
  • The same way the muttation wolves last year weren't really the dead tributes.   (source)
  • The tributes from 1, 2, and 4 traditionally have this look about them.   (source)
  • Our tributes have been trees for forty years under her.   (source)
  • About a dozen or so tributes are hacking away at one another at the horn.   (source)
  • The thought of meeting the other tributes face-to-face makes me queasy.   (source)
  • In a normal year, being a mentor to the tributes is the stuff of nightmares.   (source)
  • As one would expect, the pools of Career tributes from Districts 1, 2, and 4 are the largest.   (source)
  • The tributes from District 1 ride out in a chariot pulled by snow-white horses.   (source)
  • Just in case it's not enough fun watching the obliteration of the arena and the remaining tributes.   (source)
  • The other tributes were jealous of us, but not because we were amazing, because our stylists were.   (source)
  • The two tributes from District 3 are beside me, struggling to start a decent fire with matches.   (source)
  • The Career Tributes naturally get in the eight-to-ten range.   (source)
  • Pairs of tributes are being loaded into chariots pulled by teams of four horses.   (source)
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  • Inside, through the glass, I could see an interior wall filled with pictures and paintings, a visual tribute to "The Greatest Generation," said a poster above the images.†   (source)
  • But particular tribute was paid to the golden age of Russian literature:†   (source)
  • Papaw was born James Lee Vance in 1929, his middle name a tribute to his father, Lee Vance.†   (source)
  • It was a tribute to the country's martyrs, and the translation ran something like this: "My death is not my own, but yours, and its significance depends on what you do with it."†   (source)
  • Each of these worlds was a kind of shrine—an interactive tribute to the OASIS's earliest ancestors.†   (source)
  • As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her fouryear cycle to organize their Olympiads.†   (source)
  • In tribute to their recently repaired friendship, Ron had kept the bitterness in his voice to a bare minimum.†   (source)
  • Were they really standing in tribute, or because they were happy to see him go?†   (source)
  • Joe looked at me and lifted his glass in tribute.†   (source)
  • Each of them spoke and paid tribute to my old professor.†   (source)
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  • Flowers, especially wildflowers, seemed a proper tribute.†   (source)
  • He was susceptible to those invisible flowers of hers: they were after all a tribute to his talents.†   (source)
  • To read the story, he believes, would mean paying tribute to his namesake, accepting it somehow.†   (source)
  • Each year Tita prepared it in tribute to her sister's liberation and she always took special care in arranging the garnish.†   (source)
  • Then he remembered the Indian boy's tribute.†   (source)
  • And "It's really a tribute to my linemen.†   (source)
  • Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Henrietta Lacks.†   (source)
  • The fact that they did is some kind of tribute to the thick-willed slug-brained stubbornness of these creatures.†   (source)
  • The team decided to forfeit the next two games and to dedicate the rest of the season to Rob and to try to win the title as a tribute to him.†   (source)
  • I don't know about that, but I did sort of start to miss her when she waggled her feet, in their furry bear claw slippers, into the camera as a tribute to Norman.†   (source)
  • "It's a beautiful tribute to them.†   (source)
  • The king stirred, as if awakening from a long sleep, and rumbled, "Rise, Rider, you need not pay tribute to me."†   (source)
  • She wanted this to be a meaningful tribute to her family, a gift that would last forever.†   (source)
  • A tribute to Hana by children at the Holocaust Center.†   (source)
  • It was a colossal tribute to his face that it kept my eyes away from his body.†   (source)
  • At the funeral of John Ayers the letter of tribute from Bill Walsh is read aloud.†   (source)
  • The restoration of the theater was meant as a tribute to Abraham Lincoln, but Ford's has also become a memorial to his assassin.†   (source)
  • Yet it was to the Clearing that Sethe determined to go--to pay tribute to Halle.†   (source)
  • That it could have been happy, at such a time and in such circumstances, was largely a tribute to Betsie.†   (source)
  • Not feeling the tribute, Cade.†   (source)
  • Every year, the Greeks had to pony up a few virgins and send them to Crete as tribute.†   (source)
  • Mark Brittain leads the circle pattern in the lane next to mine, a tribute to Lemry's genius.†   (source)
  • This is how it ended for him, with his attendants cutting off their hair and disfiguring their own faces in barbarian tribute, as the camera pulls back out of the tent and pans across the night sky of the fifth century A. D., clear and uncontaminated, bright-banded with shimmering worlds.†   (source)
  • I was paying tribute to that life experience, and to Walt Disney himself, who famously had said, "If you can dream it, you can do it."†   (source)
  • It does sound beautiful: light shining through color, windows as art or tribute.†   (source)
  • There was a long moment of silence like a tribute given to the dead.†   (source)
  • The floral design on the carpet, for instance, was a tribute to Mrs. Lillian Disney and her love of flowers.†   (source)
  • She was awakened by the first measures, and she did not have to look out the grating on the balcony to know who was the sponsor of that uncommon tribute.†   (source)
  • FAI: the water tribute, chief specie of tax on Arrakis.†   (source)
  • She still feels guilty about not continuing Mama's tribute of a fresh blossom for the girls every day.†   (source)
  • If Mother was a beautiful woman who exacted the tribute of obeisance from all men, she was also a mother, and "a damn good one."†   (source)
  • The Hedestad Courier had published a tribute to the former magnate on his eightieth birthday two years ago, and it included a short sketch.†   (source)
  • She told me how much Ruth had meant to her as a teacher, and before she left, she showed me a tribute that she'd written in Ruth's honor that would be published in the local paper.†   (source)
  • Not one cent for tribute!†   (source)
  • The driver, via the rear-view mirror, glances at his colleague, attracts his eye, and Duntz slightly nods, as if in tribute.†   (source)
  • And Ida accepted this spiteful tribute with a spiteful pride.†   (source)
  • At the meeting, I spoke in tribute to Oliver as the man who had led the ANC during its darkest hours and never let the flame go out.†   (source)
  • Such a look from another man would merit a slap, but from Keenan, it's more tribute than insult.†   (source)
  • The success of Ya-Ya is a tribute to the Power of Context.†   (source)
  • The old man held a sort of state among these poor girls, and took tribute of admiration, as he had taken tribute of life and happiness from daughter and granddaughter.†   (source)
  • I felt it was a fitting tribute to my oldest and dearest friend.†   (source)
  • This is an intriguing statistic: the same people who routinely steal more than 10 percent of his bagels almost never stoop to stealing his money box—a tribute to the nuanced social calculus of theft.†   (source)
  • Gay Pornstar was a strutting sadist with a flattop hairdo, close-set eyes, and a bristling mustache who resembled nothing so much as a Village People tribute-band reject.†   (source)
  • The earliest invaders overran our country because they wanted us to pay them tribute.†   (source)
  • It was a tribute to her builders that her interior bulkheads held.†   (source)
  • It was tribute enough to sunup that it could make even chaparral bushes look beautiful, Augustus thought, and he watched the process happily, knowing it would only last a few minutes.†   (source)
  • Laura Bush offered a video tribute, noting, "Please don't assume that it's only a tale of heartbreak.†   (source)
  • When the writer paid tribute to him in a lengthy article in Time, Pollard called him up and sang every verse of "You Made Me What I Am Today, and I Hope You're Satisfied," then hung up.†   (source)
  • Blood was used for a sacred drawing, to pay tribute to a goddess whose influence was being sought.†   (source)
  • This resulted in The Adam Brown Story (vvww. nralifeofduty. tv/patriot —profiles/video/a-tribute-to-adam-brown, www.fearlessnavyseal.com), a documentary that was set to debut in April 2011 at the NRA Convention and annual meeting in Pittsburgh, the same venue where I was going to speak about ODA 574.†   (source)
  • We will never know if her spirit knew we were there, but it satisfied something deep inside me, this tribute to my beloved na-na.†   (source)
  • I couldn't imagine a more meaningful tribute.†   (source)
  • It was a majestic tribute and one with which Gagnon probably would have been the first to disagree.†   (source)
  • Of what they brought to light the Orcs have gathered nearly all, and given it in tribute to Sauron, who covets it.†   (source)
  • Now his eyes moved languidly over Claudia with no tribute whatsoever to the human habit of disguising the stare.†   (source)
  • If he had died before the coup, I suppose he would have received a national tribute.†   (source)
  • The funeral brought Europeans and Indians from as far away as Bombay and Calcutta to pay tribute.†   (source)
  • The official tribute would take place that evening, August 30, at seven o'clock, on the western balcony of the Governor's Palace.†   (source)
  • I bowed my head to this final tribute, and now walking away in the sun I tried to erase the scene from my mind.†   (source)
  • As I have the honor to be an American, and one among the free millions, who are defended by your valor, I would pay the tribute of thanks, and express my gratitude, while I solicit you to continue in your present honorable and important station.†   (source)
  • Rich merchants gave much more in tribute, but God saw her gift as greater because it was everything she had.†   (source)
  • That our shares have doubled in six months is tribute to a good product and firm management-management of which, as of today, you are no longer a part.†   (source)
  • As Hrothgar had done, this younger king was systematically burning and plundering nearby halls, extending the circle of his tribute power.†   (source)
  • I pay tribute to his tireless dedication.†   (source)
  • Renaming it in honor of the man who showed that kind of love to us and to so many others seemed to be the perfect tribute.†   (source)
  • After one of the wars, Rome demanded that Carthage pay them tribute, that Carthage abandon their army, and that the land of Carthage be sowed with salt.†   (source)
  • I think it was a tribute which he would have liked.†   (source)
  • We feel we cannot sum up better than with Whitman, who more than a century ago, in his famous tribute to "Slang in America," delivered this judgment: Language, be it remember'd, is not an abstract construction of the learn'd, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.†   (source)
  • Come forth and pay tribute!†   (source)
  • It was one of the only open areas in a mile-square radius, perhaps a silent tribute to the deceased pilot's skill.†   (source)
  • Their presence was an articulate tribute to the force and puissance of men united by indivisible will, by absolute conviction.†   (source)
  • She laid the flowers by the stone, poured wine over the ground in tribute.†   (source)
  • I imagined Kwang in a dark suit and white gloves, his parcels of tribute politely bundled behind him on the dais.†   (source)
  • I guess because he's gone, we're thinking differently about things like reaching out to others, and maybe we'll do it in his memory—sort of a tribute to his life.†   (source)
  • I shall take that as a tribute, my lord.†   (source)
  • "The King told me long ago," said Scrubb — "that time when I was with him at sea-that he'd jolly well beaten those giants in war and made them pay him tribute."†   (source)
  • On July 12, 1914, the city of Auburn paid tribute to her.†   (source)
  • No ships but the tribute ship.†   (source)
  • I start drawing hills on my notebook in tribute to our state's highest point, but they look more like formless lumps or airborne snakes—I can't decide.†   (source)
  • After his father was killed, Wulfgar had vowed, in tribute to the man, to make this journey and fulfil his father's dream.†   (source)
  • He bowed in that direction, raised his coffee cup in tribute.†   (source)
  • And, oddly or no, Mrs. Glass invariably took this "tribute," when it came, in beautiful stride.†   (source)
  • Tribute, however, is tribute, and let us not mince words.†   (source)
  • It was a tribute to the Overlords' psychology, and to their careful years of preparation, that only a few people fainted.†   (source)
  • "Quite a tribute," I agreed.†   (source)
  • With wry humor, Herb began referring to her as "the Madam" in delicately mocking tribute to her authoritarian nature.†   (source)
  • We have grown up paying tribute to it, and that is all that most of us can do.†   (source)
  • However this was a tribute to the goddess of fortune, thanks for a long run of luck.†   (source)
  • If, by some chance, it goes especially well, he exacts tribute for whatever insult has caused the entire affair.†   (source)
  • The people of that region Paid this tribute to save Their wretched huts and hovels From the great worm's wrath.†   (source)
  • But the essence of the man and his career was caught in a tribute paid to the Republican Senator from Nebraska by the Democratic Presidential nominee in September, 1932: History asks, "Did the man have integrity?†   (source)
  • And in tribute to that nature, Reich's Defensive Barrier Screen was in full operation.†   (source)
  • He pays tribute to justice.†   (source)
  • Make your life a tribute to the loved one.†   (source)
  • Let the scar on Goyle's finger stand as a lasting tribute to his memory.†   (source)
  • If you think this is a good tribute, you know nothing about Poseidon.†   (source)
  • The Illuminati could have chosen Raphael's tomb as a kind of tribute.†   (source)
  • Our students should pay tribute, it is fitting.†   (source)
  • The spirits on the losing side of every war owe a tribute to Ares.†   (source)
  • Lyme, the tribute from District 2, who won her Hunger Games over a generation ago.†   (source)
  • Galileo's path of Illumination was a tribute to both science and God!†   (source)
  • My friends, each of you is a walking tribute to the Divine Proportion.†   (source)
  • You mortals have three choices: offer me tribute, flee, or be destroyed.†   (source)
  • Her longevity was obviously a tribute to her genetics and not her diet.†   (source)
  • " Frankly, I don't care about Enobaria, the vicious District 2 tribute.†   (source)
  • His deceit was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage.†   (source)
  • Do a tragic tribute to the woman lying where we left her, with my arrow still in her heart.†   (source)
  • This was Bernini's tribute to the second element ….†   (source)
  • It's like having Cinna beaten to a pulp while I watch from my tribute tube.†   (source)
  • The church would raise glorious tribute to their names.†   (source)
  • I suppose Cinna gave the same instructions the first day I arrived as a tribute in the Capitol.†   (source)
  • Each piece needed to be a subtle tribute to one of the four elements of science.†   (source)
  • Johanna Mason, the tribute from District 7, in the last arena.†   (source)
  • It was part of some historic tribute to eminent Italians.†   (source)
  • A fountain seemed a perfect tribute to water.†   (source)
  • " "A tribute to your tributes, as it were," says Plutarch.†   (source)
  • 'Then you do not pay tribute to Sauron?' said Gimli.†   (source)
  • If I am king, there will be peace with Eddis but no tribute.†   (source)
  • "Wouldn't that be a fine tribute to Mrs. Spence?"†   (source)
  • One such letter, a moving tribute to a lost love, was discovered washed up on Long Island last year.†   (source)
  • There was Prusias, the king, standing to issue some sort of tribute or benediction.†   (source)
  • By it, we reaffirm our faith in Helzvog's power and offer tribute to him.†   (source)
  • At her nod, he went first, offering a tribute to the man who'd given him shelter and friendship.†   (source)
  • He paid gracious tribute to Washington's leadership.†   (source)
  • As handsome a tribute as any to Adams appeared in the Washington Federalist.†   (source)
  • The only coin she had was her silver Athenian drachma, which didn't make a great tribute.†   (source)
  • We raided along the coast of Atlantis — until they agreed to pay us a yearly tribute.†   (source)
  • 'But Gandalf spoke of a rumour that they pay tribute to Mordor ' said Gimli.†   (source)
  • Mortenson was a climber and he had decided on the most meaningful tribute he had within him.†   (source)
  • It was a tribute to Vincent Gallery that each of the old chiefs stayed aboard.†   (source)
  • The guards looked in at me as they passed on their rounds, a tribute to my reputation.†   (source)
  • Recommendation of the JCS is that we pay the tribute and try to get the Glatun to intervene.†   (source)
  • With the tribute from the valley, I plan to build a castle atop that hill we always talked about.†   (source)
  • He was feeling humble—even humble enough to pay tribute to the wine dude.†   (source)
  • "Aren't the Horvath coming around for their tribute. like. next week?"†   (source)
  • It was a statement of his feelings about the tribute ship and Loki more generally.†   (source)
  • ""From a conservative Shia Muslim, that was an incredible tribute," Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • A passing tribute to Washington was made before he finished, but of Adams he said nothing.†   (source)
  • The one tribute he received was a letter from Versailles, a letter Adams treasured.†   (source)
  • He wanted a tribute, and he made it pretty clear it would be a tribute we couldn't handle."†   (source)
  • Their stated reason for this tribute is so that they can maintain the defense of this world.†   (source)
  • "As for you, my Lord," he said to Gumpas, "I forgive you your debt for the tribute.†   (source)
  • Miss Ellens did not seem to hear the tribute.†   (source)
  • But we wanted gold ourselves; and we regularly paid tribute to the Africans who wore gold.†   (source)
  • "As you may know," Langdon said, "this Rotunda was designed as a tribute to one of Rome's most venerated mystical shrines.†   (source)
  • The way he said it, though angrier, reminded me of Edward's tribute to Jacob's lack of ethics in the tent this morning.†   (source)
  • In her center, as in many of the great classical cities, the founders had erected an enduring tribute to the ancients—the Egyptian obelisk.†   (source)
  • As a final tribute, Eragon set runes into the stone: HERELIESBROM Who was a Dragon Rider And like a father To me.†   (source)
  • He called his symphony Eroica, which means heroic, and intended it as a tribute to courage rather than to a single man.†   (source)
  • The Commander's Wife looks down at the baby as if it's a bouquet of flowers: something she's won, a tribute.†   (source)
  • And there, near the southern horizon, was a new constellation: the Huntress, a tribute to a friend of ours who had died last winter.†   (source)
  • She included a copy of the George Gey tribute written by McKusick and Jones, saying she thought Lawrence would like to see an article about his mother's cells.†   (source)
  • It was, Harry knew, the centaurs' tribute: he saw them turn tail and disappear back into the cool trees.†   (source)
  • So I'm standing there, and everybody is looking at me, and I could still hear the reporters yelling outside, and inside the cafeteria I could hear the thump, thump, thump of the sound system as it ground out some hip-hop, a tribute to our Latino student population, and these thoughts are moving really sluggishly through my head, these thoughts that are saying: He set you up.†   (source)
  • But Archaide had none of these features, because it was home to the OASIS's largest classic videogame museum, and its appearance had been designed as a tribute to the vector-graphic games of the late '70s and early '80s.†   (source)
  • Then it was displayed on the walls of all the public and private institutions that felt obliged to pay tribute to the memory of their illustrious patron, and at last it was hung, after a second funeral, in the School of Fine Arts, where it was pulled down many years later by art students who burned it in the Plaza of the University as a symbol of an aesthetic and a time they despised.†   (source)
  • It was a tribute to Williams that the public found it difficult to believe he had really been brought so low.†   (source)
  • Well, now, to answer your question, my young wali, I am one who does not pay the fai, the water tribute, to the Harkonnens.†   (source)
  • Though he hasn't admitted this to her, he'd hoped, the day they'd filled out the application for their marriage license, that she might consider otherwise, as a tribute to his father if nothing else.†   (source)
  • They belonged with waistcoats and corsets, with quadrilles and bezique, with the ownership of souls, the payment of tribute, and the stacking of icons in the corner.†   (source)
  • Nearby, he sets a Japanese magazine on the ground, saying it's a tribute to Little Tokyo, a pint-sized commercial neighborhood just a few blocks to the east.†   (source)
  • On the back, Collet found notations scrawled in English, describing a cathedral's long hollow nave as a secret pagan tribute to a woman's womb.†   (source)
  • A sculpture fashioned by knights of the Crusades from gold and jewels as tribute to a king, it is an emblem of the church and the monarchies—those rapacious institutions that have served as the foundation for all of Europe's art and ideas.†   (source)
  • A few months after Gey's death, Howard Jones and several Hopkins colleagues—including Victor McKusick, a leading geneticist—decided to write an article about the history of the HeLa cell line as a tribute to Gey's career.†   (source)
  • Harry wiped his grazed forearm upon the stone: Having re-ceived its tribute of blood, the archway reopened instantly.†   (source)
  • So it's quite a tribute to Jim that he has been able to make so prominent a place for himself on the social scene, in spite of not being a native Savannahian and being a bachelor."†   (source)
  • When I was done, I dropped to one knee and held up my arms in tribute, waiting for the queen's verdict.†   (source)
  • I am old, human-even by our reckoning-old enough to have seen the Riders in all their fleeting glory, old enough to have spoken with their last leader, Vrael, who paid tribute to me within these very walls.†   (source)
  • It is a living, breathing, working tribute to our forefathers' dream for America—a country founded on the principles of knowledge, wisdom, and science."†   (source)
  • Should we give this guy tribute ?†   (source)
  • In December 1971, when Jones and his colleagues published their tribute to Gey in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, they reported that the original pathologist had "misinterpreted" and "mislabeled" Henrietta's cancer.†   (source)
  • To this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god's weekly tribute—Sunday.†   (source)
  • Other useful resources for this chapter include Human and Mammalian Cytogenetics: An Historical Perspective, by T C. Hsu; and C. Moberg, "Keith Porter and the Founding of the Tissue Culture Association: A Fiftieth Anniversary Tribute, 1946–1996," In Vitro Cellular Developmental Biology-Animal (November 1996).†   (source)
  • The cornucopia or "horn of plenty" was a tribute to Baphomet's fertility and dated back to Zeus being suckled by a goat whose horn broke off and magically filled with fruit.†   (source)
  • Dead ahead, at the end of Champs-Elysées, stood the Arc de Triomphe—Napoleon's 164-foot-tall tribute to his own military potency—encircled by France's largest rotary, a nine-lane behemoth.†   (source)
  • The keywords with context were enough to remind him that Wagner's opera Parsifal was a tribute to Mary Magdalene and the bloodline of Jesus Christ, told through the story of a young knight on a quest for truth.†   (source)
  • Gale fills him in on a lot of stuff about 12; Finnick is the expert on both of Peeta's Games, as he was a mentor in the first and a tribute in the second.†   (source)
  • The Chigi was an out of the way alcove, a literal hole-in-thewall, a tribute to a great patron of science, decorated with earthly symbology.†   (source)
  • Tribute.†   (source)
  • Today, however, he had about twenty minutes to find what he was looking for-the one church containing a Bernini tribute to fire.†   (source)
  • A flawless tribute to water, Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers glorified the four major rivers of the Old World-The Nile, Ganges, Danube, and Rio Plata.†   (source)
  • The banner depicted the Christian "fish" modified with four little feet-a tribute, Aaronian claimed, to the African lungfishes ' evolution onto dry land.†   (source)
  • The symbol itself was created by an anonymous sixteenth-century Illuminati artist as a tribute to Galileo's love of symmetry-a kind of sacred Illuminati logo.†   (source)
  • As a student of architecture, Langdon had been amazed to learn that the dimensions of the Pantheon's main chamber were a tribute to Gaea-the goddess of the Earth.†   (source)
  • I need a tribute to Water!†   (source)
  • When I'd been forced to admit that the truck had become no more than a still-life tribute to classic Chevys on my curb, I knew his idea of a replacement was probably going to embarrass me.†   (source)
  • Marriage, children—all had been sacrificed to the Great Agony and her home was a tribute to the fastidiousness of her dedication (and the generosity of her father's will).†   (source)
  • I couldn't feel anything but despair until I pulled into the familiar parking lot behind Forks High School and spotted Edward leaning motionlessly against his polished silver Volvo, like a marble tribute to some forgotten pagan god of beauty.†   (source)
  • Arching her neck, Saphira roared her tribute and released a jet of flame over the heads of the dwarves, incinerating a swath of rose petals.†   (source)
  • What kind of tribute?†   (source)
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