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  • I went to the dinner and was presented with a plaque.†   (source)
  • Did anyone happen to notice the plaque next to the door of this school?†   (source)
  • A wooden plaque in the entryway was engraved in cursive with the words Home Is Where the Heart Is, and the entire house turned out to be festooned in such observations.†   (source)
  • When he got back to Indiana, he planned to attach the actual medals and ribbons to the felt and stand the plaque on the bookcase, under Allen's picture.†   (source)
  • They climbed two more flights until they reached a door with peeling paint and a small plaque on it, saying RONALD'S ROOM.†   (source)
  • Walt installs a memorial just inside the door, a simple brass plaque inscribed with a few words.†   (source)
  • When she left, they gave her a plaque for all her hard work.†   (source)
  • And the plaque he wore around his neck wasn't wooden, like the others, but an iron door taken from a laboratory oven.†   (source)
  • The bronze plaque at the entrance listed a hundred residential buildings in this one complex, fifty thousand people within its red-brick walls.†   (source)
  • Visitors at the gallery's Leonardo Room now found a misleading and unapologetic plaque where the Adoration once hung.†   (source)
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  • Beneath her is a large plaque that reads KNOWLEDGE LEADS TO PROSPERITY.†   (source)
  • His scarcely revived memories couldn't quite grasp what it meant, but he'd first seen it on the metal plaque back in the Maze, the one that had spelled out the words that made up WICKED's acronym.†   (source)
  • Perhaps some medical-looking marble frontage with a gold-plated plaque on the wall.†   (source)
  • The plaque read, HYDRA HEAD #1, WOODSTOCK, N.Y., 1969.†   (source)
  • It is tall and white-columned, appropriately azalea-ed. A gold plaque declares it a historical landmark.†   (source)
  • I proudly sat behind the Sierra Leone name plaque, listening and waiting for my turn to speak.†   (source)
  • There is no trophy, no plaque, no certificate, no plate.†   (source)
  • On a pocked and lichen-splotched cement wall is bolted a small stone plaque.†   (source)
  • He and I were fooling around in the pool, near a big bronze plaque marked with events for which the school kept records—50 yards, 100 yards, 220 yards.†   (source)
  • A brass plaque on the door said, "This ambulance is a gift of the British residents of Brazil."†   (source)
  • The one that replaced plaque bacteria with friendly ones that filled the same ecological niche, namely your mouth?†   (source)
  • A bronze plaque next to the door reads War Command.†   (source)
  • I do try to keep my teeth clean by using my finger to scrape off the plaque.†   (source)
  • There, in an entryway lit by a single sconce, they find a plaque nailed discreetly into the facade of the building bearing the restaurant's name, Antonia.†   (source)
  • Park His mom always kept her keys in the same place—on a little key-shaped plaque in the entryway that said KEYS.†   (source)
  • The mayor steps forward and presents us each with a plaque that's so large I have to put down my bouquet to hold it.†   (source)
  • 600 univs would have bought my daughter a respectable plaque, and I intend to get that money back.†   (source)
  • A funeral plaque with a light hangs beside the door.†   (source)
  • He sewed a plaque filled with radium to the outer surface of her cervix and packed another plaque against it.†   (source)
  • The wind and rain has rubbed the plaque at the base of the statue indecipherable.†   (source)
  • He gives her a shiny black plaque with a drawing of a boy and girl looking tenderly at each other.†   (source)
  • The Presidential Suite, with its cold elegance, had made her feel awkward and clumsy — it was all very well to visit some restored historical building with a bedroom plaque that announced Abraham Lincoln or Franklin D. Roosevelt had slept there, but another thing entirely to imagine you and your husband lying beneath acreages of linen and perhaps making love where the greatest men in the world had once lain (the most powerful, anyway, she amended).†   (source)
  • When I graduated from high school I planned on painting a plaque for Mrs. Collins: Therapy Stinks.†   (source)
  • A few blocks from our house was an eight-foot-high stone with a plaque on it that commemorated some civil historic event, and one morning on the way to the store, Mommy noticed that the rock had been painted the black-liberation colors, red, black, and green.†   (source)
  • The wrought-iron fence held a plaque declaring that this was a San Francisco landmark, erected as an orphanage after the Great Earthquake.†   (source)
  • Finally I would be given a cheap plaque, my mother would take about a dozen pictures (in all of which I would have a partial-or no-head) and somehow, eventually, it would be over.†   (source)
  • "Here you leave Today," said the plaque at the entrance to Disneyland, "and enter the world of Yesterday, Tomorrow, and Fantasy."†   (source)
  • A gold plaque with "Imperials" faced out the back window.†   (source)
  • There was a sign hanging on the door of Mo's workshop, a small metal plaque.†   (source)
  • An ornamental metal lion's head was set into the wall over the fountain, and below it there was a small rectangular plaque with the words Love is the water of life, drink deeply.†   (source)
  • A gold plaque fixed to the door proclaimed her to be madame DOROTHEA, SEERESS AND PROPHETESS.†   (source)
  • When I left the University of Virginia for Carnegie Mellon, my friend and fellow professor Gabe Robins gave me a sledgehammer with a plaque attached.†   (source)
  • The walls were covered with posters about eating apples and plaque and brushing your teeth.†   (source)
  • He wanted to read on so he'd be able to tell his mother about it, but that would be tantamount to arriving in her hospital room with her memorial plaque and asking for her input on the wording.†   (source)
  • Its plaque lay flat on the floor, and the bull's shiny muzzle pointed at the ceiling as though the beast were ready to bellow a challenge into this echoing room.†   (source)
  • Along one wall hung a large board with pegs holding many tiny wooden plaques; on each plaque was written a name in fat, black strokes.†   (source)
  • The plaque beside the door read: FOX B. O'DELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW.†   (source)
  • "Not even a plaque with his name on it," said Farmer.†   (source)
  • For nearly ten minutes Salander stood in the empty hall with her eyes fixed on the brass plaque that said "Advokat N. E. Bjurman" before she rang the bell.†   (source)
  • Sure enough, there was a new name plaque on the door.†   (source)
  • Her mother-to her credit-had rearranged court dates so that she could watch Josie be plaque in the school dental hygiene play, or hear her five-note solo in the Christmas chorale.†   (source)
  • Moments later we pulled up in front of our haven, a large, modern, concrete building with a plaque declaring that it was the U.S. Interest Section of the Embassy of Switzerland.†   (source)
  • On the door the plaque: "Work is liberty."†   (source)
  • Chief Scipio received his plaque, to applause.†   (source)
  • A plaque beside the door declared that the space was actually titled the Newsome Library, but I'd never heard anyone call it by that name except for Mom on occasion.†   (source)
  • Okay, the cafeteria was cool—oops, I mean "dining hall;' as the silver plaque outside the entrance proclaimed.†   (source)
  • He's the kind of guy whose head belongs mounted on a wall with a plaque that reads 'Typical Egocentric Male.'†   (source)
  • Jose Arcadio Buendia was, in fact, frightened on that dear December morning when the daguerreotype was made, for he was thinking that people were slowly wearing away while his image would endure an a metallic plaque.†   (source)
  • Lionnel had a black name plaque like Natalie's, indicating that she had been down the hill in the FCI and probably had a long sentence.†   (source)
  • I read a plaque and then watched Jeff stalk a ground squirrel.†   (source)
  • The following month, as he prepared for his transfer to Green Team, the SEALs from Team TWO presented him with a wooden paddle that had a brass plaque on the blade engraved with "The Ballad of Adam Brown."†   (source)
  • The tagline read, "A smile should be more than a memory," and the text expressed unemotional information about a "bacteria called plaque that grows and thrives below the gumline," but Mortenson was far beyond language.†   (source)
  • We had brought with us a plaque: shiny red, in the "mitten" shape of Wisconsin and made of Wisconsin ruby-red granite, the state stone.†   (source)
  • Tonight, Aunt Emily has said a missionary found your name on a plaque of the dead.†   (source)
  • In the lobby, almost the first thing you see, there's a large marble plaque.†   (source)
  • KORB, it says, in large letters on a golden plaque.†   (source)
  • Chalice made from silver, Dutch, 16th century Plaque depicting Holy Trinity, Italian mid–15th century Blue and white earthenware bowl, early 17th century That bowl's really nice, I find myself thinking in sudden interest, and wonder how much it is.†   (source)
  • A plaque inside St. Mary's commemorated the marriage of Lord Clive, and another that of Governor Elihu Yale, who later founded a university in America.†   (source)
  • As Ed's lungs filled with cancer, Mom's brain was becoming tangled in plaque.†   (source)
  • Joe could see that it was a picture of the flush-set headstone with the bronze plaque bearing the names of his wife and daughters—one of those she had taken the previous day.†   (source)
  • But a plaque near the door told us the true story.†   (source)
  • Next to each door was a towering plaque of polished blackwood and brass, the first two dozen of which were engraved with names.†   (source)
  • That's why building a school or a play room in a hospital is going to leave a legacy of lasting and eternal consequence, not just a name on a plaque or a stadium.†   (source)
  • A gold plaque has been hung in the bedroom the president will use, forever commemorating the night when "John F. Kennedy Slept Here."†   (source)
  • I silently read the words on the plaque, Department of Immigration and Naturalization Services.†   (source)
  • Yeah, actually there's a plaque like it on our house.†   (source)
  • Considering the number of train travelers we had, I thought the plaque ought to tell how unusual tall the tree was and something about how Cold Sassy got its name.†   (source)
  • Then her husband, Dr. Larsen, her children and grandchildren present a plaque to Mason.†   (source)
  • She shows me his ribbons and medals from Lucky Meier's Gym of Champions, and she shows me three shoeboxes stuffed with commendations, certificates of merit, honorable mentions, a plaque from the Latino League of New York's Father-Son Day, for what I can't tell, she shows me a dozen other mementos of her three men, whom she has all known as boys and will forever love that way, their first charm and vulnerability, and she shows me a yellow silken bird of the islands, the one that augurs…†   (source)
  • It was actually kind of cool to walk up there (amid the applause) and claim my award (a nice plaque with my name on it) along with a two hundred dollar savings bond that goes toward college tuition—and, here's the very best part, my short story will be published in a national teen literary magazine within the next year.†   (source)
  • They lived on the ground floor, and on the doorpost was a highly polished oval plaque with the house number.†   (source)
  • They climbed the two steps to the building's front stoop, and Abby punched a button next to a plaque reading RICHARD HANCOCK, M.D. "I'll collect you in fifty minutes," she said.†   (source)
  • "My mother drank a beer today," I said, gaining momentum as I went along, Misty amazed and laughing, Jeffrey sliding the plaque back and forth, Buddy crying until his face turned blood red.†   (source)
  • Natalie glimpsed the brass plaque as it flashed past her window.†   (source)
  • There it was, a plaque on the gray door that said, MR. ARDEN.†   (source)
  • We needed to put bigger helpings and a Ford in front of his plaque.†   (source)
  • There were an antique cannon, two lantern frames, several belt buckles, a few corns, and some corroded utensils displayed nearby, salvaged from a centuries-old vessel that still lay on the bottom not very far from the station, according to the plaque.†   (source)
  • A metal plaque set on a small stone pyramid, some distance from the dam itself, recorded this fact.†   (source)
  • The Reverend Woodworth, dead for half a century now, was remembered as a great caller on the poor and enfeebled--there was a plaque on the Baptist church lawn that told about it.†   (source)
  • The wall opposite the kindergarten was covered by a gold plaque on which was engraved the sacred words of the Esper Pledge: I will look upon him who shall have taught me this Art as one of my parents.†   (source)
  • According to the plaque, it was called Crown Fountain.†   (source)
  • A particularly large plaque dominated the entry.†   (source)
  • What about the plaque you got for the museum?†   (source)
  • Beside the arched ingress hung a small bronze plaque.†   (source)
  • Thomas might've gone on looking at the plaque all day if Brenda hadn't come out of the truck.†   (source)
  • In a separate cenotaph a few yards away was a plaque in memory of the eight hanged guards.†   (source)
  • Enough to buy Peony the most beautiful plaque—or a real tombstone even.†   (source)
  • I stumble forward, pressing the plaque to my chest.†   (source)
  • He gave each of his top executives a personalized, inspirational plaque.†   (source)
  • It was then she noticed the discreet bronze plaque.†   (source)
  • Now she knew what the plaque really meant, but tonight, she wasn't interested in written words.†   (source)
  • It's amazing how much plaque actually builds up on teeth, especially the back ones.†   (source)
  • Langdon read the plaque twice, and still he was not convinced.†   (source)
  • A large metal plaque, riveted to the wall.†   (source)
  • He hoped Deborah would speak there, and accept a plaque in her mother's honor.†   (source)
  • At last we arrived at a heavy oaken door with a brass plaque that read MANAGER.†   (source)
  • "What does the plaque say?" she asked softly.†   (source)
  • Next to the tree, a bronze plaque was affixed to the wall.†   (source)
  • Vanderbilt was presenting Seabiscuit with the Horse and Horseman plaque for Horse of the Year.†   (source)
  • The kneeling woman did not turn, but kept her attention on the pedestal's bronze plaque.†   (source)
  • All we're missing is a plaque honoring our generous benefactor.†   (source)
  • As if knowing what he was thinking, she paused and motioned to a shelf plaque with her finger.†   (source)
  • Her hands betrayed her age, but the bronze plaque revealed nothing.†   (source)
  • Above the door was a plaque proudly telling who built it and when.†   (source)
  • A plaque on the bricks by the front door read: A SAFE HARBOR.†   (source)
  • There was a small white ceramic plaque on the tombstone.†   (source)
  • The Bradleys with commemorative plaque atop Mount Suribachi, April 1998.†   (source)
  • He glanced at the plaque and noted the words supernatural/ witchcraft.†   (source)
  • Omar, will you please read that plaque for me?†   (source)
  • Before I boarded my flight to Virginia Beach, Jon handed me a plaque.†   (source)
  • But there's a plaque like it on every house in Bixby.†   (source)
  • Another brass plaque on the wall proclaimed this to be the DOUGLAS NATIONAL BANK.†   (source)
  • Plus there's a plaque in the front hall that says Founded in 1985.†   (source)
  • He stopped before Room 318 and stared at the plaque next to the door.†   (source)
  • Part of our mission here was to embed this plaque in the rough rocky soil.†   (source)
  • Joe gently placed the plaque in the dry soil.†   (source)
  • He turned to the large gleaming plaque above it.†   (source)
  • Max glanced again at the plaque, realizing the other groups had four or even five boys in them.†   (source)
  • That plaque had been defaced, battered with some heavy metal piece, individual letters filed away.†   (source)
  • 'His life's ambition is to have his head cut off and stuck up on a plaque just like his mother,' said Ron irritably.†   (source)
  • Where the portal should've been was a big brass plaque, green with age, with a Greek Eta inscribed in the middle.†   (source)
  • There were no doors off this landing, but Ron nudged Harry and pointed at the ceiling, where there was a circular trapdoor with a brass plaque on it.†   (source)
  • As he passed gleaming wooden door after gleaming wooden door, each bearing a small plaque with the owner's name and occupation upon it, the might of the Ministry, its complexity, its impenetrability, seemed to force itself upon him so that the plan he had been carefully concocting with Ron and Hermione over the past four weeks seemed laughably childish.†   (source)
  • As a plaque beside their front door proclaimed, Radar's house was an officially registered Santa Landmark according to the Society for Christmas.†   (source)
  • His defeated name remained in bronze on the school record plaque, while Finny deliberately evaded an athletic honor.†   (source)
  • It was a two-storey wooden building that housed a video store and Sundström's Haberdashery, established in 1932 according to a plaque on the front door.†   (source)
  • Pumpkin went to the board and took, from a shallow box on the mats, a plaque bearing her own name, which she hung on the first empty hook.†   (source)
  • As she turned completely around, she caught sight of the plaque on the side of the fountain: In memory of David and Sarah Hutchins.†   (source)
  • He beckoned to Harry and led him out of Kingsley's cubicle, through a second set of oak doors, into another passage, turned left, marched along another corridor, turned right into a dimly lit and distinctly shabby corridor, and finally reached a dead end, where a door on the left stood ajar, revealing a broom cupboard, and a door on the right bore a tarnished brass plaque reading: Misuse of Muggle Artefacts.†   (source)
  • The plaque beneath it read: Dolores Umbridge Senior Undersecretary to the Minister Below that a slightly shinier new plaque read: Head of the Muggle-Born Registration Commission Harry looked back at the dozen pamphlet-makers: Though they were intent upon their work, he could hardly suppose that they would not notice if the door of an empty office opened in front of them.†   (source)
  • There was a gruesome statue of her in front of the administration building, in her role — said the bronze plaque — as Judith, cutting off the head of a guy in a historical robe outfit called Holofernes.†   (source)
  • Probes: The Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 probes, each of which will carry a metal plaque containing information about civilization on Earth, are scheduled for launch in 1972.†   (source)
  • At the end of the ceremony, we'll be presented with some sort of plaque, and then we can withdraw to the Justice Building, where a special dinner will be served.†   (source)
  • The focal point was a pair of statues of angels, flying above a cenotaph in which rested Hole's plaque.†   (source)
  • Back then, when she still had to climb on a box to read the plaque, she had thought the chewing and digesting were meant literally and wondered, horrified, why Mo had hung on his workshop door the words of someone who vandalized books.†   (source)
  • She wanted to tell Adri that no fancy plaque would bring Peony back, but she didn't have the strength.†   (source)
  • She'd read, too, as the plaque stated, that a small chapel had stood as a replacement until it was damaged during the Civil War, and gone to ruin.†   (source)
  • Ye remained silent: Enduring the pain brought by the heavy iron hat and the iron plaque hanging from his neck, he had no energy to answer questions that were not worth answering.†   (source)
  • "Not many people have," I said, and told him I'd read that someone had hung a plaque in Henrietta's honor at Speed's Grocery.†   (source)
  • RAPHAEL SANTI, 1483-1520 Vittoria studied the grave and then read the one-sentence descriptive plaque beside Raphael's tomb.†   (source)
  • He planted three eucalyptus seedlings outside city hall and gave city leaders a plaque in memory of the sixty Australians who had died in the camp.†   (source)
  • Instead of saying Teresa Agnes, Group A, Subject Al, The Betrayer, it now said: Aris Jones, Group B, Subject B1 The Partner Everyone observed the new plaque, then wandered away, but Thomas found himself standing in front of it, unable to remove his eyes.†   (source)
  • Langdon turned to the plaque: ART OF THE CHIGI CHAPEL While the architecture is Raphael's, all interior adornments are those of Gianlorenzo Bernini.†   (source)
  • He took a picture of them, along with Allen's service ribbons, wings, insignia, and Air Medal, attached the picture to a maroon piece of felt he'd cut from a lady's hat, and glued the felt to a walnut plaque.†   (source)
  • The grime-covered plaque beside it read: COAT OF ARMS OF ALEXANDER CHIGI WHOSE TOMB IS LOCATED IN THE SECONDARY LEFT APSE OF THIS CATHEDRAL Langdon nodded.†   (source)
  • There was no gilded plaque here.†   (source)
  • The headmaster, William Pruitt, according to a gold plaque on his desk, did not look happy to see us.†   (source)
  • I think we should have a plaque or something that records the names of the …. the …. what did you call them?†   (source)
  • A small plaque, the letter promised, would be hung in Gabby's honor in one of the corridors, along with other recipients', though as yet it hadn't happened.†   (source)
  • Along the left wall ran a row of glass-fronted cubicles, each with a brass-lettered plaque hanging over it that read TELLER.†   (source)
  • AT THE END OF THE HALL stood a walnut door with a bronze plaque: ASCLEPIUS MD, DMD, DME, DC, DVS, FAAN, OMG, EMT, TTYL, FRCP, ME, IOU, OD, OT, PHARMD, BAMF, RN, PHD, INC., SMH†   (source)
  • "What does that mean?" the Gasman asked, pointing at a small metal plaque that said Stay off the third rail!†   (source)
  • Frank read the plaque next to the tank.†   (source)
  • They'd planted a tree for him at school, with a special plaque, and the Sherwoods had put up their house for sale; I'd heard they were moving to Florida.†   (source)
  • She followed him up the steps that led to the porch and paused briefly at the door, just long enough to see a small brass plaque posted near the door that read, "The Blakelees."†   (source)
  • Old hero trophies were stacked everywhere—dented shields, pickled heads in jars from various monsters, a pair of fuzzy dice on a bronze plaque that read: STOLEN FROM CHRYSAOR'S HONDA CIVIC, BY GUS, SON OF HERMES, 1988.†   (source)
  • A little plaque that said DIRECTOR.†   (source)
  • A mason is working on the plaque.†   (source)
  • Gabby had taken the job at the hospital not because she might one day receive a plaque, but because she'd felt she hadn't much choice.†   (source)
  • "Oh, God," reads a small plaque given to the president, "thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."†   (source)
  • We need something cooler than just a plain old plaque:' "Something that's unique—like us," Erin said.†   (source)
  • She walked the halls that day, searching for signs of anything different, but aside from a small plaque that had been mounted on the wall near the principal's office, she saw nothing out of the ordinary.†   (source)
  • Usually they'd read the plaque that was nailed to its trunk: "Sassafras: family Lauraceae, genus Sassafras, species S. albidum.†   (source)
  • There were consolation prizes—Turf and Sport was going to present Seabiscuit with a special plaque commending his performances, and by unanimous vote, they had named him Handicap Champion—but these weren't the honors the Howard barn craved.†   (source)
  • Misty asked, matronly in an absurd way as she stood there in her tight bell-bottom jeans and tested baby formula on her wrist, all the while watching Jeffrey Files, who was in a rather precarious position as he stood on a chair and reached for Mr. Rhodes's Goodyear salesmanship plaque.†   (source)
  • But the little boy saw no plaque to commemorate the marriage of Hilda Masters of Fife, tutor and governess, to Justifus Stone, civil servant in the British Raj and almost two decades her senior.†   (source)
  • A discreet brass plaque proclaimed that the building housed something called the International Society for French Literature, a particularly Rousseauian touch.†   (source)
  • Chief Scipio was in attendance; Mayor Swaney wanted to commemorate the end of the chief's first year on the job with a plaque he'd had made for just the purpose.†   (source)
  • Patches of dirty snow still clung to the curbs like dental plaque, but the cherry trees popped with white and red buds.†   (source)
  • The plaque, or whatever, could have the names of each year's Prefect Council, and it'll be displayed for ever and ever:, "Yeah," said Shaunee, warming to the idea.†   (source)
  • His office in Clarkston City Hall, down a short hallway with plaque-covered walls, fluorescent lighting, and gray, low-pile industrial carpeting, looked like the Hollywood rendering of the workspace of a small-town mayor.†   (source)
  • The face had disappeared, but Jess recognized the thirteen-pointed star on a plaque mounted next to the door.†   (source)
  • A bloody hood and flex-cuffs were mounted on a plaque on the wall after the squadron captured a Bosnian war criminal in the 1990s.†   (source)
  • It was in the shape of a heart, and it read: I looked at Grandmere as she stood looking at the plaque.†   (source)
  • But not just a plaque.†   (source)
  • The two million people who visit Grauman's annually notice that John Wayne's plaque is different from those of the other movie stars.†   (source)
  • His plaque is black.†   (source)
  • Jason strode forward from the tables of graduates, eliciting a laugh from the audience when he produced a pen and pretended to carefully write his name on the plaque.†   (source)
  • It was a small plaster plaque, the kind sold in cheap gift shops.†   (source)
  • His eye lingered on the centre plaque of looking-glass and the seven little china figures.†   (source)
  • She rumpled the pad, lifted a thin plaque of leaves.†   (source)
  • The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall.†   (source)
  • Before him on a shield-shaped wooden plaque, two magnificent horns curved out and up, pale yellow to the ebony tips.†   (source)
  • Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.†   (source)
  • Then Roark's arm went back and up, over his head, slowly, as if gathering the weight of air in the crook of his elbow; it was only a flash, but it seemed to last for minutes, the arm stood lifted and still—then it slashed forward, the plaque shot across the room and burst to pieces against the wall.†   (source)
  • In the bathhouse, she changed to pajamas, her expression still hard as a plaque.†   (source)
  • The walls of Mrs. Cass's parlor were plastered with "hand-painted" pictures, "buckeye" pictures, of birch-trees, news-boys, puppies, and church-steeples on Christmas Eve; with a plaque depicting the Exposition Building in Minneapolis, burnt-wood portraits of Indian chiefs of no tribe in particular, a pansy-decked poetic motto, a Yard of Roses, and the banners of the educational institutions attended by the Casses' two sons—Chicopee Falls Business College and McGillicuddy University.†   (source)
  • Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulets half cut off by a sword-stroke from a horseguard, his plaque with the great eagle dented by a bullet; bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, "Come and see how a Marshal of France dies on the field of battle!"†   (source)
  • There was his Excellency the Prince of Peterwaradin, with his Princess—a nobleman tightly girthed, with a large military chest, on which the plaque of his order shone magnificently, and wearing the red collar of the Golden Fleece round his neck.†   (source)
  • Next to this cabinet I saw a chest bound with hoops of iron, its lid bearing a copper plaque that displayed the Nautilus's monogram with its motto Mobilis in Mobili.†   (source)
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