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  • When Mulryne's daughter married Josiah Tattnall, the bride's father commemorated the happy union of the two families by planting great avenues of trees forming the initials M and T intertwined.†   (source)
  • A few minutes later she came out in Waterland flower-print shorts, a big red Waterland T-shirt, and commemorative Waterland surf shoes.†   (source)
  • There was a model tractor commemorating John Deere's fortieth anniversary.†   (source)
  • In that time, the postal service issued a run of commemorative stamps honoring his memory.†   (source)
  • Maya and Dilip give the boy a rattle and a baby book, with places for his parents to commemorate every possible aspect of his infancy.†   (source)
  • "Oh, and don't forget the commemorative photo key chain.†   (source)
  • Some of the money was changed to commemorate the anniversary.†   (source)
  • Sharrer said no. After the event, Sharrer wrote a letter to Wyche suggesting that, to commemorate Henrietta, she and Speed consider starting an African-American health museum in Turner Station.†   (source)
  • Though the planet Earth, the Islington flat and the telephone have all now been demolished, it is comforting to reflect that they are all in some small way commemorated by the fact that twenty-nine seconds later Ford and Arthur were rescued.†   (source)
  • Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?†   (source)
  • A caption identified this climber as Rob Hall; the poster, intended to drum up business for Hall's guiding company, Adventure Consultants, commemorated his rather impressive feat of ascending all three peaks during two months in 1994.†   (source)
  • The Fourth of July—the day of our independence, the day we commemorate the closing of our nation's border forever—is one of my favorite holidays.†   (source)
  • You'd like your grandchild to, what, commemorate you.†   (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 cabinet also contains an ancient cracked plate commemorating the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, and a plastic cup bearing the nose and ears of a mouse.†   (source)
  • Suddenly the idea of hosting a great exposition to commemorate Columbus's discovery of the New World became irresistible.†   (source)
  • It was Saturday, and her parents were treating her to a celebratory dinner commemorating her first week at the Circle.†   (source)
  • More than commemorating Halle, that is what she had come to the Clearing to figure out, and now it was figured.†   (source)
  • Nothing commemorates the site, only rubble and faded signs in overgrown thickets where hundreds of men once toiled and sometimes died.†   (source)
  • The claim was made in an AMI pamphlet commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of The Jungle's publication.†   (source)
  • There were parades, speeches, carnival rides, directed for the most part at the Anglos who commemorated a past they werenever a part of, as if the Mexicans were long dead and mummified, while in the present they'd rather spit on a Mexican than give him the time of day.†   (source)
  • The stone steps that had once led bathers right down to the water, and Fisher People to the fish, were entirely exposed and led from nowhere to nowhere, like an absurd corbelled monument that commemorated nothing.†   (source)
  • The desk seems to have no purpose other than holding Dorothy's collection of snow globes from places that seem unworthy of commemoration: Gulf Shores, Alabama.†   (source)
  • As long as we're sitting here waiting, we might as well commemorate the good stuff.†   (source)
  • I bought a flowering shrub and planted it in the garden to commemorate Conor's birth; Marley pulled it out by the roots the same day and chewed it into mulch.†   (source)
  • We joked about all the commemorative marches and boring speeches we had been spared by leaving this particular weekend.†   (source)
  • That second, stable school year was one of the things Our World commemorated when it came out in June of 1944.†   (source)
  • I HAVE WRITTEN THIS STORY DOWN IN THIS YEAR 1826, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of our nation, to commemorate the short life of my brother Samuel Meeker, who died forty-seven years ago in the service of his country.†   (source)
  • We were supposed to study incandescent lamps, but he spent the period telling us about commemorative stamps.†   (source)
  • The dwarves had done a marvelous job of erasing the marks left by the Battle of Farthen Dur, although Eragon hoped they would commemorate the battle with a memorial of some sort, for he felt it was important that future generations not forget the cost in blood the dwarves and the Varden had paid during the course of their struggle against Galbatorix.†   (source)
  • Framed documents commemorating milestones in his career gleamed against the walnut walls of his office: a college diploma, a map of River Valley Farm, agricultural awards, an ornate certificate bearing the signatures of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles, which cited his services to the Federal Farm Credit Board.†   (source)
  • The feast commemorates the day when God ordered Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, but spared the boy by providing a lamb instead.†   (source)
  • April 6 is the day white South Africans annually commemorate as the founding of their country—and Africans revile as the beginning of three hundred years of enslavement.†   (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)
  • In the kitchen, anything that didn't have a match-the lone jelly jar glass, one freebie plate commemorating Christmas at Cracker Barrel-was tossed, clanking and breaking its way into the trash bag she dragged behind her from room to room, until it was too full to budge.†   (source)
  • The commemoration of the landing of the eighteen-twenty settlers, or, if it's going to be culture, Carols By Candlelight every Christmas.†   (source)
  • To commemorate failure.†   (source)
  • Howard received a trophy, then Pollard came up to the stage to receive a commemorative whip.†   (source)
  • Several long remembrance and reflection sessions were organizedat the academy to commemorate Zhou's great contributions to China.†   (source)
  • During the darkest of times, inside the ghettoes and death camps -- and I'm glad that Mrs. Clinton mentioned that we are now commemorating that event, that period, that we are now in the Days of Remembrance -- but then, we felt abandoned, forgotten.†   (source)
  • The Bradleys with commemorative plaque atop Mount Suribachi, April 1998.†   (source)
  • So often the material he had to work with was thin and paltry, and he had to patch something together with a few superlatives, cliches, and false notes of glory in order to commemorate the life, and bolster a sense of loss over the death.†   (source)
  • But it commemorates an important day in our family: my sister's graduation, my rape trial.†   (source)
  • The miso shim, smelling of brine and the sea, is on the stove and the black lacquered bowls with the black lids wait on a tray on the warmer above the stove beside the King George/Queen Elizabeth mugs Mother bought to commemorate the royal visit.†   (source)
  • The fast consisted of soft puff pastries, delicious vegetarian dishes, spongy tortillas, and enormous cheeses from the countryside, with which each family commemorated the Passion of the Lord, taking every precaution not to touch the least morsel of meat or fish on pain of excommunication, as Father Restrepo had repeatedly made clear.†   (source)
  • If we had more money, perhaps Baba would have built a widow arch to commemorate Grandmother's life.†   (source)
  • The squares which commemorated the bloodshed of Adowa and the liberation from the Italians were now fitting places for a mob to conduct a lynching.†   (source)
  • By his reckoning, folks around here hadn't been this excited about the town's prospects since the Raleigh News & Observer had sent a reporter to do a story about Jumpy Walton, who was attempting to build a replica of the Wright Brothers' plane, one he planned to fly in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of aviation at Kitty Hawk.†   (source)
  • Commemorative pin.†   (source)
  • And on a pillow several badly cracked pieces of delicate china, a commemorative plate celebrating the St. Louis World Fair ….†   (source)
  • It ought to be commemorated as the Day of Deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.†   (source)
  • Apparently teleportation was such a rare ability that there was no official gemstone or token to commemorate it.†   (source)
  • Some critics were scornful of the government's yearly commemorations of the genocide and of the continuing village-level trials of small-time genocidaires.†   (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)
  • If you don't want that, you don't go to high school reunions, you don't go to the thirty-fifth commemoration of the worst year of your life.†   (source)
  • Among them was a rhapsodic ode to Thomas Wolfe commemorating a pilgrimage I had made to Asheville the previous summer.†   (source)
  • "We've a festival in September to commemorate the film.†   (source)
  • Dad smiles and says, "I just thought you should have something to commemorate this special day."†   (source)
  • Perhaps it's the most the Ebbington Center Mall can hope for now, the commemoration of pretty much anything.†   (source)
  • He tapped his cane at each step, partly in commemoration, partly in retaliation, and partly to make it a metronome, for he had discovered long before that to defeat pain he had to separate it from time, its most useful ally.†   (source)
  • She had shown me the statue erected to commemorate the Union dead; she had shown me the apartment building where she was born, a five-floor brick building with bay windows and a view of the Charles River.†   (source)
  • Marble memorial tablets on the walls commemorating the virtues of the last generation of planters.†   (source)
  • In the 1947 Postage Stamp Centenary Issue, commemorating the great postal reform that had meant the beginning of the end for private carriers, the head of a Pony Express rider at the lower left was set at a disturbing angle unknown among the living.†   (source)
  • But she was conscious of some religious ceremony as an assemblage of Jews unveiled a monument commemorating their massacre and their martyrdom and the sound of a tenor voice keened its Hebrew requiem over the desolate gray scene like an angel with a dagger through its heart.†   (source)
  • In the Reichstag a few moments ago, I saw a display commemorating this 40th anniversary of the Marshall Plan.†   (source)
  • I wear a beard and mustache but shave my cheeks; said beard, having a dark skunk strip up the middle and white edges, commemorates certain relatives.†   (source)
  • Commemorate me, when you'll make offerings to the gods.†   (source)
  • …based their powers, as Shiva danced in a graveyard the Dance of Destruction and the Dance of Time, celebrating the legend of his annihilation of the three flying cities of the Titans, and Krishna the Dark moved through the Wrestler's Dance in commemoration of his breaking of the black demon Bana, while Lakshmi danced the Dance of the Statue, and even Lord Vishnu was coerced into celebrating again the steps of the Dance of the Amphora, as Murugan, in his new body, laughed at the world…†   (source)
  • These photographs were the true antiques of the family, which seemed to feel that a photograph should commemorate only the most distant past.†   (source)
  • If you've got a Mark Watney commemorative stamp, you might want to hold on to it.†   (source)
  • The engineer corps was working on a new arch that would commemorate the victory over Polybotes.†   (source)
  • At Camp Half-Blood, demigods got bead necklaces to commemorate years of training.†   (source)
  • To commemorate it, Felix de Weldon had struck a twenty-five-foot statue of the six boys.†   (source)
  • A third of the folds now had writing commemorating moments that were special to us.†   (source)
  • Here are four doves, which commemorate the visit of the Holy Ghost.†   (source)
  • One of the commemorative events was a race between Jableh and Lattakia, in which swimmers from all over the Arab world would swim thirty kilometers through the Mediterranean.†   (source)
  • I invented the laurel wreath to commemorate my failure—to punish myself for the fate of my greatest love.†   (source)
  • Its official name was the World's Columbian Exposition, its official purpose to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, but under Burnham, its chief builder, it had become something enchanting, known throughout the world as the White City.†   (source)
  • No one accompanies him on this legal rite of passage, and when he steps out of the room no one is waiting to commemorate the moment with flowers and Polaroid snapshots and balloons.†   (source)
  • After 5:30 P.M., when the last of the tourists had gone, as the gardeners began to trim and tidy, as the cleaners emptied the bins and swept up the empty cartons of drink and commemorative toffee fudge, it had become his private playground.†   (source)
  • It was Colonel Parkman who upped stakes, crossed the border, and named our town, thus perversely commemorating a battle in which he'd lost.†   (source)
  • This bead commemorates the first Son of the Sea God at this camp, and the quest he undertook into the darkest part of the Underworld to stop a war!†   (source)
  • The director of Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod, the state's leading automotive manufacturing agency, was hosting a formal dinner to commemorate their fifth anniversary.†   (source)
  • He had spoken at an event to commemorate the third anniversary of the bombing of the Haji Baba High School.†   (source)
  • For not only was the piece pure in the metallurgical sense, the winking double eagle on the reverse confirmed to the experienced eye that it was one of the five thousand coins minted in commemoration of Catherine the Great's coronation.†   (source)
  • Some of them were heading in the same direction I was — to The Button Factory, to see what chintzy curios they might acquire in commemoration of their overnight vacation from the twentieth century.†   (source)
  • Eid happens twice a year—Eid ul-Fitr or "Small Eid" marks the end of the Ramadan fasting month, and Eid ul-Azha or "Big Eid" commemorates the Prophet Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son Ismail to God.†   (source)
  • Upon landing, Columbus was to thrust his sword into the ground and claim the New World for Spain, while his men assumed positions that mimicked those depicted on a two-cent postage stamp commemorating Columbus's discovery.†   (source)
  • To these importunate missives I used to compose tersely worded replies: "Dear Miss W, In my view your plan for a 'Commemoration Ceremony' at the bridge which was the scene of Laura Chase's tragic death is both tasteless and morbid.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of miles to the south, in Fort Sumter, South Carolina, a massive celebration is about to take place, commemorating the raising of the Stars and Stripes.†   (source)
  • Under more normal circumstances, Hrothgar would have presented your helm himself and we would have held a lengthy ceremony to commemorate your induction into Durgrimst Ingeitum, but events move too swiftly for us to tarry.†   (source)
  • He will have learned that the nobility of the Four Kingdoms are assembling in this very palace on Walpurgisnacht to commemorate Bram's defeat and the Fall of Solas.†   (source)
  • The last thing they needed was another quest to find another god who would probably demand his own commemorative T-shirt or Valdezinator.†   (source)
  • TO: Ralph E. Becker, Toastmaster It gives me great pleasure to send greetings to all of you who are commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation tonight.†   (source)
  • Now, in severe pain, with her ankle wrapped in boards and Bubble Wrap, and carrying no weapon except her dagger, she faced Arachne—a monstrous half-spider who wanted to kill her and make a commemorative tapestry about it.†   (source)
  • To commemorate July 4, the paper declared, "Another revolution must and will be brought about in favor of the people."†   (source)
  • It would take more than anyone could give to understand the life of one other person-we cannot understand even our own lives-and more energy and compassion than is humanly possible to commemorate even a single life that ends in such a death.†   (source)
  • "And I am confident," David continued, "that Astaroth will lead the toast this Walpurgisnacht to commemorate his victories.†   (source)
  • The hat was the first of myriad lines of signature products: toys, commemorative wastebaskets, two varieties of oranges.†   (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)
  • Rusty planned to come with her to Elizabeth for tomorrow's commemorative event, but Dr. O's health is too fragile, even though Fern is a doctor and offered to stay at the house.†   (source)
  • Santa Anita officials presented Howard with the traditional golden winner's trophy, then gave him a cup commemorating Seabiscuit.†   (source)
  • On Walpurgisnacht, we celebrate a sacred evening and commemorate the great moments of our past… There was a hissing murmur of assent from the demons.†   (source)
  • Within days, thousands of citizens petitioned the U.S. Postal Service for a commemorative stamp to honor The Photograph.†   (source)
  • WITH 1826 marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it was not long into the new year when Adams and Jefferson were being asked to attend a variety of celebrations planned to commemorate the historic event on the Fourth of July.†   (source)
  • An Iwo Jima commemorative stamp was issued on July 11, the anniversary of the founding of the Marine Corps Reserve.†   (source)
  • I think to christen my place Peacefield, in commemoration of the peace which I assisted in making in 1783, of the thirteen years peace and neutrality which I have contributed to preserve, and of the constant peace and tranquility which I have enjoyed in this residence.†   (source)
  • The gigantic work of art it had inspired—the world's tallest bronze statue, the only monument in the nation's capital commemorating World War II—continued to take shape in Washington.†   (source)
  • A U.S. Senator, Joseph O'Mahoney of Wyoming, expressing a rising sentiment from around the country, arose in the Senate and called for a postage stamp to be issued commemorating The Photograph.†   (source)
  • At mail call, Ira Hayes received an imposing package: a commemorative sheet of flagraiser stamps signed by President Truman, Commandant Vandegrift, and John Bradley.†   (source)
  • He rolled over to her a small table, and from a plastic folder lifted with tweezers, delicately, a U.S. commemorative stamp, the Pony Express issue of 1940, 3¢ henna brown.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, our expedition, running appalling risks, performing prodigies of superhuman endurance, achieving immortal renown, commemorated in august cathedral sermons and by public statues, yet reaching the Pole only to find our terrible journey superfluous, and leaving our best men dead on the ice.†   (source)
  • Now after thirty-four years, the commemorations and interviews and presentations of posthumous honors have almost stopped, so that for months at a time Dede is able to take up her own life again.†   (source)
  • On Pakistan's fiftieth anniversary on 14 August 1997 there were parades and commemorations throughout the country.†   (source)
  • There was a crack in the concrete of the curb that commemorated that moment when the BMW's front wheel had been arrested.†   (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)
  • I collect commemoratives.†   (source)
  • Today he should commemorate Comrade Ogilvy.†   (source)
  • Much more valuable than that which it commemorates.†   (source)
  • On August 6th, the fourth anniversary of the bombing, the national Diet promulgated a law establishing Hiroshima as a Peace Memorial City, and the final design for the commemorative park by the great Japanese architect Kenzo Tange was revealed to the public.†   (source)
  • He would have added doubtless 'after his fashion' since, as his intended father-in-law soon learned, this was not the first time he had played this part, pledged what he had pledged to Judith, let alone the first time he would have gone through a ceremony to commemorate it, make what distinction (he was a Catholic of sorts) he might between this one with a white woman and that other.†   (source)
  • Like the pyramids and the ruins of Maya, they will commemorate an erroneous development of human genius.†   (source)
  • It was among lean-to's and adaptations—past ogham stones commemorating some long-dead Deag the son of No, built into a later bastion upside down.†   (source)
  • Ever since then, all the most important events in his own history had occurred in the blessed month when this sinful and sullied world puts on white as if to commemorate the Annunciation, and becomes, for a little, lovely enough to be in truth the Bride of Christ.†   (source)
  • There is nothing to commemorate now.†   (source)
  • On June 7, 1973, Kiyoshi Tanimoto wrote the "Evening Essay" column in the Hiroshima Chugoku Shimbun: These last few years when August 6th approaches, voices are heard lamenting that this year, once again, the commemorative events will be held by a divided peace movement.†   (source)
  • There were occasions when Big Brother devoted his Order for the Day to commemorating some humble, rank-and-file Party member whose life and death he held up as an example worthy to be followed.†   (source)
  • I will commemorate my day of joy on my last night.†   (source)
  • But she immediately added: "I should like so to commemorate the closing scene."†   (source)
  • Quartered in this dingy hatchment commemorative of Symond are the legal bearings of Mr. Vholes.†   (source)
  • I am not ashamed of commemorating old Kester.†   (source)
  • And long afterwards, when the arrangement (or, rather, the ritual pretence of an arrangement) of her cattleyas had quite fallen into desuetude, the metaphor "Do a cattleya," transmuted into a simple verb which they would employ without a thought of its original meaning when they wished to refer to the act of physical possession (in which, paradoxically, the possessor possesses nothing), survived to commemorate in their vocabulary the long forgotten custom from which it sprang.†   (source)
  • In the fall of 1898 I heard that President McKinley was likely to visit Atlanta, Georgia, for the purpose of taking part in the Peace Jubilee exercises to be held there to commemorate the successful close of the Spanish-American war.†   (source)
  • He had saved lives at sea, had rescued ships in distress, had a gold chronometer presented to him by the underwriters, and a pair of binoculars with a suitable inscription from some foreign Government, in commemoration of these services.†   (source)
  • The letter said: Dear Sir, and Ladies — It is proposed to make a small presentation to you, in commemoration of your prompt and courageous action in warning the train on the — inst., and thus averting what must, humanly speaking, have been a terrible accident.†   (source)
  • It concerned a Hindu Rajah who had slain his own sister's son, and the dagger with which he performed the deed remained clamped to his hand until in the course of years he came to the Marabar Hills, where he was thirsty and wanted to drink but saw a thirsty cow and ordered the water to be offered to her first, which, when done, "dagger fell from his hand, and to commemorate miracle he built Tank.†   (source)
  • High overhead, above the chancel steps, Jude could discern a huge, solidly constructed Latin cross—as large, probably, as the original it was designed to commemorate.†   (source)
  • …to burst forth torrents of fire, timidity and zeal, who, as he pierced the Aubusson tapestries that screened the door of the room in which the music was being given with his impetuous, vigilant, desperate gaze, appeared, with a soldierly impassibility or a supernatural faith—an allegory of alarums, incarnation of alertness, commemoration of a riot—to be looking out, angel or sentinel, from the tower of dungeon or cathedral, for the approach of the enemy or for the hour of Judgment.†   (source)
  • When last in view, the sinewy frame of this extraordinary man was as motionless as if it were a statue set up in that solitary place to commemorate the scenes of which it had so lately been the witness.†   (source)
  • I begged Mr. Micawber to fill us bumpers, and proposed the toast in due form: shaking hands with him across the table, and kissing Mrs. Micawber, to commemorate that eventful occasion.†   (source)
  • They obeyed the summons, and partook of the bread and wine, in commemoration of the meek and lowly Jesus, who said, "God is your Father, and all ye are brethren."†   (source)
  • If we wanted to conceal the noble action this purse commemorates, we should not expose it thus to view.†   (source)
  • A day or two later he showed this piece of correct and ingenious verse to Isabel, explaining to her that it was an Italian fashion to commemorate the occasions of life by a tribute to the muse.†   (source)
  • Once a year, on May-day, we hold a solemn feast in those easterly communes of London to commemorate The Clearing of Misery, as it is called.†   (source)
  • It was the anniversary of that happy day on which the Church of England as by law established, had bestowed Mrs Kenwigs upon Mr Kenwigs; and in grateful commemoration of the same, Mrs Kenwigs had invited a few select friends to cards and a supper in the first floor, and had put on a new gown to receive them in: which gown, being of a flaming colour and made upon a juvenile principle, was so successful that Mr Kenwigs said the eight years of matrimony and the five children seemed all a…†   (source)
  • "Yes, there's a meeting of the Society of Amateurs today in commemoration of the jubilee of Svintitch," said Katavasov in answer to Levin's inquiry.†   (source)
  • The well was in a dark chamber which stood in the center of a cut-stone chapel, whose walls were hung with pious pictures of a workmanship that would have made a chromo feel good; pictures historically commemorative of curative miracles which had been achieved by the waters when nobody was looking.†   (source)
  • But if they strive to connect the great events they commemorate with the general providential designs which govern the universe, and, without showing the finger of the Supreme Governor, reveal the thoughts of the Supreme Mind, their works will be admired and understood, for the imagination of their contemporaries takes this direction of its own accord.†   (source)
  • It should not be by their architecture, but why not even by their power of abstract thought, that nations should seek to commemorate themselves?†   (source)
  • Thus saying, Mrs. Sparsit, with her Roman features like a medal struck to commemorate her scorn of Mr. Bounderby, surveyed him fixedly from head to foot, swept disdainfully past him, and ascended the staircase.†   (source)
  • They were the bonfires of other parishes and hamlets that were engaged in the same sort of commemoration.†   (source)
  • My Lord Dives's remains are in the family vault: the statuaries are cutting an inscription veraciously commemorating his virtues, and the sorrows of his heir, who is disposing of his goods.†   (source)
  • Lord Decimus being an overpowering peer, a bashful young member of the Lower House who was the last fish but one caught by the Barnacles, and who had been invited on this occasion to commemorate his capture, shut his eyes when his Lordship came in.†   (source)
  • No sound louder than a stifled sob had been heard among them, nor had even a limb been moved throughout that long and painful period, except to perform the simple and touching offerings that were made, from time to time, in commemoration of the dead.†   (source)
  • It consists of a limp and ugly figure carried in a chair by two bearers and attended by a lean female with a face like a pinched mask, who might be expected immediately to recite the popular verses commemorative of the time when they did contrive to blow Old England up alive but for her keeping her lips tightly and defiantly closed as the chair is put down.†   (source)
  • Why not found a charity in the honor of the parricide to commemorate his exploit among future generations?†   (source)
  • The ruins of the vast old Amphitheatre, of the old Temples, of the old commemorative Arches, of the old trodden highways, of the old tombs, besides being what they were, to her were ruins of the old Marshalsea—ruins of her own old life—ruins of the faces and forms that of old peopled it—ruins of its loves, hopes, cares, and joys.†   (source)
  • Zeena always came back laden with expensive remedies, and her last visit to Springfield had been commemorated by her paying twenty dollars for an electric battery of which she had never been able to learn the use.†   (source)
  • The site whereon so long had stood the ancient temple to the Christian divinities was not even recorded on the green and level grass-plot that had immemorially been the churchyard, the obliterated graves being commemorated by eighteen-penny cast-iron crosses warranted to last five years.†   (source)
  • "And General Wolfe, Mr. Poulter,—wasn't he a wonderful fighter?" said Tom, who held the notion that all the martial heroes commemorated on the public-house signs were engaged in the war with Bony.†   (source)
  • In that apartment, towards six o'clock, Gilbert Osmond was seated, and his hostess stood before him as Isabel had seen her stand on an occasion commemorated in this history with an emphasis appropriate not so much to its apparent as to its real importance.†   (source)
  • Three nails driven into the head commemorated as many crises in Maggie's nine years of earthly struggle; that luxury of vengeance having been suggested to her by the picture of Jael destroying Sisera in the old Bible.†   (source)
  • Yet sometimes I think we might have given it a name which would have commemorated the great battle which was fought on the spot itself in 1952,—that was important enough, if the historians don't lie."†   (source)
  • The auspicious event is always commemorated according to certain forms settled and prescribed by Mr. Bagnet some years since.†   (source)
  • And it turned out to be a commemoration postcard of Joe Brady or Number One or Skin-the-Goat.†   (source)
  • Lighted Candle in Stick borne by BLOOM Diaconal Hat on Ashplant borne by STEPHEN: With what intonation secreto of what commemorative psalm?†   (source)
  • That the house in which he was born be ornamented with a commemorative tablet and that the thoroughfare hitherto known as Cow Parlour off Cork street be henceforth designated Boulevard Bloom.†   (source)
  • Bloom's bodyguard distribute Maundy money, commemoration medals, loaves and fishes, temperance badges, expensive Henry Clay cigars, free cowbones for soup, rubber preservatives in sealed envelopes tied with gold thread, butter scotch, pineapple rock, billets doux in the form of cocked hats, readymade suits, porringers of toad in the hole, bottles of Jeyes' Fluid, purchase stamps, 40 days' indulgences, spurious coins, dairyfed pork sausages, theatre passes, season tickets available for…†   (source)
  • Omnes! omnes! let others ignore what they may, I make the poem of evil also, I commemorate that part also, I am myself just as much evil as good, and my nation is—and I say there is in fact no evil, (Or if there is I say it is just as important to you, to the land or to me, as any thing else.†   (source)
  • I have dwelt upon the greatness of Athens because I want to show you that we are contending for a higher prize than those who enjoy none of these privileges, and to establish by manifest proof the merit of these men whom I am now commemorating.†   (source)
  • Wherein the history goes back to commemorate a trifling incident that happened some years since; but which, trifling as it was, had some future consequences.†   (source)
  • Also that the Beasts they offered in sacrifice, and the Gifts they offered, and their actions in Worshipping, were full of submission, and commemorative of benefits received, was according to reason, as proceeding from an intention to honour him.†   (source)
  • "I am afraid it is too common, indeed," answered the parson; "but I thought the whole story altogether deserved commemorating.†   (source)
  • Again, our Saviour resembled Moses in the institution of Sacraments, both of Admission into the Kingdome of God, and of Commemoration of his deliverance of his Elect from their miserable condition.†   (source)
  • The Sacraments of Admission, are but once to be used, because there needs but one Admission; but because we have need of being often put in mind of our deliverance, and of our Allegeance, The Sacraments of Commemoration have need to be reiterated.†   (source)
  • Sacrament A SACRAMENT, is a separation of some visible thing from common use; and a consecration of it to Gods service, for a sign, either of our admission into the Kingdome of God, to be of the number of his peculiar people, or for a Commemoration of the same.†   (source)
  • The Commemoration of it in the Old Testament, was the Eating (at a certain time, which was Anniversary) of the Paschall Lamb; by which they were put in mind of the night wherein they were delivered out of their bondage in Egypt; and in the New Testament, the celebrating of the Lords Supper; by which, we are put in mind, of our deliverance from the bondage of sin, by our Blessed Saviours death upon the crosse.†   (source)
  • This was a few days after the adventure of the partridge, before commemorated.†   (source)
  • For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.†   (source)
  • Nay, she had been treated with uncommon kindness, and her mistress had permitted Mr Partridge to give her those instructions which have been before commemorated.†   (source)
  • This nobleman, having sallied from his supper at the hurricane before commemorated, had seen the attendant of Mrs Fitzpatrick, and upon a short enquiry, was informed that her lady, with whom he was very particularly acquainted, was above.†   (source)
  • To return therefore: the reader will not, I think, wonder that the different behaviour of the two lads above commemorated, produced the different effects of which he hath already seen some instance; and besides this, there was another reason for the conduct of the philosopher and the pedagogue; but this being matter of great importance, we shall reveal it in the next chapter.†   (source)
  • …her wantonest tricks, might not take pity of the squire; and, as she had determined not to let him overtake his daughter, might not resolve to make him amends some other way, I will not assert; but he had hardly uttered the words just before commemorated, and two or three oaths at their heels, when a pack of hounds began to open their melodious throats at a small distance from them, which the squire's horse and his rider both perceiving, both immediately pricked up their ears, and the…†   (source)
  • It may seem remarkable, that, of four persons whom we have commemorated at Mr Allworthy's house, three of them should fix their inclinations on a lady who was never greatly celebrated for her beauty, and who was, moreover, now a little descended into the vale of years; but in reality bosom friends, and intimate acquaintance, have a kind of natural propensity to particular females at the house of a friend—viz.†   (source)
  • But being arrived in this lonely place, where it was very improbable he should meet with any interruption, he suddenly slipped his garter from his leg, and, laying violent hands on the poor woman, endeavoured to perpetrate that dreadful and detestable fact which we have before commemorated, and which the providential appearance of Jones did so fortunately prevent.†   (source)
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