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  • It was an odd memento, but it was one that for a fleeting instant had given him hope.†   (source)
  • You should have stayed in your little stretch of woods in your little tent with your little books and your cute little mementos.†   (source)
  • We should frame this as a memento!†   (source)
  • They are fond of dramatic gestures, and invariably leave behind some taunting memento.†   (source)
  • I looked for evidence she had been there: footprints or something written in the dirt or some memento.†   (source)
  • Reinhold Messner The Crystal Horizon n my backpack was a banner from Outside magazine, a small pennant emblazoned with a whimsical lizard that Linda, my wife, had sewn, and some other mementos with which I'd intended to pose for a series of triumphant photos.†   (source)
  • What kind of memento do you get for the mother who has loved you your whole life, who has given up the world for you?†   (source)
  • There were gifts, heirlooms, and mementos we got to touch or see only at Christmas or Easter.†   (source)
  • She felt giddy at finding this small treasure, a memento from her adolescent past.†   (source)
  • But there are no mementos-not as such.†   (source)
  • The memento was not for him but for Mary Jane Welles, wife of Secretary of the Navy  Gideon Welles and one of Mary Todd Lincoln's few friends in Washington.†   (source)
  • Can't I keep a memento of the experience?"†   (source)
  • There were the few pathetic mementos of thirty years in other people's homes.†   (source)
  • His eyes looked sad as he stared at our little memento.†   (source)
  • 'Well, well," he says, "this is quite a little memento."†   (source)
  • Other glass cases contain artifacts of Kroc's life, mementos of his long years of struggle and his twilight as a billionaire.†   (source)
  • There was a pair of shredded undershorts with lipstick markings, perhaps a memento of the Grayview Motel.†   (source)
  • The scrap, along with the silver box that held my microcard, will be the mementos of my Matching.†   (source)
  • A memento.†   (source)
  • Commonly, a memento of combat kept only to stir the memory.†   (source)
  • I documented the many mementoes and notes that filled the gravel parking lot.†   (source)
  • Another Latin expression that was widely quoted was 'memento mori,' which means 'Remember that you must die.'†   (source)
  • Some of them I'd taught how to write their names, so this is a real memento of my time here.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was because he wished to claim a memento of that bloody conflict.†   (source)
  • Still, there were some things too precious to chance losing, and while the lovers drowsed and time dawdled on toward 2:00 p. m., Perry looked through old letters, photographs, clippings, and selected from them those mementos he meant to take with him.†   (source)
  • American soldiers, some in uniform, some in civilian clothes, leaned over bridges, entered bistros in strident, uneasy, smiling packs, circled displays of colored post cards, and picked up meretricious mementos, of a sacred character.†   (source)
  • Early on Monday morning of the week following Thanksgiving, Tom Geisbert went to work at the Institute wearing blue jeans, a flannel shirt, and cowboy boots, as a kind of memento of his time in the woods.†   (source)
  • " Brown—who soon moved to Damascus, and later to Israel with her husband and family—lost touch over the years with her star player, but she kept Luma's glove from one move to the next, as a memento of the mysteriously self-possessed young woman she had once coached.†   (source)
  • She liked this shirt, a memento from the Fall Out Boy concert that she'd sneaked out to with Rick last year.†   (source)
  • With a sweep of her broom she did away with the funeral mementos and piles of useless trash and articles of superstition that had been piling up in the corners, and the only thing she spared, out of gratitude to Ursula, was the daguerreotype of Remedios in the parlor.†   (source)
  • He offered Seabiscuit mementoes for newspaper raffles and sent oversized Seabiscuit Christmas cards to scores of reporters.†   (source)
  • Ithal holds his hands up, exposing the thick calluses that crisscross his palms, a memento of a harsh life lived out-of-doors.†   (source)
  • On shelves in Daddy's room were mementos: his helmet from BUD/S Class 227 beside a Lake Hamilton Wolves football helmet.†   (source)
  • How strangers at the crash site had gathered all of her treasured mementos, where they'd been scattered across the highway, and returned them to her.†   (source)
  • In the unmanageable sadness that followed, there was none of the sibling wrangling, guilt or missed opportunities, or fights for this or that memento.†   (source)
  • He shoved the mementos of his immortality into a few cardboard boxes and hid these in a closet.†   (source)
  • I decided not just to keep the book as a memento, but to actually read it.†   (source)
  • I got it back from Michel Delving before I started, and packed it with my luggage: I brought all the mementoes of my Journey away with me, except the Ring.†   (source)
  • It breaks my heart to think of leaving this house and the little things that we've gathered through the years—all those irreplaceable mementos—our books and paintings—the azalea plants, my white iris.†   (source)
  • The lavish room seemed straight out of some designer magazine — with rich jacquard wallpaper, Oriental chairs, a mahogany coffee table, shelves of mementos and photographs.†   (source)
  • When the mothers left their children, they often left a memento for the child: a lock of the mother's hair, an earring, or a lace glove.†   (source)
  • A small memento, is all.†   (source)
  • Her studio greeted him like a memento of his past, his idyllic bachelor past.†   (source)
  • The few photographs, mementos, books, and certificates Matron brought with her had over the years been pilfered or mislaid.†   (source)
  • The funeral director told me that it might be nice to have a table of mementos that meant something to Elizabeth—stuffed animals or family vacation photos, chocolate chip cookies.†   (source)
  • "God has more important things to worry about than us," she said, eyeing a small shrine above the mantle containing some mementos of Pedro, her firstborn child who had died many years earlier.†   (source)
  • No mementos.†   (source)
  • Mementos I don't have.†   (source)
  • The rest of the wall space was filled with plaques from other units like the Australian SAS and mementos from past missions.†   (source)
  • A memento, he said.†   (source)
  • The quiet in Amatis's house, the homey rag rugs on the floor, the carefully arranged personal mementoes—everything spoke of an ordinary life interrupted in the most terrible way possible.†   (source)
  • There is no body to bury and no memento of the tragedy to place on JFK's desk.†   (source)
  • The kids are bringing mementos too, tucked in their "treasure chests," a pair of old metal lunch boxes, painted black.†   (source)
  • The museum of the Institute on the third floor of the library overflowed with mementoes that traced the course of his exploits in the Second World War and the Korean conflict.†   (source)
  • …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 mercy and good tidings, which now falls off its…†   (source)
  • Probably tossed out with the rest of the junk—all those eight-by-ten colorprints of the Cubs, White Sox, and Bears, junior-high mementos.†   (source)
  • I met him in his large office—dominated by his wife's paintings and mementos of their time in Africa—and asked him about his business.†   (source)
  • Hamid asked to keep the bullet as a memento of his attack.†   (source)
  • It had originally been a port-red color—and by lamplight, at least, still was—but it now featured a number of rather pancreas-shaped faded spots, unsentimental mementos, all, of a series of household pets.†   (source)
  • It was filled with mementos of his service, ceremonial and Samurai swords, nautical instruments, charts, maps, books on shelves and stacked in corners, bound files of the Proceedings, The Foreign Affairs Quarterly, and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.†   (source)
  • Altogether the conversation made up a new experience that impressed me with such force that later that night back at my room I scribbled verbatim notes from memory—notes which, now faded. and yellowing, I have retrieved from the past along with such mementos as my father's letters.†   (source)
  • There were no pictures, no mementos, none of the normal clutter of growing.†   (source)
  • …on an endlessly repetitious record; or, at any rate, she had seen before a thousand times this graygreen dawn after autumn rain, a presence in the room, or the memory of a presence, old, blind, despairing, a relative out of a tintype in the attic, Memento mori, Millie my maid, who sat in the room, hands folded on his cane, his wide tie drooping on his scorch-yellow shirt, his lumpy shoes toeing inward wearily, fingers the color of piano keys: and it was a part of his weariness that his…†   (source)
  • Photographs, IDs, any little memento that isn't made of ceramic—trash.†   (source)
  • They had to have been mementos tacked up there.†   (source)
  • I take the memento back from her, and as I do, I have an idea.†   (source)
  • She could feel the weight of the memento now in the bag on her knee.†   (source)
  • By the window, sitting on a wooden tripod stool, was the most gruesome memento of all: a mummy.†   (source)
  • Paul stared at the silver memento, which she hugged tightly to her chest.†   (source)
  • If his son took proper care of the memento, it would stand the test of time.†   (source)
  • It's the only memento I have of my friends."†   (source)
  • She ran then, carrying his knowledge, but her belt fell off and he kept it as a memento.†   (source)
  • Hazel put the gold prospecting sign back over her mementos.†   (source)
  • We had filled out in a year, but we still carried aggrieved mementoes of the journey.†   (source)
  • I have very few mementos of that season.†   (source)
  • "Doc" was the nickname he would soon put aside, along with his wartime mementos.†   (source)
  • He pointed to Elvis's grave, and I saw it clearly: a memento left behind by some adoring fan—a necklace with a silver loop-topped cross, just like the one on Mum's T-shirt in my old photograph.†   (source)
  • The old gravestones are still there, weathered, eroding, with their skulls and crossed bones, memento mori, their dough-faced angels, their winged hourglasses to remind us of the passing of mortal time, and, from a later century, their urns and willow trees, for mourning.†   (source)
  • For years they've bombarded me with letters, wanting Laura's own letters — wanting manuscripts, mementoes, interviews, anecdotes — all the grisly details.†   (source)
  • The walls of his office were covered with plaques and mementos, with photographs of Carl beside presidents, famous ballplayers, former employees, grandchildren, priests, cardinals, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Pope.†   (source)
  • I do not know what I expectedartifacts perhaps, nostalgic mementos of our hundred and three days together-perhaps a pressed flower from some forgotten offering or the frenchhorn conch we dove for off Fevarone.†   (source)
  • …down their boat, stuffed with clothes and food and maps and books and a lot of less practical things, too, like several jars of pickled reptile hearts sloshing in Enoch's duffel bag; or the blown-off front doorknob to Miss Peregrine's house, a memento Hugh had found in the grass on our way to the boats and decided he couldn't live without; or the bulky pillow Horace had rescued from the house's flaming shell—it was his lucky pillow, he said, and the only thing that kept his paralyzing…†   (source)
  • There was a grand piano by the front windows, harp beside it; and everywhere-on the piano and on polished tables glistening under the spill of subdued lamps-were silver-framed photographs, mementos of a past filled with wealth and grace.†   (source)
  • I don't want it to be a relic, something that just sits on the shelf as some sort of memento to Allie and me.†   (source)
  • All the artifacts seemed like family mementos: a wand just like Sadie's; a picture of the serpent leopards that had once attacked us; a page from the Book of the Dead showing demons we'd met in person.†   (source)
  • The unfortunate mementos of his assassination remain behind in Washington: the Deringer bullet and the Nelaton's probe that pinpointed its location in his brain will soon be on display in a museum, as will the red horsehair rocker in which he was shot.†   (source)
  • Family portraits on the walls, heirlooms and mementos too large to carry easily, smashed furniture and open drawers and the thousand pieces of the occupants' lives deemed worthless by looters were scattered in every room.†   (source)
  • And the thing that gave him away as a regular guy—a sort of baseball shrine, three populist mementoes clustered at the far end of the room.†   (source)
  • There are still saints, though they no longer sit in quiet rooms or deserts, with their memento mori skulls and their doglike lions resting at their feet; instead they writhe in contorted poses, stuck full of arrows or tied to stakes.†   (source)
  • Even if he regained the use of his arm, he would always bear a thick scar as a memento of his injury.†   (source)
  • On the planked boardwalk, couples and families passed by holding ice-cream cones or bags filled with tourist mementos.†   (source)
  • Fifi had already decided on her baby doll and Carla was going through her private box of jewelry and mementos.†   (source)
  • It's a wonderful memento," he said.†   (source)
  • He had penned names and dates in the margins, and only later did it occur to her that these were patients' names, both Indian and British, mementos to a disease he'd first seen in a Peabody, or a Krishnan.†   (source)
  • No, I shall let nature tend to it at her own pace, as a memento that I once crossed blades with Eragon Shadeslayer.†   (source)
  • Second, it was a memento of her father.†   (source)
  • The reason why Tomas and Sabina were touched by the sight of the bowler hat in a Zurich hotel and made love almost in tears was that its black presence was not merely a reminder of their love games but also a memento of Sabina's father and of her grandfather, who lived in a century without airplanes and cars.†   (source)
  • But he looked to me, as I grew older, like pictures I had seen of African tribal chieftains: he really should have been naked, with war-paint on and barbaric mementos, standing among spears.†   (source)
  • Many repeated pressures with the same effect as one strong blow, that was his method, he said, and it was his special pride that he knew how to use the means contributed by the age to connive as ably as anyone else; when in a not-so-advanced time he'd have been mummy-handled in a hut or somebody might have had to help him be a beggar in front of a church, the next thing to a memento mori or, more awful, a reminder of what difficulties there were before you could even become dead.†   (source)
  • And she had shown Bernard the little golden zipper-fastening in the form of a T which the Arch-Songster had given her as a memento of the week-end she had spent at Lambeth.†   (source)
  • I must give you a memento to take with you.†   (source)
  • Aziz was a memento, a trophy, they were proud of each other, yet they must inevitably part.†   (source)
  • She had been his wife's friend and, as such, he had given her that silver vinaigrette as a memento.†   (source)
  • They're my last mementos of those shores that are now dead for me.†   (source)
  • I have worn it since the day I lost my only treasure, as a memento of her.†   (source)
  • Under the chaplain's guidance they selected many hideous presents and mementoes--florid little picture-frames that seemed fashioned in gilded pastry; other little frames, more severe, that stood on little easels, and were carven out of oak; a blotting book of vellum; a Dante of the same material; cheap mosaic brooches, which the maids, next Christmas, would never tell from real; pins, pots, heraldic saucers, brown art-photographs; Eros and Psyche in alabaster; St. Peter to match--all…†   (source)
  • He studied the spots and lines, the blackish ruffles in the chest cavity, while his fellow viewer gazed tirelessly at Joachim's sepulchral form, his dry bones, his bare scaffolding, his gaunt memento mori.†   (source)
  • His rounds took him into low-roofed cottages in which were fishing tackle and sails and here and there mementoes of deep-sea travelling, a lacquer box from Japan, spears and oars from Melanesia, or daggers from the bazaars of Stamboul; there was an air of romance in the stuffy little rooms, and the salt of the sea gave them a bitter freshness.†   (source)
  • Was it any wonder, then, that his skittish heart stopped and did a somersault whenever he looked at this memento?†   (source)
  • Is this the memento?†   (source)
  • The next morning she gave almost everyone in the dining hall a colorful box of konfekti as a memento and then left on her little trip with the two girls.†   (source)
  • As it was, for the last several weeks the group's social activities had been restricted by the poor health of their chief, the great Pieter Peeperkorn, whose malign memento of the tropics refused to respond to either the exceptional climate or the antidotes prescribed by as excellent a physician as Director Behrens.†   (source)
  • …back to his room and out onto the balcony, from where he could catch another glimpse of the sleigh as it made its jingling way down the approach road toward Dorf; then he threw himself in his chair, and from his breast pocket he pulled his memento—not reddish-brown pencil shavings this time, but a little plate of glass in a narrow frame, which had to be held up to the light for him to see what was there: the portrait of Clavdia's interior, without a face, but revealing the organs of…†   (source)
  • And when the memory of it came back to him, its vivid clarity stayed within normal, healthy bounds; and then Hans Castorp would pull from his breast pocket the glass memento that he kept in a heavy envelope he carried in his wallet—a little rectangle, which when held parallel to the ground was a black, opaque, reflective surface, but when held up to the sky, grew light and revealed very humanistic things: the transparent picture of a human body, with rib cage, the outline of the heart,…†   (source)
  • But the trundling year definitely promised decisive changes very soon, for it had now been six weeks since the night of Mardi Gras, when Hans Castorp had borrowed a pencil from Frau Chauchat—and given it back to her, though only after first asking for some little memento, which he now carried in his pocket— a time twice as long as Hans Castorp had originally intended to stay up here.†   (source)
  • Well, there were and are a great many mementos of Egypt in Freemasonry, and among its secret societies were some that used the name Eleusinian.†   (source)
  • The scene-painter was gone, having spoilt only the floor of one room, ruined all the coachman's sponges, and made five of the under-servants idle and dissatisfied; and Sir Thomas was in hopes that another day or two would suffice to wipe away every outward memento of what had been, even to the destruction of every unbound copy of Lovers' Vows in the house, for he was burning all that met his eye.†   (source)
  • 'You like Thornfield?' she said, lifting her finger; and then she wrote in the air a memento, which ran in lurid hieroglyphics all along the house-front, between the upper and lower row of windows, 'Like it if you can!†   (source)
  • "Memento mori," said these glances.†   (source)
  • For it would not have been possible for the Raveloe mind, without a peculiar revelation, to know that a clergyman should be a pale-faced memento of solemnities, instead of a reasonably faulty man whose exclusive authority to read prayers and preach, to christen, marry, and bury you, necessarily coexisted with the right to sell you the ground to be buried in and to take tithe in kind; on which last point, of course, there was a little grumbling, but not to the extent of irreligion—not…†   (source)
  • When the audience recognized these familiar mementos of Pudd'nhead's old time childish "puttering" and folly, the tense and funereal interest vanished out of their faces, and the house burst into volleys of relieving and refreshing laughter, and Tom chirked up and joined in the fun himself; but Wilson was apparently not disturbed.†   (source)
  • He was at no great pains to narrate his travels or to communicate his impressions of distant lands to Mrs. Penniman, upon whom he contented himself with bestowing a memento of his enviable experience, in the shape of a velvet gown.†   (source)
  • Besides, if one person gave me something, then another might, and another, and so on; and I hope you won't think me rude if I say that I shouldn't know where to stow away so many mementos of friendship."†   (source)
  • Out of ten captains, but one is in the dilemma, and he, poor devil, is always kept at regimental headquarters, as a sort of memento mori, to the young men as they join.†   (source)
  • The peasants and relic-hunters about the place were screaming round the pair, as the soldier told his story, offering for sale all sorts of mementoes of the fight, crosses, and epaulets, and shattered cuirasses, and eagles.†   (source)
  • When this memento had offered to her fixed sight the name of Mr. Caspar Goodwood she let the man stand before her without signifying her wishes.†   (source)
  • It was a dreary memento of the fierce struggle that had taken place in this last foothold of the Indian warriors.†   (source)
  • Mr. Osborne was the godfather of young Master Todd (who in subsequent life wrote Mr. Osborne Todd on his cards and became a man of decided fashion), while Miss Osborne had accompanied Miss Maria Todd to the font, and gave her protegee a prayer-book, a collection of tracts, a volume of very low church poetry, or some such memento of her goodness every year.†   (source)
  • Fanny felt that she must; and though she had not waited for that sentence to be thinking of Edmund, such a memento made her particularly awake to his idea, and she fancied him sitting in that room again and again, perhaps in the very spot where she sat now, listening with constant delight to the favourite air, played, as it appeared to her, with superior tone and expression; and though pleased with it herself, and glad to like whatever was liked by him, she was more sincerely impatient…†   (source)
  • When you are at Madagascar, or at the Cape, or in India, would it be a consolation to have that memento in your possession? or would the sight of it bring recollections calculated to enervate and distress?†   (source)
  • …with a sputtering tallow candle, and to gather up before sunrise the boots which are awaiting him in the passages—that stair, up or down which babies are carried, old people are helped, guests are marshalled to the ball, the parson walks to the christening, the doctor to the sick-room, and the undertaker's men to the upper floor—what a memento of Life, Death, and Vanity it is—that arch and stair—if you choose to consider it, and sit on the landing, looking up and down the well!†   (source)
  • I remember something, too, of the green grave-mounds; and I have not forgotten, either, two figures of strangers straying amongst the low hillocks and reading the mementoes graven on the few mossy head-stones.†   (source)
  • Debts we have none; and whatever we may contract on this account will serve as a glorious memento of our virtue.†   (source)
  • And the lock of hair—that too I had always carried about me in the same pocket-book, which was now searched by Madam with the most ingratiating virulence,—the dear lock—all, every memento was torn from me.†   (source)
  • There were still some subjects, indeed, under which she believed they must always tremble—the mention of a chest or a cabinet, for instance—and she did not love the sight of japan in any shape: but even she could allow that an occasional memento of past folly, however painful, might not be without use.†   (source)
  • I gave you mementos, smart emerald garters far above your station.†   (source)
  • …weeks and weeks I kept the handkerchief under my pillow for the smell of him there was no decent perfume to be got in that Gibraltar only that cheap peau dEspagne that faded and left a stink on you more than anything else I wanted to give him a memento he gave me that clumsy Claddagh ring for luck that I gave Gardner going to south Africa where those Boers killed him with their war and fever but they were well beaten all the same as if it brought its bad luck with it like an opal or…†   (source)
  • Sancho begged the duke to let them leave him the robe and mitre; as he wanted to take them home for a token and memento of that unexampled adventure.†   (source)
  • Thus I gave up myself to a readiness of being ruined without the least concern and am a fair memento to all young women whose vanity prevails over their virtue.†   (source)
  • Her robbing a little innocent child, dressed fine by the vanity of the mother, to go to the dancing-school, is a good memento to such people hereafter, as is likewise her picking the gold watch from the young lady's side in the Park.†   (source)
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