1 It was a warm June morning, and the Latter Day Saints were as busy as the bees whose hive they have chosen for their emblem.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH 2 The stem of a young fir-tree lopped of its branches, with a piece of wood tied across near the top, was planted upright by the door, as a rude emblem of the holy cross.
3 Under this respectable emblem stood a cross, stated to be the mark of Gurth, the son of Beowulph.
4 It bore no emblem of the deceased's birth or quality, for armorial bearings were then a novelty among the Norman chivalry themselves and, were totally unknown to the Saxons.
5 Well, this dead man had some Catholic emblem round his neck, and that, along with his colour, made me think he was from the South.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS 6 Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition, for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me.
7 An imp of evil, emblem and product of sin, she had no right among christened infants.
8 There can be, if I forbode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried in the human heart.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT 9 His body, which was nearly naked, presented a terrific emblem of death, drawn in intermingled colors of white and black.
10 His own emblem, quivering and aflare, was winging toward the other.
11 In fact, everybody in the room bore on his head this characteristic emblem of man's sovereignty; whether it were felt hat, palm-leaf, greasy beaver, or fine new chapeau, there it reposed with true republican independence.
12 She seemed the emblem of my past life; and here I was now to array myself to meet, the dread, but adored, type of my unknown future day.
13 The picture, changed or unchanged, would be to him the visible emblem of conscience.
14 He had, however, been anticipated by the elder Mohican, who had already torn the emblems of victory from the unresisting heads of the slain.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 12 15 The latest straggler had returned from his fell employment, only to strip himself of the terrific emblems of his bloody calling, and to join in the lamentations of his countrymen, as a stricken people.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 33