These earmarks were registered by the town clerk in the town records, and were usually described both in words and rude drawings.
In all communities earmarks and other brands of ownership on cattle, horses, sheep, and swine were very important, and rigidly regarded where so much value was kept in domestic cattle.
No maverick or slick will be tallied In the great book of life in his home, For he knows all the brands and the earmarks That down through the ages have come.
No," Kee agreed, "I can't see the earmarks of an ordinary burglar.
Yes, it all has theearmarks of the work of a distorted brain, I mean the feather duster and all that tomfoolery.
The signed statement coming from an apparently naive girl of 15 would seem in its clearness and coherency to bear the earmarks of truth.
Serajevo had all the earmarks of providential timeliness.
Before the next rodeo I run on to my sleeper again, and he's big enough now to take away from the cow, so all I have to do is to change the earmarks and brand him with my iron.
The still-life by Moride, to the left of this picture, shows all the earmarks of the modern school without sacrificing a certain delicacy of handling which is often considered by many modern painters a confession of weakness.
Every one of his pictures has the earmarks of having been carefully studied.
Emotions vividly displayed are, as already pointed out in connection with sympathy, readily duplicated in others, and the ardors of the enthusiast are, when they have the earmarks of sincerity, contagious.
Yes; you claim to live in New York, and you possess all the earmarks of the East-Side bad man.
He bore all the earmarks of a commercial traveller of a certain sort--a domineering personality, making up by sheer nerve what he might lack in brains.
He turned them over immediately, but the three had seen that this tall stranger, who had all the earmarks of a cowpuncher, would not draw to kings but must have something better before he would stay.
Before we begin to talk about the real sufferer from "nerves," the nervous invalid, let us look for some of the earmarks that are often found on the supposedly well person.
Suggestibility is one of theearmarks of nervousness.
But although times were beginning to improve, it still bore many of the earmarks of an abandoned camp.
An ugly, short-barrelled gun in the hand of a man who bore all the earmarks of a hip shot was not to be treated lightly.
He's got all the earmarks of a reg'lar invited guest, ain't he?
The performance has so many earmarks of Franklin's peculiar modes of thought and speech that it is hard not to ascribe its authorship to him without hesitation.
It may be that the biography which pieced itself unconsciously together as he talked needs a sprinkle of salt here and there, but it all had the earmarks of veracity.
Long continued nursing covering three-fourths of an hour or more, seizing of the nipple for a moment and then discarding it, apparently in utter disgust, are the earmarks of very scanty milk supply and should receive immediate attention.
I need hardly add that such earmarks are, to an extent, of a distinctive and significant nature.
But, after all, while the longshore population of every land is rather different from the rest of the inhabitants, the former, in Europe at least, exhibit the national earmarks to a degree sufficient to satisfy the average tourist.
He was not a politician in any sense of the word, and yet unquestionably he had the air and the earmarks of the man who some day might become a statesman.
On the way back, Mrs. Vernon showed the scouts the earmarks of the beefsteak mushroom.
Their hardened faces, unkempt appearance, and other earmarks caused a little apprehension in the hearts of the girls and Mrs. Vernon; but soon after the new arrivals started their fire to cook supper, the three tramps got up and quietly left.
The clerk bowed debonairly, little suspecting that the new guest, who so unmistakably presented all the earmarks of a cultured and leisurely gentleman, was at this moment the most "wanted" man on the North American continent.
Further, the story had all the earmarks of truth, for a guilty mind would have tried to invent a less grotesque tale.
Never say or do anything which will show the earmarks of a weakling, of a nobody, of a failure.
As I was saying, I think one of the earmarks of a real executive is his ability to leave his business at any time and know that it will run safely.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "earmarks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
