Looking again at the three initials of the signature, I said, "I know no one for whom these letters would stand; neither at Morganton nor elsewhere.
The initials in my letter were his own signature; and it was he who had threatened me, if I dared to renew my attempt on the Great Eyrie.
Moreover, a yet more significant coincidence, the initials with which my letter had been signed, did they not stand for the words "Master of the World?
Nothing but three initialsat the end of the last line!
Yes," answered Rod, thinking his own initials were meant.
These told where the cars came from, which information, together with the car numbers, and the initials showing to what road they belonged, Conductor Tobin jotted down in his train-book.
Mademoiselle has her initials engraven on the glass, but that would be too expensive for us.
The main thing was that there was here a clue capable of leading Veronique to the discovery of the problem which interested her: by what prodigy did the initials of her maiden name reappear amid this tangle of tragic circumstances?
How came her initialsand her badge of rank upon the filler?
That he should engrave her initials upon it for the information of others was surely a very ordinary proceeding upon his part.
He owned this curious object, and yet he had someone else's initials upon it.
We may infer, therefore, that the person whose initials end in B was entitled to wear that coronet.
In the possession of a member of my family, on the maternal side, is a large silver tobacco-box, bearing the initials W.
The story, moreover, goes on to relate that the mob also insisted that the blazing initials G.
Another very interesting example of the Anglo-Celtic school of illumination, with fine initials and a painting of an eagle of the characteristic Northern type, is in the possession of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; No.
The arms, badges and initials of the owner are the commonest designs for these embroideries.
Purple ink was used largely, not often for writing, but for the delicate pen ornaments of the initials in certain classes of late Italian and German manuscripts.
On one of the kettledrums in the foreground are the initials of the artist and the date 1515.
The Bedford Missal contains no less than fifty-nine large miniatures and about a thousand smaller ones, not counting initials and borders.
These guiding letters were used in all the early printed books which had initials painted in by an illuminator.
The decorative borders and initialshave the interlaced Irish class of ornament.
Though not as gorgeous as the usual initials painted with gold and colours, this line ornament is sometimes of the richest and most delicate quality that can be imagined.
He looked them over as closely as the fading light would allow but found no marks or initialsto indicate the owner.
What is there in a little India ink, pricked beneath the skin, to make you strong--does it make father's shirts strong when mother uses it to put his initials in the corner?
On a shield on this pier are carved the arms and initials of Abbot Cranston--three cranes and two pastoral staves--saltierwise.
One of them contains the initials of Abbot William Turnbull, whose date is the beginning of the sixteenth century.
Besides the three hunting horns in the shield of Abbot Hunter in the examples above mentioned, the arms engraved on the fifth buttress contain two crosiers, saltierwise, and the initials A.
The same abbot's initials are placed on the north side of the west arch of the crossing, where the chamfer begins, and on the lower part of the north-west pier.
At the top, near the north-west corner, are engraved the arms and initials of Abbot Robert Blackadder, who was afterwards promoted to the offices of Bishop and Archbishop of Glasgow.
The tympanum of the doorway has also been altered at this time, and an oaken lintel introduced containing a shield with the initials of Charles I.
One panel bears her medallion profile in basso-rilievo, and the initials “E.
Upon the mantel of the venerable Presence-chamber are the initials of Henry VIII.
Repeated here and there are seen the initials of Francis and Ellen Smallman, who about the year 1601 erected the existing mansion; and a small wainscoted chamber has T .
Its rugged beams are curiously carved; grotesque faces leer upon the passer-by from finial and bracket; and the builder's initials are ingeniously interwoven amidst the ornamentation of the weatherworn bargeboard.
The last two lines were in red letters, and the initials P.
Arthur gaped at those initials for fully three minutes, and then hurriedly hid the sack away in the cupboard.
M R is precious like the initials of six foot two again.
But these speculations gave place to other emotions as he discovered two black initials painted on the canvas, and still legible under their covering of dirt and grease.
The sack has his initials on it; the paper belongs to him, as you will see, and he is the only man in the house who could reach up to put the match-box on the ledge.
But what do the initials at the end stand for--the G.
Here it is," and she hands me a seven and three-quarters hard boiled lid with his initials punched in the sweat band.
The floor is laid with encaustic tiles, bearing the arms of the family and the initials of the deceased.
The conclusion of all things is to feare God and keepe his Commaundementes,” and the conjoined initials E.
On one side was a lodge, or summer-house, over one of the doorways of which are initials and the date of 1696.
Monseigneir de Vernon,” and, with arms, theinitials “G.
On the panels of the wainscoting of the room are the initials of the countess, E.
On some there were merely the initials of a name; some were inscribed with misspelt prose or rhyme, in deep letters which the moss and wintry rain of many years had not been able to obliterate.
What seemed most to the purpose was a rusty key which had been thrust into a chink of the wall, with a wooden label appended to the handle, bearing the initials "P.
On one occasion she startled the townspeople by a brilliant illumination of the province-house with candles at every pane of glass and a transparency of the king's initials and a crown of light in the great balcony-window.
Yes, I have marked my initials on an unrifled portion of each one of these exhibits.
I now hand you a bullet fragment, what appears to be a bullet fragment, in a pill box which is labeled Jacket and Lead Q-2, and it has certain initials on it.
By serial number on the barrel, and by my initials which appear on various parts of the weapon.
Yes, sir; except for the marking of my initials and the other examiners.
This copy that you are presenting to us has initialsat the bottom "CC-R-CK"?
Each is marked with my initials and the inscription for identification purposes.
Rob Roy's purse and his gun; a very long one, with the initials R.
It could not be gainsaid that Parloe's initialswere there.
Two ragged and semi-clad Volunteers, the one minus his culottes, the other without shoes, with the initials W.
The following signs and abbreviations may be used: Initials for Superintendent's signature.
The time at which the order is sent and "O K" given should be noted on all the copies, with the initials or signals of the operators sending and receiving, and the name or initials of the superintendent.
Initials for the signatures of Superintendent or Dispatcher and operators may be used, but they would hardly be admissible for the signatures of trainmen.
Socket for an aigrette, enamelled gold set with rubies: initials D.
Back of a gold slide: painted enamel withinitials E.
Gold pendant: on the front two raised shields of arms; on the back the initials D.
The initials of its owner are inscribed in niello upon four circular compartments, separated by four lozenge-shaped compartments also inlaid with niello (Pl.
Memorial slides, with various devices and initials in gold wire over hair or ribbed silk beneath faceted crystal.
The design of a few of these pendants is based upon the prevailing custom of wearing initials of the name either in embroidery or in pure gold attached to the garments.
The fashion for wearing ornaments in the form of jewelled initials was still in vogue on the quilted dresses of the time of James I.
They were inscribed, in addition to a posy, with the initialsof the deceased and the date.
One of them has a monogram of the initials R and E in chased and engraved gold set at the four corners with two rubies, an emerald, and a diamond.
Babelon, are in all probability the initials of some lady of the family of Harlay, from whom the bracelets were acquired by Louis XIV (Pl.
In the same way jewelled initials were also frequently worn in the form of pendants and a jewelled B can be seen hanging from the neck of Anne Boleyn in her portrait in the National Portrait Gallery.
