He begins to rummage through the piled stones for spent bullets and other mementoes of a great battle.
Chiggers, jerky, sweat beetles and hardtack are but mementoes of this earlier romantic interlude.
The other boys were at the landing when the boat arrived with its bare-headed crew, and the caps were speedily emptied of the eggs, which were eagerly taken by the crowd to keep as mementoes of the vacation.
A large part of it was spent by the ladies in an upstairs chamber, which Miss Ludington had devoted to a collection of mementoes of the successive periods of her life from infancy.
The Democrats, however, lauded the address, praised the wisdom and sincerity of its author, and laid away among their most valued mementoes the white satin copies which admiring friends scattered broadcast over the country.
At New York the furnishings of the hotel suite occupied by the President were eventually auctioned off as mementoes of the occasion.
These bequests are not made for the intrinsic value of them, but as mementoes of my esteem and regard.
The Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington had during the year set apart a division of space for mementoes of distinguished suffragists, and Mrs. Helen H.
He gave me several mementoes of my visit, among them a beautiful engraving of Sir Isaac Newton, representing him as one of the handsomest of men.
In Berkeley Castle, as prized mementoes of Queen Elizabeth, are five white linen cushions beautifully embroidered with silver threads and cherry-coloured silk.
There are many attractive shops in Cairo that sell quantities of this gay patchwork, and few tourists leave Egypt without a specimen or two as mementoes of the paintings that give us a glimpse of Egypt's ancient splendour.
Suddenly Wilson's guitar, left with other mementoes of two winters' imprisonment, sent forth music soft and sad.
Fortunately he carried no broken bones, but only bruises to the vessel as mementoes of his deer hunt.
The pictures will be pleasant mementoes of this holiday season.
History has also left in its track mementoes of a different character.
Pages of living literature built up all these lofty walls, bent these arches, panelled these ceilings, and filled the whole edifice with these mementoes of the men and ages gone.
It lay in a drawer, locked away among other mementoes of the past.
Hannaford had not cared to distribute his mementoes of battle and death in the room called his own; they remained in packing-cases.
The church has a collection of old books, including some old Bibles, including a Vinegar and a Breeches Bible, and some stone cannon-balls, mementoes of the French invasion of 1448.
Statuettes in bronze of Napoleon Bonaparte, brought from France and presented to Major Stark by Lafayette, as well as General McNeil's mahogany desk, are other mementoes of the past.
The principal room open to the public is the library, which leads from the right of the hall, a square room finished in brown and containing many mementoes that were there during Longfellow's lifetime.
There are still treasured in the college library at Brunswick, Maine, two mementoes of his college life.
Rare books and interesting mementoes are found on every side.
Every room in this house containsmementoes of the days of long ago.
Many mementoes connected with the life of Franklin Pierce are still treasured in the old house and include several swords, one of which was given by the ladies of Hillsboro when Pierce entered service in the Mexican War.
In bygone days admirers were constantly sending him axes as marks of their esteem, and now other admirers quite as constantly smuggle them away as treasured mementoes of their visits.
Why, when life and immortality have been brought to light in the gospel, are the mementoes of mortality more painful and saddening to us than they were to these pagans who had no hopes of a resurrection?
Plucking a leafy twig from the branches and a gray lichen from the trunk as mementoes of the place, I sat down on the mossy hole, and tried to bring back in imagination the haunted past.
These mementoes he cherished with the utmost care as the last remains of his affectionate family.
He says he never expects to run out of mementoes of St. Paul as long as he is in reach of a sand-bank.
With these cherished mementoes of the high old family, (she would under no other circumstance have parted with for uncounted gold,) she in time seduced Mr. Israel Moses to make a small advance.
The very first families continue to pay their respects to the good old lady, and she in return daily honors them with mementoes of her remembrance.
The contributions and mementoes presented by her soldier boys form a large and very interesting museum in her home.
As I ascended the hill, I passed the remains of many ancient mementoes of the past.
In many of the palaces and churches in the city, there are very interesting mementoes of the gallant Knight Crusaders; and the pictures and tapestries are also very fine.
There are many such sad mementoes at Venice, of an age of cruelty and tyranny, when men were condemned unheard, to death or a life of slavery.
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