The mention of the bible, slippers and the other personal mementos had called up the dearest picture he ever knew.
Upon the walls of Ethelyn's chamber many pictures were hung, some in water colors, which she had done herself in the happy schooldays which now seemed so far away, and some in oil, mementos also of those days.
Otter in a trap, to Mr. Roscoe a Robin, and to many of my other friends some small drawing, as mementos of one who will always cherish their memories.
She made a white silken pillow of the flowers; and, when death came at last, she was laid at rest, her head cushioned on the mementos of the man she had loved.
Yet it was she who from the time she was fifteen years old to the day of her death cherished the great composer in her heart; and of her love for him were the mementos that he sacredly guarded.
I trust some friend will photograph or stereograph this fence for me, to go with the view of the spires of Frederick already referred to, as mementos of my journey.
Ulrich dismissed the servant, took the mementos of his mother in his hand, and listened to the hammer-strokes, that echoed from within.
The date showed that it had been given to her by his father, and the shirt and doll were mementos of him, her darling--of himself.
From among them fell a bunch of flowers and lock of hair; the usual trivial mementos of greater values lost.
Rob came alone to begin dismantling the room of its mementos of the time when she had been the Scheherazade of Fayre, and had told stories to the children for money which the Grey family had then so sorely needed.
These mementos were the absurdities which Battalion B had showered upon her.
It is a glare of white marble without, and a series of showy majestic halls within, where a thousand curious mementos and relics of old Venice are gathered and classified.
Yet here--almost like pearls in a dunghill--are hidden mementos of two of the most exquisite of Italian minds.
Strip a man one by one of his physical acquisitions, of his associates, of the indications and mementos of the things he has thought and done, and there would be no "self" left.
We date the remote periods of mankind chiefly by the mementos we have of the kinds of tools they used and the methods they had developed in the control of their environment.
Even these exist in the present; they are evidences, memorials, mementos of the past.
Similarly, we may cherish the mementos of a lost friend or child, not for their intrinsic worth, but for the tenderness of the memories they arouse.
Mrs. Van Alyn quietly set aside some of the dearer mementos of past happiness not too valuable to be kept out of the sale, to be sent to a store-room she had taken for the purpose.
At every step the old man came upon something to remind him of the child, in the room which was still so full of mementos of him.
The general appearance of the good man's chamber was poor and neat, but sad, because it was filled with mementos of former comfort striving to conceal present poverty.
Would not one think that these incongruous mementos had been gathered together as a lesson to living greatness?
It will not be difficult to imagine the tender interest with which Aunt Jemima, and even "Cobbler" Horn himself, gazed on those simple mementos of the past.
It is doubtful whether "Cobbler" Horn was aware of his sister's pathetic hoard; but there were two mementos of his lost darling which he himself preserved.
He freely invited the poet to his house, rode and swam with him, preserved the few Byron mementos at Annesley, and protected the tombs of Byron's ancestors at Colwick.
Among many mementos of Byron cherished in this famous room are the original MSS.
The crosses are thus mementos of the reign of terror that prevailed in Mexico not long ago.
Visitors always leave more or less money in exchange for small mementos of the island, and thus aid in the support of the various fancy goods stores, photograph, and jewelry shops on the Strada Reale.
Here were representatives of the living and mementos of the dead!
You remember that Saul sent David out to gather one hundred Philistine mementos to put in the Ark of the Covenant.
These mementos and the lambskin are of equal efficacy, both being relics of the crucifixion.
These mementos are sacredly kept to show the prowess of the hunter and at the same time they serve as a token of the wealth procured by bartering the pelt of the animal to the trader.
To what is to be attributed the universal indifference of Americans to honouring the dead, by those little mementos and marks of affection and respect which are interwoven with the very religion of other countries?
Codman's amateur collection, for the benefit of the curious, when he returns to that land of curious bipeds, where such kind of mementos are duly estimated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mementos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
