With your permission I shall enlarge the list ofmottos of the German emperors, as well by commencing with the Germano-Frankish era as by supplying those omitted in the series given by MR.
These mottos were occasionally engraved in relief.
Of such mottos a few examples will serve to give an idea, premising that the stock was not very extensive, judging from the frequent repetitions of the same legends, on seals of widely different devices.
This may be perceived in many of the mottos of our old nobility, which seem to have originated in some habitual proverb of the founder of the family.
There were bunches of wax candles to illuminate the Christmas tree, gingerbread with printed mottos in poetry, beautiful little earthenware, basket-work, and a wilderness of playthings.
The sleeping apartments are in the fourth story, and are named according to the fancy of a former landlord, in mottos above each door.
She would have Yoga evenings in the hot August weather, at which, as the heat of the day abated, graceful groups should assemble among the mottos in the garden and listen to high talk on spiritual subjects.
The shepherd "carved it out quaintly in the sun;" and, turning philosopher by the very occupation, provided it with mottos more touching than tombstones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mottos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
