Thus the tree and its defender are both surrogates of the Great Mother.
Thus the magic fern-seed and other treasure-disclosing vegetables[292] are surrogates of the mandrake, and like it derive their magical properties directly or indirectly from the pearl.
Thus even the malignant dragon can be the homologue of the usually beneficent gods Osiris and Ea, and their Aryan surrogates Mazdah and Varuna.
I must defer consideration of the part played by certain of the Great Mother's surrogates in the development of the thunder-weapon's symbolism and the associated folk-lore.
If the "hands" really represent surrogates of the cowry, the wearing of such a girdle brings the Indian goddess into line, not only with Astarte and Aphrodite, but also with the East African maidens who still wear the girdle of cowries.
The apple and the pomegranate became surrogates of the "love apple," and were graphically represented in forms hardly distinguishable from pots, occupying places which mark them out clearly as homologues of the Great Mother herself.
In the version we are now considering the pearl's place is taken by the pig, both of them surrogates of the cowry.
The magic girdle assumed a great variety of forms as the number of surrogates of the cowry increased.
Orange County has always been fortunate in its surrogates and the friends of Judge Swezey confidently expect him to maintain unsullied the traditions and the standards set by such predecessors as Scott and Coleman, Wadsworth and Howell.
Every scrap of old rubber in Germany was saved and worked over and over and diluted with fillers and surrogates to the limit of elasticity.
Efficient as the surrogates were, there were some things better attended to in person.
Their surrogates were already attuned and ready, and one of them had been equipped with an auxiliary power crystal.
Ever vigilant surrogates were deposited in all the strategic spots of the Estates--not only to allow quick observations of the condition of the lands, but also to give automatic warning of the approach of anyone of inimical turn of mind.
Judicial officers, with surrogates and sheriffs, were to be appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate, while courts were authorised to select county clerks and district attorneys.
At its first meeting, clerks and sheriffs and surrogates and district attorneys fell in windrows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surrogates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
