It is worth while noting that in this case we have an illustration of a peculiarity of religious lore,—the indirect symbolizing of a power by one of a series of objects in which that power is manifest.
The red marks upon the breast of the bird, representing the national emblem of the United States, were interpreted by the owner as symbolizing such death-dealing power in contending with soldiers.
A diagram symbolizing a system of interrelations by spots, all distinguishable from one another and some connected by lines of the same kind.
A tau cross with a loop at the top, used as an attribute or sacred emblem, symbolizinggeneration or enduring life.
One of his patients, a woman drawing toward middle age, who had been greatly upset when she learnt that the man she loved was suffering from syphilis, was asked to have a dream symbolizing her state of mind.
The fear-stricken fellow with the two children is myself, an obviously tragic figure, symbolizing another side of my nature.
A man in armor on a fanciful, dragon is attacking an eagle, symbolizing man's effort to attain the inspiration of the heavens.
The decoration of the cloisters may be taken as symbolizing the evolution of primitive man from the lower forms of life.
A serpent encircles the base of the group, symbolizing wisdom-or as some prefer to interpret it, everlasting life.
Fire at the west end of the north stairway-is typified by the figure of a man in agony, with one hand grasping the flame, and with jagged lightning in the other, symbolizing man's terror of fire as well as his conquering of it.
Figures symbolizing Progress call the world to pass through the Canal.
At the far left are figures symbolizing True Hope and False Hope.
Nothing is more interesting than such art resources whereby the sentiment of a landscape is reproduced by thus suggesting or symbolizing many of its essential features.
On this, in white relief, were figures symbolizing Fire and Water, and a group of the Graces accompanied by Cupid in a race.
One other delicate bit ofsymbolizing he has allowed himself, which I may not omit.
At the very entrance, sits, symbolizing the evil conscience, the sinners' judge "Minos horrific and grins.
Then are seen the four prophetic animals symbolizing the four Evangelists.
A band of devices symbolizing the body of an animal encircles the middle portion of the vase.
The spots symbolizing the scales are here placed within the body, showing another step toward complete annihilation of the natural forms and relations.
Gabriel, on the contrary, though using symbolism in his poetry in only a moderate degree, allowed his instinct for symbolizing his own life to pass into positive superstition.
Yet Gabriel could speak of his father’s symbolizing (as in ‘La Beatrice di Dante’) as being absolutely and hopelessly eccentric and worthless.
In China, he is often represented with a mace (symbolizing a thunderbolt) instead of a sword.
She, therefore, sung her young life out in avowed virginity, wearing an amber necklace, symbolizing her eternal choice of celibacy.
The shoe of the refusing kinsman is taken from his foot, in the presence of the assembled people, and given to Boaz, symbolizing the relinquishment of all rights in the premises.
The Fourth Gospel is the noblest instance of this kind of literature, of which the truth depends not on the factual accuracy of the symbolizingappearances but on the truth of the ideas and experiences thus symbolized.
A touch of Southern elegance and courtly grace makes itself evident in the formal scene, with its pathos of the figure symbolizing lonely sorrow and the dark shadow of the chapel at the end of the grove.
The Dowager Queen Juliane Marie suggests the factory mark of the three blue lines, symbolizing the three waterways of Denmark, which mark was adopted and has been continuously used since that date.
In both, moreover, metaphysical or symbolizing tendencies had withdrawn attention from a close scrutiny of any fact, observed, imagined, or reported.
This vision, symbolizing the angelic intelligence, is consciously and rationally constructed.
This is to be a temple of universal religion, symbolizing in its architecture the unities of faith and humanity.
The legend of the "three weary sojourners" in the Royal Arch degree is undoubtedly a philosophical myth, symbolizing the search after truth.
And thus he proceeds, symbolizing every part and utensil of the temple as alluding to some emotion or affection of man, but in language too tedious for quotation.
