The next morning Cambyses assembled his generals and rewarded them with different tokens of distinction, such as costly robes, gold chains, rings, swords, and stars formed of precious stones.
I demand no tokens of a love and humility, which thou hast never felt.
He was brave--no boy ever was braver--and he kept in all tokens of terrible suffering for my sake.
The performance of Brahms' movements did not result in a success, though the two first were received with some tokens of approval.
He and I parted with great and even solemn tokens of affection; but yet not without gay intermixtures, as I will acquaint your Lordship.
The younger woman, with unequivocal tokens of interest, had drawn nearer to listen; and was standing leaning upon the table, with her face turned towards us.
My solitude was less desolate, less miserable, when she was beside me; and I who had always prized so much my father's few tokens of tenderness, it went to my heart to hear how he had remembered me when I was away.
Not that I am infallible, but the Signs and the Tokens all lead one way.
There were trifles, too, little ornaments, beautiful tokens of a continual remembrance, that must have been wrought by delicate fingers, at the impulse of a fond heart.
Though no comets or prodigies foretold the ruin of Greece, signs which heaven must by another miracle enable us to understand, yet might it be foreshewn, by tokens no less certain, by the vices which always bring it on.
If all these tokens are not enough to vindicate the truth of what I say, here is my sword, that will compel incredulity itself to give credence to it.
The poor dog looked his master in the face, and gave tokens that he understood him.
The lion in his turn came also; and, as if respecting the rights of hospitality, showed no tokens whatever of ferocity.
But to Paul himself these tokens were very precious.
In some way he had been marked with fresh and manifest tokens of bodily suffering in the cause of Christ.
They that looked for Israel's redemption, the Simeons and Annas of the time, the authentic heirs of the promise, knew by sure tokens that it was near.
The immortal deeds of the Grenfells and the O'Learys and of all the one hundred thirty who have won Victoria Crosses are only the outstanding tokens of undying British heroism.
There are these several things that are tokens of one wild or mad; and they all meet in a carnal man.
Many instances might be given as to such tokens of the displeasure of God against such as fool away, as the wise man has it, the prize which is put into their hand (Prov 17:16).
Seeming delays in God are no tokens of his displeasure; he may hide his face from his dearest saints (Isa 8:17).
What are the signs and tokensthat thou bearest about thee, concerning how it will go with thy soul at last?
It must be done against manifest tokens to prove the contrary; and thus the reprobate Jews committed it when they saw the works of God, which put forth themselves in him, and called them the works of the devil and Beelzebub.
But further, all this must be done against manifesttokens to prove the contrary, or after the shining of gospel light upon the soul, or some considerable profession of him as the Messiah, or that he was the Saviour of the world.
Then the fishes began to show themselves in the sea, and the birds flew over our heads, and all other tokens of our approach to land appeared unto us.
When we had gone some two hundred furlongs from this nest, fearful prodigies and strange tokens appeared unto us, for the carved goose, that stood for an ornament on the stern of our ship, suddenly flushed out with feathers and began to cry.
Upon the sight of this we had great cause to be troubled in mind, and therefore besought the gods to avert from us the evil that by these tokens was portended.
These, and other tokens of regard and respect for me by my fellow prisoners, I am very grateful for.
Before I left they said they wished they had something to give me, and some gave small tokens of their regards.
As for anie tokens that they giue for proouing of this, it is verie possible to the Deuils craft, to perswade them to these meanes.
His Washington quarters consisted of a quiet brick house, convenient to the War office, and the only tokens of its importance were some guards at the threshold, and a number of officers' horses, saddled in the shade of some trees at the curb.
They assured us, however, of their being duly sensible of these tokens of our regard, and that they should be preserved during their lives with the utmost care.
Many gruesome tokens are explained in the same systematic and businesslike manner.
The hair braided in the Indian fashion meant that the victim was a mother, other tokens that the victim was a boy or a girl.
Miracles wrought on memorable occasions, were constituted signs or tokens of God's universal government.
For all in covenant with God, without their entreaty, have tokens been provided.
The laws which he has given to his creatures are tokens of his will concerning them.
The tokens of the Lord's acceptance of Israel Covenanting with him in the reign of Asa were, that He, whom they had sought with their whole desire, was found of them, and that he gave them rest round about.
The covenant made by Joseph and the princes of the congregation of Israel with the Gibeonites, was kept by the descendants of both parties: and the breach of it on one occasion by Saul, was followed by tokens of Divine displeasure.
Israel Covenanting with God, in the reign of Nehemiah, were visited with special tokens of Divine favour.
Both together are tokensof God's wisdom, and goodness, and power.
In the midst of these tokens of prostrated energy and dismissed hope, the master of the Counting-house stood idle in his usual place, with his arms crossed on the desk, and his head bowed down upon them.
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