Hidden in the dark recess Of a wide labyrinth, a monster dwelt, And every year was human tribute paid By the Athenians.
At this time, the Minotaur was receiving the annual tribute of seven of the noblest youth of Athens, and Theseus could not fail of being ranked among them, to be devoured by the monster.
The way the biscuits, the trout and everything else disappeared was a tribute to Jack's cooking.
That magnificent church is a tribute donated by the hundreds that have been blessed by her ministrations.
The Lords, less fettered by formality, were able at once to pay their tribute to the great dead and to hear his praises sounded by a Statesman, a Soldier and a Friend.
It was she who had insisted upon naming her only son Eugene Tennyson, a tribute at once to a brother Eugene, and to the celebrated romanticist of verse, because she had been so impressed with his "Idylls of the King.
Had she not laid every tribute of tenderness, patience, self-abnegation, self-sacrifice and virtue on the altar of love?
It seems a tribute to that providence which shapes our ends, which continues perfect in tendency however vilely we may overlay its brightness with the rust of our mortal corruption, however imitative we may be.
If it exacted the final tribute for those ribald years of Satan Sanderson, the price would be paid!
No admirer of the immortal peasant-bard should be without this excellent tribute to his genius.
After rendering this general tribute to the port, Mr. Snagsby in his modesty coughs an apology behind his hand for drinking any thing so precious.
This handsome tribute to Jefferson, concluding with such a delicate appeal to the gratitude of his countrymen for his relief, was penned by his friend, J.
His body was borne privately from his dwelling by his family and servants, but his neighbors and friends, anxious to pay the last tribute of respect and affection to one whom they had loved and honored, waited for it in crowds at the grave.
In the same letter we find him congratulating Washington on his election as President, and seizing that occasion to pay a graceful tribute to him of praise and admiration, and also of affection.
Jefferson himself, in describing his first appearance in the Virginia House of Burgesses, pays a warm and handsome tribute to his friend.
We find in the following extract from them a graceful and heartfelt tribute to his well-loved friend: I joy, my friends, in your joy, inspired by the visit of this our ancient and distinguished leader and benefactor.
The one met the world as an antagonist, and forced from it tribute and recognition; the other, never having felt the necessity of competition, had formed the habit of taking the world into his confidence and treating it as a friend.
Cosden repeated after him; and Huntington turned away to chuckle to himself that he had paid homage to the reality while his friend believed him to be giving tribute to the figment.
In less than two years they can save enough, through the economies of production, to buy their machines outright, instead of continuing year after year to pay you tribute with nothing at the end to show for it.
No more striking tribute has been paid by a foreigner to the dauntless spirit of Britons.
The meanness of this device is a tribute to the power of Foster and the mediocrity of the officials of Dublin Castle.
Detesting the dog, as I do, I cannot withhold this justtribute to the scoundrel's talents.
Even if they come from evidently interested motives, they are a tributewhich flatters the receiver's self-esteem, for they are an unmistakable proof that he is worth being courted.
Much obliged to you, Mr. Wilmot, thought I, for your involuntary tribute to my shrewdness: it has been deserved this time at any rate.
Is it a remembrance of infancy, a tribute to the mother who taught him to pray?
What follows has been threaded together as a little tribute to the men who gave their lives for an Ideal, and who were brave soldiers in the Great War.
Captain Hawkes was severely wounded in three places, and could not move, and as he carried his officer to safety, Private Barry fell, dying heroically, his death a tribute to the feeling that so strongly existed between officers and men.
The Red Lion exhibited a local tribute to its friend, by placing on the door 'Welcome, Whalley, champion of our rights.
Looking back on considerably more than half a century of history it is no small tribute to human care and human ingenuity that serious accidents on the Cambrian Railways have been relatively rare.
A peace was sealed with the usual tribute of ivory and female slaves for the king's harem.
And man also exacts a heavy tribute for purposes of irrigation.
This out-crop of manhood and character, is the tribute of our free institutions to European monarchy.
It is sometimes said that sacrifice is the recognition of God's sovereignty, the tribute paid by His subjects.
The happy possessor of the garden will exact no tribute from them, but the pleasure of seeing them suspend, by a silken thread, to the leaves of his shrubs, the elegant little boat in which they cradle their fragile brood.
Wild cats existed in the island, destroying young broods, agoutis, and other small game; he has almost entirely rid it of these pirates, reserving to himself only the right of levying upon his subjects the tribute of blood.
Outside on the ample balcony stood a laurel in a big blue pot, an emblematic tribute on Paulo's part to honourable defeat which might yet turn to victory.
Now, as ever, he paid it the tribute of the cheeriest laughter.
And this was a most generous, though undoubtedly well-deserved, tribute from Stanley--saying that it was he to whom these words of Dr.
It was during the walk back over the fields from Donnington Castle that Sir Francis Jeune paid a magnificent tribute to the abilities of the late Lord Hannen--both as a lawyer and a man.
It is not only to offer a tribute to the memory of Henry that I would intrude upon your readers, but, by presenting an example, encourage faithfulness and patriotic devotion to the cause of liberty.
The lines following are a touching tributeto the memory of one of the noblest young men sacrificed in the war.
We can pay no more eloquent tribute to his memory than the mute impression his history will impart.
For the tribute to Gallus in the original draft of Georgic iv.
De vita Pomponii Secundi, in two Books, a tribute to the memory of a valued friend, the tragic poet Pomponius.
Speaking of them, Horace pays a tribute to loyal silence, and emphasizes the curse that clings to breach of faith; l.
But surely you will not refuse the humble tribute of devotion that my spirit offers up to a being nobler and higher than itself.
What a glorious tributewould this be from the people of England to their great dramatic poet--the greatest dramatic poet in the world!
The tribute of a nation's love to pure and godlike intellect!
Hugh paid a second tribute to the detective's marvellous memory.
Mr. Bryant smiled, well pleased at this tribute to his capacity.
Nor was this the only tribute Liston received; numerous were the attempts made to induce him to alter his decision, but he was inflexible, and it remained irrevocable.
Columbus, in a letter written on his third voyage, pays an honest, heartfelt tribute to the effectual patronage which he experienced from the queen.
Even Pulgar cannot withhold his tribute of admiration to this unconquerable spirit in an enemy, wasted by all the extremities of famine and fatigue.
Marineo's prologue concludes with the following noble tribute to letters.
Comines confirms the distinction with a high tribute to the loyalty of the Swiss, which has continued their honorable characteristic to the present day.
