The small island of Aix was taken, Rochefort threatened, a few ships burned in the harbour of St. Maloes, and a few guns and mortars brought home as trophies from the fortifications of Cherbourg.
What is an Alexander, crowned with trophies at the head of his army, compared with a Henry contemplating the ocean from his window on the rock of Sagrez!
Even in the days when her Henries and Edwards plumed themselves with the trophies of France, how often has famine spread all her horrors over city and village?
With trophies plum'd behold a hero come,[363] Ye dreary wilds, prepare his yawning tomb.
Nor rests the monarch while his servants toil, Around him still increasing trophies smile, And deathless fame repays the hapless fate That gives to human life so short a date.
Some of these trophies still survive the rust of time, and the effects of negligence.
His instinct still is to nail skulls and trophies to the sacred tree, deep in the forest.
No wonder they thrilled with horror when, deep in the woods, they found the skulls and trophies of their dead comrades upon the trees.
Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.
Why should kings and nobles have Pictured trophies to their grave, And we, churls, to thee deny Thy pretty toys with thee to lie-- A more harmless vanity?
These are the arcs, the trophies I erect, That fortify thy name against old age; And these thy sacred virtues must protect Against the Dark, and Time's consuming rage.
Where, no later than 1834, a grand wolf hunt was held, and one bear and forty wolf scalps were the trophies of the day, the bears of the Stock Exchange alone rage and howl, and the only wolves are human ones.
In front of the monument are a number of guns, trophies of the Mexican war, and several others presented by General Lafayette.
Vessels of every kind used by the navy may be seen at almost any time at the yard, and it has also a large and varied collection of trophies taken in war and relics of earlier times, which prove of interest to the visitor.
A stone fire-place had been built at one end of the latter, while the walls were adorned with trophies of the chase.
The walls were adorned with trophies of the chase, such as fine antlers of moose, caribou, and great horns of mountain sheep, while several large and valuable bear and wolf-skin rugs were stretched out upon the floor.
There is to this palace a stately hall, not much inferior to ours of Westminster, hung round with colors and other trophies taken from the Spaniards;[12] and the sides below are furnished with shops.
On the balustrade, the trophies of Marius against the Cimbrians, very ancient and instructive.
Pompey, in the trophies which he raised to himself on the coast of Catalonia, affirmed that he had received the submission of eight hundred and seventy-seven oppida.
He preserved in their places the statues of Philopoemen, kept none of the trophies taken in Greece for himself, and remained so poor that the Senate conferred a dowry upon his daughter from the public treasury.
Quite a number they killed, and brought their gory heads astrophies to Windsor and to Hartford.
The barbarian victors amused themselves in cutting off the heads of the slain, which they fixed upon poles at the spot, as defiant trophies of their triumph.
But here the English found the heads of eight of their countrymen, which had been cut off and stuck upon poles, ghastly trophies of savage victory.
He also took, as trophies of his victory, the two canoes, and the bows and arrows of these Indians.
He is brave whose tongue is silent Of the trophies of his word.
When a hero died, the Saxons sent him on his journey to Valhalla, with food enough to last a week and with all his treasures, his sword and helmet, his hunting trophies and his most loved things.
Thy narrow heart is capable of love, By mocking of my ashes, and erecting tombs To me, which are indeed but trophies of thy dead Conquer'd love and virtue.
You are the gallant, sir, that on your arm Do wear the trophies of a conquer'd lady.
His ugly idol shall displace their gods, Their dear Penates, and in desolate streets Raise trophies high of barbarous bones, whose stench May poison all the rest.
Presenting the Trophies (taken from Joseph Buonaparte) to the Prince Regent.
The chamber of the invalid is surrounded by trophies and relics, and apparatus implying a diversity of tastes, and the means of humouring them.
The glorious General has taken a pair of Dutch dolls captive, and these are the chief trophies of his adventure.
My friend Sir Roger hath been an indefatigable man in business of this kind, and has hung several parts of his house with the trophies of his former labors.
Who has not seen them with alarm dashing to the combat on their nimble chargers, brandishing the tomahawk and scalping their conquered victims, whose scalps they hung up in their wigwams as trophies to their prowess?
The firelocks were brought as trophies to the front of the stage, and precipitated into the Orchestra.
In the treaty of peace, it does not appear that Alp Arslan extorted any province or city from the captive emperor; and his revenge was satisfied with the trophies of his victory, and the spoils of Anatolia, from Antioch to the Black Sea.
The shrine which contained his relics was decorated with the trophies of victory, and the captive race was forever devoted to the service and vassalage of the metropolitan church of Patras.
The emissaries were not dismissed in a hurry; and when they returned at last to Caubul they carried back only a verbal message, and that message contained a demand for all the guns and trophies in the possession of the enemy.
Such at least had long been the popular faith; and among the priesthood and the people of Afghanistan, no one doubted that the trophies were genuine.
As the trophiesof Miltiades are supposed to have kept Themistocles awake, it has been said that the trophies of Grotius drove sleep from Selden, till be produced his celebrated treatise, "De Jure naturali et gentium secundum leges Ebræorim.
These last trophies of victory were deposited in the Coronation Church in the fortress of Buda.
Upward of two thousand were either killed, wounded, or taken prisoners, and the two pieces of ordnance brought off as trophies of the victory.
These cremate their dead; they set apart a separate round house for the trophies of human heads, and in this the bachelors are expected to pass the nights.
The one in affluence and splendor, trying to find an easier position for his aching head, surrounded with means and trophies of debauchery, and thinking "there would be nothing so snug and comfortable as to die at once.
We simply grace his triumph, and no images may be hung at this feast but the trophies of the Puritan.
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