For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears, to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self-sacrifice, of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We visited the tomb of the illustrious Hampden, and the field on which that patriot fell.7 For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self-sacrifice, of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers. ❋ Mary Shelley (2004)
For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers. ❋ Unknown (2003)
When God will do good for Zion, he requires that his remembrancers give him no rest, until he do it, Isa.lxii. 7; and yet sometimes, in the close of their supplications, gives them an answer "by terrible things," Ps. lxv. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)
These are the lights and shadows of life, merrily dancing or gravely stealing over the dial; remembrancers of the past -- teachers of the present -- prophets of the future hours. ❋ Various (N/A)
If the essayist lived in these days, and followed the customs that now obtain, he would send the sword and the staves, along with the other useless and (to him) worthless tokens and remembrancers of the dead and gone Montaignes, to the auction-room, and cheerfully pocket the money they brought. ❋ Various (N/A)
Memory Verse: "Ye that are the Lord's remembrancers, take no rest." ❋ J.W. Mahood (N/A)
Their strong castles, their palaces, their fortresses fall and moulder away into masses of ruin, vague remembrancers! ❋ Erckmann-Chatrian (N/A)
Also, seeing the fuss which is being made of their Pole, they may either hide it or sell pieces of it to tourists as remembrancers. ❋ James Stephens (1916)
In the presence of such remembrancers, Don Rodrigo became enraged and ashamed, as he reflected that a friar had dared to come to him with the parable of Nathan; and his mind could find no peace. ❋ Unknown (1909)
'Clothes,' so wrote Master Thomas Fuller, -- and likely enough the idea occurred to him some morning while getting into his hose and doublet, -- 'ought to be our remembrancers of our lost innocency.' ❋ Ralph Bergengren (1909)
One must compare his retreat from Russia with Rapp's and other remembrancers 'accounts, and be reminded by Rapp to go on to Jomini's Vie Militaire, and even turn for a single personal reminiscence to a flagrant hero-worshipper like Dumas, in his rapid and military biography. ❋ Lockhart, John G (1906)
Not too exclusive toward the reachers of my remembrancers; ❋ Unknown (1900)
Neither did her face -- with brown ringlets on either side and a slightly piquant nose, and the wholesome bloom, and the clear shade of tan, and the half dozen freckles, friendly remembrancers of the April sun and breeze -- precisely give us the right to call her beautiful. ❋ Various (1887)
As lately as 1760 the parishioners were wont to be drawn by a lurking superstition to drink of it on Lammas Day, leaving in it white stones, spoons, or rags, which they brought as remembrancers, just as devout Mohammedans still leave their prayer rags attached to the grating of the Mosque El-Aksa, at ❋ John Hunter (1883)
Indeed he had climbed these stairs innumerable times during the last three years; the musty smells were associated with ever so many bygone thoughts and states of feeling; the stains on the wall (had it been daylight), the irregularities of the bare wooden steps, were remembrancers of projects and hopes and disappointments. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
And then, as His remembrancers on our behalf, let us engage all those among our friends who have the same grace of tears. ❋ Alexander Whyte (1878)
