[Footnote: The stamps were not the adhesive kind we are now accustomed to fasten on letters.

You find this type of doubter everywhereand especially in India where official rank is but the guinea stamp and gold is brass without it.

" The newspaper stamp at that time was fourpence (less 25 per cent.).

" A fine stamp of humanity is the Cotswold labour

And so the prevailing stamp upon Muslim institutions is fanaticism and intolerance.

"That stamp of man is a pest in the place," he said; "he won't be influenced for good but hangs about the ale-houses and lives on the proceeds of his begging.

A stamp of the foot has been for all time a rough-and-ready means of signalling; the fore-scuttle was drawn back, and the face of a young and pretty girl appeared framed in the opening.

Stamps on receipts, checks, deeds, bills of sale, and licenses on the sale of liquor and tobacco are taxes on business acts which are necessary to the acquisition, use, or expenditure of wealth.

The newspaper stamp in those days was threepence-halfpenny, raised in 1815 to fourpence.

The stamp of affluence in those days was the possession of a basin.

Here's threepence; that's all the tin I'm worth.what have you got, Diggy?" "Four halfpenny stamps, and half a frank on my watch-chain," was the reply.