Do we say medals or meddles

medals 368 occurrences

On the further side of Gradisca we passed a great platform, which had been erected a few weeks before for the Duke of Aosta's presentation of medals for the Carso offensive.

And soon they will be distributing medals for the retreat.

Medals!" I could find no words worth saying to him in reply.

President Wilson has directed me to present to you the first of these medals in the name of the United States Government and the American army, as an expression of their admiration and their confidence.

Notes are issued for the third, fourth, and twelfth parts of this: values smaller than the latter are represented by a token coinage of square medals composed of an alloy in which gold and silver respectively are the principal elements.

In the first place, in their speeches, in their writings and by commemorative pictures and medals, they have gloried in their misdeeds, thus declaring that Kultur is above morality (as stated by their writer, Thomas Mann), and that the right of German might is above everything.

He can't say the oath straight, because you had his head filled with awards and medals and things.

Lieutenant Charles G. Bonner, R.N.R., and Petty-Officer Ernest Pitcher, R.N., were awarded the V.C. for their services in this action, and many medals for conspicuous gallantry were also given to the splendid ship's company.

"Why yes, he was a good soldier, once upon a time, I believe,he won the Victoria Cross for doing something or other that was very brave, and he wears it with all his other medals, pinned on the inside of his coat.

And he is so simple, and so gentlein spite of all his war medals.

She is like the purest gold, only employed for princes' medals: she never receives but one man's impression.

The opening of ancient baths, burial vaults, &c. has led to the finding of tesselated pavements, coins, urns, rings, lachrymatories, seals, monumental inscriptions, medals, statues, chains, sacrificing vessels, &c.

My ridiculous father still struts about like a turkey-cock, as if all his medals and crosses could cover the fact that he is but a head lackey, with no more real power than I have.

The constant change of ministers is most disconcerting among the many disconcerting factors of official existence here, and just now I am harassed by my non-success in getting from Congress an appropriation to pay bills for medals and for the redemption of our captives.

The Catholics have caused many to hang a crucifix around their necks, which they show as they show their medals and other ornaments, and this is too often all they have to mark them as Christians.

The early medals of Washington, 1776-1834.

Medals of honor.

HOPPER, JAMES. Medals of honor.

With all the Indian tribes the two explorers held councils, and distributed presents, especially medals, among the head chiefs and warriors, informing them of the transfer of the territory from Spain to the United States and warning them that henceforth they must look to the President as their protector, and not to the King, whether of England or of Spain.

"Sir,I would long ere now have answered your very obliging letter with the medals.

I'd rather have him than forty gold medals!" "Señor,"it was José, his neck wrapped in a white handkerchief, coming forward from where he had sat with Don Andres"Señor, I am sorry that I did not kill you; but yet I admire your skill, and I wish to thank you for your generosity; the medalla is not mine, even though you refuse it.

As all the horses pounded off I heard Romer remark to Isbel: "Say, Joe, I don't see any medals on that cowboy."

CARAGLIO, an eminent Italian engraver, born at Verona, engraved on gems and medals as well as copper-plate, after the works of the great masters (1500-1570).

And which of us now would not feel wisely grateful, If his rhymes sold as fast as the Emblems of Quarles? E'en if won, what's the good of Life's medals and prizes?

May bronze and medals not be the only reward of the brave.

meddles 32 occurrences

There is a young woman in it who loves a man, and there is another woman who also loves him, and another man who loves the first woman, and meddles and mars as though he were a professional philanthropist.

'Think on the perils that environ The man that meddles with cold iron!'

"Them that makes or meddles in such gits theirselves into trouble, that's what I say," Zack told the visitors, stroking a chin whose contours expressed the resolution and aggressiveness of a rabbit.

MEDDLES Dinner was over, and Cartwright occupied a chair on the lawn in front of the Canadian summer hotel.

what perils do environ The man who meddles with hot Hiron!

It's a queer thing, but cows that will run from a dog when they are alone will fight him if he meddles with their calves or the sheep.

In one word, men who had acquired just the habit of mind which the study of Natural Science can give, and must give; for without it there is no use studying Natural Science; and the man who has not got that habit of mind, if he meddles with science, will merely become a quack and a charlatan, only fit to get his bread as a spirit-rapper, or an inventor of infallible pills.

His prognostication that she would by her interference and demands for "jobs" make life hideous for Lord and Lady Bute proved to be unfounded, and he had the grace to say, "She is much more discreet than I expected, and meddles with nothing"; but he could not refrain from saying that "she is woefully tedious in her narrations.

He believes the honour that was left him as well as the estate is sufficient to support his quality without troubling himself to purchase any more of his own; and he meddles us little with the management of the one as the other, but trusts both to the government of his servants, by whom he is equally cheated in both.

THE PLAN WORKS X JANET MEDDLES XI OSBORN'S PRIDE GETS HURT XII OSBORN INTERFERES PART IION

CHAPTER X JANET MEDDLES Bright moonlight sparkled on the snow when Kit left Ashness to post some letters he had written ordering new machines.

She is so good and kind, and never meddles with anything.

The single and simple duty of the Government is to put down resistance to its legitimate authority; it meddles, and can meddle, with no claim of right except the monstrous one of rebellion.

Here, no rude schoolboy ever approaches its retreat; and those who once dreaded its diabolical doings are now fully satisfied that it no longer meddles with their destinies, or has any thing to do with the repose of their departed friends.

what perils do eviron The man that meddles with cold iron.

"I know How pretty well, and when someone intimates to me that he is a grand-stand player, or goes out of his way to pick a quarrel, or meddles with someone else's affairs" Again the big man caught himself.

Unmindful of the fact that "the most dangerous moment for a bad government is the moment when it meddles with reform," he yielded everything.

and I cry with Salomon that he who meddles with the strife of another man is like to him that takes a hound by the ears.

His habits are wholly bad; he meddles with the nests of useful birds and is a nuisance to his human as well as bird neighbors.

And when the latter objected: "Yes," replied the queen, "it is the proper word: every woman who meddles in matters above her lights and beyond the limits of her duty, is nothing but an intriguer; you will remember, however, that I do not spare myself, and that it is with regret I give myself such a title.

Besides, I'm the mistress of our house; and he never meddles with my affairs.

Even now no Maori tribe will sell such spots, and the greedy or inquisitive Pakeha who profanely explores or meddles with them does so at no small risk.

Camilla, remember that my mind is made up for ever, and that nothing shall ever induce me to marry a man who meddles with the evils of races.

" "Meddles with the evils?

Now, in consideration thereof, we do hereby guaranty to our white neighbours that they shall not be molested in their lawful concerns upon our plantation, provided that no white man meddles or interferes in any way whatever in our lawful affairs; and that you may understand that it is so, we say the resolutions are revoked, and we will wait with pleasure the sitting of the Legislature.

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