The church is a sanctuary and shield; it is an emblem of strength and peace.

In the centre of all was repeated the silver Star within the golden band; the emblem from which the Order derives its name, and in which it embodies its deepest symbolism.

I can tell by the emblem on the flap of the envelope," said he, drawing a crumpled paper from his breast pocket.

[Footnote 2: Yengo, a species of wild goose, is the emblem in China of intersexual attachment and fidelity, being said never to pair again after the loss of its mate.

Surely the lamb, emblem at once pastoral and sacred, ought to enter into any monument to Wordsworth; but that gray headstone, with its catalogue of dates, those stern iron railingswere these fit memorials of one whose soul so loved nature's loveliness?

That nice artificer who filed a chain so thin and light that a flea could trail it (as if he had worked shorthand, and taught his tools to cypher), did but contrive an emblem for this skipjack and his slight productions.

Fling out the Anti-Slavery flag, Forever let it be The emblem to a holy cause, The banner of the free.

It looked in his hands rather like an emblem than an instrument of authority; and an emblem, too, he was ashamed of.

One Belgian had sought for his own benefit to conciliate the Germans, and as the Kaiser's troops at the turn of the road came upon his house, there was the Kaiser's emblem with the double- headed eagle raised to greet them.

The little inn at Lorette was then kept by a worthy host bearing the above-mentioned name, which was dingily lettered out upon a swinging sign, dingily representing a trotting horse,emblem as dear to the slow Canadian as to the fast American mind.

According to one of the legends the remains of St. James were brought to Spain in a scallop-shell; hence the use of that emblem by pilgrims to his sanctuary.]

It would seem that perhaps some obscure and half-formed image floated in his mind of the eagle, as the king of birds; secondly, as the tutelary emblem under which his conquering legions had so often obeyed his voice; and, thirdly, as the bird of Jove.

What led the Spanish missionaries to suspect that this was one of the twelve apostles, was not only these doctrines, but the undoubted fact that they found the symbol of the cross already a religious emblem among this people.