1 On his fourth trial he had been awarded a bronze medal.
2 A dark medal of blood had formed itself near the man's head on the tessellated floor.
3 They are beautiful because they are strong and every callus is a medal, Scarlett, every blister an award for bravery and unselfishness.
4 Thus saying, Mrs. Sparsit, with her Roman features like a medal struck to commemorate her scorn of Mr. Bounderby, surveyed him fixedly from head to foot, swept disdainfully past him, and ascended the staircase.
5 Now those noble golden coins of South America are as medals of the sun and tropic token-pieces.
6 the important men of the Indians by presenting medals, which.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10 7 His bosom was loaded with medals, some in massive silver, and one or two even in gold, the gifts of various Christian potentates during the long period of his life.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28 8 Rich plumes nodded above his head; wampum, gorgets, bracelets, and medals, adorned his person in profusion; though his dull eye and vacant lineaments too strongly contradicted the idle tale of pride they would convey.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 33 9 A young major just out of the army and covered over with medals he got in the war.
10 If you want him defined, here he is: a prime, well-fed beast such as takes medals at the cattle shows, and nothing more, he said, with a tone of vexation that interested her.
11 He scrutinised the reverse of these living medals some five minutes, then pronounced sentence.
12 I have four medals for distinguished services; I have the rank of an officer and the standing of a gentleman; and I have three native languages.
13 In the first were the nobility and gentry in their uniforms, in the second bearded merchants in full-skirted coats of blue cloth and wearing medals.
14 This English woman, who had become a naturalized Parisienne, recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the medals in the Library and Mademoiselle Mar's diamonds, became celebrated later on in judicial accounts.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND