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  1.  A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc. / Various
    in, 342. ---- inscribed alms dish, 87. 117. 135. ---- motto, 93. ---- MS. account of Britain, 174 ... Bacon, 489. Arun on autograph mottoes of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and Harry, Duke of Buckingham  details...
  2.  The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle / Johnston, Annie Fellows, 1863-1931
    out of the Bible for a business motto, I'll give the wheel to the boy who makes the best choice. You can select ... , so you must apply that motto to your own business faithfully for two months, and the excellence of the motto  details...
  3.  The White Linen Nurse / Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell, 1872-1958
    I'll do it!" Expeditiously as she spoke the newcomer reached up for the framed motto over her own ample ... !_ glinted the motto through its sun-dazzled glass. Still panting with excitement, still bristling  details...
  4.  The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science / Anonymous
    containing the motto: it is usually placed beneath the shield and supporters; see the word MOTTO ... side a stag ducally gorged and chained, on the sinister side a griffin gorged and chained; motto  details...
  5.  Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850 / Various
    . _Sapcote Motto_ (Vol. i., pp. 366. and 476.).--Taking for granted that solutions of the "Sapcote Motto ... translation of T.C. (Vol. i, p. 476.). The motto stands thus:-- "sco toot x vinic [or umic] x poncs  details...
  6.  Big and Little Sisters / Jenness, Theodora R.
    when I am scrubbing, and their shoes are big and muddy. Ugh! big tracks they make! But I have learned the motto ... at the motto, while the dormitory girls flocked by, and when the hall was quiet she repeated it in the peculiar  details...
  7.  Gritli's Children / Spyri, Johanna, 1827-1901
    on Emma. Fani was to be the bearer. To-day the motto must be selected for it, and at the close of school ... announced that he had found a pretty couplet, suitable to the occasion, which he proposed as a motto  details...
  8.  The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware / Johnston, Annie Fellows, 1863-1931
    , but she had to quote the motto to show how triumphantly it had worked out in their case and what a grand turn fortune ... the motto carved on the dial's face: "I only mark the hours that shine." "The very words that Betty  details...
  9.  Her Own Way A Play in Four Acts / Fitch, Clyde, 1865-1909
    down from the table._ COAST. And here's my contribution to the party. [_Brings out six big German mottoes from his pocket, and goes to table with them._ GEORGIANA. [_In pretended excitement._] What? Mottoes ...  details...
  10.  The Cask Of Amontillado / Poe, Edgar Allen
    rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel." "And the motto?" "Nemo me impune lacessit." "Good ...  details...

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