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A lean-faced old man the Sheik was, heavily bearded with white, his brows snowy, his eyes a hawk's, and the fine aquilinity of his nose the hallmark of pure Arab blood. Hard as iron he looked, gravely observing, unabashed in face of these white strangers and of this mysterious flying house.
Above and beyond them all, unsleeping, ever-solicitous, unerring, is the Pilot of their bark, the Charterer of their course, the Founder of their spiritual fellowship, the Bestower of that primacy which is the hallmark of their destiny.
We looked so much the typical American tourists that we felt ashamed of ourselves, not because of our nationality, but because we revealed so plainly, to all the world military, our non-military antecedents. We bore the hallmark of fifty years of neutral aloofness, of fifty years of indifference to the business of national defense.
By drawing this second version she was providing Hallmark with sentimental froth for those who did not see that humans were replaceable in one's own life and that the whole of a life, itself, was more froth splashed up in the washing of time. On a deeper albeit subliminal level she was stating that one could go forward in time and still retain childish affections. She knew it was not so.
Beasley's hints were not long in bearing the fruit he desired. Some one recollected the women who had been participants in their earlier frolic, and instantly there was a clamor for their presence. Beasley grinned. He was feeling almost joyous. The women readily answered the summons. They came garbed in long, flowing, tawdry wrappers, the hallmark of the lives they lived.
He viewed Paris through eyes which magnified, perhaps, but never distorted; and his impressions, as set down on paper, carry that instant conviction, even to those who have never crossed the Channel, which is the hallmark of truth. In some cases these Paris drawings, many of which are reproduced in the present volume, are literal portraits from life.
Whatever the Hand of a beneficent and inscrutable Destiny has reserved for this youthful, this virile, this idealistic, this spiritually blessed and enviable nation, however severe the storms which may buffet it in the days to come in either hemisphere, however sweeping the changes which the impact of cataclysmic forces from without, and the stirrings of a Divine embryonic Order from within, will effect in its structure and life, we may, confident in the words uttered by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, feel assured that that great republic—the shell that enshrines so precious a member of the world community of the followers of His Father—will continue to evolve, undivided and undefeatable, until the sum total of its contributions to the birth, the rise and the fruition of that world civilization, the child of the Most Great Peace and hallmark of the Golden Age of the Dispensation of Bahá’u’lláh, will have been made, and its last task discharged.
She felt that the meagre abode which she must name home had received the hallmark of a "toff's" approval. "Now I am going to ask you something," Julian said. "Will you let me have tea with you to-day, and and come out with me some evening to the Empire or somewhere, instead?" The lady nodded her fringed head. "Certainly, my dear," she responded. "Proud to give you tea, I'm sure."
"We are face to face with a weird and gloomy case a case of a contemporary character, if I may say so a case possessing, in the fullest sense of the word, the hallmark of time, and circumstances pointing to a person and life of different surroundings.
"That's a bit of a platitude, isn't it?" he suggested. "Of course we shall know a lot more when we do know a lot more!" "I set store by platitudes, sir," retorted Harker. "You can't repeat an established platitude too often it's got the hallmark of good use on it. But now, till we do know more you've no doubt been thinking a lot about this matter, Dr.
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