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Simeon, the sainted king of Servia; beside it hung his banner with the half-moon on it, the insignium of the South Slavonic nation from the dawn of heraldry. Near the altar was the body of his son, St. Stephen, the patron saint of Servia.

Whichever theory be correct and the latter certainly commends itself as the more probable it will be observed that both agree in assigning to Takama-ga-hara a terrestrial location; both agree in assigning the sense of "unsettled and turbulent" to the "floating, drifting" condition predicated of the country when the Kami first interested themselves in it, and both agree in interpreting as an insignium of military authority the "jewelled spear" given to Izanagi and Izanami an interpretation borne out by the fact that, in subsequent eras of Japanese history, it was customary for a ruler to delegate authority in this manner.

"Do you think so, father?" asked his companion, who was one of the torch-bearers, and still carried the blazing insignium of his office "and what shall I do, to find my way out of it?" "Abjure the devil and his works, if thou art desirous of returning to the right path," he replied.

But for my deep-seated convictions that treasure was here somewhere actually buried, we might have had all our labor in vain." "I presume the fancy of the skull of letting fall a bullet through the skull's eye was suggested to Kidd by the piratical flag. No doubt he felt a kind of poetical consistency in recovering his money through this ominous insignium."

All felt that they were now to hear the dénouement of the story, and several men bent forward in their absorption with their elbows on the table. Chauvenet smiled and resumed, with a little shrug of his shoulders. "Well, I must go back a moment to say that the man I knew at Bar Harbor had a real crest the ladies to whom he wrote notes treasured them, I dare say, because of the pretty insignium.

But for my deep-seated convictions that treasure was here somewhere actually buried, we might have had all our labor vain." No doubt he felt a kind of poetical consistency in recovering his money through this ominous insignium." "Perhaps so; still, I cannot help thinking that common-sense had quite as much to do with the matter as poetical consistency.

Above one of the doors is carved the double eagle, the insignium of empire. The great solidity of this edifice recommended it to the Turks as an arsenal; hence its careful preservation. The late Servian governor had the Vandalism to whitewash the exterior, so that at a distance it looks like a vulgar parish church.

But even this would not account for the whittling away of his 'Solomon. 'S. Cohn' was the insignium over his clothing establishment. Not that he was anxious to deny his Jewishness was not the shop closed on Saturdays? he was merely anxious not to obtrude it. 'When we are in England, we are in England, he would say, with his Talmudic sing-song.

As the room was not high enough to accommodate the lofty plume towering above his bearskin, my rival was leaning half out of the window, and his tricolour insignium seemed to pierce the sky. I remained dazzled at the sight of him: he glistened like the sun! With Zouhra it had been love at first sight.

But for my deep-seated convictions that treasure was here somewhere actually buried, we might have had all our labor in vain." "I presume the fancy of the skull of letting fall a bullet through the skull's eye was suggested to Kidd by the piratical flag. No doubt he felt a kind of poetical consistency in recovering his money through this ominous insignium ."