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tribute as in: a tribute to the great actor
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I was moved by her tearful tribute to her deceased colleague.
tribute = praise (expressing admiration)
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I wrote the song as a tribute to all parents who sacrifice for their children.
tribute = expression of admiration
- A SMALL TRIBUTE TO ARTHUR BERG, A STILL-LIVING MAN (source)
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I couldn't see her very clearly amid all the tributes, but there didn't seem to be much to hate—she seemed to be mostly a professional sick person, like me, which made me worry that when I died they'd have nothing to say about me except that I fought heroically, as if the only thing I'd ever done was Have Cancer.
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tributes = expressions of admiration
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Each of these worlds was a kind of shrine—an interactive tribute to the OASIS's earliest ancestors.
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tribute = expression of admiration
- The promoters had renamed the marquee event in tribute to Louie, who was still believed dead by virtually everyone outside of his family. (source)
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Finally the Chief Elder paid tribute to the hard work of her committee, which had performed the observations so meticulously all year.
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tribute = praise
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Once I'd gotten a bottle from Massachusetts, which I kept as a tribute to how far something can go in life.
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tribute = symbol of something worthy of praise
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A sculpture fashioned by knights of the Crusades from gold and jewels as tribute to a king, it is an emblem of the church and the monarchies—those rapacious institutions that have served as the foundation for all of Europe's art and ideas.
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tribute = something made to express admiration
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Papaw was born James Lee Vance in 1929, his middle name a tribute to his father, Lee Vance.
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tribute = something done to express admiration
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Dead ahead, at the end of Champs-Elysées, stood the Arc de Triomphe—Napoleon's 164-foot-tall tribute to his own military potency—encircled by France's largest rotary, a nine-lane behemoth.
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tribute = something made to express admiration
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Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right.
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tribute = expression of admiration
- That's probably the strangest tribute this school has had in a hundred and sixty years. (source)
- Then he remembered the Indian boy's tribute. He had moved fast, like an Indian. (source)
- They stood together over the grave in final tribute. (source)
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The funeral brought Europeans and Indians from as far away as Bombay and Calcutta to pay tribute.
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tribute = respect
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But the attentions shown on this occasion were not merely honorary—they were the tribute of gratitude due to a man who after retirement from trials and services which were of 18 years unremitted continuance, hath again stepped forth to endeavor to establish and perpetuate that independence…
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tribute = praise (expressing admiration)
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The girl laughed delightedly, evidently taking this as a tribute to the excellence of her disguise.
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tribute = expression of admiration
- "What on earth for?" she wondered, astonished, but at the same time touched by this strange tribute to her power. (source)
- Almost any exhibition of complete self-sufficiency draws a stunned tribute from me. (source)
- He levies tribute on Kropp's tin of beans, swallows some, then considers for a while and says: "You might get drunk first, of course, but then you'd take the next train for home and mother." (source)
- so the marked absence of any tribute or recognition from Diana Barry who was sitting with Gertie Pye embittered Anne's little triumph. (source)
- Every time a man died, or a woman died, or a child died, she would be on hand with her "tribute" before he was cold. (source)
- Pardon this gush of sorrow; these ineffectual words are but a slight tribute to the unexampled worth of Henry, but they soothe my heart, overflowing with the anguish which his remembrance creates. (source)
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In a quiet way, very little attended to, she paid her tribute of admiration to Miss Crawford's beauty; but as she still continued to think Mr. Crawford very plain, in spite of her two cousins having repeatedly proved the contrary, she never mentioned him.
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tribute = praise
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But particular tribute was paid to the golden age of Russian literature:
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tribute = expression of admiration
- As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her four-year cycle to organize their Olympiads. (source)
- The one tribute he received was a letter from Versailles, a letter Adams treasured. (source)
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In tribute to their recently repaired friendship, Ron had kept the bitterness in his voice to a bare minimum.
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tribute = respect
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But Archaide had none of these features, because it was home to the OASIS's largest classic videogame museum, and its appearance had been designed as a tribute to the vector-graphic games of the late '70s and early '80s.
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tribute = expression of admiration
- So I turned on my computer to listen to some music, and with Augustus's favorite band, The Hectic Glow, as my sound track, I went back to Caroline Mathers's tribute pages, reading about how heroic her fight was, and how much she was missed, and how she was in a better place, and how she would live forever in their memories, and how everyone who knew her—everyone—was laid low by her leaving. (source)
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He incorporated in many of his Christian paintings hidden symbolism that was anything but Christian—tributes to his own beliefs and a subtle thumbing of his nose at the Church.
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tributes = expressions of admiration
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Stone tributes to real men.
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tributes = something made to express admiration
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It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro's warm little heart.
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tribute = expression of admiration
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She called them tributes.
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tributes = expressions of admiration
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But I can still read the gray names, and they will give you a better impression than my generalities of those who accepted Gatsby's hospitality and paid him the subtle tribute of knowing nothing whatever about him.
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tribute = praise
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I wish you could have overheard her tribute of praise; I wish you could have seen her countenance, when she said that you should be Henry's wife.
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tribute = expression of admiration
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Elizabeth was sad and desponding; she no longer took delight in her ordinary occupations; all pleasure seemed to her sacrilege toward the dead; eternal woe and tears she then thought was the just tribute she should pay to innocence so blasted and destroyed.
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tribute = respect
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Now so long divided from everybody who knew the place, she felt it quite the voice of a friend when he mentioned it, and led the way to her fond exclamations in praise of its beauties and comforts, and by his honourable tribute to its inhabitants allowed her to gratify her own heart in the warmest eulogium, in speaking of her uncle as all that was clever and good, and her aunt as having the sweetest of all sweet tempers.
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tribute = expression of admiration
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Let the scar on Goyle's finger stand as a lasting tribute to his memory.
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tribute = symbol of something worthy of praise
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tribute as in: demanded they pay tribute
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The Second Barbary War ended the American practice of paying tribute to pirates along the north coast of Africa.
tribute = payment to someone so they will not harm you
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- The Federalist Party adopted the slogan, "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."
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They belonged with waistcoats and corsets, with quadrilles and bezique, with the ownership of souls, the payment of tribute, and the stacking of icons in the corner.
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tribute = payment demanded for protection
- 'Then you do not pay tribute to Sauron?' said Gimli. (source)
- There are fewer of these tributes than there used to be, though still more than enough.† (source)
- Tomorrow, I'll show you his fresco The Last Supper, which is one of the most astonishing tributes to the sacred feminine you will ever see.† (source)
- Have you seen the comments and tributes?† (source)
- From the way it looked here, where you could hardly be bothered to lift your feet to step over a dead woman's arm, he did not think he would be needing apologies or tributes.† (source)
- Looking surprisingly beautiful in a dark green dress with a broad white lace collar, Gitl made sure all the tributes were piled onto two wagons: crocks of butter, lengths of cloth, a white lace tablecloth, wooden bowls, and a pair of truly ugly silver candlesticks that Shmuel announced had been sent over by the rendar himself.† (source)
- Your heads shall both be tributes to Poseidon!† (source)
- She left out individual tributes since she had nothing to say about Miriam and her party.† (source)
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- They were there to attend tributes to the dead.† (source)
- Responding to such tributes, Washington was duly modest and gracious, and in truth they meant more than he showed.† (source)
- The kings from whom they'd taken tributes of treasure they now asked for tributes of men.† (source)
- "The knowledge of the affection in which my husband was held by all of you has sustained me," Jackie says firmly to the camera, "and the warmth of these tributes is something we shall never forget."† (source)
- It was Celebrate Walker County Day, and one of the tributes read by the clerk recognized "Pancho Roberts and his wife, Sugar, as great Americans and great Texans" and concluded, "What a great time to live in Texas!"† (source)
- He permits no divided allegiance, no war between your mind and your body, no gulf between your values and your actions, no tributes to Caesar.† (source)
- It carried a cargo of ancient ladies, their white and wind-fluffed heads like floral tributes on a coffin.† (source)
- But eventually, under proper management, it will help discharge the domestic public debt and furnish, for a certain period, liberal tributes to the federal treasury.† (source)
- His school picture has been blown up, and they have left the case open so that we can all post tributes around it—Dear Finch, they all begin.† (source)
- The tributes were necessary to the Games, too.† (source)
- The sight of the wolf mutts with the dead tributes' eyes.† (source)
- You've seen how eager their children are to volunteer to be tributes.† (source)
- In each one, we would feature one of the dead tributes.† (source)
- The same goes for the other captured tributes, Johanna and Enobaria.† (source)
- But I made her promise to give the other tributes immunity if the rebels won," I tell him.† (source)
- So I should've just gone with the program and let the other tributes take their chances?† (source)
- Haymitch finally joins us, contributing twenty-three years of tributes he was forced to mentor.† (source)
- And then they begin to show images of the dead, just as they did with the tributes in the arena.† (source)
- "A tribute to your tributes, as it were," says Plutarch.† (source)
- Miss Lumley knows what the conventions are and pays her own rigid tributes to them.† (source)
- In all, it was one of the handsomest tributes ever paid to Adams.† (source)
- From amongst the floral tributes the female chooses four flowers, and the sexual ardour of the unsuccessful candidates dissipates immediately, with no hard feelings left.† (source)
- Farther down the wall, Langdon saw tributes to the Earth's four temporal seasons-primavera, estate, autunno, inverno.† (source)
- After that, he knew Mohammed only through stories, photos, and tributes, and the monument to him that stood on the waterfront in Jableh, just down the street from their home.† (source)
- That tributes—who are the actual children involved here, not your trio of freaks—are forced to fight to the death?† (source)
- So this Illuminati artist created four pieces of art that looked religious, but were actually tributes to Earth, Air, Fire, and Water?† (source)
- The labor in the kitchen had been long and hard all day in the heat, and the residue was everywhere: the flagstone floor was slick with the spilt grease of roasted meat and trodden-in peel; sodden tea towels, tributes to heroic forgotten labors, drooped above the range like decaying regimental banners in church; nudging Cecilia's shin, an overflowing basket of vegetable trimmings which Betty would take home to feed to her Gloucester Old Spot, fattening for December.† (source)
- The pink sky and the monsters in the jungle and the tributes who want your blood become your final reality, the only one that ever mattered.† (source)
- Tributes.† (source)
- As we walk, we pass sculpted tributes of wood and copper to a priest from Auschwitz, and also St. Therese of Lisieux, who was known as "The Little Flower of Jesus."† (source)
- The friar tells me how the church and the tributes and the grounds we are walking on were designed and built by former chaplains from the Polish army, who came to the States after World War II and fulfilled their dream of creating a monastery in Indiana.† (source)
- Such were the tributes and entertainments in his honor en route, it was not until June 3 that he reached the boundary line of the ten-mile square of the District of Columbia.† (source)
- But as the encomiums to Washington continued, in speeches, sermons, and editorials—tributes that seemed often as contrived for show as the black plumes and fans—Abigail grew extremely impatient.† (source)
- Like all beautiful women who have been brought up amid continual tributes to her beauty she assumed without cynicism that it must necessarily be the basis of anyone's attachment to herself; henceforth any attention paid to her must spring from a pity full of condescension and faintly perfumed with satisfaction at so complete a reversal.† (source)
- But this and his pleasure in it, his glory in the phrases he made, in the ardour of youth, in his wife's beauty, in the tributes that reached him from Swansea, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton, Kidderminster, Oxford, Cambridge—all had to be deprecated and concealed under the phrase "talking nonsense," because, in effect, he had not done the thing he might have done.† (source)
- And, like some queen who, finding her people gathered in the hall, looks down upon them, and descends among them, and acknowledges their tributes silently, and accepts their devotion and their prostration before her (Paul did not move a muscle but looked straight before him as she passed) she went down, and crossed the hall and bowed her head very slightly, as if she accepted what they could not say: their tribute to her beauty.† (source)
- He received the gifts as tributes, from admirers, to a public character.† (source)
- When the Great Call sounds, Doctor, and it's time for you to face your reward, will you be satisfied by a big Masonic funeral and tributes from Grateful Patients if you have failed to lay up provision for the kiddies, and faithful wife who has shared your tribulations?† (source)
- Speech and silence pleased her equally, and while Mr. Wilcox made some preliminary inquiries about cheese, her eyes surveyed the restaurant, and aired its well-calculated tributes to the solidity of our past.† (source)
- She tried to persuade them to confine their tributes to flowers and sweets, which had at least the merit of mortality; but she was never successful, and the house was gradually filled with a collection of foot-warmers, cushions, clocks, screens, barometers and vases, a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.† (source)
- A table banked with flowers formed a screen behind it, and against the orchids and azaleas which the young man recognised as tributes from the Beaufort hot-houses, Madame Olenska sat half-reclined, her head propped on a hand and her wide sleeve leaving the arm bare to the elbow.† (source)
- Here and there was one of those uncomfortable tributes to elegance in which the upholsterer's art, in France, is so prolific; a curtain recess with a sheet of looking-glass in which, among the shadows, you could see nothing; a divan on which, for its festoons and furbelows, you could not sit; a fireplace draped, flounced, and frilled to the complete exclusion of fire.† (source)
- Besides these, and the little mare, the General, her slave and worshipper, had made her many very handsome presents, in the shape of cashmere shawls bought at the auction of a bankrupt French general's lady, and numerous tributes from the jewellers' shops, all of which betokened her admirer's taste and wealth.† (source)
- It has become a—hum—not infrequent custom for my—ha—personal admirers—personal admirers solely—to be pleased to express their desire to acknowledge my semi-official position here, by offering—ha—little tributes, which usually take the form of—ha—voluntary recognitions of my humble endeavours to—hum—to uphold a Tone here—a Tone—I beg it to be understood that I do not consider myself compromised.† (source)
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In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate.
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tributes = things paid for protection
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Pairs of tributes are being loaded into chariots pulled by teams of four horses.
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tributes = payments by one nation for protection by another;
or: payments extorted by gangsters on threat of violence
- "Not just against the other tributes, but the Capitol, too," I say. (source)
- In a normal year, being a mentor to the tributes is the stuff of nightmares. (source)
- The time allotted for the tributes to say goodbye to their loved ones. (source)
- It's what all of us tributes wore in the arena. (source)
- By the way some of the tributes are sniffing, it must smell fantastic. (source)
- The dining room gets quieter and quieter as the tributes file out to go perform. (source)
- He plays up the baker's son thing, comparing the tributes to the breads from their districts. (source)
- I'll say this for Caesar, he really does his best to make the tributes shine. (source)
- Peeta studiously puts stars by the names of the chosen tributes in his notebook. (source)
- The thought of meeting the other tributes face-to-face makes me queasy. (source)
- Officially, tributes aren't supposed to train, but no one tries to stop us. (source)
- The death toll of the tributes is now available. (source)
- And then, even if I reach it, it's sure to be heavily guarded by some of the Career Tributes. (source)
- Maybe the other tributes are out there beating one another senseless. (source)
- There are twelve spokes, each with two tributes balanced on metal plates between them. (source)
- "I want to give my thanks to the tributes of District Eleven," I say. (source)
- The tributes from 1, 2, and 4 traditionally have this look about them. (source)
- The tributes' faces come up, district by district, and their scores flash under their pictures. (source)
- Already other tributes have reached the Cornucopia and are spreading out to attack. (source)
- If I had the guts to go in and fight for it against the other twenty-three tributes. (source)
- As one would expect, the pools of Career tributes from Districts 1, 2, and 4 are the largest. (source)
- The victor tributes from 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 11 had varying degrees of knowledge about it. (source)
- The tributes from District 11 are just rolling out when Cinna appears with a lighted torch. (source)
- I remember seeing the winning tributes with their mentors and stylists. (source)
- Some of our tributes have still been strong enough to make a go of it. (source)
- Cato and Clove, the tributes from District 2, might have both made it home if Peeta and I hadn't. (source)
- I look around at the Career Tributes who are showing off, clearly trying to intimidate the field. (source)
- Our tributes have been trees for forty years under her. (source)
- I do not want to watch my twenty-two fellow tributes die. (source)
- Just in case it's not enough fun watching the obliteration of the arena and the remaining tributes. (source)
- The sky turns a misty morning gray and still there's no sign of the other tributes. (source)
- Not as a free person but as an Avox or something, waiting on the future tributes of District 12. (source)
- If so, I'll have no way of knowing which tributes survived that tracker jacker attack. (source)
- It looks like most of the other tributes learn something about their trades early on. (source)
- Maybe, in the beginning, he tried to help the tributes. (source)
- Have they been given any of the real tributes memories? (source)
- How can we even question it, we tributes trained to gather fish and lumber and coal? (source)
- By ten o'clock, only about half of the tributes have shown up. (source)
- About a dozen or so tributes are hacking away at one another at the horn. (source)
- Rolling my eyes, I head over to another vacant station where tributes can learn to build fires. (source)
- The other tributes were jealous of us, but not because we were amazing, because our stylists were. (source)
- Eighteen tributes are killed in the bloodbath that first day. (source)
- Maybe tributes have tried to escape in the past. (source)
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- Inside, through the glass, I could see an interior wall filled with pictures and paintings, a visual tribute to "The Greatest Generation," said a poster above the images.† (source)
- It was a tribute to the country's martyrs, and the translation ran something like this: "My death is not my own, but yours, and its significance depends on what you do with it."† (source)
- My friends, each of you is a walking tribute to the Divine Proportion.† (source)
- Each of them spoke and paid tribute to my old professor.† (source)
- It was a tribute to Williams that the public found it difficult to believe he had really been brought so low.† (source)
- Were they really standing in tribute, or because they were happy to see him go?† (source)
- I don't know about that, but I did sort of start to miss her when she waggled her feet, in their furry bear claw slippers, into the camera as a tribute to Norman.† (source)
- It was, Harry knew, the centaurs' tribute: he saw them turn tail and disappear back into the cool trees.† (source)
- The Commander's Wife looks down at the baby as if it's a bouquet of flowers: something she's won, a tribute.† (source)
- And "It's really a tribute to my linemen.† (source)
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- Flowers, especially wildflowers, seemed a proper tribute.† (source)
- A tribute to Hana by children at the Holocaust Center.† (source)
- Each year Tita prepared it in tribute to her sister's liberation and she always took special care in arranging the garnish.† (source)
- The team decided to forfeit the next two games and to dedicate the rest of the season to Rob and to try to win the title as a tribute to him.† (source)
- The fact that they did is some kind of tribute to the thick-willed slug-brained stubbornness of these creatures.† (source)
- The spirits on the losing side of every war owe a tribute to Ares.† (source)
- The king stirred, as if awakening from a long sleep, and rumbled, "Rise, Rider, you need not pay tribute to me."† (source)
- Yet it was to the Clearing that Sethe determined to go—to pay tribute to Halle.† (source)
- There was a long moment of silence like a tribute given to the dead.† (source)
- She still feels guilty about not continuing Mama's tribute of a fresh blossom for the girls every day.† (source)
- It was a colossal tribute to his face that it kept my eyes away from his body.† (source)
- Though he hasn't admitted this to her, he'd hoped, the day they'd filled out the application for their marriage license, that she might consider otherwise, as a tribute to his father if nothing else.† (source)
- I was paying tribute to that life experience, and to Walt Disney himself, who famously had said, "If you can dream it, you can do it."† (source)
- The floral design on the carpet, for instance, was a tribute to Mrs. Lillian Disney and her love of flowers.† (source)
- That it could have been happy, at such a time and in such circumstances, was largely a tribute to Betsie.† (source)
- She included a copy of the George Gey tribute written by McKusick and Jones, saying she thought Lawrence would like to see an article about his mother's cells.† (source)
- Now his eyes moved languidly over Claudia with no tribute whatsoever to the human habit of disguising the stare.† (source)
- At the funeral of John Ayers the letter of tribute from Bill Walsh is read aloud.† (source)
- It was a tribute to her builders that her interior bulkheads held.† (source)
- We will never know if her spirit knew we were there, but it satisfied something deep inside me, this tribute to my beloved na-na.† (source)
- Every year, the Greeks had to pony up a few virgins and send them to Crete as tribute.† (source)
- Not one cent for tribute!† (source)
- She was convinced that he had died at the proper time, because no tribute could have been any greater than this modest procession of a handful of men and women who lowered him into a borrowed grave, shouting his verses of freedom and justice for the last time.† (source)
- The success of Ya-Ya is a tribute to the Power of Context.† (source)
- The restoration of the theater was meant as a tribute to Abraham Lincoln, but Ford's has also become a memorial to his assassin.† (source)
- One such letter, a moving tribute to a lost love, was discovered washed up on Long Island last year.† (source)
- She was awakened by the first measures, and she did not have to look out the grating on the balcony to know who was the sponsor of that uncommon tribute.† (source)
- The Hedestad Courier had published a tribute to the former magnate on his eightieth birthday two years ago, and it included a short sketch.† (source)
- Renaming it in honor of the man who showed that kind of love to us and to so many others seemed to be the perfect tribute.† (source)
- It does sound beautiful: light shining through color, windows as art or tribute.† (source)
- Well, now, to answer your question, my young wali, I am one who does not pay the fai, the water tribute, to the Harkonnens.† (source)
- Mark Brittain leads the circle pattern in the lane next to mine, a tribute to Lemry's genius.† (source)
- She wanted this to be a meaningful tribute to her family, a gift that would last forever.† (source)
- This is how it ended for him, with his attendants cutting off their hair and disfiguring their own faces in barbarian tribute, as the camera pulls back out of the tent and pans across the night sky of the fifth century A. D., clear and uncontaminated, bright-banded with shimmering worlds.† (source)
- This resulted in The Adam Brown Story (vvww.nralifeofduty.tv/patriot —profiles/video/a-tribute-to-adam-brown, www.fearlessnavyseal.com), a documentary that was set to debut in April 2011 at the NRA Convention and annual meeting in Pittsburgh, the same venue where I was going to speak about ODA 574.† (source)
- And Ida accepted this spiteful tribute with a spiteful pride.† (source)
- Laura Bush offered a video tribute, noting, "Please don't assume that it's only a tale of heartbreak.† (source)
- The earliest invaders overran our country because they wanted us to pay them tribute.† (source)
- The driver, via the rear-view mirror, glances at his colleague, attracts his eye, and Duntz slightly nods, as if in tribute.† (source)
- I felt it was a fitting tribute to my oldest and dearest friend.† (source)
- It was tribute enough to sunup that it could make even chaparral bushes look beautiful, Augustus thought, and he watched the process happily, knowing it would only last a few minutes.† (source)
- The old man held a sort of state among these poor girls, and took tribute of admiration, as he had taken tribute of life and happiness from daughter and granddaughter.† (source)
- As I have the honor to be an American, and one among the free millions, who are defended by your valor, I would pay the tribute of thanks, and express my gratitude, while I solicit you to continue in your present honorable and important station.† (source)
- He grew up under the clouds, won glory of men till all his enemies sitting around him heard across the whaleroads his demands and gave him tribute.† (source)
- If Mother was a beautiful woman who exacted the tribute of obeisance from all men, she was also a mother, and "a damn good one."† (source)
- This is an intriguing statistic: the same people who routinely steal more than 10 percent of his bagels almost never stoop to stealing his money box—a tribute to the nuanced social calculus of theft.† (source)
- Rich merchants gave much more in tribute, but God saw her gift as greater because it was everything she had.† (source)
- Blood was used for a sacred drawing, to pay tribute to a goddess whose influence was being sought.† (source)
- When it came time to reforge the gae bolga, the giant had set aside three of Nick's metallic quills and one claw, and from these remainders, the Fomorian fashioned a Celtic torque that Max now wore around his neck as a tribute to his friend.† (source)
- I shall take that as a tribute, my lord.† (source)
- Gay Pornstar was a strutting sadist with a flattop hairdo, close-set eyes, and a bristling mustache who resembled nothing so much as a Village People tribute-band reject.† (source)
- Of what they brought to light the Orcs have gathered nearly all, and given it in tribute to Sauron, who covets it.† (source)
- That our shares have doubled in six months is tribute to a good product and firm management-management of which, as of today, you are no longer a part.† (source)
- Thousands stood in line to pay tribute, overflowing the rotunda and spilling far outside the Capitol.† (source)
- It's a beautiful tribute to them.† (source)
- I couldn't imagine a more meaningful tribute.† (source)
- Such a look from another man would merit a slap, but from Keenan, it's more tribute than insult.† (source)
- We feel we cannot sum up better than with Whitman, who more than a century ago, in his famous tribute to "Slang in America," delivered this judgment: Language, be it remember'd, is not an abstract construction of the learn'd, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.† (source)
- I guess because he's gone, we're thinking differently about things like reaching out to others, and maybe we'll do it in his memory—sort of a tribute to his life.† (source)
- I bowed my head to this final tribute, and now walking away in the sun I tried to erase the scene from my mind.† (source)
- At the meeting, I spoke in tribute to Oliver as the man who had led the ANC during its darkest hours and never let the flame go out.† (source)
- The official tribute would take place that evening, August 30, at seven o'clock, on the western balcony of the Governor's Palace.† (source)
- When the writer paid tribute to him in a lengthy article in Time, Pollard called him up and sang every verse of "You Made Me What I Am Today, and I Hope You're Satisfied," then hung up.† (source)
- I think it was a tribute which he would have liked.† (source)
- It was one of the only open areas in a mile-square radius, perhaps a silent tribute to the deceased pilot's skill.† (source)
- No ships but the tribute ship.† (source)
- I pay tribute to his tireless dedication.† (source)
- After his father was killed, Wulfgar had vowed, in tribute to the man, to make this journey and fulfil his father's dream.† (source)
- She laid the flowers by the stone, poured wine over the ground in tribute.† (source)
- After one of the wars, Rome demanded that Carthage pay them tribute, that Carthage abandon their army, and that the land of Carthage be sowed with salt.† (source)
- I imagined Kwang in a dark suit and white gloves, his parcels of tribute politely bundled behind him on the dais.† (source)
- And, oddly or no, Mrs. Glass invariably took this "tribute," when it came, in beautiful stride.† (source)
- He bowed in that direction, raised his coffee cup in tribute.† (source)
- The world breathed its usual sigh of relief with the uneventful departure of the Horvath tribute ship.† (source)
- "The King told me long ago," said Scrubb — "that time when I was with him at sea-that he'd jolly well beaten those giants in war and made them pay him tribute."† (source)
- I start drawing hills on my notebook in tribute to our state's highest point, but they look more like formless lumps or airborne snakes—I can't decide.† (source)
- Their presence was an articulate tribute to the force and puissance of men united by indivisible will, by absolute conviction.† (source)
- On July 12, 1914, the city of Auburn paid tribute to her.† (source)
- If, by some chance, it goes especially well, he exacts tribute for whatever insult has caused the entire affair.† (source)
- It is all the greater tribute, then, to the way in which Leslie Lapidus had taken possession of my intellect, my very will, that this afternoon the book went unread.† (source)
- We have grown up paying tribute to it, and that is all that most of us can do.† (source)
- It was a tribute to the Overlords' psychology, and to their careful years of preparation, that only a few people fainted.† (source)
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The people of that region
Paid this tribute to save
Their wretched huts and hovels
From the great worm's wrath.† (source)
- However this was a tribute to the goddess of fortune, thanks for a long run of luck.† (source)
- But the essence of the man and his career was caught in a tribute paid to the Republican Senator from Nebraska by the Democratic Presidential nominee in September, 1932: History asks, "Did the man have integrity?† (source)
- The entire junglette was a savage tribute to the brilliance of Reservation ecologists who could assemble and balance nature on the point of a pin.† (source)
- He pays tribute to justice.† (source)
- If you think this is a good tribute, you know nothing about Poseidon.† (source)
- Frankly, I don't care about Enobaria, the vicious District 2 tribute.† (source)
- He was susceptible to those invisible flowers of hers: they were after all a tribute to his talents.† (source)
- A fountain seemed a perfect tribute to water.† (source)
- It was a tribute to Vincent Gallery that each of the old chiefs stayed aboard.† (source)
- Her longevity was obviously a tribute to her genetics and not her diet.† (source)
- To read the story, he believes, would mean paying tribute to his namesake, accepting it somehow.† (source)
- Our students should pay tribute, it is fitting.† (source)
- Make your life a tribute to the loved one.† (source)
- Lyme, the tribute from District 2, who won her Hunger Games over a generation ago.† (source)
- Joe looked at me and lifted his glass in tribute.† (source)
- You mortals have three choices: offer me tribute, flee, or be destroyed.† (source)
- His deceit was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage.† (source)
- The Illuminati could have chosen Raphael's tomb as a kind of tribute.† (source)
- FAI: the water tribute, chief specie of tax on Arrakis.† (source)
- If he had died before the coup, I suppose he would have received a national tribute.† (source)
- Johanna Mason, the tribute from District 7, in the last arena.† (source)
- It was part of some historic tribute to eminent Italians.† (source)
- Galileo's path of Illumination was a tribute to both science and God!† (source)
- It's like having Cinna beaten to a pulp while I watch from my tribute tube.† (source)
- Each piece needed to be a subtle tribute to one of the four elements of science.† (source)
- Do a tragic tribute to the woman lying where we left her, with my arrow still in her heart.† (source)
- The church would raise glorious tribute to their names.† (source)
- I suppose Cinna gave the same instructions the first day I arrived as a tribute in the Capitol.† (source)
- "A tribute to your tributes, as it were," says Plutarch.† (source)
- A passing tribute to Washington was made before he finished, but of Adams he said nothing.† (source)
- At her nod, he went first, offering a tribute to the man who'd given him shelter and friendship.† (source)
- "From a conservative Shia Muslim, that was an incredible tribute," Mortenson says.† (source)
- The guards looked in at me as they passed on their rounds, a tribute to my reputation.† (source)
- Wouldn't that be a fine tribute to Mrs. Spence?† (source)
- He paid gracious tribute to Washington's leadership.† (source)
- We raided along the coast of Atlantis — until they agreed to pay us a yearly tribute.† (source)
- With the tribute from the valley, I plan to build a castle atop that hill we always talked about.† (source)
- Recommendation of the JCS is that we pay the tribute and try to get the Glatun to intervene.† (source)
- If I am king, there will be peace with Eddis but no tribute.† (source)
- There was Prusias, the king, standing to issue some sort of tribute or benediction.† (source)
- It was a majestic tribute and one with which Gagnon probably would have been the first to disagree.† (source)
- He wanted a tribute, and he made it pretty clear it would be a tribute we couldn't handle.† (source)
- It was a statement of his feelings about the tribute ship and Loki more generally.† (source)
- Tribute, however, is tribute, and let us not mince words.† (source)
- By it, we reaffirm our faith in Helzvog's power and offer tribute to him.† (source)
- As handsome a tribute as any to Adams appeared in the Washington Federalist.† (source)
- Mortenson was a climber and he had decided on the most meaningful tribute he had within him.† (source)
- The only coin she had was her silver Athenian drachma, which didn't make a great tribute.† (source)
- He was feeling humble—even humble enough to pay tribute to the wine dude.† (source)
- Their stated reason for this tribute is so that they can maintain the defense of this world.† (source)
- Aren't the Horvath coming around for their tribute.† (source)
- Miss Ellens did not seem to hear the tribute.† (source)
- "As for you, my Lord," he said to Gumpas, "I forgive you your debt for the tribute.† (source)
- But we wanted gold ourselves; and we regularly paid tribute to the Africans who wore gold.† (source)
- And in tribute to that nature, Reich's Defensive Barrier Screen was in full operation.† (source)
- When I was done, I dropped to one knee and held up my arms in tribute, waiting for the queen's verdict.† (source)
- The way he said it, though angrier, reminded me of Edward's tribute to Jacob's lack of ethics in the tent this morning.† (source)
- "As you may know," Langdon said, "this Rotunda was designed as a tribute to one of Rome's most venerated mystical shrines.† (source)
- When I'd been forced to admit that the truck had become no more than a still-life tribute to classic Chevys on my curb, I knew his idea of a replacement was probably going to embarrass me.† (source)
- Then it was displayed on the walls of all the public and private institutions that felt obliged to pay tribute to the memory of their illustrious patron, and at last it was hung, after a second funeral, in the School of Fine Arts, where it was pulled down many years later by art students who burned it in the Plaza of the University as a symbol of an aesthetic and a time they despised.† (source)
- As sad as we were, we soon learned that Uncle Dick would continue to live on in a way that paid tribute to the great man that he was.† (source)
- On the back, Collet found notations scrawled in English, describing a cathedral's long hollow nave as a secret pagan tribute to a woman's womb.† (source)
- And the moan which escaped her lips as she floundered seemed to echo over the thin, romantic singing of the flute, which was a tribute to that beauty.† (source)
- He called his symphony Eroica, which means heroic, and intended it as a tribute to courage rather than to a single man.† (source)
- And there, near the southern horizon, was a new constellation: the Huntress, a tribute to a friend of ours who had died last winter.† (source)
- On June 4, 1997, Representative Robert Ehrlich Jr. spoke before the U.S. House of Representatives, saying, "Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Henrietta Lacks."† (source)
- In her center, as in many of the great classical cities, the founders had erected an enduring tribute to the ancients—the Egyptian obelisk.† (source)
- So I'm standing there, and everybody is looking at me, and I could still hear the reporters yelling outside, and inside the cafeteria I could hear the thump, thump, thump of the sound system as it ground out some hip-hop, a tribute to our Latino student population, and these thoughts are moving really sluggishly through my head, these thoughts that are saying: He set you up.† (source)
- As a final tribute, Eragon set runes into the stone: HERELIESBROM Who was a Dragon Rider And like a father To me.† (source)
- The figure of Death woke with a start in his pale spotlight and turned to see her as the audience had seen her, and to throw up his free hand in tribute, in awe.† (source)
- So it's quite a tribute to Jim that he has been able to make so prominent a place for himself on the social scene, in spite of not being a native Savannahian and being a bachelor.† (source)
- Harry wiped his grazed forearm upon the stone: Having re-ceived its tribute of blood, the archway reopened instantly.† (source)
- To this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god's weekly tribute—Sunday.† (source)
- Nearby, he sets a Japanese magazine on the ground, saying it's a tribute to Little Tokyo, a pint-sized commercial neighborhood just a few blocks to the east.† (source)
- In December 1971, when Jones and his colleagues published their tribute to Gey in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, they reported that the original pathologist had "misinterpreted" and "mislabeled" Henrietta's cancer.† (source)
- We switched it up and started calling it "Mickey," as a tribute to Coach Mick, who was always so focused on developing power in us.† (source)
- I am old, human-even by our reckoning-old enough to have seen the Riders in all their fleeting glory, old enough to have spoken with their last leader, Vrael, who paid tribute to me within these very walls.† (source)
- Not feeling the tribute, Cade.† (source)
- It is a living, breathing, working tribute to our forefathers' dream for America—a country founded on the principles of knowledge, wisdom, and science.† (source)
- Should we give this guy tribute ?† (source)
- A few months after Gey's death, Howard Jones and several Hopkins colleagues—including Victor McKusick, a leading geneticist—decided to write an article about the history of the HeLa cell line as a tribute to Gey's career.† (source)
- The cornucopia or "horn of plenty" was a tribute to Baphomet's fertility and dated back to Zeus being suckled by a goat whose horn broke off and magically filled with fruit.† (source)
- The keywords with context were enough to remind him that Wagner's opera Parsifal was a tribute to Mary Magdalene and the bloodline of Jesus Christ, told through the story of a young knight on a quest for truth.† (source)
- This was Bernini's tribute to the second element ....Air ....an ethereal zephyr blown from angel's lips.† (source)
- Gale fills him in on a lot of stuff about 12; Finnick is the expert on both of Peeta's Games, as he was a mentor in the first and a tribute in the second.† (source)
- Today, however, he had about twenty minutes to find what he was looking for-the one church containing a Bernini tribute to fire.† (source)
- Tribute.† (source)
- The Chigi was an out of the way alcove, a literal hole-in-thewall, a tribute to a great patron of science, decorated with earthly symbology.† (source)
- The symbol itself was created by an anonymous sixteenth-century Illuminati artist as a tribute to Galileo's love of symmetry-a kind of sacred Illuminati logo.† (source)
- As a student of architecture, Langdon had been amazed to learn that the dimensions of the Pantheon's main chamber were a tribute to Gaea-the goddess of the Earth.† (source)
- The banner depicted the Christian "fish" modified with four little feet-a tribute, Aaronian claimed, to the African lungfishes ' evolution onto dry land.† (source)
- A flawless tribute to water, Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers glorified the four major rivers of the Old World-The Nile, Ganges, Danube, and Rio Plata.† (source)
- I need a tribute to Water!† (source)
- Arching her neck, Saphira roared her tribute and released a jet of flame over the heads of the dwarves, incinerating a swath of rose petals.† (source)
- Marriage, children—all had been sacrificed to the Great Agony and her home was a tribute to the fastidiousness of her dedication (and the generosity of her father's will).† (source)
- He reached down and touched the knotted bundle, silently paying tribute to what remained of the majestic golden dragon, then closed the saddlebag and swung down from Saphira's back.† (source)
- Then I watch my country bled dry to pay Eddis tribute, its treasury drained, its taxes raised, its peasants enslaved, and the barons again the true rulers of the country, free to do as they please so long as the king is fed?† (source)
- Eric was paying tribute to the original bombheads, all those emigres from Middle Europe, thick-browed men with sad eyes and roomy pleated pants.† (source)
- Several more trumpets sounded, and torches were raised in manic tribute before all subsided to silence once again.† (source)
- The weaver has paid us much tribute to destroy any children of Athena who would dare enter our shrine.† (source)
- She told me how much Ruth had meant to her as a teacher, and before she left, she showed me a tribute that she'd written in Ruth's honor that would be published in the local paper.† (source)
- "It would be a tribute to them to show what fine young ladies you've become—and how talented," she says, though I suspect our little trained-monkey performances have far more to do with proving the talents of our headmistress.† (source)
- I couldn't feel anything but despair until I pulled into the familiar parking lot behind Forks High School and spotted Edward leaning motionlessly against his polished silver Volvo, like a marble tribute to some forgotten pagan god of beauty.† (source)
- He walked, as if this were his form of last tribute and funeral procession for the young life that had ended in his arms.† (source)
- The award was a tribute to all South Africans and especially to those who had fought in the struggle; I would accept the award on their behalf.† (source)
- They were probably thinking this was some new, hastily added tribute to those who had lost their lives in the crash—until the other Mary, the nighttime Mary, Lois Morano, took Natalie's place onstage.† (source)
- Come forth and pay tribute!† (source)
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