Tokens
[təukənz]
Examples
- These various signs and tokens, marked by the little woman, are not lost upon her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I suppose he saw me glancing about the room in search of some tokens of Shipping, or capital, for he added, In the City. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- All these little tokens of his gratitude, Mr. Gradgrind very willingly undertook to render. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- These tokens of the Serjeant's presentiments on the subject, slight as they were, were not lost on Mr. Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There was the coat in its usual place, but exhibiting, on a close inspection, evident tokens of having been worn on the preceding night. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A table and some shelves were covered with manuscript papers and with worn pens and a medley of such tokens. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Of what are these things the signs and tokens? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Nor did his blushes and awkwardness take away from it: she was pleased with these healthy tokens of the young gentleman's ingenuousness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There was no one in the quaint old drawing-room, though it presented tokens of Mrs. Heep's whereabouts. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Certain signs and tokens, personal to myself, warned me that the detective-fever was beginning to set in again. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Then there came a turnip, then a potato, and then an egg; with a few other little tokens of the playful disposition of the many-headed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She was brought into the parlour with many tokens of welcome, and there formally recognized my mother as a new and near relation. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They were the little tokens of the reality of beauty, the reality of happiness in warm creation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- At the very time when with keen delight she welcomed the tokens of maternity, this sole prop of her life failed, her husband died of the plague. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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