Trophies

Examples

• An exhausted composure, a worn-out placidity, an equanimity of fatigue not to be ruffled by interest or satisfaction, are the trophies of her victory. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He is labeling his trophies, now. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It was but a short time before the last vestige of its body, root and limb had disappeared, the fragments taken as trophies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A captured German gun was hauled from the Mall, where a vast array of such trophies had been set out, into Trafalgar Square, and its carriage burnt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I sit here of a night surrounded by the lovely trophies of my art, and what have they done for me? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The corridors at Hurlstone have their walls largely decorated with trophies of old weapons. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• They are numerous, my stock of human warious is large, the shop is pretty well crammed, and I don't just now want any more trophies of my art. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Since then the same tree has furnished as many cords of wood, in the shape of trophies, as The True Cross. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But I am on my own ground, I am surrounded by the trophies of my art, and my tools is very handy. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Another was going to scalp such Bedouins as fell to his share, and take his bald-headed sons of the desert home with him alive for trophies. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The moment the camp was reached our men laid down their arms and commenced rummaging the tents to pick up trophies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The enemy was defeated with great slaughter, and the loss of most of his artillery and trains, and the trophies he had captured in the morning. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Shall one man claim The trophies won by thousands? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I am surrounded, as I have observed,' said Mr Venus, placidly, 'by the trophies of my art. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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