Word: medallion
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...that my agent had purchased, for $100,000, a rug once belonging to the late Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey. The rug has a background of moss-green creepers, with orange-red stems, among which deer, gazelles, sheep, goats are pursued by lions and leopards.* There is a centre medallion of rose-crimson, with vine traceries in pink and silver around four hawklike birds...
...Sunday, July 20-I took the train at Chavornay for Lausanne. "In Lausanne I lived carefully the first week on the money I had earned at Orbe. Then I was again hard up. On the Monday the only piece of metal I had in my pocket was a nickel medallion of Karl Marx. I had eaten a bit of bread in the morning and I did not know where to go to sleep that evening. I wandered about in desperation, and presently-cramp in the stomach preventing me from walking any longer-I sat down on the pedestal...
...list of spring announcements by the Harvard University Press is as follows: "Sheridan to Robertson," by Ernest Bradle Watson '19, "Antoine and the Theatre Libre," by Samuel M. Waxman '07. "Essays of Montaigne," by George B. Ives, "The Wedgwood Medallion of Samuel Johnson," by Chauncey B. Tinker. "The Letters of Tobias Smollett M. D.," edited by Edward S. Noyes "A Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions," edited by Hyder E. Rollins, "Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy," edited by Franz Richby, "Harvard Studies in Classical Philology," by a Committee of the Classical Instructors of Harvard University, "Four Introductory Lectures...
...which has been placed on display is a copy of "Silex Scintillans", by Henry Vaughan, Silurist, published in 1650. This work by the well known English religious poet is bound in heavy green leather with designs traced in gold. In the center of the outer cover is a silver medallion. The following is a complete list of the authors on exhibition: John Cleveland, Abraham Cowley, Thomas Stanley, Sir John Suckling, Sir John Taylor, George Wither, Frances Quarles, Henry Vaughan, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, John Davies John Taylor, the Water-Poet, Giles Fletcher the Younger, Sir William Davenant, James Harrington, Richard...
...album was presented by the Emperor, William 1 and the Empress Augusta to Dr. Thomas W. Evans, a famous dentist of Paris. Beside the elaborate binding the volume contains a medallion of the Emperor. It has been temporarily deposited in the Library for exhibition by C.F. Muller...