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...exactly resembled all the other forks at table, was of solid silver, engraved with an ornate crest supported between a lion and a unicorn rampant. It bore the motto Honi soit qui mal y pense...
...Audite haec omnes gentes, auribus percipite omnes qui habitatis orbem, simul in unum dives et pauper...
...scale." Corroborates Biographer West: "The gossip flourished, but no story of meanness or betrayal has ever faced the light. No story has ever faced the light. There is no story that cannot face the light. The paper of his study at Easton Glebe bore the garter and Honi soit qui mal y pense. That states his case...
...this was not a Chapter (formal meeting) of the Order of the Garter, George V and Edward of Wales wore ordinary morning dress instead of gorgeous Garter robes, but the clergy of the Order came robed and resplendent, each churchman displaying the famed motto: Honi soit qui mal y pense (Evil be to him who evil thinks...
These "thrillers" are so numerous in western Newfoundland that the field-botanist is always on the qui vive, and it is a rare and poor day when novel plants of great scientific interest are not brought in. Then follows a full day, or perhaps two days, indoors, putting the treasures into press and starting their proper drying, before another active day of field work can be undertaken. Often enough, after stretching every muscle and testing every nerve in the ticklish ascent and descent of successive cliffs, we reach home with our knee-joints so lame and stiff that...