Word: token
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Green Chapel is near and asks him to be his guest for a few days. For three successive mornings while the knight and his followers are hunting, Gawain is tempted by the Lady of the Castle. He resists her blandishments, but on the third day accepts, as a love token from her, a green girdle which will preserve him from any blow that can be given him. The next day he sallies forth and meets the Green Knight at the Green Chapel and receives his blow. He is not affected by it and the Green Knight, who is of course...
...students of Harvard University take pleasure in presenting to the members and coxswain of the '91 'varsity crew these gold oars as a token of appreciation of the hard work by which the crew won its victory over Yale...
President Low of Columbia has subscribed a hundred dollars toward the erection of memorial to the late Herbert Mapes. He gives it as a token of the esteem in which he held this noted athlete and also of his interest in the movement...
...gift was presented to him as a slight token of the great place which he held in the minds of the members of the Scientific School...
...last evening might have heard a chorus of men's voices. On inquiry they would have learned that it was the 'varsity Glee Club serenading Dr. A. P. Peabody in honor of his eightieth birthday, which takes place today. This was not merely an ordinary serenade; it was a token of the love and esteem which the college feels towards its true friend and benefactor...