Zoned by those letters you saw the likeness of three Andes' summits; from one a flame; a tower on another; on the third a crowing cock; while arching over all was a segment of the partitioned zodiac, the
signs all marked with their usual cabalistics, and the keystone sun entering the equinoctial point at Libra.
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His joy was at its height on that day when called upon to share the secret of Cropoli the younger, and to paint the famous
sign.
Ten Years Later
"
Sign there," he repeated, turning suddenly on Laura, and pointing once more to the place on the parchment.
The Woman in White
"Very good; then here we have it--'4 June, total eclipse of the moon commences at 8.15 Greenwich time, visible in Teneriffe--/South Africa/, &c.' There's a
sign for you.
King Solomons Mines
He can
sign on for ten dollars a month if he works for the ship all his time.
Michael Brother of Jerry
When we have got our witnesses here, you have only to speak to them in these words: 'I have a document here to
sign, and I wish you to write your names on it, as witnesses of my signature.' Nothing more, Mr.
No Name
The baron was to
sign first, then the representative of M.
Count of Monte Cristo
Athos called Grimaud, pointed to a large basket which lay in a corner, and made a
sign to him to wrap the viands up in the napkins.
Three Musketeers
"This is the one he read but didn't
sign: and this is the one he
signed but didn't read!
Sylvie and Bruno
Also, when discords, and quarrels, and factions are carried openly and audaciously, it is a
sign the reverence of government is lost.
The Essays
"A baronet
sign such a petition!" exclaimed Trefusis.
Unsocial Socialist
'After a while, instead of labels, the individual letters were given to her on detached bits of paper: they were arranged side by side so as to spell BOOK, KEY, &c.; then they were mixed up in a heap and a
sign was made for her to arrange them herself so as to express the words BOOK, KEY, &c.; and she did so.
American Notes for General Circulation
I met the seal-hunter, Pete Holt, and agreed to be his boat-puller and to
sign on any schooner he
signed on.
John Barleycorn
Nowhere, indeed, was any
sign or suggestion of life except the barking of a distant dog, which, repeated with mechanical iteration, served rather to accentuate than dispel the loneliness of the scene.
Can Such Things Be
-- I
sign my full name, for I should be vain if I could suppose that after five years of absence you would remember my initials."
Twenty Years After