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Usage examples of motto.

He had a miserly look, old Marle, and if economy was his motto, his hair suited it.

The hint another gives us finds whole trains of thought which have been getting themselves ready to be shaped in inwardly articulated words, and only awaited the touch of a burning syllable, as the mottoes of a pyrotechnist only wait for a spark to become letters of fire.

The others were chiming their agreement to this formula when Sargon, recognizing the motto of the Three Musketeers, began to chuckle.

He believed that only stupid people could define the failings and opportunities of this complex world by means of trite catchall mottos.

The mottoes of the various Crests were carved in elegant gilded Icarii script into the walls above pennants and standards.

Not the most uplifting sentiment on record, but an improvement over the Garvey family motto: Life sucks then you die.

We Are What We Revile or We Are What We Scurry Around As Fast As Possible With Our Eyes Averted, though when Schtitt mentions the motto he never attaches any moral connotation to it, or for that matter ever translates it, allowing prorectors and Big Buddies to adjust their translations to suit the needs of the pedagogical moment.

And always we will bear courageous witness to The Widows Club motto: Mors Magis Amicior Quam Inimicior.

The motto of the Truthsayers Guild burned through her mind like a brushfire, and she shuddered again.

I saw again the mirror-lined walls, the evergreen decked ceilings, the festoons and mottos, the tables gleaming with cutglass and silver, the buffets with wines and fruits, the brigade of sleek, black, white-aproned waiters, headed by one who had presence enough for a major General.

Then he remembered Motti and wondered how one of them could have been reading a Hebrew newspaper in the Jewish Community Center.

That was why, when Motti reported to me on a genuine Aryan German with a grudge against the SS, I was interested.

PIETER MILLER wrote his letters to his mother and Sigi under the watchful eye of Motti, and finished by midmorning.

He called Motti, who was on duty at the telephone exchange where he worked, and the assistant reported to Leon when he had finished his shift.

When Motti had gone, Leon dialed a number in Bremen and gave further orders.