Use tribute in a sentence
Sentences starting with tribute
- Tribute her fathers paid to mine-- Young prince to elder crown; But for a jest 'twixt bread and wine, They struck our banner down. [11]
Sentences ending with tribute
- We know that you have armed a vast host against us, and we are ready to buy peace and liberty by a yearly tribute. [10]
- But even those who have felt the silence and the stir that prefaces the clamorous applause of the thousands could not know the thrill that swept her under his tribute. [9]
- Only--no other woman who ever lived ever had such tribute! [13]
- Yet there he was, and he deserves a tribute. [9]
- But mine the tribute. [11]
- It cut down the Effendina's tribute. [11]
- The dynasties fought, the dynasties submitted, and the dynasties paid the tribute. [4]
- I was more than taken aback by this tribute. [9]
- Who would be strong enough to suppress the straining ambitions of the many that the Empire might continue to flourish in its integrity and gather tribute? [9]
- Others of his parishioners, some of whom were more discreet in their expressions of sympathy, were no less surprised by his attitude; and even his theological adversaries, such as Gordon Atterbury, paid him a reluctant tribute. [9]
Short sentences using tribute
- He pays tribute to Barbary. [9]
- It was the involuntary tribute. [9]
- Quite a tribute. [9]
Sentences containing tribute two or more times
- A tribute was one thing, but to have to put the reasons for that tribute, into words was quite another. [9]
More example sentences with the word tribute in them
- He was a young man with a smooth face, and a frank brown eye which paid its tribute to Virginia. [9]
- In all the years he had taken no chance to pay tribute to the woman who, in a real sense, had been his mistress of body and mind for one short term of life, and who once, and once only, had yielded to him. [11]
- And, if the world will no longer tolerate the old theories, a tribute may at least be paid to those who from conviction upheld them; who ruled, perhaps in affluence, yet were also willing to toil and, if need be, to die for the privilege. [9]
- The oration began with a lengthy tribute to the resources and history of his state, and ended by a declaration that the speaker was in Congress at no man's bidding, but as the servant of the common people of his district. [9]
- Hereupon the Sultan, who at all times lacked moneys, notwithstanding the heavy tribute he levied on all merchandise, commanded that Herdegen and the Bohemian should be led away again and then he asked this overweening ransom. [10]
- Yes, my beloved, when we consider all they did for us we cannot in justice withhold our tribute of gratitude and admiration. [10]
- It was a wealth that accepted tribute calmly, as of inherent right. [9]
- So, I say, we owe a genuine, substantial tribute of respect to these filtered intellects which have left their womanhood on the strainer. [6]
- Mr. Amos Cuthbert was elected Chairman, not without a gallant and desperate but unsupported fight of a minority led by Mr. Jake Wheeler, whose loyalty must be taken as a tribute to his species. [9]
- But the look was an involuntary tribute of admiration. [9]
- His conquests brought vast sums of tribute into Egypt. [10]
- It was the unconscious tribute, too,--slight as was its exhibition,--of the man whose life has been spent in the conquest of material things to the man who has the audacity, insensate though it seem, to fling these to the winds in his search after ideals. [9]
- I'm for the tribute, so off with the bag and let's see your catch. [11]
- Nor was the tribute wholly in the words: there had come spontaneously into her voice an exquisite, modulated note that haunted him long after it had died away . [9]
- It was a tribute to Jack's manliness that, when he mounted him for a turn in the ring, Storm seemed to recognize the fine quality of both seat and hand, and appeared willing to take him on probation. [4]
- Massachusetts Historical Society: tribute to C.C. [6]
- What a subtle tribute that to monarchial influence of the country when you place rank above respectability! [5]
- I bring the tribute of the rebel lions once more to thy hand. [11]
- This as a tribute of respect, if nothing else. [5]
- From that delicate tribute of flattery and knowledge Rudyard had taken this flowering stem and brought it to her pillow. [11]
- And no greater tribute can be paid to Janet Bumpus than that it pleased her, struck and set exquisitely vibrating within her responsive chords. [9]
- Hunt a tribute to the bellows-like skill of Messrs. Bascom and Botcher. [9]
- We have got to be ruled by strangers; and who would not rather pay small tribute to the wise and healthy Khalif at Medina than a heavy one to the sickly imperial brood of Melchites at Constantinople. [10]
- Her life belonged to another; and he exacted the payment of tribute to the uttermost farthing. [11]
- For was not this my darling, and was not all this mute wonder and interest and homage a most eloquent tribute and unforced compliment to it? [5]
- Still, all these things had probably been only the tribute which she was compelled to pay for the proud joy of being the mother of such a son. [10]
- This ceremony over, they walked towards Mont Violet, averting their heads as they passed the Manor Cartier, in a kind of tribute to its departed master--as a Stuart Legitimist might pass the big palace at the end of the Mall in London. [11]
- And this time there was a new tribute to our leader. [5]
- Yet she smiled them firmly away, to the wonder of Jansen, and to its satisfaction, for was it not a tribute to all that she would distinguish no particular unit by her permanent favour? [11]
- As soon as the words of introduction were pronounced, he made a bow that was a tribute in itself, exaggerated in its respect. [9]
- The mummifying of the poor was cheap, and that of the poorest had to be provided by the kolchytes as a tribute to the king, to whom also they were obliged to pay a tax in linen from their looms. [10]
- On many of the monuments we see people purchasing goods and weighing out the gold in payment; while others are paying their tribute in gold rings. [10]
- As long as the monument stands and there is a city near it, there will always be a man to take the names of visitors and extract some small tribute from their pockets, I suppose. [6]
- There was always the incentive to the upstart political and military buccaneer to overthrow the dictator and gain possession of the spoils, to sell new doubtful concessions and levy new tribute on the capitalists holding claims from a former tyrant. [9]
- The toastmaster introduced the guest of the evening with a high tribute to his place in American literature, saying that he was dear to the hearts of all Americans. [5]
- We can imagine the delight of the humorist in reading this tribute to his power; and indeed it is so amusing in itself that he can hardly do better than reproduce the article in full in his next monthly Memoranda. [5]
- No longer is the curtain drawn aside for tribute, for appeal, or for adoration, but It remains until the last footfall dies in the temple, and the portals ate closed forever. [11]
- He had ascertained that the golden charm which made the Brices worthy of tribute had been lost. [9]
- She would pay that much tribute to her own genius. [11]
- In the hope that it may be no intrusion upon the sacredness of your sorrow, I have ventured to address you this tribute to the memory of my young friend and your brave and early fallen son. [7]
- He realised now that he had given Kathleen only what might be given across a dinner-table--the sensuous tribute of a temperament, passionate without true passion or faith or friendship. [11]
- The storm that tears its leaves has paid tribute to its strength, and it breasts the tornado clad in the spoils of a hundred hurricanes. [6]
- I knowed this talonted man in Arkansaw, and if you would print this humbly tribute to his gorgis abilities, you would greatly obleege his onhappy friend. [5]
- For Thee my ships have brought across the sea The tribute of the nations. [10]
- It was a reluctant tribute to his daughter. [9]
- You--" Suddenly she relented, seeing the look in his face, and realising that, after all, it was a tribute to herself that she could keep him for four years and rouse him to such fury--"but yes, Abe," she added, "you have some rights. [11]
- But his eyes, perhaps involuntarily, paid a tribute to her personal appearance which heightened her color. [9]
- Leave us in peace and freedom and we are ready to give every year five thousand swift horses of the desert, besides the yearly tribute of gold; we will also come to the help of the Persian nation when threatened by any serious danger. [10]
- Gabriel was a patriot,--a tribute we must pay to all of those brave Frenchmen who went with us. [9]
- The Sandwich Island paper says: How touching is this tribute of the late Hon. [5]
- Objection was made on this account to placing the tribute upon the minutes of the society. [6]
- In Pontiac, one of the Magilles, the fiddler of the parish, made the following verse in English as a tribute of admiration for an heroic deed of his ancestor, of which the Cure of the parish, the good M. Santonge, had told him: "Piff! [11]
- Jean Jacques' admiration of the lion who could, and would, slay him was the best tribute to his own character. [11]
- Like the title of Emeritus Professor, it is a tribute to be accepted, hardly to be longed for. [6]
- Quincy, Josiah: History of Boston Athenaeum, 31; tribute to the Anthology, 32, 33; memories of Emerson, 45-47; old age, 261. [6]
- Finally the settling of accounts with the idiologos, who, as high-priest of my choosing, has to collect the tribute from all the temples in Egypt. [10]
- He owed her much, and never failed to pay her tribute. [5]
- He said as much here and there to members of both camps, for he was free of both: a tribute to his genius at poker. [11]
- Somehow it was more like an offering to the dead than a lover's tribute to the living. [11]
- The homage of men Dolly took as Caesar received tribute, as a matter of course. [9]
- You will remember Melchisedek, no doubt; he was the King who came out and levied a tribute on Abraham the time that he pursued Lot's captors to Dan, and took all their property from them. [5]
- And here let me pay the tribute which I owe to one of the humblest but most serviceable of my assistants, especially in poetical composition. [6]
- He was a man of few words, and he knew that the "will you" did not require an answer, being the true New-England way of rounding the corners of an employer's order,--a tribute to the personal independence of an American citizen. [6]
- What we have known is but a bitter pledge Of Ignorance, The human tribute to an ageless dream, A timeless trance. [11]
- The late President Josiah Quincy, in his "History of the Boston Athenaeum," pays a high tribute of respect to the memory and the labors of the gentlemen who founded that institution and conducted the "Anthology. [6]
- But how much its last sentence covers with its soothing tribute! [6]
- I'm not sure it lets me out," said March; but he said this in tribute to his crippled self-respect rather than as a forecast of any action in the matter. [8]
- He would offer it in tribute. [11]
- For myself it is a tribute of affection I am rendering, and I should put it on record for my own satisfaction, were there none to read or to listen. [6]
- You know--or perhaps indeed you may not know--that the priests have to pay a certain tribute for the king's maintenance; you know? [10]
- The public banquet in New York, that was long remembered for its brilliancy, was followed by the tender of the same tribute in other cities, an honor which his unconquerable shrinking from this kind of publicity compelled him to decline. [4]
- On the Continent, in addition to the tribute paid to it by M. Guizot, it was translated into Dutch, into German, and into Russian. [6]
- Others had spoken in a similar strain, and it is a certain tribute to his character to record that the underlying hint had been lost on Hodder. [9]
- There was an impudent tribute in his look which she resented strongly. [9]
- As for me, I have already felt many a slight foreboding; but we have already paid by no means a small tribute to the divine ones. [10]
- He had come here as a man, as an American, to pay his tribute to another man, a long-time friend, whom he thought to stand somewhat aside and above mere party strife, to represent values not merely political.... [9]
- If prayers could have shielded him from the stroke, if love could have drawn forth the weapon, and skill could have healed the wound, this passing tribute might have been left to other lips and to another generation. [3]
- Jethro would never have been capable of being master of the state had he not foreseen the time when the railroads, tired of paying tribute, would turn and try to exterminate the boss. [9]
- The man you hate, he who is your inveterate enemy, who has every reason to exact from you the last tribute of humiliation, is Seigneur here! [11]
- Caracalla waved his hand, and said, carelessly: "The priest of Alexander, as idiologos, will receive the gold with the temple tribute. [10]
- The title he had once received as a member of the staff of the governor of the state, and was a tribute to a gregariousness and political influence rather than to a genius for the art of war. [9]
- That she eventually grew calm again deserves to be set down as a tribute to the organism of the human body. [9]
- Cambyses received them graciously and assured them of his friendship; but repulsed the messengers from Cyrene and Barka indignantly, and flung, with his own hand, their tribute of five hundred silver mince among his soldiers, disdaining to accept so contemptible an offering. [10]
- This characteristic tribute from the inarticulate, loyal Scotchman left him tingling . [9]
- Such a tribute, from such lips, and with such surroundings, leaves nothing to be desired in the way of eulogy. [6]
- It is fortunate for thee that the tribute is from thy hand to my hand, and not through many others to mine. [11]
- I was rather flattered by the tribute paid to me, and my future was spoken of gravely and as kindly as possible,--indeed, with remarkable charity, considering that the minister was not aware of my presence. [4]
- Enveloped in white flannel, she met his early train at the Ferry; an unusual compliment to a guest, had he but known it, but he accepted it as a tribute to the Church. [9]
- From the little farm clearings on the western slope of Coniston Mountain you can sweep the broad valley of a certain broad river where grew (and grow still) the giant pines that gave many a mast to King George's navy as tribute for the land. [9]
- They were not expecting this beautiful and honorable tribute to our little country-maid. [5]
- He looked at Dryfoos, and wondered whether he would consider these rites a sufficient tribute, or whether there was enough in him to make him realize their futility, except as a mere sign of his wish to retrieve the past. [8]
- He could not doubt the sincerity of her tribute. [9]
- That David had done so much in Egypt without ruin or death was a tribute to his power. [11]
- Mr. Emerson has died; and we, his friends and neighbors, with this sorrowing company, have turned aside the procession from his home to his grave,--to this temple of his fathers, that we may here unite in our parting tribute of memory and love. [6]
- Apparently, however, Dryfoos daunted him somehow; and besides the homage which those who have not pay to those who have, Fulkerson rendered Dryfoos the tribute of a feeling which March could only define as a sort of bewilderment. [8]
- Millicent's exception; if Cynthia had thought about it, was a tribute of no mean order. [9]
- If my ambition could but have been bounded by Breck and Company, I, too, might have come to stand in that doorway content with a tribute that was greater than Caesar's. [9]
- The pose is correct; it is the somewhat awkward tribute of culture to physical beauty. [4]
- Every visitor who came to the house paid his tribute to the melancholy mood of the hostess, and then amused himself with society gossip, dancing, intellectual games, and bouts rimes, which were in vogue at the Karagins'. [2]
- If he had but caught it, it would have saved him from several disasters: "If the American knows that you are traveling to take notes, he is interested in it, and at the same time rejoices in it, as in a tribute. [5]
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