"You shall not only have the Society's great gold
medal, but its recommendation for employment at the various life-boat stations along the coast.
Ruby, perceiving the Queen's calendar lying on the table, wanted to know if Anne meant to try for the gold
medal.
de P 's life Razumov resolved to have a good try for the silver
medal.
Your grandfather insisted on keeping his
medals in my dressing-room, as he says.
His cheap workshirt, incongruously brilliant with the gold of the
medals that flashed in the firelight, was open in front, showing the smooth skin and splendid swell of chest.
The erudite gentleman in whom I confided congealed before I was half through!--it is all that saved him from exploding--and my dreams of an Honorary Fellowship, gold
medals, and a niche in the Hall of Fame faded into the thin, cold air of his arctic atmosphere.
Here, however, it gradually came into David's eyes that, after all, I was a strange man, and they opened wider and wider, until they were the size of my
medals, and then, with the deliberation that distinguishes his smile, he slowly prepared to howl.
In 1809 he was a captain in the Guards, wore
medals, and held some special lucrative posts in Petersburg.
Then magnificent gold
medals set with precious stones were presented to each of the twenty-six officers; and the Tin Woodman was given a new axe studded with diamonds; and the Scarecrow received a silver jar of complexion powder.
On completing his high school and university courses with
medals, Alexey Alexandrovitch had, with his uncle's aid, immediately started in a prominent position in the service, and from that time forward he had devoted himself exclusively to political ambition.
THAT uses the individual for its own ends, trampling upon him if he thwarts it, rewarding him with
medals, pensions, honours, when he serves it faithfully; THIS, strong only in his independence, threads his way through the state, for convenience' sake, paying in money or service for certain benefits, but with no sense of obligation; and, indifferent to the rewards, asks only to be left alone.
'They did not hang
medals in those days on all who by accident had heard a gun fired.