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.
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.
You and Fosco are to
sign afterwards, Miss Halcombe, opposite those two wafers.
Confusion of language of good and evil; this
sign I give unto you as the
sign of the state.
If he be indeed the rightful king, let them give us a
sign, and let the people have a
sign, that all may see.
He can
sign on for ten dollars a month if he works for the ship all his time.
Now, add these words, and
sign them, above the address: To be kept in your own possession, and to be opened by yourself only, on the day of my death -- or
The notary solemnly took the pen, flourished it above his head, and said, "Gentlemen, we are about to
sign the contract.
The fourth auditor, who during all this conversation had played a mute part, made a
sign of the head in proof that he acquiesced in the proposition.
All this time the Sub-Warden was busy, with the Chancellor's help, shifting the papers from side to side, and pointing out to the Warden the place whew he was to
sign.
Neither doth it follow, that because these fames are a
sign of troubles, that the suppressing of them with too much severity, should be a remedy of troubles.
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.
