They've become my personal emblem for an increasingly common phenomenon: that of the tedious, uninspired traveller.
After setting up an appointment with the manager of LeChien, the hot grooming spot at Trump Plaza, I rode up to the Manhattan Adoption Center to meet my prospective emblem of canine liberation.
Whenever I contemplated my fears, that ostrich figured in my reflections as a kind of emblem of my spinelessness.
Loyalty to Manchester United notwithstanding, my favorite premiership emblem is Southampton's.
When I asked her why she kept the shawl from the shooting, she responded: "It is the only emblem of my life, with the stain of my blood, my struggle".
I have come to view my windows as an emblem of the turmoil.
A perky red devil dominates the emblem of my favorite club, Manchester United.
A trip was not complete without that postcard-sized, black and white shot; it was an official emblem of my visit: a Hellenophile's rite of passage.
He said you'd know why.' It had a new razor, a brush and a mug ornamented in gold with the emblem of my father's union in the Sanitation Department.
