Sentence examples for the tributes of from inspiring English sources

(The homoerotic themes are sufficiently conventionalized as to be inoffensive, the tributes of a devoted friend).

Judging from the tributes of friends and associates, he was building a brick-and-mortar (and technologically state-of-the-art) version of himself.

Perhaps (from his own service) the tributes of ministers past and MPs present to a press-gallery pen that ripped jagged holes in their pomp.

Under the century-old mural "New York City Receiving the Tributes of the Nation," which covers much of the ceiling of the City Council chambers, Michelle Jean Baptiste was busy ripping the tar out of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg yesterday.

The action and ideas of women teachers, book-binders and button-makers in the 1871 Paris Commune spring from the archives onto her pages, along with the tributes of the poets and the merciless contempt of the Commune's suppressors.

The only attitude in which a commander may with satisfaction receive the tributes of his friends is in the humble acknowledgment that no matter how unworthy he may be, his position is the symbol of great human forces that have labored arduously and successfully for a righteous cause.

He paid them the tribute of lucid investigation and they unfolded before him.

In Athenian drama and legend Minos became the tyrannical exactor of the tribute of children to feed the Minotaur.

There, likewise, combatants paid each other the tribute of meeting as equals, and hoped to perform with panache.

Elsewhere his pride and his gratitude smudge the portrait – he never really pays Bacon the tribute of suspecting him.

These possessions aroused the envious hostility of Alfonso's elder brother, Sancho II, who had inherited the kingdom of Castile and the tribute of Zaragoza (Saragossa).