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Gratitude agrimony traditional symbol for gratitude. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 172] because he had once extracted a thorn from its paw, the lion refrained from attacking Androcles in the arena. [Rom. Lit.: Brewer Dictionary, 33] St. Francis of Assisi’s pantheistic hymn of thanks. [Christian Hagiog.: Bishop, 296] jubilantly thankful to God for giving son. amply repays Pip for having helped him when in desperate straits. [Br. Lit.: Dickens Great Expectations] built to thank God for safe landing. [O. T.: Genesis 8:20–21] American holiday acknowledging God’s favor. [Am. Culture: Brewer Dictionary, 1071] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Hence Quasimodo's gratitude was profound, passionate, boundless; and although the visage of his adopted father was often clouded or severe, although his speech was habitually curt, harsh, imperious, that gratitude never wavered for a single moment. In one place the peasants presented him with bread and salt and an icon of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, asking permission, as a mark of their gratitude for the benefits he had conferred on them, to build a new chantry to the church at their own expense in honor of Peter and Paul, his patron saints. You see, if it were not a palace, but a hen-house, I might creep into it to avoid getting wet, and yet I would not call the hen-house a palace out of gratitude to it for keeping me dry. |
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