Ferguson told us that the silver cross which the good archbishop wore at his girdle was seized and thrown into the Seine, where it lay embedded in the mud for fifteen years, and then an angel appeared to a priest and told him where to dive for it; he did dive for it and got it, and now it is there on
exhibition at Notre Dame, to be inspected by anybody who feels an interest in inanimate objects of miraculous intervention.
He, indeed, appeared at the annual
exhibition, to the prodigious exultation of all his relatives, a farmer’s family in the vicinity, and repeated the whole of the first eclogue from memory, observing the intonations of the dialogue with much judgment and effect.
"
Exhibition!" exclaimed Miranda scornfully; "you are
exhibition enough by yourself, I should say.
Their wagons were drawn about the lodges, in a sort of irregular barrier, which at once manifested that their confidence was not entirely restored, while, on the other hand, their policy or indolence prevented any very positive
exhibition of distrust.
This public
exhibition of the tulip was an act of adoration rendered by an entire nation, unlettered and unrefined, to the refinement and culture of its illustrious and devout leaders, whose blood had stained the foul pavement of the Buytenhof, reserving the right at a future day to inscribe the names of its victims upon the highest stone of the Dutch Pantheon.
So he remained on
exhibition until spring, when one Tim Keenan, a faro-dealer, arrived in the land.
I've never been to an
Exhibition, and it's so aggravating to hear the other girls talking about their trips.
A man with a reflective turn of mind, walking through an
exhibition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people's hilarity.
The duty's very light and genteel, the company particularly select, the
exhibition takes place in assembly-rooms, town-halls, large rooms at inns, or auction galleries.
Passepartout, though he had not been able to study or rehearse a part, was designated to lend the aid of his sturdy shoulders in the great
exhibition of the "human pyramid," executed by the Long Noses of the god Tingou.
Fifty hulls, at least, moulded on lines of beauty and speed - hulls of wood, of iron, expressing in their forms the highest achievement of modern ship-building - lay moored all in a row, stem to quay, as if assembled there for an
exhibition, not of a great industry, but of a great art.
Discovering that his martingale had more slack in it than usual, he proceeded to give an
exhibition of rearing and hind-leg walking.