A favorite saying of a sect or political group.
Literary term; type of epigraph, brief text that precedes a larger text.
1 Some of the translations of the mottos by himself are admirably done.
2 We pass signs, mottos , and aphorisms of encouragement on the school walls.
3 The part that had been shaped by drills and exercises and mottos and principles.
4 On a label under the arms these mottos : "Dux vitae ratio."
5 Fancy must sport in the furniture, and mottos might be gallant, and would be very Arabesque.
6 One of his favourite mottos was: "Sufficient to the day is the labour thereof."
7 Arm-high they were covered with designs, mottos , pictures.
8 My brain whirls with tiles, mosaics, tesseræ, bell-castings ,bell-marks , and mottos , electros, squeezes, rubbings, etc., etc.
9 Throughout the notebook he had copied aphorisms and mottos , some of which also appeared on his dormitory wall.
10 With mottos writ o' Latin splendid
11 One of the poison center mottos is 'up and away.' Keep them out of reach of children, said Lowry.
12 Lyrically, the songs are like memos to self; mottos for self-improvement or tips for a 'vacation to the soul'.
13 Her favorite mottos were "Video taceo" (I see and am silent), and "Semper eadem" (Always the same).
15 I have transcribed the mottos , and returned them, I hope not too late, of which I think many very happily performed.
16 However, such social issues as education, employment and inequality of wealth are glossed over by slogan-like mottos of being poor but virtuous.
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