Judging from its stains and scars and other accidents, the whole of the hundred-and-nineteenth psalm had been a special favourite; while the hundred-and-forty- third also was all broidered round with shorthand symbols. But the secret key of all those symbols and dates and enigmatical marks was no longer to be found; it had been carried away in the owner's own heart. But, my head being full of Christiana at the time, I felt as if I held her own old Bible in my hand as I turned over those ancient leaves.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-2》
Also numerous instances of fractions, here presented, for example, as 1 1/2 for one and a half, and the symbol for the British Pound, so that where the original may have said L100 (where L represents the symbol for Pound) it now says 100 Pounds (Pound or Pounds has always been capitalized as above in such cases).英文原著 · 《Native Life in South Africa》
Finally it has been pointed out, and there may be some real connection in the coincidence, that in the quite early years of Christianity the FISH came in as an accepted symbol of Jesus Christ. Considering that after the domination of Taurus and Aries, the Fish (Pisces) comes next in succession as the Zodiacal sign for the Vernal Equinox, and is now the constellation in which the Sun stands at that period, it seems not impossible that the astronomical change has been the cause of the adoption of this new symbol.英文原著 · 《Pagan and Christian Creeds》
That was mere dreaming, of course. Was it dreaming after Raphael? After Raphael? The drowsy mind wandered into a side issue. Was the picture that had suggested this dream the one in the Vatican where all the Fathers of the Church are shown disputing together? But there surely God and the Son themselves were painted with a symbol--some symbol--also? But was that disputation about the Trinity at all? Wasn't it rather about a chalice and a dove?英文原著 · 《Soul of a Bishop》
*The intuitive mode of knowledge must be contrasted with the discursive mode (not with the symbolic). The former is either schematic, by mean demonstration, symbolic, as a representation following a mere analogy.英文原著 · 《The Critique of Judgement》
One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others--the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment.英文原著 · 《The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft》
If the ring is just a symbol for love, why would I need a symbol when I have the real thing right here?美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Using the most common symbols that we've been immersed in all our lives, using the most common symbols that we've been immersed in all our lives,演讲 · 《Life in Second Life ~ Philip Rosedale》
It's a symbol of his income, because all of his assets are tied up in sheep. it's a symbol of his income, because all of his assets are tied up in sheep.演讲 · 《A life of purpose ~ Rick Warren》