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Trophy   /trˈoʊfi/   Listen
Trophy

noun
(pl. trophies)
1.
An award for success in war or hunting.
2.
Something given as a token of victory.  Synonym: prize.



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"Trophy" Quotes from Famous Books



... freed from the painful, brutal world, and transported to ages wherein she had not known the sadness of life. At the foot of the stairs, the steps of which were covered with roses, Dechartre was waiting. She threw herself in his arms. He carried her inert, like a precious trophy before which he had become pallid and trembling. She enjoyed, her eyelids half closed, the superb humiliation of being a beautiful prey. Her fatigue, her sadness, her disgust with the day, the reminiscence of violence, ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... hounds the flesh," he said, delivering the trophy to Fenwolf; "but keep the antlers, for it is ...
— Windsor Castle • William Harrison Ainsworth

... Jamestown was not a step in a struggle, but a trophy of victory. And, though it began the westward march of the Saxon tongue, which has long since encircled the globe, it marked the victory less of a race than of a civilization. It was really the ...
— The Southern Soldier Boy - A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy • James Carson Elliott

... charming victim, with an ensanguined finger, the only part of his delicate hand that had escaped the almond paste, tried to stop him, to relate the particulars of the expedition from which he had brought back this bloody trophy. But Morgan smiled, pressed his other hand which was gloved, and contented himself with replying: "I am looking ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas

... window overlooking the garden and watched the clouds. They gathered around the sunset on the side of Rouen and then swiftly rolled back their black columns, behind which the great rays of the sun looked out like the golden arrows of a suspended trophy, while the rest of the empty heavens was white as porcelain. But a gust of wind bowed the poplars, and suddenly the rain fell; it ...
— Madame Bovary • Gustave Flaubert


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