And as the Pilgrims bowed their heads in humble gratitude, they shared another feeling -- the anticipation of what the future held for them and their posterity.

Some are so filled with gratitude, for the gift of life and the love of God, that their joy spills out on the paper and brightens the lives of thousands whom they have never known, and will never see.

Studies suggest that gratitude goes hand-in-hand with kindness and is also very important for our well-being.

Alexander's dedication of On Fate to Septimius Severus and Caracalla, in gratitude for his position at Athens, indicates a date between 198 and 209.

Even if we cannot agree with him in everything ; we all none the less owe him a debt of gratitude for setting an example of unswerving honesty, for his incorruptible conscience, and for his heroic view of his duty as a writer.

The Athenians would have to hold out at Marathon for the time being, although they were reinforced by the full muster of 1, 000 hoplites from the small city of Plataea ; a gesture which did much to steady the nerves of the Athenians, and won unending Athenian gratitude to Plataea.

Legend has it that there was a member of the British Royal Family onboard and that in gratitude for their bravery, King George III decreed that Caymanians should never be conscripted for war service and Parliament legislated that they should never be taxed.

On February 6, 1922, after the Ninth All-Russian Soviet Congress, the Cheka was dissolved by VTsIK, " with expressions of gratitude for heroic work.

In 1906, a few years after Pissarro ’ s death, Cézanne, then 67 and a role model for the new generation of artists, paid Pissarro a debt of gratitude by having himself listed in an exhibition catalog as “ Paul Cézanne, pupil of Pissarro ”.

The fast is meant to allow Muslims to seek nearness to Allah, to express their gratitude to and dependence on him, atone for their past sins, and to remind them of the needy.

" Amassador Bowles also conveyed gratitude to Capra for " one helluva job.

* The French Marquise de Créquy wrote in her book " Souvenirs ", that the tune Grand Dieu Sauve Le Roi, was written by Jean-Baptiste Lully in gratitude for the survival by Louis XIV of an anal fistula operation.

The Buddha-Gupta stone, dating to the 4th-5th century CE, was dedicated by an Indian Merchant, Buddha Gupta, as an expression of gratitude for his safe arrival after a voyage to the Malay peninsula.

The first such honour ever bequeathed on an illustrator or cartoonist, his fellows saw his knighting coming as gratitude for “ raising what had been a fairly lowly profession to an unprecedented level of respectability .” With knighthood, Tenniel elevated the social status of the black and white illustrator, and sparked a new sense of recognition of and occupational honour to his lifelong profession.

A faithful Muslim, as evidenced by his memoirs, he expressed his gratitude to Allah for his many victories.

The prophecies of kind but overprudent friends, who did not understand his self-sustaining energy, had proved untrue ; the malicious hope of his enemies, for even the gentle lover of nature has enemies, had been disappointed ; he had secured a commanding place in the respect and gratitude of men.

Other factors in the new philo-Semitism include gratitude to the Jews for contributing to the theological foundations of Christianity and for being the source of the prophets and Jesus ; remorse for the Church's history of anti-Semitism ; and fear that God will judge the nations at the end of time on the basis of how they treated the Jewish people.

In extreme cases, the kowtow can be used to express profound gratitude, apology, or to beg for forgiveness.

The host fed and provided quarters for the guest, who was expected to repay only with gratitude.

In nature likewise, the consideration of the sublimity of the heavens and of the motion of all things, the interchange of light and darkness, the variety of color in the realm of creation, the awe with which the sight of living man inspires the brute, the wonderful fertility of each grain of corn in the soil, the large supply of those elements that are essential to organic life, such as air and water, and the lesser frequency of those things that form the objects of industry and commerce in the shape of nourishment and raiment — all these and similar observations tend to fill man's soul with gratitude and praise for the providential love and wisdom of the Creator.

Perhaps the best example of this is the episode " Mother Simpson ", where it is implied that he leads the FBI astray in their search for Mona Simpson, allowing her to escape in gratitude for curing his asthma.

Rapuung, meanwhile, offers to sacrifice his own life against the nearby Vong warriors in order to allow Anakin and Tahiri to escape, as a token of his gratitude of helping him accomplish his goal of exposing Kwaad.

Meanwhile, Chao Gai writes Song Jiang a letter and sends him some gold pieces to express his gratitude for having helped him escape.

Filippo appears and risks his own danger to show gratitude to Michele, just as helicopters arrive and track down the ringleader trying to escape.

The Celtic King Caratacus assumed that she, along with Claudius, was the martial leader and bowed before her throne with the same homage and gratitude as he accorded the emperor.

In gratitude for Frederick's services, King Sigismund made him Oberster Hauptmann and Verwalter der Marken ( 1411 ).

King Charles showed his gratitude to the city of Hereford on 16 September 1645 by augmenting the city's coat of arms with the three lions of Richard I of England, ten Scottish Saltires signifying the ten defeated Scottish regiments, a very rare lion crest on top of the coat of arms signifying " defender of the faith " and the even rarer gold-barred peer's helm, found only on the arms of one other municipal authority: those of the City of London.

#: Dr. Zarkov saves the Hawkmen's city from falling, earning Flash and his friends King Vultan's gratitude.

In gratitude, King Henri gave him the property, the title Duc de Brissac and the money to rebuild the chateau in 1611.

In gratitude for his victories in 1814, Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III created Blücher Prince of Wahlstatt and awarded him estates near Krieblowitz ( now Krobielowice, Poland ) in Lower Silesia.

The simplest version, stripped of the vivid, and probably misleading, detail added by later chroniclers, has " King Hungus " and his army win a victory aided by Saint Andrew, in gratitude for which the Picts agree to venerate the Saint.

King George was reportedly more enraged by the breach of protocol than by the nature of the request, yet it attracted the support of the Common Councilmen of London who expressed their gratitude by erecting a monument in the Guildhall, London including a life-size statue of Beckford ( pictured ), surmounting a stone tablet on which the words Beckford had used to admonish the king are engraved in gold.

In gratitude for Erik's having saved Hy-Brasil, King Arnulf presents him with the Horn Resounding, which is much larger than Erik had imagined.

In gratitude, King Mu enfeoffed Zaofu as the lord of Zhao, a town in what is now Hongdong County, Shanxi Province, to be held by his descendants in perpetuity.

Thomas wrote to her " we owe you a debt of gratitude " for her support of him against King Henry II of England.

In gratitude for their help in quelling the rebellion and negotiating with his ministers, the King bestowed on Sullivan and Stirling Greece's high honour, Knight Commander of the Order of the Redeemer.

When King Valagamba returned to the throne at Anuradapura kingdom in the 1st century BC, he had a magnificent rock temple built at Dambulla as a gratitude to the monks in Dambulla.

Boeun, literally " offering gratitude " or " thanksgiving ", was named in 1406 by a remorseful King Taejong, who felt relieved that he had cleared his conscience after having participated at a ceremonial ritual at the local Beopjusa temple to appease the spirits of his dead younger half-brothers.

King Chulalongkorn of Siam ( Thailand ) sent a Thai garden pavilion in gratitude for a successful cure.

After King James published the Declaration of Indulgence in May 1687, Increase Mather sent a letter to the king, thanking him for the declaration, and then suggested to his peers that they also express gratitude to the king as a means to gain favor and influence.

She holds a deep gratitude for Yoh for saving her life, thus she believes it is her responsibility as Yoh's wife to train him hard so he can achieve his dream of becoming Shaman King in spite of her claim it is so he can realize her dream of living a comfortable life.

The Vorticon King awards Keen the " Big V " in order to show him his gratitude.

He is commemorated by a prominent statue on the Esplanade, or sea-front, recording the gratitude of the inhabitants, and by the locally well-known White Horse of Osmington, which by a regrettable oversight showed the King riding out of the town, not into it, which is said to have angered him so much that he never returned.

In 1509, King Louis XII of France granted to Lonato the honour to enrich the coat of arm with the three lilies of France, in gratitude for the favors that Lonato ’ s community offered him.

During the trip Watley and others ( including The Black Eyed Peas, Lauryn Hill, and Jackie Chan ) were invited to the Royal Palace to meet The King and Queen of Malaysia for a special Tea reception in showing their gratitude for all involved with Force of Nature.

Stuck on Eternia, Orko was made Royal Buffoon by the King of Eternia in gratitude for having saved his son.

Ju-Mong sent a messenger and numerous gifts to King Geumwa in gratitude for King Geumwa's generosity.