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.

In gratitude for the providential escape of King Charles II from shipwreck, Gostling, who had been of the royal party, put together some verses from the Psalms in the form of an anthem and requested Purcell to set them to music.

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.

Aeacus himself showed his gratitude by erecting a temple to Zeus Panhellenius on mount Panhellenion, and the Aeginetans afterwards built a sanctuary in their island called Aeaceum, which was a square place enclosed by walls of white marble.

It was thought that if the Conservatives were able to secure this piece of legislation, then the newly enfranchised electorate may return their gratitude to the Tories in the form of a Conservative vote at the next general election.

These bright orange buses still display the name of Transportes Urbanos de Sevilla, S. A. M., their former owner, and Seville's coat of arms as a sign of gratitude.

Hoxha assembled the entire population in the capital's largest square, requested that they kneel, and made them take a two-thousand word oath of " eternal fidelity " and " gratitude " to their " beloved father " and " great liberator " to whom the people owed " everything.

They did not openly express their gratitude to science fiction, because the funding depended on keeping claim to have originated the ideas they had put so much work into testing and verifying.

New Granada will join Venezuela, if they convene to form a new republic, their capital will be Maracaibo …. This great nation would be called Colombia in tribute to the justice and gratitude of the creator of our hemisphere.

Those who are killed without being shown gratitude for their sacrifice will hold a ( grudge ) and become powerful and evil kami who seek revenge ( aragami ).

He felt at times a good deal of gratitude for their passion and their knowledge of the game.

Readers often did and sometimes do identify the poet himself with various characters and their vicissitudes, whether gratitude by an old rustic to a new god ( Ecl.

The UN knew that no international forum had ruled against British possession of the Falklands but had voted its gratitude to Argentina who wanted to annexe the Islands from their rightful owners.

In 1418 two of the captains of Prince Henry the Navigator, João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira, were driven by a storm to an island which they called Porto Santo (" Holy Port ") in gratitude for their rescue from the shipwreck.

** The Asgard dislike sharing most of their technology, but nevertheless were willing to give technology in gratitude to an inferior race ; this is how Earth got its hyperdrive and power source for that hyperdrive.

" Ahitophel of the house of Israel and Balaam of the heathen nations were the two great sages of the world who, failing to show gratitude to God for their wisdom, perished in dishonor.

With the progress of the narrative during 1941 – 2 to the breaking of the Fellowship and the war in Rohan, particular aspects in the history and culture of the South-kingdom were introduced one by one: alliance with the Rohirrim and ceding a province to them, in gratitude for their help in the first war with Sauron ; the White Tree and the winged crown, at first just as vague images in Aragorn's song ; the spelling Gondor ; and the Palantíri, with Hornburg and Isengard made into former Gondor fortresses and sites of two out of five Stones in the South-kingdom.

Many of the fans in attendance made signs professing their gratitude and adoration toward him with quotes such as: " The House that Griffey Built ", " Seattle ♥ Junior ", and " Griffey we miss you.

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.

According to the story, in about 1912, Erwin C. Ruth gave some legal aid to Gonzales, saving him from almost certain imprisonment ; in gratitude, Gonzales told Erwin about the Peralta mine in the Superstition Mountains, even reportedly passing on some antique maps of the site ( Gonzales claimed to be descended from the Peralta family on his mother's side ).

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands named Corning an officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau, the country's highest citizen honor, in gratitude for his aid to Nijmegen following World War II.

The emotions lead to different actions ; indebtedness can motivate the recipient of the aid to avoid the person who has helped them, whereas gratitude can motivate the recipient to seek out their benefactor and to improve their relationship with them.

Cheng Yen ’ s philosophy includes the notion that not only are those receiving assistance benefiting materially by receiving the aid, but those delivering the aid are also spiritually rewarded when they see the gratitude in the eyes and smiles of the recipients.

A general who faced an uncertain outcome in battle might make a votum in the field promising to build a temple out of gratitude for divine aid in a victory.

To show his gratitude, Rikku also gives his bracelet, an item that can provide significant aid later in the game.

The devil completed the manuscript and the monk added the devil's picture out of gratitude for his aid.

After Valina was killed by the Skeleton King ( as a form of " gratitude ") Mandarin joined his master once more, to aid him in waging a war between the living and the dead.