Crossword-Solution: TOKENING 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

They were large nostrils, tokening his descent from savage ancestors who had survived by virtue of deep lungs and generous air-passages.

And in the silence that followed, a blue-bottle fly buzzed rowdily against an adjacent window-pane, with occasional loud bumps against the glass tokening that he too had his tragedy, a prisoner pent by baffling transparency from the bright world that blazed so immediately beyond.

These six dollars and a half will buy you the perfectly suitable jackass of the _pake_” (Chinese) “at Kokako who told me only yesterday that such was the price.” They sat on, Pool meditating, conning over and over to himself the Maori death-chant he had heard, and especially the line, “So dusk of eve came on,” finding in it an intense satisfaction of beauty; Kumuhana licking his lips and tokening that he waited for something more.

Yet ages ere men topped thee, late and soon Thou watch’dst each night the planets lift and lower; Thou gleam’dst to Joshua’s pausing sun and moon, And brav’dst the tokening sky when Cæsar’s power Approached its bloody end: yea, saw’st that Noon When darkness filled the earth till the ninth hour.

Him and his sister had talked on the subject of presents and she'd told him that 'twas rather a surprise to her that Nicholas hadn't produced no tokening ring as yet, and James had supported Nicholas in that matter, and said money was money, and his cowman hadn't got much at best and far too little anyway to waste ten shillings in sentiment.