Crossword-Solution: VOTO 4 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

But there was one oddity, in the way of an _ex voto_, which pleased me hugely: a faithful model of a canal boat, swung from the vault, with a written aspiration that God should conduct the _Saint Nicolas_ of Creil to a good haven.

Voto a Cristo!--what a wrecking there must have been! And to think the Carmencita could not be taken out! They had seen other luggers making eastward during the morning--could recognize some by their sails, others by their gait,--exaggerated in their struggle with the pitching of the sea: the San Pablo, the Gasparina, the Enriqueta, the Agueda, the Constanza.

The satirist [Persius] exclaims, “Mille hominum species et mentis discolor usus; Velle suum cuique est, nec voto vivitur uno.” “Nature is ever various in her name; Each has a different will, and few the same.” The comic poet also says, “_Quot capita tot sententiæ_, _suus cuique mos est_.” “As many men, so many minds, each has his way.” Young soldiers exult in war, and pleaders delight in the gown; others aspire after riches, and think them the supreme good.

Under the show of wild bluntness which you exhibit, I know you have sense enough to understand me, when I say frankly that the object of our temporary acquaintance having been accomplished, we must be strangers to each other in future.” “VOTO!” said Lambourne, twirling his whiskers with one hand, and grasping the hilt of his weapon with the other; “if I thought that this usage was meant to insult me--” “You would bear it with discretion, doubtless,” interrupted Tressilian, “as you must do at any rate.

And what conceptions they were which the people formed of their protectress in heaven! What was in the mind of the Florentine woman[1081] who gave ‘ex voto’ a keg of wax to the Annunziata, because her lover, a monk, had gradually emptied a barrel of wine without her absent husband finding it out! Then, too, as still in our own days, different departments of human life were presided over by their respective patrons.