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The great plaza, ever the pulse and centre of these communities, is known here as the Zocalo; and this ample square is that same one around which the Aztec city--the famous Tenochtitlan--was built, upon whose foundations the Mexican capital arose The plan of the city is more or less the geometrically regular one of main and cross-streets running at right angles to each other, and the principal of these are lined with shops, whose windows display luxurious articles of jewellery, clothing, and other effects such as betoken the taste and purchasing power of a wealthy upper class.— Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development
More betoken, there was a widdy in it, that was as sharp as a rat-thrap an’ surrounded him whin he was young an’ hadn’t as much sinse as a goose, an’ was like to marry him at wanst in shpite av all his relations, as widdys undhershtand how to do.— Irish Wonders
The name, the accompaniments, and the child's expression betoken a rare delicacy of conception.— The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
And the access to this portcullis place--if I may so call it, being no portcullis there--was through certain rocky chambers known to the tenants only But the cleverest of their devices, and the most puzzling to an enemy, was that, instead of one mouth only, there were three to choose from, with nothing to betoken which was the proper access; all being pretty much alike, and all unfenced and yawning.— Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor

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