Commemorating [verb]

The outside was very prettily painted for the occasion—Venus commemorating her birth from the ocean.

The enthusiast standing by Clowes expended the last relics of his voice in commemorating the fact that his side had the lead.

An old inscription is still seen on the tower, commemorating its building by one of the earlier Garibaldis.

They called him 'Bangs' thereafter, commemorating, as schoolboys use, with an affectionate nickname their esteem.

Four counties may be set together as commemorating large events in history.

Some expositors claim that the beginning of the year in Ezekiel's vision was in the month of Nisan commemorating the Passover.

The ceilings and walls are hung with pious offerings, commemorating strange deliverances at sea.

Also some beautiful tablets of embossed metal commemorating the first musical festival held in 1877.

The Divine method of commemorating the drying up of the Jordan was a very simple one.

For place-names commemorating heroes of alien tribes are common enough on English ground.