And shall I count it unworthy to pass these few in-door hours of rain in the emblazonment of their titles?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
Seest thou how the twin plumes straighten on his crest, and his father's own emblazonment already marks him for upper air?. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Agrippa, with favouring winds and gods, proudly leads on his column; on his brows glitters the prow-girt naval crown, the haughty emblazonment of the war. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
He was by this time ashamed of the emblazonment of his poetic effort upon the cliff. From Wordnik.com. [The Mermaid A Love Tale] Reference
The lower part of the inscription was in the shade, but the emblazonment, and the words. From Wordnik.com. [Rookwood] Reference
This left him free to lend his services to the rest of us, and assist in our heraldic emblazonment. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness] Reference
Beyond the shore floated the long canoe, with its curving ends and its emblazonment of the five-pointed stars. From Wordnik.com. [Conjuror's House A Romance of the Free Forest] Reference
Each quarter of the city had an emperor, lords, and dignitaries, each of whom carried his banner or emblazonment. From Wordnik.com. [Fra Bartolommeo] Reference
With this design he donned his armor, but exchanged his crest and emblazonment, and bore instead a white unicorn upon a crimson field. From Wordnik.com. [Legends of Charlemagne] Reference
Normandy to adorn his hall with this new species of emblazonment, that breaks the golden light of God's blessed day into so many fantastic hues. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
The establishment of her own position, her own honour, her own name, was to her but the incidental result of her daughter's emblazonment in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Anna] Reference
This led to many awkward results, as when the art of printing is placed by the side of orthography as a subdivision of Logic, to which also is given the art of heraldry or emblazonment. From Wordnik.com. [Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)] Reference
So it was that his more or less casual lark visibly took on, from the perspective of this castle in Luristan, as he unrolled a gaudy emblazonment of eagles at the top of the parchment, a new and curious color. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
Christmas is the friendly human announcement of this ghostly truth; its holly and boar's-head are but a rough-and-tumble emblazonment of that mystic gospel of -- The Three Words; the Gospel of the Unseen Love. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Roads and Other Essays] Reference
Baccio's brother, helped to lay on this gold, for one of the stipulations in the contract with Mariotto was that he was to “metter d 'oro ed altre cose di mazoneria” (to put on gold and other articles of emblazonment). From Wordnik.com. [Fra Bartolommeo]
When that window was wrought, my noble friend, our hardy fathers knew not the art of making glass, or of staining it --- The pride of Wolfganger's father brought an artist from Normandy to adorn his hall with this new species of emblazonment, that breaks the golden light of God's blessed day into so many fantastic hues. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
In the black thirsty eyes there was a look that spoke volumes, -- a look that betrayed what the heart concealed, -- and reading that featured emblazonment of hidden guilt, Theos knew beyond all doubt that the rumors concerning the High Priestess and the King were true, .. that the dead Khosrul had spoken rightly, .. that. From Wordnik.com. [Ardath] Reference
One may purchase his china at the well-furnished establishment of the tenant of a spacious apartment of ancient date, -- "the Halle of John Halle," a fine private edifice built in the year 1470, restored and beautified in 1834; the emblazonment of the royal arms having been executed by the celebrated architectural artist. From Wordnik.com. [Our Hundred Days in Europe] Reference
When that window was wrought, my noble friend, our hardy fathers knew not the art of making glass, or of staining it -- - The pride of Wolfganger's father brought an artist from Normandy to adorn his hall with this new species of emblazonment, that breaks the golden light of God's blessed day into so many fantastic hues. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe. A Romance] Reference
It seems that an emblazonment fluctuates from their waters, and writhing above the crags which imprison them drifts athwart a sky sometimes a little chill -- Leonardo's pensive sky of shadowed amethyst -- again of a flushed blue, whereupon float great clouds, silken and ruddy, as in the backgrounds of Veronese's pictures. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Augustin] Reference
He covets and longs for a deeper relationship and tenderer ties, and though all creatures are His, and all men are His servants and His possession, yet, like certain regiments in our own British army, there are some who have the right to bear in a special manner on their uniform and on their banners the emblazonment, 'The King's Own.'. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference
Saying this he stopped -- recoiled -- as if suddenly made aware by the very words himself had uttered, what -- contrasted with the unsullied dignity of the tradesman's life, the spotless innocence of the tradesman's daughter -- what a foul tattered rag, fit to be torn down by an honest gust, was that flaunting emblazonment, the so-called "honour" of. From Wordnik.com. [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference
Saying this he stopped – recoiled – as if suddenly made aware by the very words himself had uttered, what – contrasted with the unsullied dignity of the tradesman's life, the spotless innocence of the tradesman's daughter – what a foul tattered rag, fit to be torn down by an honest gust, was that flaunting emblazonment, the so-called "honor" of Luxmore!. From Wordnik.com. [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference
The establishment of her own position, her own honour, her own name, was to her but the incidental result of her daughter’s emblazonment in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Anna] Reference
The revealing of her chastity emblazonment!. From Wordnik.com. [We can't stop playing this hot-ass Army of Lovers song | EW.com] Reference
Semitic character) -- the whole emblazonment of the coin became unmeaning. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
D 'oro ed altre cose di mazoneria "(to put on gold and other articles of emblazonment). From Wordnik.com. [Fra Bartolommeo] Reference
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