The hatchment is painted with the arms of Lord and Lady Nelson (estimate: £ 30,000 - £ 35,000). From Wordnik.com. [A Home and Its Love Story] Reference
Quartered in this dingy hatchment commemorative of. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
If the family bore arms, the hatchment, emblazoned with this emblem, was hung upon the door. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
The most important item will be a painted silk armorial hatchment from his state funeral car. From Wordnik.com. [A Home and Its Love Story] Reference
It was a feminine hatchment, and indeed a few years back had served as a funeral compliment to Sir. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
We were handsome once -- is this vanity at sixty? if so, our grey hairs are a hatchment for the past. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841] Reference
Its period of service over, the hatchment had come down from the front of the house, and lived in retirement somewhere in the back premises of. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
Incidentally, the only known hatchment, that has survived in Virginia, is in possession of the Carter family at "Shirley" in Charles City County. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
Again, that favorite old instrument of ours which we are so proud of, the hatchment telegraph of Cooke and Wheatstone, invented in 1837, was labeled. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885] Reference
There is neither inscription, nor monument, nor memorial window to mark the place of his sepulture; even his hatchment has been removed from its place. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference
No trophy, sword, nor hatchment oer his bones, 176. From Wordnik.com. [Act IV. Scene V. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark] Reference
"It is a hatchment over a noble's grave," cried Standish. From Wordnik.com. [Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims] Reference
It was a feminine hatchment, and indeed a few years back had served as. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
A beautiful memorial window, a sombre hatchment, and a monument of snow-white marble. From Wordnik.com. [A Terrible Secret] Reference
The only thing Siamese about the Consul, except the hatchment and the flag, were his servants. From Wordnik.com. [Number.] Reference
Quartered in this dingy hatchment commemorative of Symond are the legal bearings of Mr. Vholes. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House]
You have dreamed of an hatchment upon — — house, and seen a visionary coronet suspend - ed over my brow. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of the Late Lord Littelton] Reference
From end to end every gable, every hatchment was glowing, every window was flickering in the glare of torches. From Wordnik.com. [The House of the Wolf; a romance] Reference
Liverpool's a few days ago, he was in deep mourning, the hatchment still up on his house, his note-paper half an inch black border. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2] Reference
Our old friends the Crawleys 'family house, in Great Gaunt Street, still bore over its front the hatchment which had been placed there as. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
She felt as if her own generation were passing away, when she returned to see the hatchment upon Beauchamp, and to hear of the widow's failing health. From Wordnik.com. [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference
The little man had broken away a wooden hatchment which covered a manhole in the wall of his prison-house, squeezed his small body through, and so escaped. From Wordnik.com. [Bob, Son of Battle] Reference
Such parchment or hatchment glory might have been his, and many a knight, as good as he, has received no better, no more lasting reward for his loyalty and bravery. From Wordnik.com. [Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities] Reference
‘“NO,” said Fred Hatherly, looking up at the hatchment; “I’m blessed if you do, old gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Thorne] Reference
An earl’s coronet now figured on the hatchment which hung over Castlewood gate — and there was an end of the jolly gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
And put a hatchment o'er her eggs!. From Wordnik.com. [Ode to Joseph Grimaldi, Senior] Reference
This was the hatchment of Francis, Lord. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
Of twenty quarterings upon a hatchment. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry] Reference
A faded hatchment hung, and one by time. From Wordnik.com. [THE EXCURSION BOOK FIFTH] Reference
On hatchment and atchievement, 265. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 2, May-December, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.] Reference
No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones. From Wordnik.com. [Hamlet] Reference
No trophy, sword, nor hatchment, o'er his bones. From Wordnik.com. [The plays of William Shakespeare. In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators] Reference
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