Its pennon streaming on the blasts that fan it, 155. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
As they spied the red pennon unfurled to the breeze. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls] Reference
The pennon of the Bareacres was foremost on the spears!. From Wordnik.com. [The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters] Reference
After an obstinate struggle the Earl won the pennon of the. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series] Reference
Each bore upon him her gift -- pennon, or sleeve, or ring. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
In one house a Boer lance with a white rag for pennon was picked up. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
He entered the battle under the neutral and not over-colorful pennon of. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
Milan armor, his strong sword half unsheathed, and his pennon flying! —. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference
"They're pretty heavily armed and I see someone with a pennon at the front.". From Wordnik.com. [Storm Breaking]
The salt winds blew back her hair, a dark pennon sailing against a leaden sky. From Wordnik.com. [Dalamar the Dark]
What is the use of a shield on a wall, or a lance that has a cobweb for a pennon?. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
Thomas Bullard's shoulders slumped where he sat mounted near the baronial pennon. From Wordnik.com. [The High Crusade]
All the flagships had as a distinctive mark a long red pennon at the foremast-head. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
Shield and spear, banner and pennon, broken, bloodstained and trampled, strewed the field. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
Instead of counterstriking, it hissed again, wagging a forked tongue as long as a pennon flag. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
Find in the Glossary the meaning of: chieftain; unconscious; booming; despair; fragments; pennon. From Wordnik.com. [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference
From the open window, a pennon of light streamed out into the garden, heavy with the scent of roses. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
Then from the valley appeared the knight on the black horse, grasping the lance with the black pennon. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Fairy Book] Reference
Each pennon was brilliantly woven of silk and each commemorated one of Oberon's or Titania's victories. From Wordnik.com. [This Scepter'd Isle]
We have listened for rumors of his shining armies and hoped to see his pennon on the towers of Paikang. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Avenger]
'Your pennon,' answered Douglas, 'shall this night be placed before my tent; come and win it if you can.'. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series] Reference
I suppose, is analogous to the pennon or flag which was formerly carried before every knight in battle. —. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of Humphry Clinker] Reference
He was flying his small pennon of defiance against the wind, and knew it, but he meant it with all his heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Sanctuary Sparrow]
Several shots had struck the huge galley that flew the flag of the Capitan-Pasha, Ali, a white pennon sent from. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
The sacred Bhagirathi, adored by gods and Gandharvas gently runneth by, like a breeze-shaken pennon in the welkin. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
The voluntary assumption of pain beyond his doom may even be a pennon of defiance, a wag of the hand against death. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilgrim of Hate]
One of them, he noticed, held a small, gilded lance, a ceremonial thing topped by a glittering pennon of cloth-of-gold. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Of Deception]
The pennon of the standard bearer, long and narrow, fluttering back some twenty feet from his spear, was that of Vonda. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting Slave Of Gor]
The Bohuns were one of the very few aristocratic families really dating from the Middle Ages, and their pennon had actually seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
Ralph his brother, who had great indignation against the earl Douglas because he had won the pennon of their arms at the barriers before. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
But at last the great body lay jerking in the dust and Aiken plucked the shattered lance with its ruined pennon from the bleeding brain. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
The Bohuns were one of the very few aristocratic families really dating from the Middle Ages, and their pennon had actually seen Palestine. From Wordnik.com. [The Father Brown Omnibus]
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