Each was topped by a chain-draped griffin clutching an escutcheoned shield.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dressmaker] Reference

The dead vanish, the hall of festival is riven in twain, the walls crumble, he sees himself again in his own chamber, sleeping in the escutcheoned chair of his ancestors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

At this very moment the great clock of the palatines strikes three -- and awakes the old man in the sleeping chamber of his ancestors, stretched at the foot of the escutcheoned chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Not every forefather of mine rests quiet beneath his escutcheoned marble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story] Reference

Before him a lacquey in my escutcheoned livery of red-and-gold was receiving, with back obsequiously bent, his hat and cloak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...] Reference

Now a past, however escutcheoned and fame-enrolled, is even more starvation diet than a future of affection and self-confidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Lights and Shadows] Reference

In addition to their tint of burnt umber, they are all garishly painted; their faces escutcheoned with chalk-white, charcoal-black, and vermillion-red.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death Shot A Story Retold] Reference

Further along, reed hovels (some propped in aqueduct arches), hovels also in caves, and squalid osterias, into whose side are built escutcheoned mediæval capitals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spirit of Rome] Reference

Doggeries never so gold-plated, Doggeries never so escutcheoned, Doggeries never so diplomaed, bepuffed, gas-lighted, continue Doggeries, and must take the fate of such.    From Wordnik.com.  [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference

The emperor and empress thereupon take their places on the dais beneath the great escutcheoned golden canopy, and in front of the two chairs of state that represent the thrones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe]

The invincible city lies unpretentiously behind its green glacis and escutcheoned gates; but the guardian Lion under the Citadel – well, the Lion is figuratively as well as literally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting France] Reference

From the escutcheoned piers at the entrance of the court a level drive, also shaded by limes, extended to a white-barred gate beyond which an equally level avenue of grass, cut through a wood, dwindled to a blue-green blur against a sky banked with still white slopes of cloud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reef] Reference

Here, Baracz delivers the most banal, mundane of gestures-the escutcheoned image within the theatre is the live video footage of the street directly outside its entrance-and in this sense, could be any time, any space, Thailand seen by Thailand, Bucharest seen by Bucharest, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [post.thing.net - A lean, mean, media machine.] Reference

Lucy was always the companion and confidante of the lovers; it was hard for her to hear their happy talk of the bright future stretching far away before them -- stretching down, down the shadowy aisles of Time, to an escutcheoned tomb at Bulstrode, where husband and wife would lie down, full of years and honors, in the days to come.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aurora Floyd. A Novel] Reference

The Clairmallon carriage with its escutcheoned doors and the matched pairs of horses commanded respect from Fortnum’s doorman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dressmaker] Reference

A dozen youngish men and women -- those who were staying in the house and some neighbours who had come for lawn-tennis and dinner -- were rigged out, under the direction of the theatrical cousin, in the contents of that oaken press: and I have never seen a more beautiful sight than the panelled corridors, the carved and escutcheoned staircase, the dim drawing-rooms with their faded tapestries, the great hall with its vaulted and ribbed ceiling, dotted about with groups or single figures that seemed to have come straight from the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Phantom Lover] Reference

The huge mantelpiece ascending to the carved ceiling in grotesque pilasters, and scroll-work of the blackest oak, with the quartered arms of Brandon and Saville escutcheoned in the centre; the panelled walls of the same dark wainscot; the armorie of ebony; the high-backed chairs, with their tapestried seats; the lofty bed, with its hearse-like plumes and draperies of a crimson damask that seemed, so massy was the substance and so prominent the flowers, as if it were rather a carving than a silk, -- all conspired with the size of the room to give it a feudal solemnity, not perhaps suited to the rest of the house, but well calculated to strike a gloomy awe into the breast of the worldly and proud man who now entered the death-chamber of his brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference

What if the glory of escutcheoned doors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Poems] Reference

Our bannered and escutcheoned gallery, I 100.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry] Reference

Blue in the wind the escutcheoned mantle flowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan] Reference