Ludwig knew at once, by the sinople reversed and the truncated gules on his surcoat, that it was Sir Gottfried of. From Wordnik.com. [A Legend of the Rhine] Reference
In the lower field a terce of lanciers, shaking unsheathed shafts, their arms crossed in sal-tire, embusked, sinople. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
French contemporaries, but they are of like kind; he has fine passages, charming ideas, but no well-ordered work; his colours are fresh but crude, like the colours of illuminations, blazons, or oriflammes; his nights are of sable, and his meadows seem of sinople, his flowers are. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
Argent, a dexter sinople, and gules an azure field. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
Argent, a dexter sinople, and gules an azure field. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads] Reference
Ludwig knew at once, by the sinople reversed and the truncated gules on his surcoat, that it was. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
In memory of her he has quartered his own arms with those of Des Touches, which are: party couped, tranche and taille or and sinople, on the latter two eagles argent. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrix] Reference
But and Perceval had borne his shield that was there within, of sinople with a white hart, Lancelot would have known him well, nor would there have been any quarrel between them, for he had heard tell of this shield at the court of King Arthur. From Wordnik.com. [The High History of the Holy Graal] Reference
"Wherefore the greater folly would it be to follow him," saith one of the sixteen knights, "For nought should we increase thereby save only our own shame and hurt, and my Lady hath lost him through her own default, for well know we that he it was that lay within, for that he beareth a shield sinople with a golden eagle.". From Wordnik.com. [The High History of the Holy Graal] Reference
"Au deux, de Budes, qui est d'or au pin de sinople. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Ibbetson] Reference
"By my faith," saith the knight, "I have seen him this day and spoken with him, and he asked me and I could tell him tidings of a knight that beareth a shield of sinople with a golden eagle, and I told him, no. From Wordnik.com. [The High History of the Holy Graal] Reference
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