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But for the Chancellor of the Augmentations the heavy silence of calamity, like the waiting at a bedside for death to come, seemed to fall upon them.

From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford, Ford Madox

Augmentations have sometimes been made to the arms of English families by foreign monarchs.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

He was appointed, in 1537, Clerk to the Court of Augmentations.

From The Mystery of Francis Bacon by Smedley, William T.

He went to tell the old, shivering Chancellor of the Augmentations that he must absent himself upon their common master's errands.

From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford, Ford Madox

The Margrave made considerable Augmentations to this House, and render'd it very commodious.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von