blazonry

Example Sentences

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If this natural impulse to live after physical death cannot be relied upon, then life itself is a myth and the starry blazonry of the midnight sky is a flaunting lie.

From Time Magazine Archive

The styles of blazonry admit of classification like those of Gothic Architecture.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

We observed that the limits of each estate were marked by a post bearing the blazonry of the proprietor.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de

At no possible array of a man should I tremble; and blazonry has no power of inflicting wounds, and crests and bell bite not124 without the spear.

From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Buckley, Theodore Alois

The examples of blazonry given in that part of this article which deals with armorial charges will be more instructive to the student than any elaborated code of directions.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various