blazonry
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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
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
As a favourite garden flower, the Columbine found its way into heraldic blazonry.
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson
His requiem the fearful tone Of waters falling from their throne In the mid air, his burial shroud The wreathings of thy torrent cloud, His blazonry the rainbow thrown Superbly round thy brow of stone.
From Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. by Pickard, Samuel T. (Samuel Thomas)
Violets, solid patches of vivid blue in round baskets, eglantine in dainty boxes, provide a foil to the majestic blazonry of the roses and the dew-spangled forest of maiden-hair fern near by.
From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan
