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

The tree-shadows, too, had grown in length, and the afternoon sun wore a deeper blazonry through the hill haze in the west.

From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

And this thought may surely dispose the reader to look with some change of temper upon the gorgeous building 116 and wild blazonry of that shrine of St. Mark’s.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John

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

Being damned by Hengstenberg, In his grave no peace he finds, So with pagan blazonry Gallops down the chase of Life.

From Atta Troll by Heine, Heinrich