cognizances
Example Sentences
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These, the Mexican attendants on Montezuma told them, were the cognizances of the many cities of the plain, showing that the whole people were joining in the movement commenced by those of the capital.
From By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Witness the cider-barrel, the log-cabin, the hickory-stick, the palmetto, and all the cognizances of party.
From Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brass ornaments, sockets, rings, and torch-holders of iron, sculptured emblems, crests, and cognizances in colored marble, are let into the outer walls.
From The Italians by Frances Elliot
Guilds had their ceremonial dresses, and their “liveries,” and their cognizances, and considered it an honour to wear them.
From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford
Ladies delighted to appear in the cognizances of their lords, or in their own paternal bearings.
From The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous
