cognizances
Example Sentences
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The other divisions had each its distinguishing banner, every cacique bearing these cognizances like our Spanish nobles, a circumstance we could not credit when so informed by our prisoners.
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 Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
The old wooden ceilings were replaced with stone vaultings, enriched with elegant carvings and cognizances.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Sergeant, Philip Walsingham
And who will not be buxom to them, and give them money for these their devilish cognizances, they are mocked and flouted at not a little.
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Behrend, Arthur C.
And, so assotted are some, that they not only give them monie, to maintain their abhomination withall, but also weare their badges and cognizances in their hats and caps openly.
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Behrend, Arthur C.
