The legends which assert that certain arms were "won in the Holy Land" or granted by ancient kings for heroic deeds in the field are for the most part worthless fancies.
But nothing is more certain than that neither armorial banners nor shields of arms were borne on either side at Hastings.
In England the royal officers ofarms were made a corporation by Richard III.
That silence and inaction among men in arms were a novel form of sedition.
Arms were taken up by the Æquans; the Veientes also entered the territory of the Romans committing devastations; the solicitude about which wars increasing, Kæso Fabius and Sp.
The remark has added truth from the fact that most ancient coats of arms were simple, and many modern coats are far from being worthy of such a description.
Anchoring at San Jose, we learned that trouble was brewing on the Peninsula, and that some hundreds of men in arms were assembled at Todos Santos, a place on the seaside of Lower California, fifty miles distant.
No arms were permitted to be carried by citizens, and both gentlemen and paisanos were obliged to leave them, upon entering the town, at the Garita.
Half a dozen men-at-arms were standing on the steps of the mansion, who looked with haughty surprise at the young apprentice.
The men-at-arms were followed by the infantry, who, as they passed, formed up on the tongue of land formed by the winding of the river.
As to gratitude, I feel that it is rather the other way, for my arms were beginning to get stiff for want of use.
Guy turned and walked back to the spot where the Burgundian men-at-arms were drawn up.
The men-at-arms were scattered, and had to be roused; then there was the work of getting the stables open, and we had to force the doors in some places to do it.
While the guests supped at the upper table, the men-at-arms were no less amply provided for at the lower end of the hall, where all the retainers at the castle feasted royally in honour of the return of their lady and her children.
Robberies ofarms were perpetrated by unarmed bands, who were nevertheless not resisted.
The men-at-arms were daunted, for no armour seemed proof against the shot of this tremendous archer.
Amid the bustle, Gurth was taken from horseback, in the course of which removal he prevailed upon the Jester to slack the cord with which his arms were bound.
While my arms were resting I stood watching her, when the dazzling light of the sun aroused her from her sleep, and opening a very bright pair of blue eyes, she fixed them on me with a look of extreme surprise.
Our two other guns were run over to the starboard side, the small-arms were got up on deck and loaded, and cutlasses were buckled on, and all hands not required to work the guns began blazing away with the muskets.
Some of the gentlemen most experienced in arms were asked to give their opinion "on their faith," and afterwards the ladies on their conscience, without favouring one more than another.
Before Christmas about a thousand men-at-arms were mustered at various border centres under the royal standards, while every marcher lord was busily engaged in putting down his own rebels.
Stirling, Edward's chief stronghold in central Scotland, was so hardly pressed that the men-at-arms were forced to eat their chargers.
The lady beckoned to Edward to undertake the task which her weaker arms were unable to perform, throwing the light of the lantern for the purpose on the door.
Five trusted men-at-arms were chosen, and their arms and horses carefully inspected by their young leader, who resolved to leave nothing to chance.
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