Sun in my face, wind beside my shoulder, Streaming clouds, banners of new-born night Enchant me now.
Then with swift pinions they rose again, and soared in great spirals of flight, till they gleamed against the morning blue like four white banners adrift before a skiey wind.
Under these hostile bannersare ranged all living creatures, all created objects.
Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their bannersat sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
By rock, by oak, by hawthorn-tree, Troop after troop are disappearing; Troop after troop their banners rearing Upon the eastern bank you see.
Twas when his banners at Boulogne Armed in our island every freeman, His navy chanced to capture one Poor British seaman.
They wrapt the ship in splendour wild, They caught the flag on high, And streamed above the gallant child Like banners in the sky.
And plainly and more plainly Above that glimmering line Now might ye see the banners Of twelve fair cities shine; But the banner of proud Clusium Was highest of them all, The terror of the Umbrian, The terror of the Gaul.
The roses clamb'ring round yon marble Pan, Wave like red banners floating o'er the dead?
Deep with leaves and blossoms white Of the morning glory, Shaking all their banners bright From the mill, eaves hoary.
All fair things and bright she loved, such as racing steeds and shining raiment, and the sight of Eochy's warriors with their silken banners and shields decorated with rich ornament in red and blue.
Through the vault, at deep midnight, the torches are gleaming, In the proudly arched chapel the banners are beaming, Far adown the long aisle sacred music is streaming, Lamenting a chief of the people should fall.
The Lord Shandois was buried with heralds, an herse of wax, four banners of images, and other appendages of funeral honor.
Healths to Lucy's House and glory Shook the bannerson the walls.
No more to know me, My banners fall round me with age outworn.
But he was no sooner on the open plain than he spurred his horse to its speed, and did not draw rein until the banners of Don Fadrique waved above his head.
The great galleys, with their gilded and brightly painted prows and their myriad of banners and pennons, presented a magnificent spectacle.
No sooner had Boabdil seen their advancing banners than he sallied forth with a squadron to meet them.
Mohammed’s splendid tent was taken to Rome to adorn St. Peter’s, and the captured banners were sent to the cities of Spain as evidences of the great victory.
Victory seemed to have perched upon the banners of the Navarrese, town after town falling in rapid succession into their hands, and the crown of Spain appeared likely soon to change hands.
Six other banners soon floated from the walls, and the soldiers, leaping down into the streets, gained and threw open the gates.
Broken were its masts and shattered its oars, while there fluttered in the wind the torn remnants of its banners and sails.
Ever since that brilliant day in Spanish annals, the sixteenth of July has been kept as a holy festival, in which the captured banners are carried in grand procession, to celebrate the "Triumph of the Cross.
There are yet men of might to fight under the banners streaming with the northern lights of freedom.
The levy and march to the front, the thousand watch-fires glittering around the unbroken hosts, whose silken-bordered banners tell of the matchless devotion of the women clinging blindly to the cause.
Beneath the banners of the chieftains the free lances of the Pacific range themselves.
At their head rode the one-eyed hunghutze chief with three horsemen behind him in white overcoats, who carried waving banners and blew what may have been meant for music through great conch shells.
Boabdil surrendered the keys of the Alhambra to Ferdinand--the silver cross which had preceded the King throughout the war gleamed from a high tower; and from the loftiest pinnacle of the Alhambra waved the banners of Castile and Aragon.
The great golden cross was torn from the mosque el-Aksa, and on every tower and wall floated the yellow banners of Saladin.
Saladin led him to the door of the tent and pointed to his yellow banners floating here and there upon the wall, and to one that at this moment rose upon the breach itself.
It swept like a gale among the mail, And the banners shook like shivered sail, As it rolled from wall to wall.
The trades and guilds had renewed their signs, banners and pennons hung from every abode entitled to their use, garlands of bright flowers stretched here and there and everywhere.
Above them the torn banners of the regiment hung in the red gloom of the dome, but about the men themselves the gray-white light of a winter day fell from the riverward windows.
And mark ye not thosebanners of dark hue, The Night and Shadow, over yonder tent?
Sampei could detect on fluttering banners the butterfly of the Lord of Bizen, the badges of Shioshiu, and of Satsuma.
A brave sight, sir, for he is to be accompanied by a gallant cavalcade, and the trades of the town are to turn out with banners and music to do him honour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "banners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
