IV); but in a few rare cases the blazon or written description of the arms is also given, while other rolls consist wholly of such descriptions, as in the well-known Great and Boroughbridge Rolls.
Cease, then, to blazon the humanity of Slave-Masters.
Upon old armorial hatchments was a prouder blazon set; And thy unborn generations, as they tread our rocky strand, Shall tell with pride the story of their father's branded hand!
Go, earn Rome's chain to load thy neck, Her gems to deck thy hilt; And blazon honour's hapless wreck With all the gauds of guilt.
I shall not tread thy battlefield, Nor see the blazon on thy shield; Take thou the sword I could not wield, And leave me, and forget.
If this alteration of the blazonwas ever actually made, it did not long continue.
Different artists may, from ignorance or from carelessness, express the drawing differently from the directions before them, and this occurs every day; but no one is or can be misled by that if he has the verbal blazon to refer to.
England in the way I have described, it was displayed according to a different blazon in Scotland.
We blazon our way into office, and we blazon louder still to keep there.
If he wished to watch over the city in a quiet and unobtrusive fashion, why did he blazon himself all over with all the stars of the sky, and profess to give public lectures on all the subjects of the world?
Said Wat: "Thou knowest the blazon of the banner which we saw, three red wolves running on a silver field?
Look to the bent under the wood, and tell me, dost thou see the blazon of the banner under which be my men?
You wear your blazon of honor on your shoulder; I hide mine in a slave's gown.
Blazon it yourself as you will," said Rouge Sanglier; "I will do no such apish tricks upon commandment, as an ape is made to come aloft.
Its coat is spotted of various tinctures as the blazon may state.
Berry's "Encyclopaedia of Heraldry" illustrates over thirty positions, the terms of blazon of which it is impossible to comprehend, and hardly worth the inquiry.
The Camelopard, Camel-leopard The Giraffe figures a few times in blazon under these names.
Authorities blazon it as having its body and four legs like those of a lion; the head and neck and wings like an eagle, and the short tail of a camel, sometimes borne sans wings.
Let not my readers imagine, however, that I am indulging in vain-glorious boastings, or am anxious to blazon forth the importance of my tribe.
Who did deliver it has never been named in history; in which neglect he has suffered grievous wrong, seeing that he was equally worthy of blazon with him perpetuated in Scottish song and story by the surname of Bell-the-cat.
One of these laws, and a mischievous one, asserts that no tincture should be named a second time in the blazon of one coat.
Blazon became cumbered with that vocabulary whose French of Stratford atte Bowe has driven serious students from a business which, to use a phrase as true as it is hackneyed, was at last "abandoned to the coachpainter and the undertaker.
Indeed, accuracy ofblazon is served if the number of fusils in a fesse be named in the cases of threes and fours.
It seems a simpler business to follow a 15th-century fashion and to blazon such shields as being of six or nine "pieces.
There needed not the embroiderer of gold and purple to blazon the triumph of a conqueror who disdained other habiliment than the skin of some slaughtered beast.
For, besides that this people cannot brook repose, besides that by perilous adventures they more quickly blazon their fame, they cannot otherwise than by violence and war support their huge train of retainers.
Nor did Agricola ever vaunt his exploits to blazon his own fame.
She bore a blazon of a feminine hand dangling a planet by a string from one finger; a good ship, and an able, ruthless captain.
There was a crowd at the spaceport, staring as the little craft, with its blazon of the crowned and planet-throned dragon, settled onto its landing legs, and reporters of the Tanith News Service with their screen pickups.
The hull of the Enterprise bulked huge in the guidance-screen of the missile and filled it; the jagged crater that had obliterated the bottom of Dunnan's blue crescent blazon spread to fill the whole screen.
For those who insert enamelled sentences round gilded chalices, who blazon shop legends over shop-doors, who letter church walls with pithy sentences from the Decalogue, this book will be useful.
He readily admitted that he must at some time have noticed and afterwards forgotten the blazon on the book, and that an unconscious reminiscence of it had no doubt inspired his imagination in this instance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blazon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
