If, then, the Collar of Esses was first given by this mighty duke, what would be his meaning in the device?
Collar of Esses with the "Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus" of the Salisbury liturgy: but hitherto I have found nothing in any of the devices of livery collars that partakes of religious allusion.
In England we have some slight glimpses of various collars, on which it would be too long here to enter; and it is enough to say, that there were only two of the king's livery, the Collar of Esses and the Collar of Roses and Suns.
Collars ofEsses are sometimes seen on the necks of ladies.
Plain collars ofEsses are now worn in the United Kingdom by kings-of-arms, heralds and serjeants-at-arms.
Swinford was a follower of John of Gaunt, and the date of his death easily disposes of the fancy that the Esses were devised by Henry IV.
Esses was a royal badge of the Lancastrian house and party, the white swan being its pendant.
Collar ofEsses was not a badge of knighthood, nor a badge of personal merit, but was a collar of livery, and the idea typified by livery was feudal dependence, or what we now call party?
Again, it is true an (endless) chain of linked esses was formed merely by attaching the letters [three letter Ss horizontally] like hooks together.
Again, the remonstrance of Micio to Demea, Si esses homo, Sineres nunc facere, dum per aetatem licet, expresses the philosophy of many of his love poems and his drinking songs.
They were going to be presidents and senators and authors and authoresses and scientists and scientist-esses and geniuses and genius-esses and things like that.
Collar of Esses is introduced in a very peculiar manner.
You can't never git de chinches out of dese cotton matt'esses us has to sleep on now days.
You know I laked dem matt'esses 'cause when de chinches got too bad you could shake out dat straw and burn it, den scald de tick and fill it wid fresh straw, and rest in peace again.
English knights, and the silver collar ofesses was worn by squires.
Whether at any period the golden collar of esses distinguished the knights of the Garter we know not.
If a person knows what he means to say, let him express it according to the Note, and he will not fail to use just as many apostrophes and Esses as he ought.
Jesus dixit ei: Priusquam te answered, and said to him: Philippus vocaret, cum esses Before that Philip called sub ficu, vidi te.
The old man was furious at the thought of these infamies and follies; his esses hissed through his teeth and his r's rolled out with fierce emphasis.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "esses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
