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Example sentences for "fess"

Lexicographically close words:
fervour; fervours; fery; fescue; fesh; fessa; fesse; fest; festa; festal
  1. For Tenne your pencil should cunningly blend The lines of the fess and the sinister bend.

  2. Their shield bears argent with a fess azure, three roses or, and a head of cabbage or, with a radish argent.

  3. His coate is 'gules, a fess inter six billets or.

  4. I tell you, sah, reckly, but first must 'fess somefin to you.

  5. Why, sah, I 'fess eberything to you, sah, and tell you all.

  6. Vert, on a fess or, between three bezants, three lions passant azure.

  7. The fourth, Argent, a fess between three cressentes azure, by the name of .

  8. On the first, quarterly of four, as under the knight; on the second, quarterly of four as baron at the head of the tomb, in the fess point a mullet for difference.

  9. Or, on a fess azure, three fleurs-de-lys of the first.

  10. All the foregoing coats of arms including also D'Aumarle, Per fess gules and azure, three crescents argent, are found among the heraldic display on the tomb of their descendant the Lady Elizabeth Willoughby-Greville at Alcester.

  11. Quarterly per fess dancette, 1 and 4 or, 2 and 3 azure, in the dexter chief a crescent gules.

  12. For instance, the arms of Stewart are: Or, a fess chequy azure and argent, and to blazon or depict them with a fess chequy argent and azure would be incorrect.

  13. In a pale or a bend the teeth must point upwards; but in a fess I should hesitate to say whether it were more correct for them to point to the dexter or to the sinister, and I am inclined to consider that either is perfectly correct.

  14. The "fess embattled" is only crenellated upon the upper edge; but when both edges are embattled it is a fess embattled and counter-embattled.

  15. Gules, three poppy bolles on their stalks in fess or" are the arms of Boller.

  16. Curiously enough, the canton to a certain extent gives us a confirmation of these ancient proportions, inasmuch as all ancient drawings containing both a fess and a canton depict these conjoined.

  17. The Veronese family of Bicchieri bear: "Argent, a fess gules between three drinking-glasses half-filled with red wine proper.

  18. I say dis 'bout Marse Fess Trunion, ef he ain' got de blood, he got de breedin'.

  19. Well, suh, de fus' time I see Marse Fess Trunion wuz terreckerly atter de Sherman army come 'long.

  20. Well, suh, dat man w'at I fin' out dar in de gully wuz Marse Fess Trunion.

  21. When there is only one gyron on the shield it is bounded by two lines drawn from the fess point, one horizontally to the dexter side, and one to the dexter chief corner.

  22. A subordinary of triangular form having one of its angles at the fess point and the opposite side at the edge of the escutcheon.

  23. It is the red fess and canton of the Woodvilles.

  24. An' fess a loaf o' white breid; we canna bide for the parritch.

  25. Bide ye there, sir, till I fess a licht,' she said.

  26. I'll fess ye a cauld tawtie het again, gin Betty has ony.

  27. But what for shouldna ye fess the lads wi' ye?

  28. I maun bide wi' the coch till the lave gang back to Drumheid wi' the horses, on' fess anither pole.

  29. Did ye fess this a' the road frae Spinnie to me, Curly?

  30. Fess yer bags for the stanes, them 'at has bags.

  31. Ye get them pitten up, and I'll fess a barrow," said James, leaving the shop.

  32. Anxious to curry favour, the third youngster now called out, "Sandy Forbes gart her gang an' fess a loaf o' white breid.

  33. Gin I dinna fess a loaf o' white breid, never lippen (trust) to me again.

  34. I was jist comin' ower the watter for a walk, and I thocht I micht as weel fess the bit siller wi' me that I'm awin ye.

  35. Jeames Johnstone, will ye rin ower to my hoose, and fess the Bible?

  36. There's nothing to do but go and 'fess up to Mrs. Kirby.

  37. A descendant in New York has the arms: Argent, a fess ermines between 3.

  38. One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point.

  39. When there is only one gyron on the shield it is bounded by two linea drawn from the fess point, one horizontally to the dexter side, and one to the dexter chief corner.

  40. Defn: A subordinary of triangular form having one of its angles at the fess point and the opposite aide at the edge of the escutcheon.

  41. Defn: A point halfway between the fess point and the middle base point of an escutcheon; -- called also navel point.

  42. The fess contains in breadth one third of the field.

  43. That part of the shield between the precise middle chief and the fess point.

  44. When the fess, or any other ordinary properly placed above the fess point of the shield, is brought below it, that ordinary is said to be abaissé.

  45. Illustration: An incorporated lion gardant in the fess point] An incorporated lion gardant in the fess point.

  46. That part of the shield below the fess point.

  47. Argent, a lion rampant guardant gules, debruised by a fess azure.

  48. Argent, three legs armed, conjoined at the fess point at the upper extremity of the thigh, flexed in a triangle, garnished and spurred, or.

  49. In the annexed example the large dot in the centre shows the fess point; the point within the letter D, the honour point.

  50. A shield parted in the centre by an horizontal line through the fess point.

  51. The mark of distinction denoting a baronet is usually placed on an escutcheon, on the fess point of the shield.

  52. Argent, a chevron or, between three crosslets sable, on the fess point surtout the chevron an escutcheon of pretence gules, three quatrefoils argent.

  53. Argent, a fess gules, impaled with argent, a bend azure.

  54. A fess--a fess is--YOU don't need to know what a fess is.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fess" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    achievement; annulet; armory; arms; azure; bandeau; bar; baton; bearings; bend; billet; blazon; canton; charge; chevron; chief; cockatrice; coronet; crescent; crest; cross; crown; device; difference; eagle; ermine; escutcheon; field; file; fret; fur; garland; helmet; label; lion; lozenge; metal; motto; ordinary; pale; quarter; quartering; rose; sable; scutcheon; shield; tincture; unicorn; wreath