Mottoes of love and gallantry were frequent, as well as moral sentences, and those strictly heraldic.
Heraldry, with all its adjuncts, had become so great a passion with the noble, that the invention of the artist and student was taxed for badges and mottoes by noble families.
Sotheby and Wilkinson, were many antique rings inscribed with sentences and mottoes of a remarkable kind.
German books, of the early part of the sixteenth century, and which might be readily and usefully adapted to modern exigencies, when dates or mottoes are required either by the painter or sculptor.
Flags, shields, mottoeshad been beautifully draped and designed and the blending of the national colors with the Volunteer standard was graceful and effective.
One of the mottoes of Hope Hall is, "Never talk of the past and so far as possible do not think of it.
For the latter part of The Antiquary many of the mottoeswere composed by Scott himself.
In Guy Mannering and The Antiquary, the first two novels in which Scott habitually usedmottoes to head his chapters, most of the selections are from plays.
The Field of Waterloo and Harold the Dauntless were both written after this time; and the mottoes and lyrics in the novels compose a delightful body of verse.
But this experience did not satisfy the "Napoleon of our movement" that the rulers in the old world could securely guard their subjects from those inflammable mottoes to which from long use we are so indifferent.
I had mottoes from the grand declarations of the Fathers painted and put on my house, which the procession would pass on two sides.
One of the mottoes in an old ring is pathetic; evidently it was worn by an invalid, who was trying to be patient, "Quant Dieu Plera melior sera.
One of Alcuin's mottoes was: "Writing books is better than planting vines: for he who plants a vine serves his belly, while he who writes books serves his soul.
I told him they were merely autos whose drivers lived up to their mottoes that speed laws are in vain; and other miracles amazing with delicate and pointed phrasing I started to explain.
They're flaunting their corsair mottoes while treading upon our toes, and some of us can't have autos or trotters or things like those.
So the Angels of the Water Pot, who sit on the rainbow and brew the ambrosial rains, began fashioning flowers out of the paradisal gems, while Israfel sang to them; and the words of his song were the mottoes that adorn the bowers of heaven.
All around, leaning against the trees, twined in the branches of the oaks, or ranked against the railing, were the banners and mottoes of the various granges.
Other mottoes were "Through Difficulties to the Stars"; "Equal Rights to All, Special Privileges to None.
Many emblems, however, were then and subsequently assumed as crests, and a great number of mottoes were taken to point the moral, if any, of heraldic blazonry.
During the civil war, many mottoes and figures were adopted by both the royalist and parliamentary parties, but few of them can be termed regular devices.
Stand to your arms,” “Defense not defiance” and such mottoes are to be found in newspapers of the period, in the exercise of their duty of making public opinion.
Both of these mottoes are admirable motives to inspire service in the cause of the sick.
Autograph Mottoesof Richard Duke of Gloucester and Henry Duke of Buckingham.
Autograph Mottoes of Richard Duke of Gloucester, and Henry Duke of Buckingham.
Autograph mottoesof Henry, Duke of Buckingham, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester, 134.
Arun on autograph mottoes of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and Harry, Duke of Buckingham, 252.
The quaint mottoes here and there in the grimy walls, built in when the Cowgate people were not only comfortable but pious, must serve often now to point bitter jests among the ungodly.
There is something uncommonly droll in these mottoes of faith in God's providing, inscribed on so many articles of luxury by people who must have certainly spent a good part of their time in providing for themselves.
Ancient mottoes as distinct from the war or gathering cry of a house are often cryptic sentences whose meaning might be known to the user and perchance to his mistress.
I will notice a few other devices and mottoes of bills which I have seen.
Of course I am acquainted with Leadbetter's Art of Dialling, and the curious list of mottoes he gives, together with the still more curious translations of the same; as e.
But what I want is, mottoes from dials actually in existence.
Having been a collector of existing dial mottoes for many years, I shall feel greatly obliged to any of your correspondents who will inform me of remarkable ones in their own neighborhood.
Emblems and motifs were great favourites with the quilt workers of "ye olden times" and together with mottoes were worked into many pieces of embroidery.
In England during the middle of the past century, the Victorian period was known chiefly for its hideous array of cardboard mottoes done in brilliant wools, crochet tidies, and wax flowers.
The windows in the gallery at Hampton Court were glazed with heraldic glass displaying the arms, badges, and mottoes of the King and Queen.
We should be obliged by our correspondents furnishing any such particulars of the mottoes and donors of Serjeants' rings as they may meet with in their reading.
Besides these, a host of further mottoes in praise of books or about books are to be met with.
The flags of the Covenanters often bore mottoes or texts.
Venetian masts, flying pennons, countless trophies and miniature shields, with varied mottoes and many kinds of loyal wishes, were seen all along the route.
Both these mottoes owed their origin to the imperial pencil.
It sounds to me like the mottoes in bonbons," said Monsieur Berlingue.
You will have the mottoeswritten in French, won't you, Monsieur Férulus?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mottoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
