Five years later, tested by defeat and imprisonment, as fine gold is by fire, Louis IX brought back the oriflammeto St. Denis.
That was the first time the oriflammeof St. Denis was carried as the national emblem.
When St. Louis came to St. Denis for theoriflamme in 1247, it was to find a totally reconstructed church, for Pierre de Montereau had been many years at work.
To the same early-Gothic church, in 1190, came his son Philippe-Auguste, to receive the oriflamme for the Third Crusade.
The red ribbon fluttered like an oriflamme against the blue-and-white of the April sky.
He had almost forgotten the oriflamme that sometimes signalled to him from the top of the hill, and seldom even glanced that way.
Jeanne d'Arc on hearing of it evinced great sorrow and alarm, but she flew at once to the rescue, and appeared suddenly in the midst of the king's troops, with the oriflamme of S.
On his brows shone the same emblem, wrought in gold and pearls, while in his left hand he held a flame-colored standard, the oriflamme of the Crusades.
He told of her doings at Orleans, when her standard became the oriflamme of France, and her voice was more stirring than trumpets; of her gentleness and her wisdom.
Asenath started from her pleasant dreaming just as the oriflamme was furling into gray, suddenly conscious that she was not alone.
At this moment Ogier, covered with blood and dust, came to lay the Oriflamme at the feet of the Emperor.
In complete armor, the oriflamme waving before him, Louis leaped foremost on the beach; and the strong city of Damietta, which had cost his predecessors a siege of sixteen months, was abandoned on the first assault by the trembling Moslems.
The oriflamme was spread by the forces of the king, and the townspeople rose within the walls, and, step by step, the foreign garrison were driven back till they fought in a ring round this old tower.
O hills that charmed horizons fret I know how fair your morns can break, In rosy light on isle and lake; How over wooded slopes can run The noonday play of cloud and sun, And evening droop her oriflamme Of gold and red in still Asquam.
I wait and watch: before my eyes Methinks the night grows thin and gray; I wait and watch the eastern skies To see the golden spears uprise Beneath the oriflammeof day!
The famousoriflamme of St. Denis passed from history in that fatal year of 1415.
As we pace round the ambulatory we are shown some remains of twelfth-century stained glass in the choir chapels (that in the Lady Chapel including the figure of Abbot Suger,) and a modern representation of the Oriflamme to the L.
Mons gaudii, name of Carle's standard; the oriflamme and French war-cry.
Geffrei d'Anjou bears up the oriflamme Called Roman once, but since the day Saint Pierre Made it a standard, it is named Montjoie.
And the Oriflammecaged in Prag:--Have at the Oriflamme!
Oriflamme enterprises, private intentions of cutting Germany in Four; well, have not I smarted for them; as good as owned they were rather mad?
The Army of the Oriflamme gets home in this sad manner; Germany not cut in Four at all.
A man of magnificent ideas; who hopes 'to bring Friedrich over to his mind;' to unite poor Teutschland against such Oriflamme Invasions and intolerable interferences, and to settle the account of France for a long while.
The oriflamme [Note 1], if the saints will have it so!
The oriflamme was the banner of France, kept in the Cathedral of Saint Denis, and held almost sacred.
The Oriflamme of the French monarchs maintains its illustrious position.
We must win the crown immortal, Follow where they led before, Where the oriflamme is burning, On the starlit Eden shore.
When the oriflamme is burning, On the starlit Eden shore.
Ye have won the crown immortal, And the cross of death is o'er, When the oriflamme is burning On the starlit Eden shore!
As the good Archbishop Turpin took his mitre and his crosier, and intoned Te Deum, Ogier, covered with blood and dust, came to lay the Oriflamme at the feet of the emperor.
He began by passing the warmest eulogium upon the knight who bore the Oriflamme on the day of the battle, and concluded by saying that Carahue, King of Mauritania, respected that knight so much that he challenged him to the combat.
The oriflamme has passed the bridge; speed to bring it back, Renault.
Footnote 29: A different banner from the famous oriflamme which was the standard of St. Denis.
The oriflamme was the first banner that passed, and therefore of course will be the last that returns.
The sun was going down behind the waves, in an oriflamme of gold and crimson and purple and rose, flushing the whole sky with its tropical beauty, when the young officer turned away to seek for his future wife.
I followed in his wake, his tall bright head making as good an oriflamme as the king's plume at Ivry, but when at length we came out far down the street we had seen no trace of Lucas.
The oriflammehad gone, and so had the blue and silver banner, but here were desperate men ready to fight to the death.
The King was in the center of the front line, Geoffrey de Chargny with the golden oriflamme upon his right, and Eustace de Ribeaumont with the royal lilies upon the left.
So died Geoffrey de Chargny; but the oriflamme was saved.
To you, Geoffrey de Chargny, I intrust the oriflamme this day.
In this grand Oriflamme Expedition, Four of the Royal-Saxon Bastards altogether.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oriflamme" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: banner; banneret; bunting; color; colors; ensign; flag; pennant; standard; streamer; tricolor
