The foliage upon them resembled dorsal fins, and sometimes tufts of feathers: then, as the purple shadows came darkening from the east, the young crescent moon showed herself, flinging a paly splendour over the water.
The second coat of Adam, says this writer, was 'paly tranche, divided every way and tinctured of every colour.
But paly of more or less than six pieces is rarely found.
When the field is divided evenly into six pales it is said to be paly; if into four or eight pales, it is blazoned as paly of that number of pieces.
Graunson bore "Paly silver and azure with a bend gules and three golden eagles thereon.
Bendy shields follow the rule of shields paly and barry, but as many as ten pieces have been counted in them.
Quarterly Sable, a Lyon rampant crowned Or, for the Palatinate, and Paly bendy Argent and Azure, Bavaria.
Paly of six Argent and Azure, on a bend Gules, three escallops Or.
The passage is: "Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips With twenty thousand kisses and to drain Upon his face an ocean of salt tears, To tell my love unto his dumb deaf trunk And with my finger feel his hand unfeeling.
A hundred examples of this might be given, such as "The multitudinous seas incarnadine"; and so we find here "paly lips.
On high above his royal head A paly canopy was spread, And chouries white in many a hand The forehead of the monarch fanned, And shell and drum and song and shout Pealed round him as the king passed out.
With sparkling gems on arm and breast, In silk of paly amber dressed, High in the air the Maithil dame Gleamed like the lightning’s flashing flame.
The royal street he traversed, where Incense of aloe filled the air, Where rose high palaces, that vied With paly clouds, on either side; With flowers of myriad colours graced.
See where the rice plants scarce uphold Their full ears tinged with paly gold, Bending their ripe heads slowly down Fair as the date tree’s flowery crown.
Thought shrinks from the dread sight; the paly lamp Burns faint amid the infectious vapours damp; 50 Beneath its light full many a livid mien, And haggard eye-ball, through the dusk are seen.
Thence, from three paly loopholes mild and small, Slow lights upon the lake's still bosom fall, 1793.
If a field be divided by lines drawn bendwise, and also by others drawn either vertically or horizontally, it is “paly bendy,” as No.
And did you not mark the paly form Which rode on the silvery mist of the heath, And sung a ghostly dirge in the storm?
The moon too quaffs her paly stream Of lustre, from the solar beam.
Each coltsfoot down the grassy bent, Whose round leaves hold the gathered shower, Each quaintly-folded cuckoo pint, And silver-paly cuckoo flower.
