I could not come with my lance in my hand, and my pennon and my band behind me; and for a solitary traveler, well dressed, and mounted on a good horse, it is dangerous to cross the country between Harfleur and Bourges.
Not a man there but had fought under my pennon on fields of honorable warfare.
Shall De Brecy's pennon fall, my Agnes, before, a handful of rebels, and you by my side?
The populace watched the army as it paraded over the bridge and wound into the passes of the mountains, and still their eyes were fixed upon the pennon of Ali Atar as if it bore with it an assurance of victory.
Beside it was planted the pennonof the glorious apostle St. James, and a great shout of "Santiago!
His pennon had always been foremost in danger; he had been general of armies, viceroy of Andalusia, and the author of glorious enterprises in which kings were vanquished and mighty alcaydes and warriors laid low.
As the rising sun lighted up the red cliffs of the mountains the soldiers watched with anxious eyes if perchance his pennon might be descried fluttering from any precipice or defile, but nothing of the kind was to be seen.
But the banner of the banneret always implied a more or less extensive command, while every knight was entitled to bear a pennon and every squire a pencel.
I give to be my cousin Murray, to bear this pennon at his side!
Murray approved the execution of her work; and Halbert, with a full heart, took the pennon in his hand.
I will fix your pennon before my tent, and shall see if you venture to take it away.
Then the king or general causes the point of the pennon to be cut off to make it square; it is then placed at the top of his lance, and the new-made knight returns to his tent, the trumpets sounding before him.
The end of the pennon was cut off upon the person being created a knight banneret.
Come from deep glen, and From mountain so rocky; The war-pipe and pennon Are at Inverlochy.
He needed his Squire at his side, for his pennon was in the breeze once more.
Behind him came Robert Knolles and Nigel Loring, with an attendant at their side, who carried the pennon of the black raven.
Then came the champions riding two and two, fifteen knights and fifteen squires, each with his pennon displayed.
But his master, like a man of stone, stared at that long gray pennon in the sky.
For the gray pennon was going round the other side of the island, and the Boy was losing the boat to Dawson.
Olaf came homeward in great glee, and on entering Loch Ewe from the outer sea, the white pennon of success flapped gaily in the wind.
But then there came the cry of horse, The east lea pricking o'er; And to the lists a weary page A tatter'd pennon bore.
But Blancford on that morn was gay, With many a pennon bright, And glittering arms and panoply Shone in the morning light.
I have never touch'd her hand; When the arriere-ban goes through the land, Six basnets under mypennon stand; Ah!
O, let the bonnypennon bide At Stamford, the good town, And let the Easterlings go free, And their ships go up and down.
Father John, you have got a son, Seven feet high when his helm is on Pennon of Roland, banner of John, Star of Mary, march well on.
The day when over Stamford bridge That dear pennon I see Go up toward the goodly street, 'Twill be a fair day for me.
But as Ellayne sat on her window-seat And comb'd her yellow hair, She saw come over Stamford bridge The scarlet pennon fair.
Over the marshland none can see Your scarlet pennon fair; O, leave the Easterlings alone, Because of my golden hair.
What things about her body's sway, Like a knight's pennon or slim tree Beata mea Domina!
The purpose of the lie is to convey the impression that it is a grand thing to be covered by the flag of Britain; but give me the forkypennon before referred to, and keep your Union Jack.
The woods were dark above the shore, and half a mile out was the black cruiser, with a pennon of smoke against the sky, and the black water between.
I remembered the black cruiser with its pennon of smoke.
A week agone and, ere the investment was complete, wondrous news reached me from Waldron of Brand, whose sire bore my pennon in thy noble father's wars.
In the midst was a pennon displayed, which, though its bearings were not visible to Catharine, was, by a murmur around, acknowledged as that of the Black Douglas.
By my Lady's grace, by her pure, pale face My pennon flies in its pride of place; Where my pennon flies am I.
There was little now of the glory of pennon and banner; the bright helms and cuirasses were rusted and dinted, and none seemed to care aught for bravery of show.
Granted that all Mr. Poole's employees are bound to follow for ever the cloven pennon of the Perfect Pair of Trousers, it is all the more true that the pennon may, in point of fact, become imperfect.
The triangular Pennon occurs in many of the groups of the Painted Chamber.
The lance passes under the right arm, and displays a small fringed pennoncharged with the same armorial insignia as the shield; it is shortened to permit of its introduction, and shows no grip for the hand.
The contingent he led into battle under hispennon varied in number according to his means.
The simple knight, or Knight Bachelor as he was termed, carried a Pennon or Pavon, which was furnished with one or more tails, as in Fig.
If, on the other hand, it were accepted, it was usual to convert the pennon of the knight into a banner on the spot by simply cutting off the tail or tails.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pennon" 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; pendant; pennant; standard; streamer; tricolor
