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Example sentences for "scutcheons"

Lexicographically close words:
scut; scuta; scutage; scutages; scutcheon; scutching; scute; scutellation; scutellum; scutes
  1. Love never is more purblind than when earth Joins house to house, and pedigrees do tie Scutcheons to scutcheons in pure virtue's dearth.

  2. After a little common expression of sorrow, Mrs. Turner told me that the trouble she would put me to was, to consult about getting an achievement prepared, scutcheons were done already, to set over the door.

  3. Beneath are placed recumbent effigies of his two wives dressed in rich cloaks and ruffs, with chained unicorns at their feet, and the whole is surrounded with sculptured scutcheons laboriously executed with innumerable quarterings.

  4. We will not pass over the Scutcheons of the Tribes of Israel, as they are usually described in the Maps of Canaan and several other pieces; generally conceived to be the proper coats, and distinctive badges of their several Tribes.

  5. From hence therefore we may observe that these descriptions, the most authentick of any, are neither agreeable unto one another, nor unto the Scutcheons in question.

  6. The chief about their necks the scutcheons wore, With orient pearls and jewels powdered o'er: Broad were their collars too, and every one Was set about with many a costly stone.

  7. The two wings were likewise richly decorated, and adorned with scutcheons and pennons, while from the battlements of the eastern side of the court were hung a couple of long flags.

  8. Pedigrees as long, and scutcheons as old, were to be found out of the House of Lords as in it.

  9. A third could never go into his parish church without being reminded by the defaced scutcheons and headless statues of his ancestry, that Oliver's redcoats had once stabled their horses there.

  10. Oft have I traced within thy fort, Of mouldering shields the mystic sense, Scutcheons of honour or pretence, Quartered in old armorial sort, Remains of rude magnificence.

  11. See, on its battled tower appear Phantoms, that scutcheons seem to rear, And blazoned banners toss!

  12. I have a note of all the scutcheons in glasse about the house.

  13. William Wanfleet did not build it: both their scutcheons are there.

  14. He dyed of a dropsey; he had his funerall scutcheons all ready .

  15. See on its battled tower appear Phantoms, that scutcheons seem to rear, And blazon'd banners toss!

  16. In a word, Feudalism being dead these ten months, why should her empty trappings and scutcheons survive?

  17. In a Chamber hung With 'scutcheons and black cloth, they drank red wine And feasted, while the torches and the Queen Crept through the darkness of Northampton lanes.

  18. For 2 dozen of scutcheons of paper in metal for garnishing of the house and the church, and 6 dozen of paper scutcheons in colours, 6 li.

  19. Collars of similar construction, but always of silver, with pendent scutcheons of the town arms, were worn by the little bands of minstrels called waits, formerly in the employ of most towns of importance (fig.

  20. In London the six waits appointed in 1475 had silver collars of SS with scutcheons of the city arms.

  21. The chief about their necks the scutcheons wore, With orient pearls and jewels powder'd o'er: Broad were their collars too, and every one Was set about with many a costly stone.


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