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Example sentences for "signet"

Lexicographically close words:
signe; signed; signer; signers; signes; signets; signieur; significance; significances; significancy
  1. I have in my possession the signet of the Great King.

  2. Do you dare disavow the signet of Ninyas in his own royal abode?

  3. He was proud to think that these were his own special comrades and brethren-in-arms; that it was from their glittering ranks he had been detached with the royal signet and tidings of the Great King's return.

  4. While he spoke he laid the signet on a silken cushion under her feet.

  5. Meanwhile I hold the signet of the Great King and his authority.

  6. I took my orders from the Great Queen," answered Arbaces, "and she delivered them with the royal signet in her hand.

  7. Is it not the messenger who brought me the royal signet from the camp?

  8. You are entitled to ask a request," said she, very coldly and haughtily, "as having borne hither the signet of my lord the king.

  9. The bowmen are in confusion, but Taracus has received orders to command them under the signet of my lord the king, and has marched them out by companies through the different gates of the city.

  10. So we sought for a pebble in the caïque but we found none, and as I wore upon my finger a signet ring which was worth two treasuries of money I drew it off and cast it into the water crying, 'The cup fell from me in this place.

  11. Then he went down and plunged into the deep for a while and behold he came up grasping the cup, in the middle of which we saw the signet ring.

  12. The King would have taken his signet when the Form jumped off and approached the Darwaysh who hent the ring in hand and rubbed it and the Figure at once became wax as it had been.

  13. But before departing he took off his seal-ring from his finger and gave it to his second brother saying, "O my brother, an this signet press hard upon thy little finger do thou know and make certain that mishap hath happened to me.

  14. At that time his brother was sitting at home in thought concerning the wanderer, when behold, the signet squeezed his finger and he cried, "Verily my brother hath been despoiled of life and done to death!

  15. At least so we gather from the play called the "Signet of the Minister," which, though not written till nearly twelve hundred years after the event, seems fairly trustworthy in fact.

  16. When I showed them the signet ring, and told them that I had orders to take the child to his father, they made no opposition.

  17. Look on this signet ring, Our father's once, and tell me if I lie.

  18. For token bear with thee this signet ring, Which, when he sees it, he will recognise.

  19. But at first the Roman citizen wore only an iron signet ring, and this continued to be used at marriages.

  20. Other forms of head-dress are seen on the great signet from Mycenae.

  21. There we saw a man casting his net to catch fish, and presently he pulled them up and behold, in them was a cucurbite of copper, stopped with lead and sealed with the signet of Solomon, son of David, on whom be peace!

  22. So he gave her his signet and she set it in a silken kerchief she had with her, wherein were more than four score others.

  23. As it was handed to Sir James and he saw the signet of the Duke, a sardonic smile played over his features, and Tom's eyes gleamed in their sockets.

  24. Mill of the Signet Library, who in transcription and otherwise has given me efficient and obliging assistance.

  25. The alms of a man is as a signet with him, and shall preserve the grace of a man as the apple of the eye: 17:19.

  26. As a signet of an emerald in a work of gold: so is the melody of music with pleasant and moderate wine.

  27. His eyes were on it as he stood holding the letter, the moonlight catching at the signet ring he wore, dallying with the gold embroidery of his light silken coat.

  28. Therefore his resolution was taken at once, and he fumbled for his signet ring-- No!

  29. This seemed to mark him out as the heir to the throne, but Augustus, when attacked by a serious illness, gave his signet to M.

  30. After a moment, however, when the flame had steadied, he drew it forth transferred to the wick of a composite candle, which he held genially horizontal while he beckoned the Spawer forward by virtue of the signet finger.

  31. He indicated its approximate position with a benedictory cast of the signet hand.

  32. Signet with badge and crested helm of Lewis lord Bourchier, 1420.

  33. Signet with flote badge and word of Sir William Oldhalle in 1457.

  34. And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.

  35. Looke you Sir, heere is the hand and Seale of the Duke: you know the Charracter I doubt not, and the Signet is not strange to you?

  36. To what end this sealing, and when will the signet be removed?

  37. He ordered me to affix his signet to all the papers left by Count Adam Schwarzenberg, and I have therefore come to obey these orders.

  38. A deed of expectancy, written with my own hand and sealed with my own signet ring.

  39. With alacrity he dashed off a few words on the paper, moistened a great wafer, laid paper over it, and, pasting it beneath the writing, pressed his great signet upon it.

  40. So I held firm the impression of the signet that was in my hand, and clung to the Efreet, and we entered together into the cavern.

  41. And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

  42. I gave This signet to a captive maid one night,-- A maid of Israel.

  43. He meant the cardinal's signet ring, and was it it.

  44. The burglar got plenty of other things from Bony's house, too, but the signet ring is the thing I'm telling about because it was the signet ring that helped Swatty to catch the burglar.

  45. The cardinal's signet ring could be an heirloom from generation to generation and the cardinal needn't have any son either.

  46. I guess we had heard about all we wanted to hear about that old signet ring, so Swatty started to go away, and he said to me: "Come on!

  47. I guess I knew plenty about that signet ring before the burglar ever got it, because once Bony told us about it when we were at his house and he would have showed it to us, only his mother would not let him.

  48. But the cardinal's signet ring wasn't brass, because it said in the newspaper it was gold.

  49. I bet he wouldn't get any cardinal's signet ring.

  50. The Ephesian drew from his bosom the Maccabaean signet and flashed its blue fires at the Greek.

  51. As he glanced down at the reposeful attitude of the man whom he could not exasperate he saw the sun glitter on the Maccabaean signet on the hand clasped back of Philadelphus' head.

  52. Julian bent hastily and snatched the signet from the nerveless hand and fumbling in the bosom drew forth the wallet there.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "signet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.