He is represented as carrying a white staff, a practice which has been recently revived, white wands being carried by all the heralds at the public funeral of the Right Hon.
Occasionally batons or wands or other insignia of office are to be found in conjunction with armorial bearings, but these will be more fully dealt with under the heading of Insignia of Office.
In Germany the wands of the heralds were later painted with the colours of the escutcheons of the Sovereign to whom they were attached.
The necessary "bit" by which we control our horses is dispensed with, and it is replaced by two wooden wands about twelve inches long and two inches wide, tied together at one end, allowing a distance of three inches between them.
The larger wands are about four feet in length, and have either one or two bunches of shavings at the upper end only.
Indeed, their toes are supplementary fingers, and they often hold things between the big toe and the next, as when making nets or Inaos (wooden wands with overhanging shavings).
In the middle of these wands a rope is passed which goes over the pony's head behind its ears; while the wands themselves, thus supported by it, rest one on each side of the pony's nose.
He embellishes his trophy with a Nusa and Inaos (willow wands with overhanging shavings--see Chapter on Superstitions), and he always looks on it as an evidence of his manly glory.
The wands and red rags of our Latin neighbours are represented by their inao; and our lucky horseshoe is with them the horizontal inao.
Can you," said the King, "change your wands into reptiles as Aharon has done?
They were men of venerable and mystic appearance, with shaven heads, wearing sandals of byblos, dressed in long linen robes, holding in their hands wands on which were engraved hieroglyphs.
They carried long slim wands in their hands, it is true; but to the eye those wands were very unserviceable weapons.
The willow-wands on the knolls are in flower, and behind the points of land the coots are quarrelling, while the snipe fly round and round in the air, and let the wind play upon their feather-harps.
From the stubbly reed-bed rise fresh stems; and all the fallen willow wands that are floating about put forth leaves and take root.
Or if you fear to face him, then the wands of my slaves shall cause you to cry me pardon.
As he spoke the door opened and two richly arrayed heralds, wands of office in their hands, entered and prostrated themselves before Elissa.
And as for arrows he used to make them out of the wands that the Hags brought in to make baskets with.
All day they would be going along the streams gathering the willow wands for the baskets they made.
Then lifting his head he shouted, "Rhoetus, find me some sorrel or lettuce, and if you see any straight wands cut me one or two.
A footnote says: "In 1887 at Wensley Church the wands were still to be seen.
Chiron took the knife, the leaves and the two sallows, and measuring these last against my leg cut two wands from their stouter ends, split them and placed their flat sides against the leaves in which he packed my tender joint.
The isolated texts from Scripture which are usually referred to clearly indicate wandsof a different sort, if we except Hosea iv.
That wands were used by Scythians and Germans in various methods of casting lots is certain; but that is not the same thing as the working of the twig.
Dragons and warlocks and chimaeras and such nameless monsters as I perceive to be crowding about this enclosure of buttered willow wands I do not fear at all, but I cannot fight against the appearance which you now wear.
Instantly he had her within the enclosure of peeled willow wands that had been spread with butter and tied with knots of yellow ribbon, because into such an enclosure the power and the dominion of Freydis could never enter.
This man, in his robust arms, seemed to possess two magic wands that transformed all that he touched!
During the second stanza they form two opposite lines, with wandscrossed overhead, couples marching under the arches formed and back again to places.
The children sing, and wave wands in time to the music.
During the singing of the first stanza and chorus, the fourteen boys and girls divide off into couples and march around, elevating and lowering the wands in time to music.
Your people without crosses, wands and chains-- Only with hearts?
Why keep I then these things to make me laughed at, Both wands and, round my neck, oracular fillets?
Leaky roofs, sinking walls, warped woodwork, and other results of the jobbery of Jerry, the fairies touched with destructive wands and hastened the decay.
They sparkled like gems, their wands were pointed with brilliance, their wings shone with iridescence, their garments were spangled gossamer.
With wands they tapped the mighty brows of legislators, and prepared their minds for obedience.
He saw now and then solitary fairies on the wing wending their ways towards the place of assembly; more frequently, he passed flowers of sweetness so refreshed that evidently they had been touched by beneficent wands but recently.
With his prayer wands he rehearses the symbolic figures, praying to the mythical characters who are regarded as most efficacious in the particular ailment under treatment.
The fourth time the boys entered they placed their sacred wands of turquoise and white shell across the gap above their heads and passed through, for these held the bowlders apart.
Bishop Meade, in his history of the Virginia church, tells of offenders who stood in church wrapped in white sheets with white wands in their hands; and other examples of public penance in the Southern colonies are known.
In Lower Norfolk County, a white man and a black woman stood up together, dressed in white sheets and holding white wands in their hands.
I held my breath, believing that this would be the result of their charge; but at the same moment crowds of young men and boys hurried up to the point threatened, holding long white wands and spears in their hands.
No one seemed able to account for the reason why elephants are so much afraid of wandsor spears.
Some youths were seated high up on the carved stem above the steersman, with white wands in their hands, apparently to look out and give notice of what they saw.
They were met by four men, having wands tipped with dog's hair, and who shouted a short sentence in which the word Orono was plainly distinguishable and frequently repeated.
The bearers and the men with the gilded wands forthwith clapped their hands, and in silence danced round the palanquin a curious and half frantic dance, which was yet, as to figures and postures, perfectly methodical.
Immediately behind your father's town is a water-mill, and in the water-mill are three wands that have sprouted up.
Cut these three wands up from below, and strike with them upon their root; an iron door will immediately open into a large vault.
She sat on the chair, in the cashmere folds of her wide dress, straight upright, as on a throne; and in her lap the frail fingers trembled like slender wands in the black mittens.
Besides the face, nothing else seemed alive but the frail fingers trembling in her lap, like so many tapering, luminous wands in their black mittens; the wrists were encircled in close-fitting woollen cuffs.
Four long tough peeled rods or wands should now be passed through a train of small slits, like button-holes, in the edges of the skin, all four borders of the trimmed skin being furnished with its spreading wand.
The thicket furnishes the hazelwands or "benders," of which there are usually eight, of 7ft.
The ends of the wands are now to be cut off flush with the border of the skin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
