In record and acknowledgment of this great service the Knights of St. John granted to the House of Savoy the privilege of wearing upon their royal arms the white cross on a red shield, which was the badge of their order of St. John.
Upon the central white stripe there is shown a red shield, having upon it a white cross.
The form of his cross is that known as the Greek Cross, the four arms being at right angles to each other, and in this form is displayed in the upper corner of the national Greek ensign, in this case as a white cross on a blue ground.
The insignia of eight nations bear the Greek cross of the St. George shape, but in four different colours on grounds of three different colours: Greece a white cross on a blue ground.
The houses in which Protestants lodged had been distinctly marked with a white cross.
And he sternly rebuked his eldest son, who, in a moment of weakness, had placed a white cross on his hat, in the hope of saving his life.
The assassins themselves had agreed upon badges for mutual recognition--a white cross on the hat, and a handkerchief tied about the right arm.
The little square unglazed window was closed with a shutter, and a black curtain with a white cross upon it also hung before the opening, through which the recluse could converse without being seen.
When on military duty the knights wore the ordinary armour of the period, with a red surcoat marked with a white cross on the breast, and a red mantle with a white cross on the shoulder.
It will be seen that it consists of nine stripes, alternately blue and white, the canton being blue, with a white cross in it.
The badge is a white cross bearing on a blue centre the Wendish crown, surrounded by the motto, for the Schwerin knights, Per aspera ad astra, for the Strelitz knights, Avito viret honore.
The badge is a white crossresting on a green laurel wreath, the ribbon is red with a yellow stripe bordered with white.
Esthonians, won by the appearance in the sky of a red banner bearing a white cross.
The flag displayed by the French in 1789 was a white cross on a blue ground, with one fleur-de-lis at each corner of the field, and the motto "Patrie et Liberte.
A common form of the royal colours was a white cross on a blue field.
White Cross papers,[25] of the Zulu chief to whom the Government sent a propitiatory present of wagons and wheelbarrows, thinking that it would be sure to please him.
Footnote 22: See a White Cross paper of mine called My Little Sister.
This lane stretcheth from the Red Cross street to White Cross street, replenished, not with beech trees, but with beautiful houses of stone, brick, and timber.
Their rivals, the Knights of the Hospital of St John in Jerusalem, who first enter into military activity in 1136, had a red banner with a white cross upon it.
A similar provision appears in the Maritime Law of Riga of the same date, with the difference that the flag is to bear a white cross, the colour of the field not being stated, though at a later date it is given as black.
The only new flags appearing here are the following: White cross on red ground.
In this year also Verona acknowledged its defeat by surrendering to the Venetians its communal flag (a white cross on red ground) and its vexillum populi (a golden cross on azure field).
The royal standard is a blue flag with a white cross, on the centre of which the royal arms are imposed.
When on military duty, the knights wore the ordinary armour of the period, a red surcoat with a white cross on the breast, and a red mantle with a white cross on the shoulder.
As monks, they followed a rule of life founded upon that of St. Augustine, and wore a black mantle with a white cross on the left shoulder.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "white cross" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
