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- specific type of crown (or coronet for lower ranks of peerage) is employed in heraldry under strict rules. Indeed, some monarchies never had a physical crown...2 KB (274 words) - 04:17, 20 August 2024
- with two seeming bodies, but one heart; Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer...37 KB (5,353 words) - 03:21, 6 June 2024
- something: architecture, royal palaces, thrones, drapery, halberds, standards, heraldry and arms of every sort— there is scarcely an ancient work that doesn’t...6 KB (808 words) - 12:57, 16 October 2023
- The Defendant (section A Defense of Heraldry)Chesterton on subjects ranging from detective stories and penny dreadfuls to heraldry and patriotism. The essays originally appeared in "The Speaker" but were...46 KB (8,219 words) - 13:46, 1 February 2022
- Page, Peter's Prophecy. He stands for fame on his forefather's feet, By heraldry, proved valiant or discreet! Edward Young, Love of Fame, Satire I, line...12 KB (1,832 words) - 08:56, 4 April 2024
- disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. St. 8 The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await...18 KB (2,420 words) - 20:52, 7 May 2023
- no higher by the age he lived in than the subtle and curious jargons of heraldry and falconry. Ch. 5 When the soul of a man is born in this country there...10 KB (1,601 words) - 00:38, 17 February 2023
- country's blood. Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await...18 KB (2,837 words) - 15:51, 8 December 2023
- ask a nobleman what his arms are, for if he does not know the jargon of heraldry you will embarrass him. You must not compliment a gentleman on his fine...20 KB (3,039 words) - 15:47, 27 June 2024
- Quardratic Key, what exactly is it? Ruprecht: It is made by crystallizing the Heraldry Stone what you call an "Energy Stone". It's hanging around your neck. Rena:...9 KB (1,513 words) - 19:22, 23 November 2023
- and you may look back with pleasure to an illustrious pedigree, in which heraldry has not left a single good quality upon record to insult or upbraid you...10 KB (1,583 words) - 00:00, 15 November 2023
- recollection; but it is no great matter [ 147 ]if I should have made a false heraldry in blazoning his pedigree. Diary of George Fletcher Moore, 8 November 1832...15 KB (2,146 words) - 20:55, 3 August 2023
- on an escutcheon, when a figure resembles both an eagle and a buzzard, heraldry decides that the bird which is most creditable to the bearer, shall be...16 KB (2,396 words) - 15:39, 30 January 2024
- such jargon probably conveys no meaning to you, and, indeed, I know no heraldry myself excepting only this one coat of arms, and sometimes wish,” he said...12 KB (1,821 words) - 12:10, 5 June 2024
- the visual arts and in that distinctive medieval sign language known as heraldry. The heraldic symbol of the kingdom of Castile, for example, consisted...16 KB (2,506 words) - 13:48, 22 November 2020
- them had come from the banners in the church, where they were painted in heraldry, some from the waters and the sky and the fields about — but all, down...25 KB (3,963 words) - 16:41, 15 July 2021
- than the names of their sons. Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry or in high, cold towers asking questions of the stars. And so the people...57 KB (9,251 words) - 21:58, 22 August 2024
- about the spring. G. K. Chesterton, The Defendant (1901), "A Defence of Heraldry". Everything changes, but beauty remains. Kelly Clarkson, "A Moment Like...89 KB (13,608 words) - 15:16, 22 August 2024
- hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring. "A Defence of Heraldry" The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang. "A Defence...118 KB (18,050 words) - 02:18, 10 June 2024
- James Planché, Preliminary Observations, Pursuivant of Arms, Speaking of Heraldry. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)...186 KB (27,905 words) - 22:07, 12 July 2024