escutcheons

Inside was one of the long-missing wall escutcheons that someone had evidently pried off the palace.

In This Hawaiian Scavenger Hunt, A Princess Seeks Palace Treasures Julia Flynn Siler 2011

There are sonework niches in the facade, and, over the doors, are escutcheons of stonework, emblazoned with...

Navel Gazing with the Lions Anne Johnson 2009

It's cream colored and needlessly fancy, and, if you squint, you can make out the gold words reading "Lerner Shops" at the top of the building, at the center of green escutcheons on the left and on the right.

My Fair Relic Brooks of Sheffield 2008

Then the way went by long lines of dark windows diversified by turreted towers and porches of eccentric shapes, where old stone lions and grotesque monsters bristled outside dens of shadow and snarled at the evening gloom over the escutcheons they held in their grip.

Bleak House 2007

Nor was it hard to guess whose this must be, though not adorned by escutcheons, when the cross-roads to Harlowe-place were taken, as soon as it came within six miles of it; so that the hearse, and the solemn tolling of the bell, had drawn together at least fifty, or the neighbouring men, women, and children, and some of good appearance.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Over the solemn portals are ancient mystic escutcheons — vast shields of princes and cardinals, such as

The Newcomes 2006

Of all those knights and baronets, lords and gentlemen, bearing arms, whose escutcheons are painted upon the walls of the famous hall of the

The History of Pendennis 2006

In those waste regions of oblivion, dusky banners and tattered escutcheons indicated the graves of those who were once, doubtless, “princes in Israel.”

Rob Roy 2005

The escutcheons of the proud old knights are still carved over the doors, whence issue these miserable greasy hucksters and pedlars.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

Hero is here the proper name, for there was some contention, and the men who had titles crowd all others beneath their titles and escutcheons.

The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson. 2004