Citations:environed

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English citations of environed

  • 1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical : with the Truc Ant of Blazon, According to the Most Approved Heralds in Europe : Illustrated with Suitable Examples of Armorial Figures, and Atchievements of the Most Considerable Svinames and Families in Scotland, Etc, Together with Historical and Genealogical Memorials Relative Thereto, page 395:
    Robert HAMILTON of D AICHMONT , descended of Torrence , Gules , a Man's Heart environed with two Hollin - Branches disposed Orle - ways Or , between three Cinquefils Argent ; Crest , an Hand holding a Heart proper .
  • 1870, Routledge's Magazine for Boys:
    Crest - A rose gules , barbed vert , seeded or , environed by two laurel branches of the second , Morto -Nec timeo , nec spero . JENKENS . -Per bend sinister , ermine and ermines , a lion rampant or , a crescent for difference .
  • 1762, Anton Friedrich Büsching, A New System of Geography: In which is Given, a General Account of the Situation and Limits, the Manners, History, and Constitution, of the Several Kingdoms and States of the Known World, page 414:
    Shield , which is intersected five times to the dexter - point , gules and argent . ... and a double towered citadel , argent , environed with a rampart , in a field gules , on account of the seigniory of Homburg . 8.4 .