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This figure is quite an abstract form, and it is embedded, heraldically, in a dark field of Prussian blue.

From Time Magazine Archive

The time when Greifenstein made his proposition was the evening, when the two sat in their easy-chairs on each side of the great heraldically carved chimney-piece in the drawing-room.

From Greifenstein by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

On the other hand, the yellow, blue, red of Venezuela is heraldically an abomination.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

Their arms, with a lion, and the three little towers which pun heraldically upon their name, as charges, still exist upon a Gothic escutcheon over one of the doorways.

From An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. by Wyatt, Matthew Digby

The character of the carving is superior for the era, and its subjects heraldically interesting.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton