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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

I saw the old woman and the donkey PASSANT, as they might have appeared heraldically on the shield of some heroic family.

From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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)

A tree, with willowy bending sprays such as only Blake could draw, arches over a green sward, whereon a ram with woolly fleece and heraldically curly horns, lies sleeping.

From William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work by Langridge, Irene

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