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Avoid   The places where thou seest much drapery,   Colours, and gold, and plumes, and heraldries,   And such new-fanglements.

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Tasso, Torquato

The passage continues with "there" and "thither" repeated eight times; it bristles with contrasts, graces and horrors, antithesis, climax, and sonorous heraldries.

From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Harrison, Frederic

The place had formerly been a German restaurant, with Teuton scrolls, "Ich Dien," and heraldries on its walls.

From There's Pippins and Cheese to Come by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)

Melancholy and morose, standing in their loneliness, we trim them into keeping with our wishes and so adopt them into our good graces, as ornaments of our estates, heraldries of our gentility.

From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson

The feelings excited by a landscape such as this bore a subtle resemblance to those produced in myself by the heraldries which thronged the church.

From Memoirs of Life and Literature by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)