14 Metaphors for crests
And the crest is out of a ducal coronet, or, a demi-eagle proper.
The crest of that living tidal wave was still two days and many miles to the rearward.
"The Evesham crest, Mrs. Denys, is a gentleman with horns and hoofs and under him the one expressive word, 'Cave.'
The crest is a large peacock, not of metal, but of wood.
My crest for that reason is flesh and blood!
The hood he wore was wrought of gold and silk of crimson clear; His bonnet crest was a heron plume with an emerald stone beneath; And under all a motto ran, "Too long a hope is death.
that his crest, on a new shield freshly painted and grained and bearing a motto, was his only introduction.
The crest is a ragged edge of writhing bodies and struggling limbs.
Can you tell me any thing of a family named "Giles," whose crest was a horse's head?
The skull is widely different from that of his brother the Hill tiger, being low in the crown, wider in the jaws, rather flat in comparison, and the brain-pan longer with a sloping curve at the end, the crest of the brain-pan being a concave curve.
The crest of the mountain is table-land, 600 or 700 yards in height from north to south, and about half as much across, and a flat field of about an acre occurs at a level of some 20 or 25 feet lower than the eastern brow.
The shield itself denotes "the shield of faith;" on the four divisions are emblazoned "the girdle of truth;" "the breast-plate of righteousness;" "feet, shod with the gospel of peace," and "the sword of the spirit;" the crest is "the helmet of salvation," over which is a crown of glory; the motto "THE FOUNDATION OF GOD STANDETH SURE."
The crest is a strong right arm with the hand clenched firmly on an arrow.
The sides of the hill were steep with shelves of rock, and the crest was a mass of stones and boulders, while from some caves, one or two of them quite big places, the Turks had machine guns in action.