The banner of Wisdom is furled about the Cross! IV.

The fire had pushed briskly, and the uncanny glade was now an amphitheatre of crawling flames, stretching in many-colored banners in a vast circle about the point of refuge.

I marked plain his banner with the three stooping falcons.

And presently, before this deep array, two standards were advanceda white banner whereon was a red lion and a banner on whose blue ground black leopards were enwrought.

He called for three lances and fixed his banners to them, designing one for the leaders of the refugees, and the other two for the tribes of the Beni Aus and Khazraj.

The phrase "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights," borne on the banner at the masthead of the Essex, soon became the war-cry of the American seaman.

The late afternoon sky flaunted its splendour of blue and gold like a banner over the Pacific, across whose depths the trade wind droned in measured cadence.

Keen mornings after a storm they are blown out in wreaths and banners from the high ridges sifting into the cañons.

I showed her not the funeral banners under which the noble regiment was sleeping.

With the Khabyles a string of love-songs is called "Alamato," because this word occurs in the first couplet, always with a belligerent inspiration: "He has seized his banner for the fight In honor of the Bey whose cause he maintains, He guides the warriors with their gorgeous cloaks, With their spurs unto their boots well fastened, All that was hostile they destroyed with violence; And brought the insurgents to reason.

It was not a mere chance which cast the star-spangled banner around me; it was your protecting will.

Nor have I ever seen a banner like this.

This dry fragmentary snow is still further prepared for the formation of banners by the action of the wind.

You ought to be, for you have been "received into the congregation of Christ's flock" at your baptism, and engaged "manfully to fight under His banner against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto your life's end."

The conflict with the Germans [50] came into his mind and he almost felt sorry that it had been adjusted: he would gladly have died for the Spanish-Filipino banner before submitting to the foreigner.

[Footnote 38: The standard-bearer of Rodrigo, don Domingo Pasquel, canon of Toledo, showed that he was well fitted to serve the church militant; he twice carried his banner through the heart of the Mahometan forces.

All day long the din and thunder of battle had roared upon the plain; all day the Duchess Helen with Sir Hacon at her side had watched the eddying dust-clouds rolling now this way, now that, straining anxious eyes to catch the gleam of a white plume or the flutter of the blue banner amid that dark confusion.

Patriotism calls on the Cabinet and the head of the nation and the generals who give tone to the campaign to forget the customs and interests of peace till we shall gain it by the submission of the rebels and the shredding of their last banner into threads.

She was arrayed in a suit of beautiful armor, with a banner after her own device,white, embroidered with lilies,and a sword which had been long buried behind the altar of a church.

Leaning against the wall, at the foot of the tomb, is the shaft of a spear, with a wofully tattered and utterly faded banner appended to it,the knightly banner beneath which he marshalled his followers in the field.

It was a Giustinian, "Gonfalonière," standard bearer, who had brought the glorious news on his triumphant galley, the solemn Lion of San Marco waving his banner above the drooping crescent of the Turk from every green wreathed mast.

Saw you Pertolepe's banner among all these?" "Aye, master; they have set up his pavilion beside the Duke's.

When the Roomans an' anshunt Britons went to church arm-in-arm it wur always Whitsuntide, an' arter church vetched their banners out wi' brass eagles on, an' hed a morris dance in the market-pleace.

We gaze upon the grand array, when Aurora Borealis plays her antic freaks, fights her mimic battles, waves her flaming banner along the northern skies.

She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself, beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.