banneret
Example Sentences
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At the opposite side of the valley was the Aiguille du Dru, with a banneret of snow streaming from its mighty cone.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by John Tyndall
Froissart relates the manner in which the celebrated Sir John Chandos was made banneret by the Black Prince before the battle of Navarete.
From Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. by Andrew Macgeorge
Her deputies, the burgomaster Roist, the banneret Schweizer and Jost von Knosen, appeared in Aarau with binding instructions.
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Johann Jakob Hottinger
This disturbed Pan Tomash greatly; hence on a certain evening when they were alone, he said,— "Olenka, tell me sincerely, what do you think of the banneret of Orsha?"
From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The number of men at arms, whom a banneret ought to command, was properly fifty.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
