blazonry

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If this natural impulse to live after physical death cannot be relied upon, then life itself is a myth and the starry blazonry of the midnight sky is a flaunting lie.

From Time Magazine Archive

In those murky days of Manila were other things which served to offset the oppressive blazonry of the tropic sun.

From The Utah Batteries: A History A complete account of the muster-in, sea voyage, battles, skirmishes and barrack life of the Utah batteries, together with biographies of officers and muster-out rolls. by Mabey, Charles R.

As a favourite garden flower, the Columbine found its way into heraldic blazonry.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

With a citizen king, and Jews in the chamber, or upon argent is the truest blazonry, my word for it.”

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 by Various

The first and last necessity in blazonry is lucidity, which is cheaply gained at the price of a few syllables repeated.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various