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This figure is quite an abstract form, and it is embedded, heraldically, in a dark field of Prussian blue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their arms, with a lion, and the three little towers which pun heraldically upon their name, as charges, still exist upon a Gothic escutcheon over one of the doorways.

From An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. by Wyatt, Matthew Digby

A great fire in the ancient hearth, with its heavy heraldically carved stone chimney-piece, lit up the desolation of the chamber.

From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew

But the truth is, heraldically speaking, that union with the Higgs of Manchester was the first misalliance which the Florac family had made for long long years.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

I saw the old woman and the donkey PASSANT, as they might have appeared heraldically on the shield of some heroic family.

From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)