impalement

Example Sentences

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There are no impalements of the future, as in Alphaville or Weekend, nor is there much of the mordant social satire of La Chinoise or Les Carabineers.

From Time Magazine Archive

If Broctuna, however, be a practical herald, he must often have experienced the difficulty of placing impalements or quarterings correctly, even on a lozenge.

From Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

The arms of the Coverts, with many impalements and quarterings, yet remain on the ruins.

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur