cadency
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The latest shield under it was Lionel’s—argent, a bend gules distinguished with some sort of label of cadency.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
In modern cadency an unpierced mullet is the difference of the third son.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
Certainly no quarter of a town could use a mark of cadency below a bendlet, and Florence was more careful than most Italian towns to be precise in her heraldry.
From Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
When, with the quiet and poignant brevity of it, there mingles the cadency and sweetness of verse—"the soul of the hearer has nothing more to desire."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
In modern cadency the heraldic rose is the difference of the seventh son.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
The characteristic quality is often found in an improvised arrangement of words which makes the dominant feeling that of mingling words and cadencies successfully.
From Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes by Howard W. Odum
