oriflamme

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You are a bannered balcony Of God's heraldic house, Waving above the dinning throng of the days Pennants of purple and oriflammes of crimson And cloths of gold.

From Perpetual Light : a memorial by Benét, William Rose

There are the two oriflammes; which shall we plant on the farthest islands,—the one that floats in heavenly fire, or that hangs heavy with foul tissue of terrestrial gold?

From Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 by Ruskin, John

There are the two oriflammes; which shall we plant on the farthest islands—the one that floats in heavenly fire, or that hangs heavy with foul tissue of terrestrial gold?

From Selections From the Works of John Ruskin by Ruskin, John

By "common sense" we mean the faculty which instinctively selects the common prejudices of its age as oriflammes to follow on Life's battlefield.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

A procession of all the gentlemen of France, with their oriflammes waving red before the eye.

From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence