pennon
Example Sentences
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Sir Robert now stood before them, revealed not as a knight in glittering plate armor with pennon flying from his lance, but as what he had been all along: a grave, punctilious, honest lawyer.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2019
They brought with them a gift for the Belgian Society of Napoleonic Studies: a pennon of the Imperial Guard, carried from the battlefield 138 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
The admiral's pennon floated from the Six Friends, the vice-admiral's from the John and Thomas.
From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur
On you come, lance and rifle, pennon and feather glistening in the rare morning light, swaying in the wild grace of your peerless horsemanship; nearer, till I mark the very ornament on your leader's shield.
From Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life by Charles King
Seest thou yon pennon Furl'd from the turret, floating on the verge Of that still, sedgy shore?— duke.
From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby
