bend sinister
Example Sentences
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That in heraldry, a bend sinister indicates bastardy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019
Far better the bend sinister in his own class than a legitimate parent of the type of 'Gene Bisbee or D.V.
From The Avalanche by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
There is a strange bend sinister in human nature, against sincerity, that will indulge itself even at the cost of life itself.
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever
There were several generations of them, and used for their arms those of Bonville with the addition of a bend sinister; they also became extinct.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers
By what legitimatizing process the bend sinister was erased, and the marquisate preserved, we have hitherto been unable to ascertain.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
