"Passant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... strips of flat silver and gold cord. Detached flowers and tufts of grass grow about the rose-tree; among these are two purple and yellow pansies, Elizabeth's favourite flowers, and in each corner is a deer, one 'courant,' one 'passant,' one ...
— English Embroidered Bookbindings • Cyril James Humphries Davenport
... Richard, evinced how much they marvelled at and regretted the unwonted inactivity which they were compelled to share. These were but the accompaniments of the soldier and huntsman; but on a small table close by the bed was placed a shield of wrought steel, of triangular form, bearing the three lions passant first assumed by the chivalrous monarch, and before it the golden circlet, resembling much a ducal coronet, only that it was higher in front than behind, which, with the purple velvet and embroidered tiara that lined it, formed then the emblem of England's sovereignty. ...
— The Talisman • Sir Walter Scott
... proceedings, we shall let this intelligent mariner speak for himself: 'Now, having a little respitt, I will make a little description of the island, ffirst of its producks, then of its parts: ffirst, of all winged and feathered ffowle, the less passant are dodos, whose fflesh is very hard. The Dutch, pleading a property in this island because of their settlement, have made us pay for goates one penny ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 - Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 • Various
... French, the infinitive is governed by several different prepositions, and the gerundive by one only, the preposition en,—which, however, is sometimes suppressed; as, "en passant, en faisant,—il alloit courant."—Traite des Participes, p. 2. In English, the gerundive is governed by several different prepositions, and the infinitive by one only, the preposition to,—which, in like manner, is sometimes suppressed; as, "to pass, to do,—I saw ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... from 1836, old English letters. There are two qualities of gold and silver. The inferior is mostly in use. The quality marks for silver are Britannia, or the head of the reigning monarch; for gold, the lion passant, 22 or 18, which denotes that fine gold is 24-carat; 18 only 75 per cent, gold; sometimes rings are marked 22. The manufacturer's mark is the ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
... Motto.—Can some of your numerous readers give me the origin of the crest and motto of the family of Hepburn, namely, a horse argent, furnished gules, passant, and tied to a ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 44, Saturday, August 31, 1850 • Various
... Countess of Warwick, signed; address to the reader, signed; and verses 'To the Rayling Route of Sycophants.' Table of contents beginning on B 1^v. Dudley crest within garter of the order (for Ambrose, Earl of Warwick) with date 1570; below a lion passant charged with a crescent for difference. Verses subscribed. Verses on Anne Countess of Warwick. Argument in verse. At end, 'The Authours Epilogue'. Of the first edition, before 1567, only a fragment is known; of the second, ...
— Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge • W. W. Greg
... Passant, respecte notre cendre; Couvrez la d'une simple fleur: A tes neveux nous te chargeons d'apprendre "Que notre mort acheta ...
— Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone - Made During the Year 1819 • John Hughes |
