argent

• To me the whole thing would be purely an affair d'argent, and as such it would no doubt turn out well. —  Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 2
• With it are emblazoned on the house of the Pucelle two other shields, one bearing the three royal fleurs-de-lys of France, and the other the arms granted to the family of the heroine--_azure_, a sword argent pommelled and hilted or_, and above a crown supported by two fleurs-de-lys. —  France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
• The leetle gal offered me a stool, but I didn't set down Mounseer," said I, in some French manufactured for the occasion, "I havey broughtee you sommey oysteries," and I showed him the kittle, with the kiver off I thought his eyes kind of vatered at the sight, but he sighed, and turnin' to the leetle gal, said "Antoinette, dites ŕ Monsieur, que je n'ai plus d'argent--pas un sou." —  The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales
• But it gave us the palmer-shells on our coat of arms-- argent, a cross sable, in each corner three escallops of the last. —  Hetty Wesley
• Immediately opposite the gateway sprang a flight of stone steps, with a double landing-place and a broad balustrade of the same material, on the lowest pillar of which was placed a large escutcheon sculptured with the arms of the family--argent, a mullet sable--with a rebus on the name--an ash on a tun. —  The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest

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