orle

• “Though the libretto is not very carefully written, it is better than the average performances of this {177} kind, and with poetical intuition Schefsky has refrained from the temptation, to make it turn out well, as Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer has done in her play of L'orle, which is a weak counterpart of Auerbach's village-tragedy.”

  The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas

• “This family bears: party per pale or and sable, an orle counterchanged and two lozenges counterchanged, with: “i, semper melius eris,” — a motto which, together with the two distaffs taken as supporters, proves the modesty of the burgher families in the days when the Orders held their allotted places in the State; and the naivete of our ancient customs by the pun on”

  A Start in Life

• “On looking in the windows orle is fairly astonished at the diversity of shapes that are exposed for sale.”

  The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken

• “Azure, an orle of martlets or, on an inescutcheon arg. three bass gules.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850

• “In his hand he bore that singular _abacus_, or staff of office, with which Templars are usually represented, having at the upper end a round plate, on which was engraved the cross of the Order, inscribed within a circle or orle, as heralds term it.”

  Ivanhoe

• “In the midst thereof he findeth a couch right fair and rich and high, and at the foot of this couch was a chess-board right fair and rich, with an orle of gold all full of precious stones, and the pieces were of gold and silver and were not upon the board.”

  The High History of the Holy Graal

• “The arms on the memorial to John Pierrepont are -- A lion rampant within eight roses in orle.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

• “The well-known Shield of the MORTIMERS supplies a good example, No. 131 (H.  3) -- _Barry of six or and az., an inescutcheon arg.; on a chief gold, gyroned of the second, two pallets of the same_: for DARCY -- _Arg., an inescutcheon sa., within an orle of roses gu.”

  The Handbook to English Heraldry

• “_Arg., within an orle of roses gu., a lion rampt.sa. _, for Sir R. PIER.OUND, both apparently founded on the shield of the Earl of”

  The Handbook to English Heraldry

• “_ In the beautiful chantry of Abbot THOMAS R.MR.GE, at St. Albans, one of the large sculptured Shields is charged with a lion rampant within what may be considered to be an _orle of roses_ -- the arms, as I have just shown, assigned in the R.ll of EDWAR. II. to Sir R. PIER.OUND.”

  The Handbook to English Heraldry

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