emblazonries

Of course, there is much that is pompous, affected, unreal about the place; the plaster beams, painted to look like oak; the ugly emblazonries; the cruel painted glass; the laboriously collected objects -- all these reveal the childish side of Scott, the superficial self which slipped from him so easily when he entered into the cloud.

The Upton Letters Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

While I was looking out to-day there came a flying burst of sun, and the little corner became a sudden feast of delicate colour; the fresh green of the grass, the foliage of the lime-trees, their brown wrinkled stems, the pale moss on the walls, the bright points of colour in the emblazonries of the window, made a sudden delicate harmony of tints.

From a College Window Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

But this subject offers so vast a field of observation, it being so eminently the prerogative of Shakspeare to have thought more finely and more extensively than all other poets combined, that we cannot wrong the dignity of such a theme by doing more, in our narrow limits, than simply noticing it as one of the emblazonries upon

Biographical Essays Thomas De Quincey 1822

French Revolution in its earlier stages had been boundless; in all respects it was a noble sympathy, fading only as the gorgeous coloring faded from the emblazonries of that awful event, drooping only when the promises of that golden dawn sickened under stationary eclipse.

Biographical Essays Thomas De Quincey 1822

The sides of the windows were rich with storied glass; through the deep purples and crimsons streamed the golden light; emblazonries of heavenly illumination

Autobiographical Sketches Thomas De Quincey 1822

(from the sun) mingling with the earthly emblazonries (from art and its gorgeous coloring) of what is grandest in man.

Autobiographical Sketches Thomas De Quincey 1822