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4 total sentences available.
But she againe him in the shield did smite / With so fierce furie and great puissaunce, / That, through his three-square scuchin piercing quite / And through his mayled hauberque, by mischaunce / The wicked steele through his left side did glaunce.
Source: wiktionary
The corpse lay in state, with all the pomp of scutcheons, wax lights, black hangings, and mutes.
Source: wiktionary
There be now, for martial encouragement, some degrees and orders of chivalry; which nevertheless are conferred promiscuously, upon soldiers and no soldiers; and some remembrance perhaps, upon the scutcheon; and some hospitals for maimed soldiers; and such like things.
Source: wiktionary
The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode, which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include achievement, alerion, animal charge, annulet, argent.
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