NPPF: Commentary 2(summary and notes) Lines 403-404

Scott Badger lupine at ncia.net
Sat Oct 25 08:03:10 CDT 2003


Jasper:
> Red Admirable makes a cameo as it gradually catches up to the final
> crescendo; the phrase "volant en arrière" means flying behind, but it will
> eventually find Shade: the unusual word "gule" is found in _Timon
> of Athens_
> IV:3: "With man's blood paint the ground, gules, gules."
>

>From Amazon's new word search:

Ulysses:
"Head up! Keep our flag flying (An eagle gules volant in a field argent
displayed. Ulster king at arms! . . ."

Hamlet:
"Now is he total gules; horridly trick'd
With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,"

The Man Who Was Thursday:
"'Our bearings,' continued Syme calmly, 'are "argent a chevron gules charged
with three cross crosslets of the field"

The Life of Samuel Johnson:
"The arms upon this monument are, paly of eight, gules and or, impaling,
ermine on a chief indented vert"





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