What is "banners"

Usage examples of "banners".

Behind these paraded the banners of his noble companions, those who had chosen, or been commanded, to accompany his expedition: Duchess Liutgard of Fesse, Helmut Vil-lam, Duke Burchard of Avaria, and a host of other lords and ladies.

The sunlight flared as the wind whipped banners into a frenzy, dazzling her.

The vanguard of the Wendish army could be seen, banners flying, as they emerged from the wood and split apart into regular lines to face the Quman across the broad gap.

Therefore have you me, and many better Scottish men, making war against the infidels, under your banners, who would else have been ravaging your frontiers in England.

Do thou, noble eagle, no dishonour to the princely lion, but let your banners remain floating in peace side by side.

Sir Kenneth, looking back on the moonlit camp, might now indeed seem banished, deprived at once of honour and of liberty, from the glimmering banners under which he had hoped to gain additional renown, and the tented dwellings of chivalry, of Christianity, and--of Edith Plantagenet.

On they passed, troop after troop, banners waving, spears glancing, plumes dancing, in long perspective--a host composed of different nations, complexions, languages, arms, and appearances, but all fired, for the time, with the holy yet romantic purpose of rescuing the distressed daughter of Zion from her thraldom, and redeeming the sacred earth, which more than mortal had trodden, from the yoke of the unbelieving pagan.

Below the hill, the necklace of the Thousand Lakes spread through the city of Malkier, reflecting the cloud-brushing Seven Towers, with Golden Crane banners flying at their heights in the mists.

Byar, to wonder whyCarridin has taken away our banners, and the cloaks of the men the Questioners lead?

They bore two banners, one marked with three slashes and the other with a crescent moon.

Quman banners, then four, then eight, a succession of images, glimpses into the future as days or weeks passed outside the weaving.

Although it was turning, so sharp he could smell the flavor of vinegar, she gulped it down as wind shook the awning and made the tents and banners dance all down the long slope where the army had pitched camp.

Wendishmen and marchlanders and the ungodly banners, a dozen or more, of Quman tribes, a host of them to strike fear so deep that he wets himself.

He pointed to a log house set at the eastern edge of the clearing, where two banners could be seen through drifts of smoke.

Where the road turned a corner around an unexpected outcrop of rock, they came into sight of an old palace of stone, still mostly standing, where three grand tents sprawled with banners waving and folk here and there on errands or just loitering.