She was scarcely to know, poor lady, that even as she uttered this trite aphorism, under cover of darkness and his hat, Mr Carrados had just ruined his signet ring by Blazoning a golden "7" upon her garden step to establish its identity if need be.
"Max Carrados"
Ernest Bramah
I, where Cassio, speaking of Othello's marriage with Desdemona, says: "he hath achieved a maid That paragons description and wild fame; One that excels the quirks of Blazoning pens, And in the essential vesture of creation Does tire the enginer."
"Four Arthurian Romances "Erec et Enide", "Cliges", "Yvain", and "Lancelot""
Chretien DeTroyes
"But, after all," continued Wolfe, "it shames me to lend aid to an art frivolous in itself, and almost culpable in times when Freedom wants the head to design, and perhaps the hand to execute, far other and nobler works than the Blazoning of her past deeds upon perishable canvas."
"The Disowned, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton