And then the regiments marched through the streets with bands playing that march to which the words of the Battle Hymn were set, and those bright ensigns snapping at the front; bright now, and new, and crimson.
"The Crisis, Volume 6"
Winston Churchill
The tower is in a good taste, except being rather too narrow in the base, and is ornamented with a sleepy figure of the donor, Edward the Sixth, dressed in a royal mantle, with the ensigns of the Garter; holding a bible and sceptre.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
Their whole apparatus being no more than the drooping ensigns of poverty.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton