Now you Companion: Ile say an arrant for you: you shall know now that I am in estimation: you shall perceiue, that a Iacke gardant cannot office me from my Son Coriolanus, guesse but my entertainment with him: if thou stand'st not i'th state of hanging, or of some death more long in Spectatorship, and crueller in suffering, behold now presently, and swoond for what's to come vpon thee.
"Coriolanus"
Shakespeare, William
Hence the three lions passant gardant in pale, borne ever since as the ensigns of England.
"Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses."
Andrew Macgeorge
Lions and bears, rampant, couchant, gardant, and other fauna in becoming attitudes, bends, bars, engrailed, dancetty, raguly, gules, azure, argent or otherwise-all these things of beauty vanished from Dalibor's scutcheon while the assembled multitude wondered "What next?"
"From a Terrace in Prague"
Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker