"Ermined" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... who was standing near the throne, Lifted his eyes, and lo! he was alone! But all appareled as in days of old, With ermined mantle and with cloth of gold, And when his courtiers came, they found him there Kneeling upon the floor, absorbed in ...
— Standard Selections • Various
... dynasty. But the Emperor, though wrong in the main, was right by the bye. It was clear that the energies that had twice entered Paris as a conqueror, and had made kings and mediatised princes at Vienna, would not be content to subside into ermined insignificance. The duke commenced his political tactics early. The cabinet of Lord Liverpool, especially during its latter term, was the hot-bed of many intrigues; but the obstacles were numerous, though the appointing fate, in which his grace believed, ...
— Sybil - or the Two Nations • Benjamin Disraeli
... the sunbeam fell upon the white face of Iseult, and the King took his ermined gloves and put them up against the crevice ...
— The Romance Of Tristan And Iseult • M. Joseph Bedier
... ermined judges, stately, silent, Roland came, Over his cheek there flashed and faded, suddenly, a flash of flame: Like a falling star it faded: lofty and erect he turned, With the feeling that aroused it ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 • Various
... pictures of one nymph we view, All how unlike each other, all how true! Arcadia's Countess, here, in ermined pride, Is there, Pastora by a fountain side. Here Fannia, leering on her own good man, And there, a naked Leda with a swan. 10 Let then the fair one beautifully cry, In Magdalen's loose hair and lifted eye, Or dress'd in smiles of sweet Cecilia shine, ...
— Poetical Works of Pope, Vol. II • Alexander Pope
... and stat In the grave lie desolate. He who wore the kingly crown, With the base worm lieth down: Ermined robe, and purple pall, Leaveth he at ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold
... Stone forts and ermined judges were not, to the mind of the unbridled and ungovernable Metis. True, the French mind has a love for show and circumstance and dignity of demeanor, but the conviction had taken hold of the people of Red River, ...
— The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists - The Pioneers of Manitoba • George Bryce |
