"Guardant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... downright beggars. Ay, Without equivocation, statute beggars, Couchant and passant, guardant, rampant beggars; Current and ...
— Rookwood • William Harrison Ainsworth
... in the bottom shelf facing you, like a great eye-tooth knocked out—(you are now with me in my little back study in Bloomsbury, reader!)—with the huge Switzer-like tomes on each side (like the Guildhall giants, in their reformed posture, guardant of nothing) once held the tallest of my folios, Opera Bonaventurae, choice and massy divinity, to which its two supporters (school divinity also, but of a lesser calibre,—Bellarmine, and Holy Thomas), showed ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas
... to Dangle's sense, dangerous, but he made no answer. A waiter in full bloom appeared at the end of the passage, guardant. "It is men of your stamp, sir," ...
— The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll • H. G. Wells
... centre of the gate is a large one; the arms and quarterings of John Howard IV., first Duke of Norfolk, who died in 1485; and with lions for supporters. Crest—a lion passant-guardant. ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 19. No. 575 - 10 Nov 1832 • Various
... beggars. Ay, Without equivocation, statute beggars, Couchant and passant, guardant, rampant beggars; Current ...
— Rookwood • William Harrison Ainsworth |
