10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRAGON'S-HEAD»
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A Dragon's
Head and a Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the ...
Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592-1598 Kenneth M. Swope.
had 170 guns mounted on the city walls. Although one of his subordinates
wanted to sally forth, Kim knew he was outnumbered but held a strong defensive
...
2
The Great Wall Revisited: From the Jade Gate to Old Dragon's ...
Presents seventy-two then-and-now comparisons from the author-photographer's three-year journey across Northern China to search for the settings where the Great Wall could be examined in the past and present, and brings together eyewitness ...
3
Dragon's
Head 2: Sisters of the Succession
An answer she managed to avoid and in doing so, allowed her to deny the strange powers hidden within her reluctance. In this, the second book of the Dragon's Head series, Tasia must surrender her childhood to a challenge and a choice.
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The flower-garden: or, Breck's book of flowers; in which are ...
... the crown of each. It is a native of the west and south, and perfectly hardy.
DRACOCEPHALUM. ^ Dragon's Head. Dracocepkalum, from Greek words
signifying a dragon's head, because the flowers are fancied to resemble a
dragon's head.
Wright, a dragon's head arg. 7|. l Wright, a dragon's head couped erm. 71. 1
Wright, Stafi's., out of a mural coronet vert, a dragon's head arg. 72. 11 Wright,
Essex, out of a ducal coronet or, a dragon's head vert, collared of the first. cf. 72.
James Fairbairn, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, 1892
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Fairbairn's Book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain ...
Out of a mural coronet chequy or and gu., a dragon's head vert, charged upon the
neck with three leopards' faces, also or, between two bars gemel arg., and also
with a cross crosslet of the first for difference. Fuimus. Wright, Oxon., out of a ...
Weight, Bart, South Carolina, Con a mount, vert, and within an annulet, or,) a
dragon's head, couped at the neck, :ir„ semee of annulets, sa., and iiniiv.il y
gorged, gu. pi. 24, n. 19. Mens sibi consr.in recti. □ , Eas., a dragon's head, ppr.,
issuing ...
John Peter Elven, Henry Washbourn, 1851
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THE BOOK OF Family Crests; COMPRISING NEARLY EVERY FAMILY ...
Wrey, a lion's head erased. pi. 6, n. Ltf. Whighy, Bart., South Carolina, (on a
mount, vert, and within an annulet, or,) a dragon's head, couped at the neck, »rM
semee of annulets, sa-, and murully gorged, gu. pi. 24, n. 19. Mens sibi conscia
recti.
There will be no marching armies there, belching fo'rth death and hell, as the
result of the thought of the red dragon's head. The noise and tumult, thunder,
darkness, and death of the red dragon's head, will forever have been crushed
and ...
Sidney Calhoun Tapp, 1920
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Fairbairns Crests of the Families of Great Britain and ...
PL 2, cr. 8, (axe, pi. 78, cr. 7). Wright, Eng., a dragon's head, ar. PL 87, cr. 12.
Wright, Sco., an arm, in armour, embowed, issuing from a cloud, in gauntlet a (
sabre), ppr. Pro rege sœpe. PI. 30, cr. 6. Wright, a bull's head, cabossed. PI. 111,
cr. 6.
James Fairbairn, Laurence Butters, 1860
