Ensigns in a sentence 🔊

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ensign | plural of ensign

Short Example Sentences for Ensigns

1. Their ensigns streaming to thy orient ray. 🔊
2. Twelve warrant-officers may be made ensigns annually. 🔊
3. Saluting, Ensigns Darrin and Dalzell promptly withdrew. 🔊
4. Their whole apparatus being no more than the drooping ensigns of poverty. 🔊
5. Tom grinned as he pulled an armful of tattered ensigns out of a locker. 🔊
6. The bugles blew, And high in air the sanguine ensigns flew. 🔊

7. Then Admiral Timworth caused Ensigns Darrin and Dalzell to be summoned. 🔊
8. Written on seeing Flags and other Ensigns of War, hanging in a Country Church. 🔊

1. The ensigns of his dignity, with which his monument is ornamented, are most exquisitely finished. 🔊
2. Then the said ensigns returned, without doing anything else than to make the said signs of peace. 🔊
3. The procession went forth, banners in the wind, ensigns displayed, in goodly order. 🔊
4. The inscription is in Latin, surrounded with the arms and proper ensigns of his several dignities. 🔊
5. For there you may see, what his ensigns be, The rope, the cheese, and the basket. 🔊
6. Exactly ten minutes later the two young ensigns were ushered into the presence of their commanding officer. 🔊

7. The young ensigns had not received a scratch so far, which was due as much to luck as to their own skill. 🔊
8. Where are the eleven ensigns we have taken from them, the six pieces of artillery, and the fifty oxen? 🔊
9. A body-guard of wayleals bore fifty gigantic golden sceptres, being the ensigns of sovereignty over the fifty provinces of the kingdom. 🔊
10. Nine of his captains, eight lieutenants, and five ensigns sent him a written remonstrance against what they believed to be the mad undertaking. 🔊
11. Are there not hoary-headed midshipmen, antique ensigns growing mouldy upon fifty years' half-pay? 🔊
12. It was not a long document, but gave, in brief form, a summary of the adventures and discoveries of the two ensigns since coming ashore. 🔊

13. Do you believe me so ignoble, as to come hither to display the ensigns of death, but as scare crows, to frighten lookers on to court me to life? 🔊
14. Let the lictor be the dispenser of your clemency, not his own; and let the fasces and axes which they carry before you constitute ensigns rather of rank than of power. 🔊
15. Guillam lays down some general rules regarding the symbolic meaning by which all sorts of creatures borne in arms or ensigns are to be interpreted, and by which alone a consistent system can be regulated. 🔊
16. Their silken ensigns each displays, And dries its pan, yet dank with dew, And fills its flask with odours new. 🔊
17. The ensigns said to Pilate, We are all Pagans and worship the gods in temples; and how should we think anything about worshipping him? 🔊

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