Arms
The arms of the company are blazoned:
Shield: Azure upon a Chevron Argent three Roses Gules seeded Or between three Royal Mortars Or.
Crest: A Maiden in a Courcoat of cloth lined Or furred Ermine kneeling among divers Flowers Proper making in her Hand a Garland of the Same Flowers mantelled Azure double Ermine.
Supporters: Unicorns Argent gorged with a Garland of various Flowers Proper, the Horn wreathed Or and Gules.
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Famous quotes containing the word arms:
“I’ve been opened and undressed.
I have no arms or legs.
I’m all one skin like a fish.
I’m no more a woman
than Christ was a man.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“A tree the span of two arms starts from a tiny seedling.”
—Chinese proverb.
Lao-tzu.
“True. There is
a beautiful Jesus.
He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef.
How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in!
How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes!
But I can’t. Need is not quite belief.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)