talbot

The Talbot, which was once the Dog (but a talbot is a dog always), is a house of imposing squareness.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

` ` While I acknowledge my obligation to you, sir, for the restoration of the badge of our family, I cannot but marvel that you have nowhere established your own crest, whilk is, I believe, a mastive, anciently called a talbot; as the poet has it,

The Waverley 1877

'While I acknowledge my obligation to you, sir, for the restoration of the badge of our family, I cannot but marvel that you have nowhere established your own crest, whilk is, I believe, a mastiff, anciently called a talbot; as the poet has it,

Waverley Walter Scott 1801

'While I acknowledge my obligation to you, sir, for the restoration of the badge of our family, I cannot but marvel that you have nowhere established your own crest, whilk is, I believe, a mastiff, anciently called a talbot; as the poet has it,

Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801

a mastiff, anciently called a talbot; as the poet has it,

Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801

a mastiff, anciently called a talbot; as the poet has it,

Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

The Baron gazed in silent wonder; at length he addressed Colonel Talbot — ‘While I acknowledge my obligation to you, sir, for the restoration of the badge of our family, I cannot but marvel that you have nowhere established your own crest, whilk is, I believe, a mastiff, anciently called a talbot; as the poet has it,

Waverley 2004

Heraldry — abatement, cadency, clarion, escutcheon, jessant-de-lys, rampant, talbot (I could go on for close to a thousand words as classical heraldry uses Norman French)

The Logophile « Write Anything 2009

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In The Can « In The Gloaming Podcasts 2009

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Casting « In The Gloaming Podcasts 2009