Ulysses vocabulary

I saw again the escutcheons blazoned beneath the windows of Combray church; their quarters filled, century after century, with all the lordships which, by marriage or conquest, this illustrious house had brought flying to it from all the corners of Germany, Italy and France; vast territories in the North, strong cities in the South, assembled there to group themselves in Guermantes, and, losing their material quality, to inscribe allegorically their dungeon vert, or castle triple-towered argent upon its azure field.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]

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An eagle gules volant in a field argent displayed. Ulster king at arms!

James Joyce. Ulysses

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"That knight whom thou seest yonder in yellow armour, who bears upon his shield a lion crowned crouching at the feet of a damsel, is the valiant Laurcalco, lord of the Silver Bridge; that one in armour with flowers of gold, who bears on his shield three crowns argent on an azure field, is the dreaded Micocolembo, grand duke of Quirocia;

Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote

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seeing my determination to leave, she demanded son argent.

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita