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More "Maltese cross" Quotes from Famous Books
... sympathetic manner to Colonel Rolleston as the girls entered the room; but her eye had taken in every detail of Miss Leigh's costume, and disapprovingly remarked the silver oak leaves that festooned the black-net dress, and Maltese cross and bracelets that accompanied it, all of which she well knew belonged ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
... the collar either by a long straight strap or by a circular band which falls on either side of the neck. The upper extremity is often shaped into the form of an animal's head, below which comes most commonly a circle or disk, ornamented with a rosette, a Maltese cross, a winged bull, or other sacred emblem, while below the circle hang huge tassels in a single row or smaller ones arranged in several rows. In the sculptures of Sargon at Khorsabad, the tassels of both the breast ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria • George Rawlinson
... from the school-room window, and the next morning, after prayers, I was not wholly unprepared when Master Conway and myself were called up to the desk for examination. Conway, with a piece of court-plaster in the shape of a Maltese cross on his right cheek, and I with the silk patch over my left eye, caused a general ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Story of a Bad Boy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... figures of skeletons surround the finger and support a small sarcophagus. The ring is of gold enamelled, the skeletons being made still more hideous by a covering of white enamel. The lid of the sarcophagus is also enamelled, with a Maltese cross in red, on a black ground studded with gilt hearts. This lid is made to slide off, and display a very minute ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places • Frederick William Fairholt
... circular chancel. We ascended some steps to its low doorway, almost stooping as we entered. It was dimly lit by a few oil-lamps; its quaint arched dome, little galleries, altar, crypts, and organ all within the compact compass of a circle, or rather, as it seemed to me, of a Maltese cross—tiny aisles forming the sides of the cross, where there were shrines and tombs, though scarcely distinguishable in the gloom. The dome and aisles are supported by wonderfully strong Byzantine arches and arcades. It struck me that the Maltese cross may have been the shape of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo • W. Cope Devereux
... a large white modified Maltese cross - shifted a little off center toward the fly and slightly downward - on a red background; the flag of France outlined in white on two sides is in the upper hoist quadrant; the flag of France is ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... a stubby bush, shaped like a Maltese cross, clinging to the lip of the ravine. The hidden entrance to the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Acid Bath • Vaseleos Garson
... Turks, who finally got entire possession of it, while the other branch remained in the power of the Christians. Mutual cruelties were exercised; the Turks, seizing on the survivors of the knights who had so long defended St. Elmo, cut the Maltese cross on the bodies of the slain, and, tying them to planks, let them drift with the receding tide into the other branch of the harbour still defended by the Christians. The Grand-Master, in resentment of this cruelty, caused his Turkish prisoners to be decapitated and their heads thrown from mortars ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott
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