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Martlet   Listen
noun
Martlet  n.  
1.
(Zool.) The European house martin.
2.
(Her.) A bird without beak or feet; generally assumed to represent a martin. As a mark of cadency it denotes the fourth son.






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"Martlet" Quotes from Famous Books



... pleasantly situated and the air about it was sweet and wholesome, which appeared by the nests which the martlet, or swallow, had built under all the jutting friezes and buttresses of the building, wherever it found a place of advantage; for where those birds most breed and haunt the air is observed to be delicate. The king entered, ...
— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb

... The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle: Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, ...
— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron

... What says the golden chest? Ha! let me see: 'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.' What many men desire! that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude, that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach; Which pries not to th' interior, but, like the martlet, Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty. I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes. Why, then to thee, thou silver treasure-house; Tell ...
— The Merchant of Venice • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]

... you?" he chuckled; "Jane Martlet has only been here five days, and she never stays less than a fortnight, even when she's asked definitely for a week. You'll never get her out ...
— Beasts and Super-Beasts • Saki

... summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved masonry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here; no jetty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle; Where they most breed and haunt I have ...
— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese



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