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" It consisted of a spear of silver, or plated with that metal, having suspended from a cross beam below the spoke a small square silken banner, adorned with portraits of the reigning family, and over these the famous Monogram which expresses at once the... "
Author's Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief - Page 198
by Rossiter Johnson - 1908
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 4

Elisa Rogers - 1811 - 488 pages
...of the pike supported a crown of gold, which enclosed Ac mysterious monogram, at once descriptive of the figure of the cross, and the initial letters of the name of Christ. The safety of the labarum was entrusted to fifty guards, of ajiprpred yajor and fidelity. which he...
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Lambeth and the Vatican: Or, Anecdotes of the Church of Rome, of the Refomed ...

1825 - 624 pages
...the pike supported a crown of gold, which 'enclosed the mysterious monogram, at once expressive of the figure of the cross, and the initial letters of the name of Christ. Of these monograms, which became extremely fashionable in the Christian world, we have presented the...
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Waverley Novels, Volume 46

Walter Scott - 1833 - 460 pages
...that metal, having suspended from a cross beam helovr the spoke a small square silken banner, adorned with portraits of the reigning family, and over these...cross and the initial letters of the name of Christ. The hearer of the Labarum was an officer of high rank down to the last days of the Byzantine government....
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Tales of the Early Ages, Volume 2

Horace Smith - 1832 - 250 pages
...while its summit supported a crown of gold, enclosing the mysterious monogram, at once expressive of the figure of the cross, and the initial letters of the name of Christ. This consecrated banner was entrusted to fifty chosen champions, who, while they were engaged in the...
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Introductions, and Notes and Illustrations to the Novels, Tales ..., Volume 3

Walter Scott - 1833 - 484 pages
...that metal, having suspended from a cross beam below the spoke a small square silken banner, adorned with portraits of the reigning family, and over these...cross and the initial letters of the name of Christ. The bearer of the Labarum was an officer of high rank down to the last days of the Byzantine government....
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Waverley Novels, Volumes 45-46

Walter Scott - 1836 - 500 pages
...that metal, having suspended from a cross beam below the spoke a small square silken banner, adorned with portraits of the reigning family, and over these...cross and the initial letters of the name of Christ. The bearer of the Labarum was an officer of high rank down to the last days of the Byzantine government.—...
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The Church of England Magazine, Volume 25

1848 - 508 pages
...of the pike supported a crown of gold, which enclosed the mysterious monogram, at once expressive of the figure of the cross, and the initial letters of the name of Christ." The safety of the labarum was entrusted to fifty guards; and it was soon supposed tlataslong as they...
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Prolusiones Historicæ: Or, Essays Illustrative of the Halle of John Halle ...

Edward Duke - 1837 - 686 pages
...a standard with a cross-bearer, to which was appended a small banner of silk, usually having on it the famous monogram, which expresses at once the figure of the cross, and the initials of the name of our Saviour. In the New Testament we find a more definite appropriation of...
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Prolusiones Historicæ: Or, Essays Illustrative of the Halle of John Halle ...

Edward Duke - 1837 - 686 pages
...a standard with a cross-bearer, to which was appended a small banner of silk, usually having on it the famous monogram, which expresses at once the figure of the cross, and the initials of the name of our Saviour. In the New Testament we find a more definite appropriation of...
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Archaeologia Cambrensis: The Journal of the Cambrian Archoeological Association

1876 - 656 pages
...intersected by a transversal beam, at the top of which is the mysterious monogram at once expressive of the figure of the cross and the initial letters of the name of Christ." The special interest in this case arises from the site in which they -were found having been occupied...
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