skull-emblazoned

Updated: June 26, 2025

For there before them, skull-emblazoned, shield on arm, his long sword lifted, and a terrible wrath burning in his eyes, stood the old knight, like a wolf at bay, and by his side, bow in hand, the beauteous lady Rosamund, clad in all her festal broideries. "Yield you!" cried a voice.

Henry Rider Haggard - The Brethren