"St. Andrew's cross" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... therefore, form an elongated St. Andrew's cross; but nobody can tell for certain who built them, or why. They are all alike; each, built of cob, circular, whitewashed, having pointed windows and a conical roof of thatch with a wooden cross on the apex. When I was a boy these thatched roofs used to ...
— The Laird's Luck • Arthur Quiller-Couch
... I. issued a proclamation that all subjects of this isle and the kingdom of Great Britain should bear in the main-top the red cross commonly called St. George's Cross, and the white cross commonly called St. Andrew's Cross, joined together according to the form made by our own heralds. This was the ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III • William Wordsworth |
