Examples of use of MACES
1. Yet throughout that period, Westminster has been getting on with the routine business of government — symbolised by ceremonial maces carried by men wearing tights.
2. He has responsibility for its condition and security, travelling with items loaned for exhibition, for instance, and escorting maces and chains on their outings to Guildhall.
3. Wielded maces and red faces Fireraising Lord Glentoran‘s spot of bother has nothing on the recent exploits of another peer, Lord Watson, who pleaded guilty this month to setting fire to a pair of curtains at a top Edinburgh hotel.
4. The numbers of maces, pendants, daggers, chests, book covers, candelabra, rings and various decorative articles adorned with such stones as diamonds, emeralds, rubies and brilliant‘s belonging to Ottoman period as well as the 86–carat famous Spoonmaker‘s Diamond, remaining among the world‘s 22 most famous diamonds, are exhibited in the Treasury section, while an illuminated page from a Koran, a map drawn by the 16th Century Turkish geographer Piri Reis as well as documents related to state and palace business are on display in the Books, Maps and Calligraphic Documents section.