Having scattered the enemy before me and triumphantly returned, this is how they would herald me.

Heraldry is more interesting than vexillology.

Mary explained the haiku poem by Shūōshi Mizuhara. “The drumming of the woodpecker,” she wrote, “indicates that it is autumn. The season is drawing to a close, however, as the leaves are already falling swiftly from the trees standing in the meadow — a picture that, accompanied by the drumming of the woodpecker, the industrious herald of autumn, generates a feeling of gloomy loneliness in the face of walks soon to be over. Since the noisy woodpecker is in the foreground of the soundscape, it must be otherwise very still.”

All the church bells pealed and heralds rode through the town proclaiming the nuptials.

It was the lark, the herald of the morn, no nightingale.

The cockerel, herald of the morning, wakes those of us sleeping.

Swallows herald the summer.

According to Judaism, Elijah will return to herald the coming of the Messiah.

Tudor pennons were highly decorated with slogans and heraldic motifs.

The fireworks display heralds the end of the festival.