The characteristic quality is often found in an improvised arrangement of words which makes the dominant feeling that of mingling words and cadencies successfully.

In the third generation the mark of cadency is again superimposed upon the two preceding differences, producing, at length, unutterable confusion.

It is not a little remarkable that the arms of neither shield nor surcoat bear any label or mark of cadency, but are simply royal arms.

When, with the quiet and poignant brevity of it, there mingles the cadency and sweetness of verse—"the soul of the hearer has nothing more to desire."

Shakespeare's son-in-law bore the talbots' heads only, which may merely have been a mark of cadency.