Five thousand warriors tried and true the Moors were standing near, All armed with leathern buckler, all armed with sword and spear.

They carried square bucklers, the first Columbus had seen in the New World; and bows and arrows, with which they made feeble efforts to drive off the Spaniards who landed at Punta Arenal, near Icacque, and who, finding no streams, sank holes in the sand, and so filled their casks with fresh water, as may be done, it is said, at the same spot even now.

" So fumes the fierce swash-buckler, And his toy-rapier whets.

The sun, which I had seen like a fiery buckler hanging over the city, was utterly gone.

Broke to every known mischance, lifted over all By the light sane joy of life, the buckler of the Gaul, Furious in luxury, merciless in toil, Terrible with strength renewed from a tireless soil, Strictest judge of her own worth, gentlest of men's mind, First to follow truth and last to leave old truths behind, France beloved of every soul that loves or serves its kind.

When now the Sun his golden buckler raised, And genial light through heaven diffusive blazed, Sohráb in mail his nervous limbs attired, For dreadful wrath his soul to vengeance fired; With anxious haste he bent the yielding cord, Ring within ring, more fateful than the sword; Around his brows a regal helm he bound; His dappled steed impatient stampt the ground.

The virtue, knowing of itself and of the world, may be held a surer defence, but it is by comparison a gross and earthly buckler, with less of the glamour of romance reflected from its aegis-mirror.

Then, as the bell was rung furiously again, they peered through the peep-hole cut into the wall, and perceived a man, concealed, from neck to waist, behind an immense gold buckler.

The instant that there is time for passion to cool, and reason to interpose, an injured party must become aware, that the law assumes the exclusive cognizance of the right and wrong betwixt the parties, and opposes her inviolable buckler to every attempt of the private party to right himself.

From the panhandle at Baker street to the Ocean Beach, the park stretches like a massive gold-green buckler enameled with lustrous gems.

Smooth-tongued orators, the fourth in place Lawyers our commonwealth entitles them Mere swash-bucklers and ruffianly mates, That will for twelvepence make a doughty fray, Set men for straws together by the ears.

There where the battle was set you might mark the lowered lance, the rent and pierced buckler.

A round buckler was tendered.

At first they went through the whole sword-exercise to no effect; but Rinaldo, tired of the delay, raised the terrible Fusberta, and at one blow cut through the other's twofold buckler of bone and steel, and benumbed his arm.

A little lower, "Opposui molem clypei, texique jacentem," is amplified by a similar witticism, "My broad buckler hid him from the foe, Even the shield trembled as he lay below.

From the information of M. Josaphat and others, the military force of this king cannot exceed 20,000 cavalry, some of whom have wooden bucklers about eighteen inches long.

His imagination, excited by the frequent reading of novels of travel, had made him conceive a type of heroic, gallant, dashing sailora regular swash-buckler capable of swallowing by the pitcherful the most rousing drinks without moving an eyelid.