He will see, as he rounds some rocky point, half a dozen of these gigantic boulders piled together, leaning against each other with great cavernous openings between, through which he can walk erect, and he involuntarily looks around him for the armor of the ancient giants who piled up these stupendous rocks and walled in the lake with these massive boulders.

I pray that I may perish by the lances of the foe; And when I don my armor for the toils of the campaign, That I may never wear the palm of victory again, But as a captive, on a shore far from Granada, pine, While the freedom that I long to have may never more be mine.

For a long time he sinks through the flood; then, as he reaches bottom, Grendel's mother rushes out upon him and drags him into a cave, where sea monsters swarm at him from behind and gnash his armor with their tusks.

During the Feriae the prefect of the city celebrated the festival of Latiaris, which neither belonged to him nor was ordinarily observed at that time, and the plebeian aediles offered to Ceres contests in armor in place of the horse-race.

As these two giants gird themselves for World-dominion, who but God shall gird the armor on, direct the onward course of change?

Kurt had soon informed Salo and Bruno that there was a large hall with weapons and armor at the ground floor of the castle.

Then he gave his cloak and armor to one of his companions, Megacles, and after partially disguising himself in those of his friend, led his main body to attack the Roman army.

"When Kavah, the blacksmith," said he, "rescued thy great ancestor, Feridún, he passed the stream in his armor without impediment; and why should we, in a cause of equal glory, hesitate for a moment?"

"To be frightened will provide us with no armor against destiny!

Thereupon he drew his misericordia, and he cut the thongs of his harness and he tore the pieces of armor from off his body and flung them away very furiously, upon the right hand and upon the left.

He put on armor as a hero, and was like a lion in his acts, and like a lion's whelp roaring for prey.

Thereupon he lifted the knight up upon his knee and eased the armor about his throat.

On reaching a certain river, which the barbarians thought the Romans would not be able to cross without a bridge,a conviction which led them to encamp in rather careless fashion on the opposite bank,he sent ahead Celtæ who were accustomed to swim easily in full armor across the most turbulent streams.

What art thou about?" To him Percival said: "Sir, I would get those plates of armor off this knight, and I know not how to do it!"

From the 27th of November to the night of the 1st of December, General Meade moved to and fro in front of the formidable works of his adversary, feeling them with skirmishers and artillery, and essaying vainly to find some joint in the armor through which to pierce.

The blade broke against the mail armor under the tunic.

You are simply unassailably armored by the courage of other people's convictions.

For, to omit the rest,our numbers, our age, our experience, our deeds,who is there ignorant of the fact that we have armor over all our body alike, whereas they are for the most part naked, and that we employ both plan and arrangement, whereas they, unorganized, rush at everything in a rage.

The nobility of the feudal nations expended more money on arms and armor than on other luxuries; and this becoming the general fashion, the Western troops were much better armed than the Byzantine soldiers.

This is what peculiarly stamps Luther as a man of genius, and of that surprising audacity and boldness which only great geniuses evince when they follow out the logical sequence of their ideas, and penetrate at a blow the hardened steel of vulcanic armor beneath which the adversary boasts.

It was very bare of furniture; only some gold plate on a sideboard; some folios; and a stand of armor between the windows.

But during this period the Lacedæmonians with a great force invaded the territory of Tanagra, and, as the Athenians at once marched out to attack them, Cimon came back from exile, took his place in full armor among the ranks of his own tribe, and hoped by distinguishing himself in the battle among his fellow-citizens to prove the falsehood of the Laconian sympathies with which he had been charged.

In the pathway from which he had recently emerged stood a man in full armor like a sentinel.

But the latter swam across the river with all her clothing, and the former cast himself with his armor into the flood.

3. ¶ Æmilius on conquering the Insubres celebrated a triumph and in it conveyed the foremost captives clad in armor up to the Capitol, making jests upon them because he had heard that they had sworn not to remove their breastplates before they had ascended the Capitol.