Moreover, beside him I recognised the leaping dog blazoned on the shield of Hacon of TrantOho, this shall be wondrous news for Duke Ivo, methinks.

Then, with a last look at the skywhich I noticed was clouding over, rapidlyI went forward a couple of paces, so as to be shielded from the wind, and lit one of the candles.

rade movement, hung motionlessa great shield in the sky.

PUNCHINELLO felicitates the Municipal Police Force on the magnificent new shields with which the manly breasts of its members are decorated.

We came to believe that his assured bearing was but a shield for his real despair.

Its bankruptcy would not ruin his wife, but she would feel the loss of her money, and he was not going to use Clara for a shield against Ellen Seaton's attacks.

On overtaking them, they drew up on each side, and some dozen of them kept up a running sham fight with their swords and small wooden and metal shields before the Bey.

The fantastically huge full-moon hung like a copper shield on a steel-blue wall.

"Art less of a dullard than I thought thee," said the stranger, taking back his cap, "though, mark me boy, 'tis another matter to ride against a man fully armed and equipped, lance to lance and shield to shield, than to charge a harmless, ancient leathern cap.

This he levelled at me, and I, seeing that a danger of whose magnitude and nature I could form no exact estimate was impending, caught up instinctively one of my prisoners, and held him as a shield between myself and the weapon pointed at me.

On his return to Paris, shameless as he was, he scarcely dared show his face, till the Comte d'Artois persuaded the queen to throw her shield over him.

He had set his shield about his neck, and, certes, showed a stout champion, and a right crafty captain.

The knights had hauberks and swords, boots of steel, and shining helmets; shields at their necks, and in their hands lances.

"You can't have him," retorted Beth, half shielded behind the militant Hetty.

And alway you shall mind that I did love her utter, and to crave alway that I be a shield unto her; though truly, there doth be, mayhap, somewhat in me that doth act to make me a little stern seeming in my love; but yet not oft so; as you do know, that have gone with me in all my tellings.

Among Cephalopods, the Family of Squids contains several Genera distinguished by the structure of the solid shield within the skin of the back, by the form and connection of their fins, by the structure of the suckers with which their arms are provided, by the form of their beak, etc.

Nevertheless, PUNCHINELLO considers it sheer mockery to call that a shield by which nothing is shielded.

The other infantrymen, who have flat shields, form a compact body in the center and raise their shields above themselves and above all the rest, so that nothing but shields can be seen in every part of the phalanx alike and all the men by the density of formation are under shelter from missiles.

Be that as it may, a bitter freezing night it was, such a night as this, the air cut like steel, and the sleet gathered on our shields like crystal.

But Beltane looked not so much upon the shield as on the face of him that bore it, and beholding its high and fearless look, the clear, bright eyes and humorous mouth (albeit schooled to melancholy) he smiled, and got him to his feet.

For no man may touch my shield without my having to do with him because of the affront he gives me thereby.

Traduttoretraditore, "Translatortraitor," says the proverb; and of all traitors shielded under the less offensive name, Signor Tamburini is beyond comparison the worst we have ever had the misfortune to encounter.

The vulgar indeed proclaim the Deity to be ineffable; but as they have no scientific knowledge that he is so, this is nothing more than a confused and indistinct perception of the most sublime of all truths, like that of a thing seen between sleeping and waking, like Phaeacia to Ulysses when sailing to his native land, That lay before him indistinct and vast, Like a broad shield amid the watr'y waste.

At length the darkness was dispersed, the earth Became a scene, joyous and light, and gay, Covered with waving cornthere Rustem paused And quitting his good steed among the grass, Laid himself gently down, and, wearied, slept; His shield beneath his head, his sword before him.

Zounds, I think he has a patten to take up all the shields ith countrey.