70 Verbs to Use for the Word armor

The main dependence of the legion was on the infantry, which wore heavy armor consisting of helmet, breastplate, greaves on the right leg, and on the left arm a buckler, four feet in length and two and a half in width.

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.

The high explosive of gunpowder forces out a shell and exploded with it after the shell has penetrated the armor.

This is his thought, while Wiglaf removes his battered armor: "One deep regret I have: that to a son I may not give the armor I have worn, To bear it after me.

A veteran saint could not have laid down his armor and adjusted himself to meet death with more calmness than did this young disciple.

"The barbed arrows of ridicule had pierced the strong man's armor," one editorial said, "and accomplished something that the heaviest blows of the Opposition had been powerless to achieve."

has your palfrey heart enough To bear his armor?

"Then he took off his armor; and the barons and knights, pages and squires came, when he had unstrung his shield; and they took the helmet from his head and the hauberk from his back, and saw the heavy blows upon his shield and how his helmet was dinted in.

Now there was in that part of the forest border a small abbey of monks, and in the chapel of that abbey Launcelot watched his armor for that night and Sir Ewain was with him for all that time.

So he clad himself in Sir Kay's armor altogether from head to foot, and he took Sir Kay's shield and spear, and he left his armor and shield and spear for Sir Kay to use.

They also exhibited the armor of a dwarf king of Bohemia and Hungary, who died, a gray-headed old man, in his twentieth year; the sword of Marlborough; the coat of Gustavus Adolphus, pierced in the breast and back with the bullet which killed him at Lützen; the armor of the old Bohemian princess Libussa, and that of the amazon Wlaska, with a steel visor made to fit the features of her face.

But, touching that armor of which you speak, it is my custom to provide anyone whom I make a knight with armor of mine own choosing.

Blount unlaced the armor; Eustace removed the casque; revived by the free air, Marmion cried: "Fitz-Eustace, Blount, "'Redeem my pennon,charge again!

To attain high speed and carry heavy armor and armament, war-vessels must be of large dimensions.

There were still others, who, before suffering such a death, or when they were half burned, threw off their armor and were wounded by the men shooting from a distance, or again were choked by leaping into the sea, or were struck by their opponents and drowned, or were mangled by sea-monsters.

All night I was disturbed in my sleep, as if by workmen forging armor.

The missile which wrecked the gun flung its armor down here.

When Homer describes the armor of a hero, it is a good piece of work, worth such and such a number of oxen; but when a monk of the Middle Ages describes in his poems the garments of the Mother of God, one may be sure that by this garb he means as many virtues, and a peculiar significance lies hidden under this holy covering of the immaculate virginity of Maria, who, as her son is the almond-kernel, is naturally sung as the almond-flower.

This young man is the son of general Archas, "the loyal subject" of the great duke of Moscovia, in the drama by Beaumont and Fletcher, called The Loyal Subject, 1618.) ALIPRANDO, a Christian knight, who discovered the armor of Rinaldo, and took it to Godfrey.

Yet he is cautious withal; for though obliged to doff his own armor before he can try that of his denuded foe, he retains hold of both until satisfied with the trial.

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

For women to seek to control men by the power of suffrage is like David essaying the armor of Saul.

The Duke and Miss Martina B. Cadwallader were examining the armor.

" Then those who were in attendance upon Sir Nabon were terrified at his words and ran with all speed to do his bidding, and presently fetched his armor and clad him in it; and they fetched his horse into the courtyard of the castle and helped him to mount upon it.

With steady faith he toiled to fit Christ's armor on and honor it.

70 Verbs to Use for the Word  armor