Both armies felt the fall of this one man, and the Romans in consequence were beginning to give way, when the consul Marcus Fabius leaped over the body of his prostrate kinsman, and, holding his buckler in front, cried out: "Is this what you swore, soldiers, that you would return to the camp in flight?

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.

With these words Arthur set his buckler before him, and hastened to the playing of the swords.

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.

The man bowed and deposited the buckler on the pinewood floor of the dining room.

He gripped his sword, dressing the buckler high to guard his head.

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.

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

The request was too pious to be refused; Garcilasso remounted his steed; he closed his helmet, graced by four sable plumes, grasped his buckler of Flemish workmanship and his lance of matchless temper, and defied the haughty Moor in the midst of his career.

When they might climb upon their steeds, they hung again the buckler about the neck, and lowered their ashen spears.

He introduced the large oval buckler and a larger and heavier spear.

she shall not come yet: if you lay down the bucklers, you lose the victorie. Hostis.

There was an air abroad, notwithstanding the heat, which made the shepherds glad to sit without their jerkins, and receive the coolness on their naked bodies: even the hard-skinned cattle were glad of it; and Orlando, who was armed cap-a-pie, was delighted to take off his helmet, and lay aside his buckler, and repose awhile in the midst of a scene so refreshing.

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.

The sound of barbarous trumpets rang, the startled horses reared, And snort and neigh and tramp of hoofs on every side was heard, Then troop meets troop, and valiant hearts the mimic fight pursue; They hurl their javelins o'er the sand and pierce the bucklers through.

The paladins strove with lifted arm and raised buckler.

"Thus urg'd the chief; a generous troop appears, Who spread their bucklers and advance their spears.

If they would use no other bucklers in war but shields of brawn, brandish no swords but sweards of bacon,[202] trail no spears but spare-ribs of pork, and instead of arquebuss pieces discharge artichoke-pies: toss no pikes but boiled pickrels, then Appetitus would rouse up his crest, and bear up himself with the proudest.

His visor was closed; he bore a huge buckler and a ponderous lance; his cimeter was of a Damascus blade, and his richly ornamented dagger was wrought by an artificer of Fez.

They fix bunches of palm leaves to their heads, shoulders, and knees, and wear square bucklers, which they ornament with considerable taste.

They throw stones with great strength and wonderful exactness, so as to hit whatever they aim at with almost perfect certainty, and almost with the force of a bullet from a musket; insomuch that a few stones thrown by them will break a buckler to pieces.

And she, who had cast her buckler of defence aside, made answer: "Yesyes, to-morrow.