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... a linked steel hauberk, that rang as he walked, and the men-at-arms, with helmets and shields, looking as if Sir Eric’s armour that hung in the hail ...

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...man the engine and the ladders. In two minutes they had their red shirts and helmets on—they never stirred officially in unofficial costume—and as the...

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...mp; and he saw, with great surprise, mingled amid the 89 Sir Walter Scott helmets of various forms worn by the Crusaders of different nations, white ... ...iders were Georgian and Circassian slaves in the very prime of life. Their helmets and hauberks were formed of steel rings, so bright that they shone ...

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...ill nearer, and soon a noble cavalcade wound into view, glorious with plumed helmets and flashing mail and flaunting banners and rich doublets and hor... ...e started, and everybody gave us a good bye and waved their handkerchiefs or helmets. And everybody we met, going down the hill and through the villag...

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... of forgotten adventurers who, in leather jerkins and sweating under steel helmets, attacked with long rapiers the palisades of the strange heathen, o... ...rom head to foot two figures in an armour of chain mail with pointed steel helmets crested with white and black feathers and guarding the closed door....

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...s obeys, and flies Where piled in heaps the royal armour lies; Four brazen helmets, eight refulgent spears, And four broad bucklers to his sire he bea... ...d mounting up the lofty stairs, T welve shields, twelve lances, and twelve helmets bears: All arm, and sudden round the hall appears A blaze of buckle...

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...e ordinary force of gendarmes, a strong patrol of papal dragoons, in steel helmets and white cloaks, were sta- tioned at all the street corners. Detac...

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...of the door-way. Some, putting on Don Quixote’s eyes for the occasion, saw helmets in milk-pails, dungeons in cellars, battle-axes in bill-hooks, and ...

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...ices except those of Cæsar. This legion, from the fashion of their crested helmets, which resembled the crested heads of a small bird of the lark spec...

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... same manner as those we had seen in the crater, namely, with spiked round helmets and cylindrical body-cases, and that each of the four carried a goa...

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...; while some knights were borne backwards, horse and all, others had their helmets carried off; but Rene, who sat in great enjoyment, with his staff i...

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...id on steel, and fringed with rotted and blackened seed-pearls; there were helmets, crested and beaded with pigeon’s-blood rubies; there were shields ...

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...ble vaulted hall, the walls hung with well-tried hawberks, and shields and helmets which had stood many a dint; captured crescents and green banners w...

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...sonal ornaments, bunches of keys found clenched in the grasp of skeletons, helmets of guards and warriors; little household bells, yet musical with th...

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... is changing; furniture is made from Greek models; wherever you go you see helmets, lances, shields, and bows and arrows! Everybody is rebuilding his ...

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... that hung beneath the festal gallery, were polished till the old battered helmets and pierced breastplates sent a gleam like that with which they had...

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...hey come!” On they came—stout lanzknechts first, the city guard with steel helmets unadorned, buff suits, and bearing either harquebuses, halberts, or...

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...y. He bestowed silver and gold upon them liberally to gild and adorn their helmets, he had their shields worked with various figures and designs, he b... ..., they quitted their reins, and taking mutual hold pulled at one another’s helmets, and at the armor from their shoulders. While they were thus strug-... ...e wives and daughters of the Pellenians, on whose heads they put their own helmets, to mark each man his prize, and prevent another from seizing it. A... ... the men of Caria cocks, because of the crests with which they adorn their helmets. But the account of Ctesias, to put it shortly, omitting many detai...

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...ervants were strangers, the liveries sanguine, and the panels painted with helmets and trophies.” “Mar’s,” said Sir Amyas, low and bitterly. “I guesse...

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... little pupil. ‘ A Lieutenant Pierson, of the dragoons; Czech white coats, helmets without plumes; an Englishman, nephew of Gen- eral Pierson: speaks ... ...ion. It gleamed down the length of the Corso in a blinding sunlight; brass helmets and hussar feathers, white and violet surcoats, green plumes, maroo...