How To Use Armour In A Sentence
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We can guarantee the punctual arrival of the armoured cars in foggy weather.
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Another mystery surrounds the only example of body armour to be found among the primates.
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As they go into battle, simultaneous armoured thrusts will be launched from Kuwait and Turkey.
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I had one forged from a white metal, capable of piercing almost any armour worn by man.
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Six armoured personnel carriers were parked across the road.
Times, Sunday Times
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[LC] "A plaine declaracon, how greatlie the ffarmours of the Tobacco impost have bene endam - aged by that ffarme, and what proffitt and benefitt their labour & travell have brought to his Matie.
The Records of the Virginia Company of London
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A warning shot was fired but he fled when none of the heavily armoured commandos was able to give chase.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ornamentation of such objects was similar to that of the nielloed gold and silver ladles and cups produced at the Kremlin Armoury in the 16th to early 17th centuries.
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Too late - at this speed, it's approximately as effective as scattering thumbtacks in front of advancing armour.
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The slender, spikey fish is regarded as having one of the sturdiest and most flexible forms of animal armour.
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Those marines were in a lightly armoured vehicle when it hit the bomb, flipped into the air and exploded in a fireball.
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The armoured turret has both laying and stabilisation drives and power supply.
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This embossed, etched, and gilded steel close helmet is attributed to German armourer Kolman Helmschmid.
Would This 16th Century Helmet Terrify a Jousting Opponent?
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He had twice been riding in an armoured vehicle that struck an improvised explosive device, and was injured once in friendly fire.
Times, Sunday Times
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It also plans to introduce more heavily armoured trucks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The review also acknowledged serious problems with the supply of equipment to troops in the front line, including uniforms, body armour and desert boots.
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Their statutory purpose was as part of the armoury available to the Home Secretary for the enforcement of immigration control.
Times, Sunday Times
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She also managed to go for a spin in an Army armoured vehicle, having wandered over to a tank-washing installation to see if she could have her picture taken sitting on one of the machines.
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For protection against mines the vehicle is fitted with a floor spall liner and 18 mm armour plate in the floor.
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The ankylosaurs were heavily armoured dinosaurs, 2 to 10 meters long, quadrupedal, slow moving, and fed on swampy soft vegetation.
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A wardrobe mistress arrives with my armour.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the same time three muskets were discharged; and while one ball rattled against the corslet of proof, to the strength of which our valiant Captain had been more than once indebted for his life, another penetrated the armour which covered the front of his left thigh, and stretched him on the ground.
A Legend of Montrose
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The manhole covers had gone, leaving the streets pockmarked with gaping mantraps, while one abandoned tank was vanishing day by day, melting away "as if its armour-plating had been made of ice".
Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
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Will the New Zealand Army be purchasing and fitting extra armour to its light armoured vehicles; if not, why not, and, if so, at what cost?
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I saw a picture not long since, in Edinburgh, copied from an engraving in Boydell's Shakspeare; subject, -- "Lear (and suite) in the storm," but coloured according to the imagination and taste of the artist; its name ought assuredly to have been _Redcap and the blue-devils_, for the venerable and lamented monarch had fine streaming locks of the real _carrot hue_, whilst his very hideous companions showed _blue_ faces, and blue armour; and with their strangely contorted bodies seemed meet representatives of some of the infernal court.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
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It is qualified as a launch platform for the laser-guided anti-armour missile.
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The body armour is electronic and we have sensors in the socks that cover our feet.
The Sun
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We've got a welder and fitter / armourer here, the welder does repairs if there's any cracks in the vehicle.
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Sniggers because you get four-by-two from the armourer who has a hooked tool for getting broken pull-th roughs out of the barrel.
Bottled Spider
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Security was such a concern that the seven defendants were taken to court in an armed convoy of armoured vans flanked by police motorcyclists.
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The body armour is electronic and we have sensors in the socks that cover our feet.
The Sun
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The strongest weapon in the government's armoury is the price cuts announced on Saturday.
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He was assuming that the big, bull-necked, slug-like guys were in some way connected with InfiniDim Enterprises, but it was a reasonable assumption and he felt happy about it because they had logos on their armour-plating which said ` InfiniDim Enterprises 'on them.
Mostly Harmless
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He said Alexkor recently "armoured" a particular slimes dam with coarse overburden to stop a windblown "plume" of fine material that was threatening the proclaimed Ramsar wetland site at the mouth of the Orange River.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The torso armour itself had coral shaped into the symbol of the ancient Merfolk.
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It has an unmanned turret, radar used in fighter jets and an armoured capsule for crew.
The Sun
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After 11 years of Margaret Thatcher, it proved necessary to cannibalise the entire armoured resources of the Rhine Army to deploy a weak division for the First Gulf War.
The Tory defence policy will be simple: cut, brutally
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And to show the amazing vulnerability of flesh without a protective armour on it.
ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
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The mayor of Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, has been filmed using an armoured vehicle to crush a car parked illegally in a cycle lane.
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Secondly, it assumes coat armour to be hereditary in the male lines of a family, with differences to distinguish cadet branches.
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Developed in the 30s, the Universal Carrier was designed to provide armoured troop transport and was produced in the U. K. Als well as in Canada.
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Orr ynn blacke armoure itaulke arounde Embattell'd Bryftowe, once thiegrounde.
The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh to the ...
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It is then that, stripped for a brief moment of our armour of complacency and self-esteem, we see ourselves as we are -- frightful chumps in a world where nothing goes right; a grey world in which, hoping to click, we merely get the raspberry; where, animated by the best intentions, we nevertheless succeed in perpetrating the scaliest bloomers and landing our loved ones neck-deep in the gumbo.
Jill the Reckless
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The army also lost 2,000 of its 2,900 armoured personnel carriers.
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Today's armoured battle might take place at night, using thermal imaging devices that are in many ways better than optical sights even on a clear day.
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In Europe armourers have invariably been workers in metal, but in other parts of the world materials such as wickerwork, bone, and coconut fibre have been used.
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Colchester police are gearing up to use a new weapon in their armoury.
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Tarja supposed he had sunk into the muddy river, weighted down by his ornate armour.
MEDALON
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Our armour and weaponry were of course wholly authentic, as were our battle cries of 'Ouch' and 'I can't see where I'm going', although we didn't get round to deciding who was a Roundhead, who a Cavalier.
Archive 2009-08-01
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Specifically, motor vehicles deployed within the region were susceptible to explosive attacks, and many army personnel had found themselves raiding junkyards to create makeshift armour in order to protect themselves.
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Corporal Jones was on an operational tour in East Timor and was travelling in the rear of an armoured vehicle at the time of the incident.
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When the day's proceedings end they arrange themselves outside, scanning the street until he is picked up in a silver Mercedes people carrier, a modest vehicle, albeit armour-plated.
Roman Abramovich still playing his poker hand inside Court 26 | Richard Williams
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And cinema lends the added excitement of a battle featuring rocket launchers and armoured vehicles.
The Sun
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There were signal and intelligence failures, deficiencies in the quality of their armour protection, shells and fire control.
Warfare in the Twentieth Century
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The boffins also came to the conclusion that the armour was made in a low temperature bush fire and not in a blacksmith's forge as originally thought.
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The most entertaining moment is John Hurt - a distinguished, multi-award winning actor - revealing his foreknowledge of the WH40K universe gained through his son being an enormous fan, and Donald Sumpter dryly pointing out the rarity of being asked to play eight-foot-tall armour-plated killing machines at his age.
Actors announced for WARHAMMER 40,000 movie
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Ajax, in the archaic attitude of the ‘kneeling race’, with helmet, jambeaus and armour from which his chiton emerges, is intent on carrying the lifeless body of Achilles, naked and with his long hair falling towards the ground.
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The court lay in a large open area behind the castellated facade of the former National Guard armoury, now a high school playground.
COMPULSION
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The silk could also be woven into strong textiles to make parachutes, body armour, ropes and fishing nets.
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As he did so the big man quickly grabbed his arms and the woman stripped his armour breastplate away, and he was frogmarched towards a small crag.
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It is possible to order armour from armourers in the North Island and overseas, but much of the armour is home made, hammered out and welded together.
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Most irritating were the German rocket launchers, which miraculously decimate infantry and armour alike with impunity.
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Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies.
Important Notice!
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A gang of bank robbers come up with a plan for a lucrative armoured car robbery, but a determined police officer is closing in on them.
The Sun
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They are full of the glitter and bluster of German militarism ?mailed fist and shining armour.
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The decadent West does not have many ideological weapons in its armoury but until recently, at least, freedom of speech was one of them.
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The high pitched whine of the armoured cars as they manoeuvred round the narrow streets filled me with dread.
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I had two bodyguards and we would travel in a convoy of not less than two armoured vehicles.
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The gunner's stopped the armoured artillery pieces, ready to fire at a word's notice.
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For instance, armour and other trophies were often displayed above sepulchres.
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Fighter planes have successfully bombed the enemy's main armoury.
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The Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Michael Boyce, said further British forces, including paratroops, infantry and armoured units as well as RAF strike aircraft, could be deployed into the region at short notice.
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Three of their six divisions are armoured with the rest being mechanised and motorised infantry.
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Armoured vehicles and troop carriers were destroyed or damaged.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nuclear weapons will play a less prominent part in NATO's armoury in the future.
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The larger clubs will still be able to stockpile players to cover eventualities, but for the rest, a powerful weapon in the astute manager's armoury has been negated.
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As a dream, the concept can be dated back at least to Leonardo da Vinci, who doodled a round, wheeled, armoured vehicle with cannon firing out of ports.
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That they were is not only compelling evidence that DU [Depleted Uranium] ammunition and armour-piercing technology were present, it is compelling evidence that Bush's 'official conspiracy theory' of 911 is utter bullshit!
Why were 'first responders' de-contaminated at the Pentagon?
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And so it came to pass that daily thereafter did we practise for an hour or so in the armoury with sword and buckler, and with every lesson my proficiency with the iron grew in a manner that Falcone termed prodigious, swearing that I was born to the sword, that the knack of it was in the very blood of me.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
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Engineers added an armoured passenger cell made of steel and replaced windows with bulletproof units.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are other most beautiful horses, particularly a dappled jennet, which is ridden by a figure that has all the body covered with scales after the manner of a fish; which is copied from the Column of Trajan, wherein the figures have armour of that kind; and it is thought that such armour is made from the skins of crocodiles.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo
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Isn't it to do with being a man-at-arms, with strapping on armour and sallying forth into the wildwood on your horse, your lady's token on your arm, to right wrongs and do great deeds?
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This protects the body of the animal like a suit of armour.
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We'd barely unpacked the tree when a call came through and before I could blink, they were all armouring themselves up and heading out the door.
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Sendei ripped off his outer clothes to reveal battle armour and a crossbow hanging from a leather belt.
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Our amazing yellow (but not hi vis) armour is also manufactured with a heat management system.
Police Body Armour Heatwave Shock! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Publication update for [Redacted]
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The archangel Michael, located on the left side in the painting, wears armour and holds the scales of justice and his sword.
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The sportswear company Under Armour is doing something right.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. ARTHUR WHITBY'S parson, Mr. NORMAN FORBES 'squire, Miss JEAN CADELL'S housekeeper, left no chinks in their armour for a critic's spleenful arrow.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25
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Clinical process divides typical armour hepatitis a phase: is preclinical, prodrome period, is icteric period, convalescence.
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Now I saw the canvas awnings pulled down over the armourer's workshop, the storehouses shut up to keep the goods from damp, the great oak doors of the stable closed.
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Much of Gaius's squiredom was spent fetching and carrying for the knight, lugging spare weapons and armour around while his master dispensed advice, ostensibly teaching the youth the virtues of humility and laboriousness.
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Right now, she felt the need of every weapon in her armoury , including surprise.
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There remained the stewards and elder counsellors, and such menservants as might be needed for any service, from armoury, stables, stores, brewhouse and bakehouse.
His Disposition
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The armoured regiments and the Guards remain for some inexplicable reason untouched.
Times, Sunday Times
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The uniformed officer looked into my suitcase and bags and poked at the bulletproof body armour.
Times, Sunday Times
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We donned the body armour and fierce helmets for an hour's tuition.
Times, Sunday Times
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We should have _known_ the characters as they were known to the patrician and the populace of two thousand years ago; we should have seen them as they threw out all their stately and muscular strength; we should have been able to recover them from the tomb, make them move before us "in their armour, as they lived," and gather from their lips the language of times and things, now past away from man.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
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It was like one of those Monty Python sketches where a man in a suit of armour walks in and slaps everyone with a rubber chicken.
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Twenty minutes later, his foot on the head of a very large, very red, and above all very dead dragon while the crowd cheered and threw confetti, Edwin spied a familiar figure staggering towards him in battered armour.
Squired-Up
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The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy - The Exhibition features film footage, props, costumes and artefacts from the movies, including armoury, animatronics and miniatures, as well as computer and mechanical interactives.
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It seems impossible to avoid the conclusion that the active, armoured campodeiform grub differing less from its parent than an eruciform larva differs from its parent, is as a larval type more primitive than the caterpillar or maggot.
The Life-Story of Insects
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And cinema lends the added excitement of a battle featuring rocket launchers and armoured vehicles.
The Sun
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The regime has also cut mobile phone and internet systems before making mass arrests or sending heavy armour into cities.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was about to defend the holy of holies from the touch of the profane; to guard the citadel of his Church from the most rampant of its enemies; to put on his good armour in the best of fights; and secure, if possible, the comforts of his creed for coming generations of ecclesiastical dignitaries.
01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003
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Behind them rumbled an impressive line of Russian BTR-60 PK armoured personnel-carriers, huge, boat-shaped amphibious ones.
KARA KUSH
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There are relatively few surviving pieces of medieval date, so the study of armour is largely dependent on the evidence of monumental effigies, manuscript illuminations, and documentary sources such as accounts and inventories.
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Whether or not a musket ball could penetrate armour was dependent on a number of factors, one of which is that firearms in those days did not always fire.
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It is used in armour-piercing ammunition.
Times, Sunday Times
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We have a few difficulties at the moment because the fungus does not impart resistance to wear, particularly from heavy armoured vehicles!
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Whether or not a musket ball could penetrate armour was dependent on a number of factors, one of which is that firearms in those days did not always fire.
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Until the armoured regiment had crossed its start line, the armoured infantry would pause momentarily in forward holding areas.
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The next day Willow was taken to the blacksmith and the armourer.
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The Peshmerga provide him with cigarettes, food and space to sleep in an armoured vehicle.
The Sun
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One of the helicopters opens fire with armour-piercing shells.
Mail and Guardian
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Beginning by ridiculing Cunningham's numerous bookish allusions – nothing makes a novel seem more vulnerable, more naked, than an armour-plating of literary references.
Review of The Hours author's latest book wins inaugural hatchet job award
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A valuable weapon in the armoury of seduction, it covers a multitude of sins, including wrinkles and blemishes.
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It means you can unleash the full force of your armoury and ensure a spectacular kill.
The Sun
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With its armoured shell, thick leathery skin and slow movement, the turtle is one of the most easily recognized creatures on earth.
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The second figure (XXIX), which wants the leg armour, is of the kind known as a tonlet, and has a skirt of horizontal lames engraved.
Authorised Guide to the Tower of London
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The rank and file continued to rely on mail shirts, cloth armours (brigandine and jak) and simpler headgear.
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The difficulty of keeping soldiers from straying out of quarters by night, would have sufficiently accounted for the appearance of a straggling foot-soldier; but it was more difficult to account for a mounted horseman, in full armour; and such was the apparition which a peculiarly bright glimpse of moonlight now showed at the bottom of the causewayed hill.
Castle Dangerous
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As you go through the races and get better, you can get special weapons and armour.
Times, Sunday Times
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From the late 15 th century etching came into widespread use as a means of adornment, mainly on pieces of armour.
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The armourer and one of his smiths had climbed to the guardwalk, to ensure there should be no easy way through at that level.
A River So Long
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Come, valiant sir," said Wamba, "I must be your armourer as well as your equerry -- - I have dismounted you, and now I will unhelm you.
Ivanhoe. A Romance
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They're safely back in the bunker ordering the privates, corporals and sergeants to climb aboard our motorized tin cans, known as armoured vehicles, and patrol that God-forsaken desert -- knowing full well roadside bombs could blow them to bits.
Toronto Sun
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Whilst few anglers specifically target mackerel, they are a major part of the sea anglers bait armoury and a supply of fresh mackerel is essential for success with many species.
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If only for the arrogance and self-belief it will armour you with.
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My mother banned me from starting up a micronation ever again, unless I could back it up with sufficient armoury and investment capital, which of course I never could, being a very lazy kid.
Boing Boing: November 19, 2006 - November 25, 2006 Archives
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The spoils of victory/war included mounds of treasure and armour.
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His strike hit home, knocking a few of the armoured scales loose and inflicting a minor wound.
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He was equipped in a wonderful solidity of armour, with a hard, carven helmet on his head, a splendid red-bossed shield swinging on his shoulder, a wide-grooved, straight sword clashing along his thigh.
Irish Fairy Tales
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This distribution of patronage is an important component in the president's political armoury, since by his choices he determines the political complexion of the government.
The Government and Politics of France
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The armoured vehicle is protected against 14.5 mm heavy machine gun rounds and artillery splinters.
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And now he showed me pieces of armour, that is, a vizored headpiece or armet, with cuirass, backplates, pauldrons and vambraces, all very richly gilded, the which it seemed he had chosen for my defence.
Martin Conisby's Vengeance
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His car was mud-splattered, parked amongst the jeeps and armoured personnel carriers, a hundred yards from the helicopter pad.
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The Americans were developing larger tanks, with cast-armour hulls and turrets, better guns, and air-cooled diesel engines.
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The armour you created offers very good protection and it seems you've definitely managed to assure perfect mobility - this has been our main problem so far.
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The hail of energy pulses was too much for the copter's armoured hull to take, as it exploded and debris rained down onto the street far below.
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A well radicated habit, in a lively, vegete faculty, is like an apple of gold in a picture of silver; it is perfection upon perfection; it is a coat of mail upon our armour; and, in a word, it is the raising of the soul at least one story higher; for take off but the wheels, and the powers in all their operations will drive but heavily.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.
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Beneath one of these lay stretched something of a grey colour, which, as it drew itself together, exhibited the figure of a man sheathed in armour, but strangely accoutred, and in a manner so bizarre, as to indicate some of the wild fancies peculiar to the knights of that period.
Castle Dangerous
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The next equestrian figure (IV) shows the fluted, or as it was called crested, armour, of about 1500.
Authorised Guide to the Tower of London
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I stumbled off to be sick behind an armoured personnel carrier as he started on Marius.
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It is Mr. Roe's opinion that the defensive armour on the quarter jacks dates from the first half of the fifteenth century, the plain oviform breastplates and basinets, as well as the continuation of the tassets round the hips, being very characteristic features of this period.
Vanishing England
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Many of the trilobite fossils found commonly elsewhere in the world are these empty suits of armour.
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Two suits of armour stood to attention at the foot of a wide oak staircase.
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Others assembled crossbows whose bows were of the finest black spring steel, that could hurl a dart with such force as would kill a fully armoured destrier with a single shot.
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In this context, putting the case for armoured divisions was something that had to be done with skill and tact.
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However, a new generation of young officers embraced the idea of a fast moving war based on armoured vehicles supported by air power.
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Blackened steel, tempered into armour, was what they wore.
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They spotted armour moving up the valley.
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Elite mercenaries, originally from Aragon, armed with javelins and light armour.
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The advance party had been busy assembling the body armour for the whole of the battle group.
Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War
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FALLUJAH, Iraq, Jan 8 IPS – Ten-year-old Yassir aimed a plastic gun at a passing U.S. armoured patrol in Fallujah, and shouted Bang!
Think Progress » FACT CHECK: Congress Has Repeatedly Placed Limits On Military Deployments And Funding
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The "flics" look as menacing as ever, complete with body armour, truncheons and pistols, even though they are mostly dealing with shambolically intoxicated youths rather than would-be revolutionaries.
France's young binge drinkers upset cafe society with their 'British boozing'
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We have less infantry and armour than the enemy.
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Saul offered his own sword and armour to David.
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The uniformed officer looked into my suitcase and bags and poked at the bulletproof body armour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although unisex vests are available in every police station in a variety of sizes, body armour is not currently personally issued to each officer.
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In recent years, Britain has been pulled up for the sale of military and security equipment such as armoured vehicles to
ANC Daily News Briefing
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It's a constant battle with the management - you need a suit of armour, not overalls, to come to work.
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He was recounting how he had ambushed a column of armoured vehicles, killing dozens of soldiers.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the codpiece is the principal and most especial piece of armour that a warrior doth carry; and therefore do I maintain even to the fire (exclusively, understand you me), that no Turks can properly be said to be armed men, in regard that codpieces are by their law forbidden to be worn.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Shells from both battleships were exploding deep in the heart of the BISMARCK, wrecking the engine rooms, destroying the fuel tanks and adding hundreds of tons of fuel to feed the great fires now raging in the entire mid-section of the ship, the roaring flames clearly visible through the great jagged gaps torn in the ship's side and armour-plating.
The Lonely Sea
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The gateman made a show of opening the armour-plated gates and I did my bit by tipping him extra.
A DARKENING STAIN
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Also being readied for the modern locust fighter's armoury is a class of products known as Insect Growth Regulators, or IGRs, which influence the ability of hoppers to moult and grow properly.
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It uses electrically charged plating to vaporise anti-tank missiles before they can penetrate the rest of the armour.
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He found him sitting in his canvas chair beside a brazier, drinking Guinness with the chief armourer.
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The gun fires a shell capable of piercing the armour of an enemy tank.
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A black-haired, thickly-bearded man in the middle of the soldiers with his armour hanging over a pot belly stepped forward, thumbs hooked through his sword belt.
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Maj Hansen said the Australian-developed training school was well equipped with a 300m range, a grenade range, a gym, armouries and living-in accommodation.
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I like the fact that the texture on the armour is so beautifully detailed and realistic that you could charge schoolchildren 50p per time to make brass rubbings from it.
Book Cover Smackdown! 'Zoo City' vs. 'Plague Year' (Czech) vs. Firedrake
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Rumour is that in his headlong hurry, when mounting behind his yoked horses to begin the battle, he left his father's sword behind and caught up his charioteer Metiscus 'weapon; and that served him long, while Teucrian stragglers turned their backs; when it met the divine Vulcanian armour, the mortal blade like brittle ice snapped in the stroke; the shards lie glittering upon the yellow sand.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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His armour clankered slightly as he stepped, the gyrostabilisers kicking in with each grand step.
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They needed aid in tying on armour- saucepan and coal-scuttle helmets, bolsters for necks, blanket and hearthrug padding, dish-cover shields.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nor the cause rendered, that “the firmness of hides is for the armour of the body against extremities of heat or cold,” doth not impugn the cause rendered, that “contraction of pores is incident to the outwardest parts, in regard of their adjacence to foreign or unlike bodies;” and so of the rest, both causes being true and compatible, the one declaring an intention, the other a consequence only.
The Advancement of Learning
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Since then, the military has deployed armoured personnel carriers around sensitive buildings in the city, and police are said to have mostly withdrawn.
Times, Sunday Times
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Due to its high density, which is about twice that of lead, and other physical properties, depleted uranium is used in munitions designed to penetrate armour plate.
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A good part of their infantries were pulled out, but more of their armour and artillery came in.
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In medià ¦ val armour, a light globular headpiece, either with or without a vizor, and without a crest, the lower part curving outwards behind. c1440 Eng. Conq.
Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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A single chink in our armour at the negotiating table means we could lose out badly.
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It may be mentioned that they are subdivided into a number of genera, as the sloths, etcetera; and here, again, without any very sufficient reason, since they all possess the scaly armour -- from which the name armadillo is derived -- and their habits are nearly identical.
Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
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One of these shells landed on B turret just between the two guns, ripping off the front armour plate and killing eight men at the front of the gunhouse.
Graf Spee
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In-line transmission is by four central axles protected by armoured housings.
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A new feature of the tank is that the fitted modular special armour covers the turret.
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Other people tell us that they feel better on Armour thyroid.
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The current residents of the armoury are the Hastings & Prince Edward Regiment, a proud and storied regiment that traces it's lineage in Canada to 1800.
Soldiers in our cities
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The outer (armour-plated) plate is earthed while the insulated inner plate is live.
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“Come, valiant sir,” said Wamba, “I must be your armourer as well as your equerry — I have dismounted you, and now I will unhelm you.”
Ivanhoe
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Yeah, in defiance of the hoariest cliche in the Big Bumper Book of Onscreen Melodramatic Cliches, have your characters wander into the House of DeathFilled WithPossible Anomaly Monsters, unarmoured, unarmed etc etc.
Primeval Season 3: What The Hell Happened? – Updated « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
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The engine cowlings are armoured for protection.
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They have a warm removable liner and removable shin and knee armour.
The Sun
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A behemoth called Dead Reckoning, a 70 ft long armoured truck provides cover and support for the looters.
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We can guarantee the punctual arrival of the armoured cars in foggy weather.
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At $222, they’ll be transporting cigarettes in armoured vehicles … —
When a Pack of Cigarettes Costs $222 - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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Blue armour was visible, and the tramp of armoured feet was just audible, even above the roaring storm.
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The men had just returned from patrol and removed their helmets and body armour.
The Sun
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This time around – and I think we're on the 22nd remake now – they've steampunked it, gussying it up with much retro-futuristic silliness and cheap-looking CGI, anachronistic weaponry and ordnance, by-the-numbers action-heroics, and a sky teeming with armadas of heavily armoured hot-air balloons reminiscent of Zeppelins.
This steampunk take on The Three Musketeers doesn't buckle my swash
