baldric

How To Use baldric In A Sentence

• In _Iliad_, II. 388, the shield (_aspis_) is spoken of as "covering a man about" ([Greek: _amphibrotae_]), while, in the heat of battle, the baldric (_telamon_), or belt of the shield, "shall be wet with sweat. Homer and His Age
• With him, as always, is a prize idiot from the Baldrick clan - this time a particularly unpleasant army private, serving as Blackadder's batman.
• These student's aren't going to be happy leaving University, saddled with debt, to face the prospect of ending up as a teaboy on one of Baldrick Brown's dottier schemes. British Blogs
• Ages, or among the Iroquois and Algonquins, make men dispense with corslets, even when the shield was worn, as in Homer, slung round the neck by a _telamon_ (_guige_ in Old French), belt, or baldric. Homer and His Age
• Fine basket-hilted broadswords and backswords would be carried suspended from tooled baldrics with brass or silver buckles and trim.
• Ching led us farther and farther away from the riverside, and past enclosures at whose gates stood truculent-looking, showily-dressed men, who carried swords hung from a kind of baldrick, and scowled at us from beneath their flat, conical lacquered hats. Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser
• The walking figure has a baldric strapped across his chest from which hangs a long sword in a scabbard.
• They monodic jaded tactual orlando fl hotel and nibbler diodon in baldrick baccivorous alternate cuculidae thunk in the wheatworm bar nagger desynchronisation in abscess. Rational Review
• Ghamad) or scabbard (of wood or leather): and this baldrick is the young whisker. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me. Much Ado About Nothing