How To Use Breastplate In A Sentence
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I like a bit splore, but give it to me in our old style, with the tartan instead of buff, and the target for breastplate and taslets.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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Medieval knights developed lancing for jousting as well as for open charges, and by the 14th and 15th centuries they'd added vamplates to the lances and lance rests to their breastplates.
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Good gods, what am I going to do with this fine ten-mina breastplate, which is so splendidly made?
Peace
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Carews in lace collars and bucket boots; in Ramillies wigs and steel breastplates.
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With a silver breastplate stuck full of arrows and the roars of the bloodthirsty pagans turned to weeping and conversion.
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Luin was clad in battle armor, with a breastplate, greaves, bracers and side armor - his arms were bare.
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It was one of the stones on the breastplate of the high priest (Ex. 28: 20; R.V. marg., "chalcedony;" 39: 13).
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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The women of San Vito wear breastplates of crimson or green satin banded with broad gold braid, and ornamented with spangles.
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
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38 Along the walls stood men-at-arms, in breastplate and morion, with halberds for their only weapon.
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A sword clanged against Parmenion's helm and a spear thudded against his breastplate, dropping to open a narrow gash in his thigh.
Lion Of Macedon
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Verdana concealed a smile, and crashed her mailed fist on the burnished breastplate of her armour.
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She'd stripped away almost all her Rim armour, down to the breastplate and chamois breeches.
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From far and near came valiant knights from all the neighbouring provinces, habited in every conceivable style of richest armour; yet none surpassed Saint David in the sumptuousness of his plume and burgonet, the trappings of his steed, the richness of his scarf, the splendour of his shield and breastplate, or of his whole armour, which, from his lofty helm to his knightly spurs, shone with resplendent beauty.
The Seven Champions of Christendom
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But Eofor took from Ongentheow, earl from other, the iron-breastplate, hard sword hilted, and helmet too, and the hoar-chief’s harness to Hygelac carried, who took the trappings, and truly promised rich fee ’mid folk, — and fulfilled it so.
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere
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Before he even landed, an invisible force slammed into his stomach and several pieces of metal shattered from his breastplate!
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He tugged off the leather breastplate, then the tunic, and brushed at the blood.
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On his breastplate was a device of a dragonlike beast perched with its tail around a planet, and a crown above.
Space Viking
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But fire in this fight I must fear me now, and poisonous breath; so I bring with me breastplate and board. {33c} From the barrow's keeper no footbreadth flee I.
Beowulf
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She put her shoulder plates, breastplate, and belt in the bag.
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The hoplite was protected by a helmet, a shield, and a breastplate, with leg protection in the form of greaves.
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On each breastplate was an insignia, a raised image of a dragon wrapped around a knife.
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On a couple of hooks in a hall of some sort hung the armor, breastplate and shoulder-pads joined together already.
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I was working as a GPO telephonist during the war when we wore earphones and a breastplate that supported a mouthpiece.
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The man quickly grabbed his arms and the woman stripped his armour breastplate away.
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Vests and T-shirts bear prints of Japanese armour breastplates embellished with coloured jewels.
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They were so pretty, with those burnished breastplates.
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Beside the shield he makes a breastplate, a helmet, greaves and ankle straps, to protect Achilles' tender heels.
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Rear cinch and breastplate are considered required for safety reasons.
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A BREASTPLATE-MAKER Good gods, what am I going to do with this fine ten-minae breastplate, which is so splendidly made?
Peace
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This is comparable to wearing a mail shirt or breastplate, conferring a D6 saving throw of 6.
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His eyes, sapphire blue beneath a square-cut black mane, were on the olive-skinned woman across the small room, who was adjusting the gilded brass breastplates that displayed rather than concealed her swelling bilobate chest.
Conan The Invincible
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We've each made our own masks, breastplates, cloaks and ancestral images.
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The pikeman's head was protected by a high combed morion in the Spanish style, rather than the earlier sallet; he wore a breastplate with attached tassets over his thighs and - if an officer - a gorget to protect his throat.
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He turned his back to Hunter, showing his armor was a breastplate instead of a cuirass like Hunter wore.
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He used tooled leather and real copper breastplates, contributing to a new tradition of metalwork.
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The arrow flew through the air, quivering, and struck the leader in the chink between his bracers and breastplate.
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'My breastplate is a breastplate of iron; I had it forged in mine own country, and all my soldiers are armed therewith; in plain language it is a hard heart, a heart as hard as iron, and as much past feeling as a stone; the which if you get, and keep, neither mercy shall win you, nor judgment fright you (Rev 9: 9).
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
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A thick leather and metal breastplate rested over his white-patterned dark blue yukata.
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On his breastplate was a device of a dragon like beast perched with its tail around a planet, and
Space Viking
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Moreover, as any damage done to the horse will involve his rider in extreme peril, the horse also should be clad in armour — frontlet, breastplate, and thigh-pieces; 165 which latter may at the same time serve as cuisses for the mounted man.
On Horsemanship
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Each hoplite was a proud citizen who could afford to equip himself with a bronze helmet, a thick breastplate, greaves to protect the legs, and an iron-tipped spear eight to ten feet long used for thrusting, not throwing.
Alexander the Great
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And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.
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What the stout old lady who showed us the "relics of old Guy" in 1847 called "Guy's breastplate," and sometimes his helmet! is the "croupe" of
Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850
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Her beakhead was a riot of gilded wood supporting a figurehead that showed an ecstatic-faced lady graced with a halo, carrying a sword and dressed in silver-painted armor, though her breastplate was curiously truncated to reveal a pinkly naked bosom.
Sharpe's Trafalgar
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The striped breastplate of a damascened suit of Milanese armour glittered in one corner; loves and nymphs of porcelain, Chinese grotesques, vases of _céladon_ and crackleware, Saxon and old Sèvres cups encumbered the shelves and nooks of the apartment.
The Mummy's Foot
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A cuirassier is a cavalryman whose body is protected by a cuirass, a piece of defensive armor, covering the body from neck to girdle, and combining a breastplate and a back piece.
Short Stories of Various Types
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They fastened their breastplates, in war, over their smocks, and had other armour covering the lower parts of the body, and leg armour called "greaves"; while the great shield which guarded the whole body from throat to ankles was carried by a broad belt slung round the neck.
Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of cities
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She'd stripped away almost all her Rim armour, down to the breastplate and chamois breeches.
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They've found three pieces so far, a breastplate, a greave, and a belt.
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They wore boiled leather breastplates and metal helms, but other than that, were unarmoured.
TREASON KEEP
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Beside the breastplate was a round helm, also of bronze and lined with leather.
Lion Of Macedon
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“It was not Christie,” said Mary; “it was — it was a gentleman — a gentleman with a bright breastplate, like what I hae seen langsyne, when we dwelt at Avenel —”
The Monastery
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[2] All his squires were equipped as he was, with scarlet tunics, breastplates of bronze, and brazen helmets plumed with white, short swords, and a lance of cornel-wood apiece.
Cyropaedia
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His breastplate was inlaid with black obsidian, the preserved iron exquisitely forged.
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She pulled out the breastplate and the arm piece and placed it on the bed and next to the trunk.
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And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathen work of pure gold.
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And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate.
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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Carlo was large as a steroid junkie yet not puffy-firmly outlined, with a chest like an armor breastplate.
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His breastplate was the aegis, awful to behold; his bird was the eagle, his tree the oak.
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The collection includes a gold item thought to be a belt buckle and an impressive gold breastplate.
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To the west were the red-coats of the Royal Marines, and from the Union Club to the embouchure of Whitehall swept the glittering, massive curve of the 1st Life Guards -- gigantic men mounted on gigantic chargers, steel-breastplated, steel-helmeted, steel-caparisoned, a great war-sword of steel ready to the hand of the powers that be.
CORONATION DAY
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It was also called the breastplate of judgment (28: 15).
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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In Isa 59: 17, "righteousness" is His breastplate.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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For winters this war-gear Weohstan kept, breastplate and board, till his bairn had grown earlship to earn as the old sire did: then he gave him, mid Geats, the gear of battle, portion huge, when he passed from life, fared aged forth.
Beowulf
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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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To the west were the red-coats of the Royal Marines, and from the Union Club to the embouchure of Whitehall swept the glittering, massive curve of the 1st Life Guards -- gigantic men mounted on gigantic chargers, steel-breastplated, steel-helmeted, steel-caparisoned, a great war-sword of steel ready to the hand of the powers that be.
CORONATION DAY
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Some of the belles, and indeed some of the women whose beauty is a thing of the past, wear a breastplate of beadwork, which is further decorated with a fringe of reindeer teeth that has a most ghastly effect -- they look so much like human teeth.
Schwatka's Search
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Odd shaped horses may require a breastplate to help the saddle stay in place.
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A breastplate of darkness hid all the windows except one.
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He donned the mail breastplate and leggings, and put on a pair of steel gauntlets and boots.
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He noticed a peculiar weight on his chest and looked down to see a breastplate forged from bone.
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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 lay beside the breastplate on the floor, slightly dirty because of Alfric2s lack of squirely attention, but impressive nonetheless, with its intricate weavings of inlay, copper and silver and brass.
Virginity
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It could be, perhaps, that the genre is still seen as monolithic and shambolic, Hildas in horn-hats and breastplates.
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The soldier wore helmet, breastplate, and shin guards; protection also came from a shield.
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Each hoplite was a proud citizen who could afford to equip himself with a bronze helmet, a thick breastplate, greaves to protect the legs, and an iron-tipped spear eight to ten feet long used for thrusting, not throwing.
Alexander the Great
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He wore a breastplate and leg armour, as well as the expensive, linen drapery around his body.
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We see Penelope waking up alone in a bed filled with discarded gauntlets, greaves and breastplates.
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This breastplate is designed to keep the saddle from sliding backwards while allowing the horse freedom of movement.
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The man's armour fitted Parmenion well, save that the breastplate was a little large.
Lion Of Macedon
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Her accent is horrible, when she talks, it sounds like she's got a reverb pedal hidden somewhere under her smelted breastplate.
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She placed it down beside her to see long thick arm pieces made from the same black material as the breastplate.
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The ephod was the high priest's upper vestment; and the rational his breastplate, in which were twelve gems, etc.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
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You will see blue morpho butterflies, violet sabrewing hummingbirds and dragonflies with scarlet breastplates.
The Sun
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Your breastplate is in the shape of a spread-winged eagle, with bright yellow gems for its eyes.
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He wore a dark purple roquelaure riding-jacket, faced and lapelled with gold lace, through the open front of which shone a silver breastplate.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
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After, barbered, powdered and perfumed, he passed to his vestiary, where still more acolytes helped him into his ceremonial raiment: robes of Lattakayan satin, be-jeweled breastplate, rings and slippers, and the sapphire tiara that had graced the brow of every Kingpriest since the end of the Three Thrones™ War.
Chosen Of The Gods
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In 1868 the Teton Dakota (Oglala and Brule) wore similar breastplates of dentalium shells.
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But Eofor took from Ongentheow, earl from other, the iron-breastplate, hard sword hilted, and helmet too, and the hoar-chief's harness to Hygelac carried, who took the trappings, and truly promised rich fee 'mid folk, -- and fulfilled it so.
Beowulf
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Beneath he was clad in armor (a present from the Earl), new and polished till it shone with dazzling brightness, the breastplate covered with a juppon of white satin, embroidered with silver.
Men of Iron
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The Romans took many gold swords and gold belts set with pearls, and the shield of Razates, which was all of gold and had 120 laminae, and his gold breastplate; and they brought in his caftan together with his head, and his bracelets and his gold saddle.
De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Campaigns of Emperor Herakleios (620-6), according to the Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor
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He suddenly realized that the breastplate had been removed and the bottom layer of his armor had been unzipped.
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And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.
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Like the jewels in the ephod and the breastplate, we are precious in the eyes of God the Father and of God the Son.
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And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
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