How To Use Cuirass In A Sentence
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Like cuirassiers in ancient wars, stamping and leaping high in the air, we drove one another down the short street and then, with this urging in our legs, into the highway.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
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On other occasions, large differences were observed, and attributed to air leaks due to thorax/abdomen disproportion and poor fit of the cuirass.
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Behind the intervals between them might be seen the cohorts of the velites, and further on the great helmets of the Clinabarians, with steel heads glancing in the sun, cuirasses, plumes, and waving standards.
Salammbo
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Body armour, in the form of the iron cuirass, continued to be worn throughout much of the 17th century before its eventual demise.
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The cuirass was the parade one; the one he had used in battle was too worn and hacked to match the splendors around.
Funeral Games
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Its exquisitely decorated sandal clearly identifies the person represented as an emperor shown in the "cuirassed type," wearing a military uniform.
Hadrian at Sagalassos
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In the first, Herakles tries out his weapons, still wearing the cuirass that bespeaks military engagement, and in the second, he strips down and turns to physical force alone.
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As you may recall, I painted the first squadron of the Alt Modena cuirassier regiment earlier in the month.
Archive 2009-08-01
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By my count, the Prussian had only committed 5 of their 12 battalions to the battle so far, and on their right wing, their powerful cuirassier brigade seemed to be gaining the upper hand in the cavalry fight and they still had the Jung Krakow dragoons and the Prinz von Preussen CR2 cuirassiers around Sagschutz.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Matho had lost his shoulder-pieces, his helmet, his cuirass; he was completely naked, and more livid than the dead, with his hair quite erect, and two patches of foam at the corners of his lips, — and his sword whirled so rapidly that it formed an aureola around him.
Salammbo
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When a man of wit and intelligence is taken in by old Fourchon," continued the general, "a retired cuirassier need not blush for having hunted that otter; which bears an enormous resemblance to the third posthorse we are made to pay for and never see.
Sons of the Soil
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The Prussians deployed three regiments of cuirassiers on their far right flank and these fought a hard battle with the Saxons throughout the day.
Archive 2009-03-01
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The two fragments of a left foot belong to a colossal cuirassed statue, as shown by the footwear, boots or high shoes.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Sculptural Studies Report 1
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At least we know that Bridger received from his friend Sir William Drummond Stewart, the sportsman and traveller, a gift of a Life Guards cuirass and helmet-there exists a sketch of Bridger wearing them.
Isabelle
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The grand column was led by the two-squadron Garde du Corps (CR13) cuirassier regiment that was brigaded with the Prinz von Preussen (Gelbe Kuraisier) CR2 regiment.
Archive 2008-01-01
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Golden, in his _Five Nations_, writes of the Red Indians as wearing "a kind of cuirass made of pieces of wood joined together.
Homer and His Age
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to protect with a cuirass.
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One of the first and most notorious libelles, Le Gazetier cuirassé (The Iron-Plated Gazetteer, 1771), was written by the leading libeler in the colony of expatriates, Charles Théveneau de Morande.
Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia
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His cuirassiers plunged into the thick of the fray at once, driving the Swedes pell-mell back across the ditch and road.
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Her respirator was the modern cuirass type: a Spira-shell: not the old totally enclosed iron lung.
Forfeit
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Cavalry forces evolved into four categories throughout the ages: the cuirassier or heavy cavalryman, the lancer, the dragoon or mounted infantryman, and the light cavalry.
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Primitive armour was based on a leather foundation, hence the name cuirass, was derived from _cuir_ (leather).
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
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Negative-pressure ventilation using a chest cuirass can also be used for daytime ventilation, although current models are not portable.
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Every other Austrian cuirassier regiment had red facings.
Alt Modena Cuirassiers
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At the head of the party rode the Earl and his brother side by side, each clad cap-a-pie in a suit of Milan armor, the cuirass of each covered with a velvet juppon embroidered in silver with the arms and quarterings of the Beaumonts.
Men of Iron
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A steel helmet studded with gems rose above his turban; his cuirass was embossed with gold; his cimeter and dagger were of the workmanship of Fez, and flamed with precious stones.
The Alhambra
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In last year's Big Battalion Game, the French had more cuirassiers than the Prussians and so I vowed on a stack of Bibles that I would never be out-cuirassed again.
The Prussian Gens d'armes (CR10)
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By 1804, twelve French heavy cavalry regiments had become cuirassiers, with cuirasses and steel helmets.
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He wears half-armor of high quality: a well-fitted cuirass on his upper body, and protective britches of the latest design with light steel plates on his thighs.4 His helmet is no ordinary morion, or crude iron pot of the kind that we associate with Spanish conquistadors and English colonists.
Champlain's Dream
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He smote the broad chest with his knuckles, and pressed and prodded the thick muscle-pads that covered the shoulders like a cuirass.
THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN
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From up on the grassy ridge he barked out his orders and his other squadron of cuirassiers charged down the hill, beating their horses and driving them on into the fight.
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An armed figure with Corinthian helmet, cuirass, and greaves, and holding a spear and round shield, runs with a very wide stride behind each chariot.
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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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The legionary is dressed in a galea, a metal helmet with cheek guards, and a cuirass, body armour comprising overlapping iron plates.
Collector Coins Offer Enjoyment and Profit : Coin Collecting News
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They had stopped up the holes in their cuirasses with the shoulder-blades of quadrupeds, and replaced their brass cothurni with worn sandals.
Salammbo
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His legs were positioned in a wide war stance, his body battle-ready, with a bronze cuirass and greaves.
Blood Trinity
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The French and Germans experimented with metal cuirasses for machine gunners in World War I; the Americans did not adopt chest armor until World War II, when some bomber crews were provided with ‘flak jackets.’
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It seemed to Odo as he gazed on the long line of faces as though their owners had entered one by one into a narrowing defile, where the sun rose later and set earlier on each successive traveller; and in every countenance, from that of the first Duke to that of his own peruked and cuirassed grandfather, he discerned the same symptom of decadency: that duality of will which, in a delicately-tempered race, is the fatal fruit of an undisturbed pre-eminence.
The Valley of Decision
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I am ashamed of being a young rake, when my seniors are covering their grey toupees with helmets and feathers, and accoutering their pot-bellies with cuirasses and martial masquerade habits.
Letters of Horace Walpole 01
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Frank Hammond informed me that his Austrian and Prussian cuirassier castings are on the horizon, so the temptation is large to delay painting any more Hinchcliffes until I have a chance to tackle the Minden cuirassier figures.
More Mindens Painted
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At this point, Davout ordered the heavy dragoons on his far right to engage the Russian dragoons another 4 squadrons of which joined in on the assault and cuirassiers.
Archive 2009-05-01
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GMB does not have Alt Modena yet, but does have 12 other cuirassier flags, so I'm glad to see Vaubanner has a good one.
Alt Modena Cuirassiers
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Their bodies were protected by a vest of quilted cotton, impervious to light missiles, and over this the chiefs wore mantles of gorgeous feather-work, and the richer of them a kind of cuirass of gold or silver plates.
The True Story Book
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So, thanks to French and Latin, English-speakers now sink their teeth into cuirass, carnage, carnality, and carnivore.
The English Is Coming!
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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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The line cuirassiers and Guard Horse Grenadiers and Chasseurs began to cross the river.
In The Grand Manner - Day 2
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I am ashamed of being a young rake, when my seniors are covering their gray toupees with helmets and feathers, and accoutering their pot-bellies with cuirasses and martial masquerade habits.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
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Contrary to the late Republic and the early Empire in the West, in the Greek East, the cuirassed statue was already common to the honorific repertoire of the Hellenistic period and adopted there by Roman generals and officials, who introduced it into the Roman repertoire.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Sculptural Studies Report 1
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He hastily straightened his gleaming bronze cuirass and cuisse, settled his sword sheath and gauntlets more comfortably upon his belt, and entered the audience hall.
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Slowly it rose — its mighty neck cuirassed with gold and scarlet scales from whose polished surfaces the amber light glinted like flakes of fire; and under this neck shimmered something like a palely luminous silvery shield, guarding it.
The Moon Pool
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A single squadron of French lancers won a melee against a larger and heavier Russian cuirassier squadron, forcing to to flee, but more importantly, pinning the two cuirassier squadrons that were stacked up behind it.
In The Grand Manner - Day 2
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It was distinguished at Rossbach, Zorndorf and Hochirch and was usually brigaded with the Gensdarmes CR10 cuirassier regiment.
Frederick's Garde du Corps
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The results of an evening's worth of figure basing: Elite Miniatures French cuirassiers, dragoons and, oh, one Minden SYW Austrian cuirassier in the front row on the left.
Archive 2009-05-01
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The French have 3 battalions of infantry plus Bill's 2 btns, 40 dragoons, 32 cuirassiers, 12 chasseurs and four 8-pounders with crew.
June Painting Results
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By 1700, armor was largely out of use, but a specialist class of heavy cavalry, the cuirassier, continued to wear torso armor and a helmet.
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The dark cuirass was worn over a closely linked black chain mail hauberk.
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By my count, the Prussian had only committed 5 of their 12 battalions to the battle so far, and on their right wing, their powerful cuirassier brigade seemed to be gaining the upper hand in the cavalry fight and they still had the Jung Krakow dragoons and the Prinz von Preussen CR2 cuirassiers around Sagschutz.
Archive 2009-03-01
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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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This is what Bill saw in front of his dragoons and jager screen: Prussian infantry supported by Prussian dragoons and cuirassiers.
BAR Napoleon Playtest
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The results of an evening's worth of figure basing: Elite Miniatures French cuirassiers, dragoons and, oh, one Minden SYW Austrian cuirassier in the front row on the left.
Archive 2009-05-01
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The French gained a slight advantage in the ensuing melees, forcing a couple more squadrons of cuirassier and hussars off the field.
Archive 2009-05-01
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It was as if a daimio had been taken out of one of those cuirasses of iron and lacquer, so like the shell of some monstrous crustacean, and thrust into the clothes of a European waiter.
The Child of Pleasure
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Had they failed, they would have routed through the supporting CR8 Seydlitz cuirassiers and likely the follow up Austrian attack would have run both Prussian units off the table.
Archive 2009-02-01
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Sailor-fashion, he had no armor on but a light morion and a cuirass, so he was not too much encumbered to prevent his springing to his legs instantly, and setting to work, cutting and foining right and left at every sound, for sight there was none.
Westward Ho!
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Two captains ride before them on shaggy ponies, the taller in armor, stained and rusted with many a storm and fray, the other in brilliant inlaid cuirass and helmet, gaudy sash and plume, and sword hilt glittering with gold, a quaint contrast enough to the meager garron which carries him and his finery.
Westward Ho!
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Two other cuirassier regiments can be seen debouching from the valley on the right of the picture.
Archive 2009-02-01
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We had reached the outer court by this, and were hurrying for the bridge that led to the pontlevis when we saw a tall man, his cuirass glittering like silver in the moonlight, step out of the shadow and signal to a trumpeter, who stood at his side.
Orrain A Romance
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He quotes French cuirassiers (heavy cavalrymen) as saying that their sabers were ‘virtually useless in hand-to-hand cavalry fighting’.
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A cuirass ventilator, rocking bed, and pneumobelt are less commonly used.
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The national “tire-valiant” is a galeated crest not unlike the cuirassier’s helmet, and the hair, trained from the sides into a high ridge running along the cranium, not unfrequently projects far beyond the forehead.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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He fumbled with the cuirass for a moment before he managed to hook the attachment hooks together, securing the piece of armour around his body, onto which the gorget was tied to protect his neck.
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An armed figure with Corinthian helmet, cuirass, and greaves, and holding a spear and round shield, runs with a very wide stride behind each chariot.
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[Illustration] "What monstrous brabble is this, you mad bitch?" he retorted, grunting as I bear-hugged his waist, shouldering the cuirass to squeeze it home.
No Great Magic
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The only exception is the Alt Modena cuirassiers, which will use the pending Minden Miniatures Austrian cuirassiers when they become available.
Archive 2009-02-01
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He was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass; this officer no longer possessed a helmet.
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One of the armoured ones sported the gold chevrons of an officer on his cuirass.
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I stumbled, nearly fell, over a brown-faced, leather-cuirassed body that lay half over, legs barring the threshold.
The Metal Monster
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I prefer her, cuirassed in pride, armed with a taunt.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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In 1883 Mr. Leaf wrote: "I take it that the _zoma_ means the waist of the cuirass which is covered by the _zoster_, and has the upper edge of the _mitrê_ or plated apron beneath it fastened round the warrior's body. ...
Homer and His Age
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At least we know that Bridger received from his friend Sir William Drummond Stewart, the sportsman and traveller, a gift of a Life Guards cuirass and helmet-there exists a sketch of Bridger wearing them.
Isabelle
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The regiment was typically brigaded with the Garde du Corps cuirassier regiment CR13 during the SYW.
Archive 2008-10-01
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So, thanks to French and Latin, English-speakers now sink their teeth into cuirass, carnage, carnality, and carnivore.
The English Is Coming!
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Cavalry forces evolved into four categories throughout the ages: the cuirassier or heavy cavalryman, the lancer, the dragoon or mounted infantryman, and the light cavalry.
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Most statues with this kind of sword belong to cuirassed statues, many of them representing emperors.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Sculptural Studies
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Persian; and there the Circassian* with his long hair and chain cuirass.
Chapter 2 - Part V
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A two-year-old boy died after falling on a 'cuirass' fish and one of its bones pierced his brain on Monday.
Stabroek News
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Left, a Sagalassos city coin dating to the early third century A.D. and representing a Tyche (Fortuna) holding a cornucopia (right) crowning a cuirassed and helmeted soldier (left), identified as "Lakedaimon of the Sagalassians.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Small Finds Conservation Report 4
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The 36,000 troopers of the cavalry arm were organized into eight cuirassier, six dragoon, twelve hussar and three uhlan regiments.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
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The national "tire-valiant" is a galeated crest not unlike the cuirassier's helmet, and the hair, trained from the sides into a high ridge running along the cranium, not unfrequently projects far beyond the forehead.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1
