battering-rams

Documents written in secretary hand appear almost illegible to our eyes today, but in the entry shown below which is one of my favorite in the book, depicting the arms of a knight as three light blue battering-rams, you might be able to pick out the date "16th of Januaryie 1580" near the middle of the second line:

Carolyn Vega: An Elizabethan Armorial Carolyn Vega 2011

Documents written in secretary hand appear almost illegible to our eyes today, but in the entry shown below which is one of my favorite in the book, depicting the arms of a knight as three light blue battering-rams, you might be able to pick out the date "16th of Januaryie 1580" near the middle of the second line:

Carolyn Vega: An Elizabethan Armorial Carolyn Vega 2011

Here, too, his intellectual fortress comes under assault; the barbarians at the gate are philo-inconsistencies Along with the philo-dollars, these operate their battering-rams, like the benighted mediaeval barons against the enlightened cities.

On Being a Philosopher 2008

Sardis, where he was having engines of artillery made and battering-rams to overthrow the walls of those who would not listen to him.

Cyropaedia 2007

[20] Finally Cyrus, thus assured of the general consent to his proposals, said, “If we really wish to carry out what we have set ourselves, we must prepare battering-rams and siege engines, and get together mechanics and builders for our own castles.”

Cyropaedia 2007

The valor displayed by Ivanhoe in all these contests was prodigious; and the way in which he escaped death from the discharges of mangonels, catapults, battering-rams, twenty-four pounders, boiling oil, and other artillery, with which the besieged received their enemies, was remarkable.

Burlesques 2006

And therefore (as I have said elsewhere) if a man had been thinking of the war engines and battering-rams of the ancients, though he had done it with all his might and spent his whole life in it, yet he would never have lighted on the discovery of cannon acting by means of gunpowder.

The New Organon 2005

Protected both by archers and by big, thick shields held by auxiliaries, men carrying battering-rams charged at the gates of Nefrusy.

The War of the Crowns Christian Jacq 2002

The Thebans managed to break down the doors of two of the chambers, using heavy beams as battering-rams.

The War of the Crowns Christian Jacq 2002

Emmanuel, with his captains and men of war, would dwell in Mansoul for ever; and that his battering-rams and slings might be lodged in her for the use and service of the Prince, and for the help and strength of Mansoul.

The Holy War 2001