breast-plate

Betting the knight, his money on the armor, the intricate chain mail like wire net or metal scrim, being's effulgent Maginot line, his stake on the weighted mace and plate mittens, on the hinged couters and poleyns, on vambrace and cuisee and greave, banging the breast-plate and all the jewelry of battle for timbre and pitch like a jerk slamming doors and kicking tires in a used car lot.

Style in Fiction 2009

With Patrick, we weave a spiritual breast-plate around their anguish, and in his words, in their name, offer a protection mantle to every trafficked man, woman and child:

St. Patrick, One of Christianity's Earliest Liberation Theologians Kathleen Deignan 2010

The cold spray of the cascade falling on his face, now for the first time recalled Lachlan to consciousness; and as the demon gave one gigantic rear, previous to that spring which would have engulphed him and his victim in the unfathomable depths of Loch-Dorch, Lachlan remembered and pronounced aloud the Name of names that was engraved on the breast-plate of the High Priest of Israel.

Archive 2007-12-01 2007

Think of it as a whimsical brass chastity breast-plate comprising a feminine tangle of swirls that's decorative and graceful -- and yet also conveys "Hands off."

The Intimate Side of Alexander Calder 2008

Sir John Foster listened with his head declining on his breast-plate.

The Monastery 2008

While in the centre of the shield the sun's bright orb flashed light on the backs of his winged coursers; there too was the heavenly choir of stars, Pleiades and Hyades, to dazzle Hector's eyes and make him flee; and upon his gold-forged helm were sphinxes, bearing in their talons the prey of which the minstrels sing; on his breast-plate was lioness breathing flame, her eye upon Peirene's steed, in eagerness to rend it.

Electra 2008

He was no champion to break a lance against the breast-plate of his Frankish rival, the famous Bohemond of

Count Robert of Paris 2008

While in the centre of the shield the sun's bright orb flashed light on the backs of his winged coursers; there too was the heavenly choir of stars, Pleiades and Hyades, to dazzle Hector's eyes and make him flee; and upon his gold-forged helm were sphinxes, bearing in their talons the prey of which the minstrels sing; on his breast-plate was lioness breathing flame, her eye upon Peirene's steed, in eagerness to rend it.

Electra 2008

“I ken naething about that,” said Tibb, — “but his likeness it was, that I will be sworn to, just as he used to ride out a-hawking; for having enemies in the country, he seldom laid off the breast-plate; and for my part,” added Tibb, “I dinna think a man looks like a man unless he has steel on his breast, and by his side too.”

The Monastery 2008

Next he fastened about his breast a fine golden breast-plate, curiously wrought, which Pallas Athene the daughter of Zeus had given him when first he was about to set out upon his grievous labours.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007