chain-armour

Had you a coat of mail on, or of Milanese chain-armour?

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Mr. Thorne did not seem to participate much in her regret, feeling perhaps that a full suit of chain-armour would have added but little to his own personal comfort.

Barchester Towers 2004

Noonday on the open sea within a few degrees of the Equator is apt to be oppressively warm; and our two travelers were now airily clad in suits of dazzling white linen, having laid aside the chain-armour which they had found not only endurable in the cold mountain air they had lately been breathing, but a necessary precaution against the daggers of the banditti who infested the heights.

A Tangled Tale 2003

To wear anything sewn or with seams, as shirt, trowsers, or slippers; anything knotted or woven, as chain-armour; but the pilgrim may use, for instance, a torn-up shirt or trowsers bound round his loins or thrown over his shoulders, he may knot his

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Some of its members wear armour, with helmets and black-lacquered iron visors, and carry 'martoe,' or 'fire-charms,' and various necessary implements; others are clad in head-and-shoulder pieces and gauntlets of light chain-armour, to protect them while pulling down and unroofing houses, which is their especial duty.

Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs Jacob Mortimer Wier Silver

There is one with a figure in full chain-armour; and others, again, of an older date, ornamented with the geometric reticulations already discussed.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

The knights of the twentieth century do not set out in chain-armour to right the wrongs of the oppressed by force of arms, but the best influences of chivalry have been preserved for the quickening of a broader and a nobler world than was ever in the dreams of knight-errant of old.

Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" U. Waldo Cutler

Does Sir Walter Citrine, say, feel himself to be rather the same kind of person as Childe Roland (Childe Citrine to the dark tower came!), or is Lord Nuffield under the impression that we shall mistake him for a crusader in chain-armour?

As I Please 1944

Montague recalled one heiress after another -- débutantes, some of them, exquisite and delicate as butterflies -- but under the surface as hard as chain-armour.

The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923

But Margarita would have moulded a suit of chain-armour, I believe, to her personality.

Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918