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  • Am I the only one who thinks the scale-mail on Captain America's costume has gotten way, way too exaggerated?

    For the Steve Rogers fan who has everything (except a bloody T-shirt) | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • A shirt of scale-mail added to his war-like appearance as the horned helmet seemed to increase his height.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • "There are sharks in these waters," said Athelstane, preparing to doff his scale-mail.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Cormac, trembling with the terrible thrill of the fight, wondered at this sword that could thus slice through scale-mail.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Thousands on thousands of the war-like Sons of Shem: ranks of horsemen in scale-mail corselets and cylindrical helmets " the asshuri of Nippr, Shumir, and Eruk and their sister cities; wild white-robed hordes " the nomad clans.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The Picts burst on the Bossonian frontiers with fire and sword, not clad in tiger-skins and brandishing copper axes as of yore, but in scale-mail, wielding weapons of keen steel.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • But in the reign of Thugra Khotan, the last magician of Kuthchemes, gray-eyed, tawny-haired barbarians in wolfskins and scale-mail had ridden from the north into the rich uplands to carve out the kingdom of Koth with their iron swords.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • But in the reign of Thugra Khotan, the last magician of Kuthchemes, gray-eyed, tawny-haired barbarians in wolfskins and scale-mail had ridden from the north into the rich uplands to carve out the kingdom of Koth with their iron swords.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Thousands on thousands of the war-like Sons of Shem: ranks of horsemen in scale-mail corselets and cylindrical helmets " the asshuri of Nippr, Shumir, and Eruk and their sister cities; wild white-robed hordes " the nomad clans.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The Picts burst on the Bossonian frontiers with fire and sword, not clad in tiger-skins and brandishing copper axes as of yore, but in scale-mail, wielding weapons of keen steel.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

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