shieldless

• “If an enemy spearman to the right of the over-arm user saw the thrust coming, he would have an easy victim: a man who has stepped with his weight onto his front foot (thus preventing any evasion by footwork) with an exposed shieldless side.”

  The Spear « Isegoria

• “But, as sometimes happens, the turtle was allowed to go scot-free, and had his shell given back to him, and all the punishment fell on the poor jelly-fish, who was condemned by the queen to go shieldless for ever after.”

  The Violet Fairy Book

• “Harry felt scared to see him walking along, undefended, shieldless; he wanted to cry out a warning, but his headless guard kept shunting him backwards towards the wall, blocking his every attempt to gel out from behind it.”

  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

• “The Romulan completed its loop and headed directly for the shieldless operations center.”

  Simon & Schuster: Starfleet Year One

• “He looked for the “divert” spell Willie had mentioned, and when he finally got through it, noticed the semicircle of Sentinels pointed toward the castle, shieldless.”

  Memory of Fire

• “He was weaponless and shieldless, and his helmet hung from his hand.”

  The Day of the Tempest

• “He leapt to his right, to take the Toal on its shieldless left arm.”

  The Swordbearer

• “The warriors came with me, singing the paean and cheering, till the hill's steepness caught their breath, No one cried out on me for going shieldless; they saw that the god inspired me, and thought I had omens that I could not fall.”

  The Bull From The Sea

• “There stood the shieldless Hogni with set unangry eyes,”

  Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys

• “He was a tall, very lean man, smooth faced, and black haired, helmetless and shieldless, but wearing the plated hauberk of the soldier.”

  The Path of the King

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