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  • She just wished she could stuff the armorplate into her saddlebags, along with the discarded jacket.

    The Spellsong War Modesitt, L. E. 1998

  • Damage Control cried, near hysteria, that armorplate had been sliced off as a knife might cut soft wood.

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

  • The office was built of ferroconcrete, with an armorplate door and an automatic recognition lock.

    Ensign Flandry Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966

  • These ships have two forms of protection, heavy armorplate against shells, over which lies a thin protective coating which is impervious to t-rays, but which can be dissolved by a certain chemical.

    Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963

  • The muzzle of each gun was flush with the surface of the armorplate, the guns themselves being hidden in the interior of the hull.

    Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963

  • And now that the two fleets were in close contact, another form of gun was brought into action, which fired shells containing this acid, and when a direct hit was made you could see a great blotch on the side of the hit ship where the t-ray protective material had been dissolved, and the armorplate beneath was exposed.

    Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963

  • States Government is the largest exhibitor in the building, with numerous fine models of warships, docks, dams and submarine mines; torpedoes, artillery, armorplate and shells, army equipment, ammunition-making machinery in operation, light-houses and aids to navigation, and a splendid set of models illustrating road-making methods.

    The Jewel City Ben Macomber

  • They smiled as they looked at their own equipment: their huge claws and beaks and teeth and armorplate and observed that the peoples who were stirring had no means of offense and little of defense.

    Woodrow Wilson and the Doctrine of Sovereignty 1918

  • That uncompromising pietist, with her armorplate of impeccable virtue and

    The Torrent Entre Naranjos Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

  • Quite apart from having the ship for a backup, he was too formidable himself: a thousand-kilo centauroid, his natural armorplate shining green above and gold below, his spine more impressively ridged than any Merseian’s.

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

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