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  • But Bell and Freyt could see through his armourplate of self-control.

    Spoor of the Antis Voltz, William 1976

  • In the instant while my screen was forming I noticed a shimmering red glow of light just inside the closed armourplate doors of the viewing chamber.

    Blue System Scheer, Karl 1976

  • I guided Rhodan to the nearby open airlock and we all took shelter behind the armourplate door.

    Blue System Scheer, Karl 1976

  • Nor did they deviate from my course as we came through the last armourplate hatch door at a depth of 2,000 meters.

    Blue System Scheer, Karl 1976

  • The access hatches of the Finmark were made of such strong armourplate that nothing less than a thermo-cannon could blast them open.

    Enemy in the Dark Mahr, Kurt 1975

  • They were early, and their hostess, a handsome, heavily built woman with corsets like armourplate under her exquisite gown, and a blonde bang covering her forehead, came forward with her daughter to meet them.

    Harriet and the Piper Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • But inside -- you must have heard of it -- is the famous steel door, three inches thick, made of armourplate.

    The Silent Bullet 1908

  • Just as England beat the Boers by concentration camps and not by arms, by money and not by men, so she seeks to-day to erect an armourplate barrier around the one European people she fears to meet in the field, and to turn all Central Europe into a vast concentration camp.

    The Crime Against Europe A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 Roger Casement 1890

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