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Passing clear through the body, the steel point of the weapon was only stopped by the back-piece of the unfortunate cavalier, who fell headlong from his horse, as if struck by lightning, rolled twice or thrice over on the ground, tore the earth with his hands, and then lay prostrate a dead corpse.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

His armour was ingeniously painted, so as to represent a skeleton; the ribs being constituted by the corselet and its back-piece.

Castle Dangerous 2008

He had a bright burnished head-piece, with a plume of feathers, together with a cuirass, thick enough to resist a musket-ball, and a back-piece of lighter materials.

A Legend of Montrose 2008

A tall, mahogany bureau, with a back-piece and top-drawers, stood on one side, and a long, narrow dining-table of black wood, with slender legs and claw-feet, grasping each a small globe, stood between the two front windows.

The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

Gourgues took the lead, in breastplate and back-piece.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

I had scarcely occupied a comfortable looking stuffed back-piece of furniture, when a pricking sensation in the region of my coat-tails caused me to resume the perpendicular with amazing rapidity, and, upon looking down, I observed the point of a pin protruding through the cushion of the chair.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 Various

Yet in the instant that I turned me to pick up the back-piece, a crash resounded through the chamber.

The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Rafael Sabatini 1912

With a brutal kick of his metal-shod feet he hurled young Alspaye over the edge, looked down for a few moments at his death agonies, and then walked slowly from the parapet, nursing his dripping hand, the arrows still ringing loudly upon his back-piece as he went.

Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906

The first subject broke the back-piece of the mould to fragments, and, when the plaster was being applied to his face, he opened his mouth and talked, opened his eyes, and drew out his nose-tubes, with the result that eyes, nose and mouth were all filled with the soft mixture, and it was all that we could do to clean him without damage.

In Indian Mexico (1908) Frederick Starr 1895

The back-piece had been applied; the second piece, covering the lower part of the face and upper chest, was hardening, and we were busily engaged in putting on the final application over the upper part of the face.

In Indian Mexico (1908) Frederick Starr 1895