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But the majority, being clad in blue cloth, and the whole armed with cuirass and back-plate, with sleeves of mail, gauntlets, and poldroons, and either mailed hose or strong jack-boots, they had something of a uniform appearance.
The Monastery 2008
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In between times, for a break, if harder work were really a break, I went back to the time-consuming chiseling of the insets for the diamond-shaped back-plate with the inlaid initial H.
The Death of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1995
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Straddling the creature, the man got his toes under the base of its brass chest - plate, hooked his fingers under the back-plate, and put all his strength into prying them apart.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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Straddling the creature, the man got his toes under the base of its brass chest - plate, hooked his fingers under the back-plate, and put all his strength into prying them apart.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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Straddling the creature, the man got his toes under the base of its brass chest - plate, hooked his fingers under the back-plate, and put all his strength into prying them apart.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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His sinewy arms were bare to the shoulder, and he wore a shell of some metallic substance as a breast-and back-plate, not unlike the very ancient body armor of Raf's own world.
Star Born Andre Norton 1958
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His sinewy arms were bare to the shoulder, and he wore a shell of some metallic substance as a breast - and back-plate, not unlike the very ancient body armor of Raf's own world.
Star Born Norton, Andre 1957
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His sinewy arms were bare to the shoulder, and he wore a shell of some metallic substance as a breast - and back-plate, not unlike the very ancient body armor of Raf's own world.
Star Born Norton, Andre 1957
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His sinewy arms were bare to the shoulder, and he wore a shell of some metallic substance as a breast-and back-plate, not unlike the very ancient body armor of Raf's own world.
Star Flight Norton, Andre 1954
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He also had bronze greaves upon his legs and a bronze back-plate between his shoulders.
The Children's Bible Charles Foster Kent 1896
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