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  • “The Alfaqui offers 100,000 dinars, twenty-four horses with their caparisons, twenty-four suits of plate-armor, and diamonds and rubies to the amount of 1,000,000 dinars.”

    Burlesques 2006

  • Clad in the plate-armor, vizor lifted and dark face shadowed by the black plumes that nodded above his helmet, there was a grim impressiveness about him that even Thespides grudgingly noted.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • There were the knights, gleaming in richly wrought plate-armor, colored plumes waving above their burnished sallets.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • He had discarded the plate-armor for the more familiar chain-mail.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Clad in the plate-armor, vizor lifted and dark face shadowed by the black plumes that nodded above his helmet, there was a grim impressiveness about him that even Thespides grudgingly noted.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • There were the knights, gleaming in richly wrought plate-armor, colored plumes waving above their burnished sallets.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • If the weather was chilly he came up clad from plumed helmet to spurred heel in magnificent plate-armor inlaid with arabesques of gold, having previously warmed it at the galley fire.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Conan the Cimmerian, restless in his plate-armor, stared at the bedecked camel with no great approval, and spoke to Amalric, who rode beside him, resplendent in chain-mail threaded with gold, golden breastplate and helmet with a flowing horsehair crest.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • He had discarded the plate-armor for the more familiar chain-mail.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • A pair of the newcomers were huge and wore steel-blue armor as well as handheld plate-armor shields.

    The Flood Dietz, William 2003

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