shield-bearing

Don't miss: On the bluff, there are thousands of petroglyphs and pictographs that depict human figures -- most dramatically, large, shield-bearing warriors -- as well as bears, mountain sheep, and even horses.

From the Trenches - Off the Grid- Medicine Lodge Creek, Wyoming 2009

She stepped forward, still flanked by the shield-bearing Rickel and Lejun, then inclined her head to the chief player.

Darksong Rising Modesitt, L. E. 1999

The shield-bearing figure, complete except for its feet, is bearded, clad in armor, and crowned with a laurel wreath and two tear-drop-shaped appendages thought to represent horns.

Celtic Masterpiece 1996

"The shield-bearing horse of Illyria, at Chermula," or in Carmel, where

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Palace, or perhaps even earlier -- was cleared away, the brick sides revealed, the bottom of the moat neatly turfed over, and a parapet with shield-bearing heraldical beasts erected on either side.

Hampton Court Walter Jerrold 1897

Lykaon's son found she, the noble and stalwart, standing, and about him the stalwart ranks of the shield-bearing host that followed him from the streams of Aisepos.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

But Hector kept where at first he had leaped within the walls and the gate, and broken the serried ranks of shield-bearing Danaans, even where were the ships of Aias and

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

While these were tending Menelaos of the loud war-cry, the ranks of shield-bearing Trojans came on; so the Achaians donned their arms again, and bethought them of the fray.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

Him he found standing, and about him the stalwart ranks of the shield-bearing host that followed him from Trike, pasture land of horses.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

-- Comp.: un -, wîd-cûð. cûð-lîce, adv., _openly, publicly_: comp. nô her cûðlîcor cuman ongunnon lind-häbbende, _no shield-bearing men undertook more boldly to come hither_

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879