vizards

And although these revellers were disguised, and used vizards, yet their disguises were well known, being a set of quaint masking habits prepared some weeks ago by command of

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

It appeared also, that on the day he parted from me, he had been stopped on a solitary spot and eased of his beloved travelling-companion, the portmanteau, by two men, well mounted and armed, having their faces covered with vizards.

Rob Roy 2005

Some of these tremendous figures were real men, dressed up with vizards and buskins; others were mere pageants composed of pasteboard and buckram, which, viewed from beneath, and mingled with those that were real, formed

Kenilworth 2004

The old with broken lances, and in helmets which had lost their vizards — the young in armour bright which shone like gold, beplumed with each gay feather of the east — all — all tilting at it like fascinated knights in tournaments of yore for fame and love.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

Enter, solemnly tripping one after another, six personages, clad in white robes, wearing on their heads garlands of bays, and golden vizards on their faces; branches of bays or palm in their hands.

The Life of King Henry the Eighth 2004

Swiftly as they rode, however, the whole rank still kept well together, and they could see the black vizards of the first line as level as a line of uniforms.

The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith 2003

I shall briefly reflect on the heads of this opposition, because they are now, after a revolution of so many ages, lifting up themselves again, though under new vizards and pretences.

Christologia 1616-1683 1965

But it is now a time to be merry, and throw away masks and vizards; for all is done under the

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

It is the antick of tails to tails, and backs to backs, and for vizards you need go no farther than faces.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

He pierced through the helmet vizards of Miyonoya.

Certain Noble Plays of Japan From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa Ezra Pound 1928