cuirass

He is cased in a cuirass of double-fold deer skin, and carries a bull's hide shield; he is forked in a Moorish saddle, high before and behind; his feet are thrust into wooden box stirrups, of Moorish fashion, and a tremendous pair of iron spurs, fastened by chains, jingle at his heels.

There was a steel head-piece, a cuirass, a gorget and greaves, with a pair of gauntlets and a sword hanging beneath; all, and especially the helmet and breastplate, so highly burnished as to glow with white radiance, and scatter an illumination everywhere about upon the floor.

So long as Aramis continued a soldier, there was hope of getting the better of him; but since he has covered his cuirass with a stole, we are lost.

Porthos was magnificent; his spurs jingled, his cuirass glittered, his sword knocked proudly against his ample limbs.

I have worn my cuirass these twenty years, kept down in this inferior rank, without going forward or backward, hardly half living.

I am a rascal and in my dotage; I am an unhappy wretch grown old; a tent-cord untwisted, a pierced cuirass, a boot without a sole, a spur without a rowel; -- but do me the pleasure to add one thing."

The very children were arming themselves, and there were even cripples in bowls who, in armor and cuirass, made their way between the legs of the drinkers, like great beetles.

What cuirass, however thick, could withstand the blows of his spur?

Miss Lavinia, self-charged with the superintendence of my darling's wardrobe, is constantly cutting out brown-paper cuirasses, and differing in opinion from a highly respectable young man, with a long bundle, and a yard measure under his arm.

He was soon followed by Ubaydah bin al-Harith, a paternal cousin of Mohammad and Hamzah who wore an ostrich feather in his Cuirass. The three companions were thus closely related to Mohammad and fulfilled the Quraish for Hashimite (the clan of the Prophet) blood!" The three duels were as rapid as they were murderous.