When these boats were finished they were found to draw even less than had been contracted for, so that extra armor was ordered for them, and three of them exceeded the contract speed.
The only other armor they carried was abreast of the boiler and engines.
But suddenly, in the far distance, as the sun was setting, there was a gleam of light, and they knew that it was the shining armor of the Egyptian soldiers.
But I can tell thee this: Rameses will put his foot on the neck of Amon-meses if the pretender trouble him, and will wed with a slave-girl if she break the armor over his iron heart.
His armor was complete--shirt of mail, shenti extending half-way to the knees, greaves of brass and mailed shoes.
In the centre of the chapel Saint Ferdinand lies in full armor with a crown on his head.
Outside the Chapel of Sant Iago are more huge heraldic devices: knights in full armor and lions lifting by razor-strops, as if in some test of strength, great wheels encircling crosses.
The first thing he did was to clean up some armor that had belonged to his great-grandfather, and had been for ages lying forgotten in a corner eaten with rust and covered with mildew.
We presented rather a laughable appearance, for the cold and clammy buckskin, saturated with water, clung fast to our limbs; the light wind and warm sunshine soon dried them again, and then we were all incased in armor of intolerable rigidity.
To write a minute description of the armor would be an excellent exercise, requiring close observation and not a little reading, if the children wish to name the pieces of armor the king wears.
What do his weapons and his armor indicate as to what he represents himself?
The armor of Sir Galahad and the trappings of his horse.
The squadrons of the sun still hold The western hills, their armor glances, Their crimson banners wide unfold, Low-levelled lie their golden lances.
And the castle, from many viewpoints the most picturesque of them all, looks marvelously perfect from a little distance--so perfect that one could hardly wonder to see a flash of armor from the stately battlements.
It is a rather low building of great extent, with wide, thickly carpeted halls in which bronze and plaster statuettes and suits of old plate armor are displayed.
Did we catch a glint ofarmor on yonder grim old tower, or a gleam of rushlight through its ruinous windows?
Old arms and armor are scattered about the halls and the whole atmosphere of the place is that of three hundred years ago.
How they clothe their figures in every conceivable splendor of orphrey and ermine, in jewels and shining armor and rich stuff of silk and samite, in robe of scarlet or in yellow dalmatic!
They wore cope and they wore cowl, and on occasion many endued themselves with armor and hacked and hewed with an earthly sword.
Famous leaders put on or took off armor in Santa Fe,--the Marquis of Cadiz and many others only less than he in estimation, and one Don Gonsalvo de Cordova, whose greater fame was yet to come.
The two knights charged instantly, lance in rest, and Quiñones encountered his antagonist in the guard of his lance, and his weapon glanced off and touched him in the armor of his right hand and tore it off, and his lance broke in the middle.
Any knight who, after having broken one or two lances, shall refuse to continue, shall lose his armor or right spur as though he had declined to enter the lists.
In the fourth course Quiñones encountered the German in the armorof his left arm without breaking his lance, and the German failed to encounter.
The German encountered him in the armor of the left arm, tore it off and carried a piece of the border without breaking his lance.
At the sound of the trumpet Estuñiga entered the lists magnificently attired, and attended by two pages in armor bearing a drawn sword and a lance.
If any knight desires to joust without some portion of his armor named by Quiñones, his request shall be granted if reason and time permit.
Some of our men were wounded in this conflict, for whom the good armor they wore did not avail.
They found shields of raw cowhide out of which armor was made for the horses.
By another figure, such rudimentary humor as man does have is merely an external armor against circumstance; but woman's humor is permeating, her armor is all through her system, as if her sinews were wrought of steel and sunbeams.
A puzzling number of people still like to exhibit their scars; a larger number like to exhibit the particular philosophic armor by which they--by implication--win in the battle of life still ever merrily waging.
Our affability is the armor that protects the inner sensitive personality.
The draft or heavy type was bred in western Europe when heavy armor came into use for rider and horse, and the coach or carriage type was developed when armor was abandoned for gunpowder.
It is also the act of putting on the Christian soldier's armor and entering the service.
They were therefore exhorted to put on the whole armor of God: and their baptismal vow was the act of putting this armor on publicly, and their enrollment in the Lord's host, prepared for the great conflict.
Some were arrayed in coats of mail, polished to shine like that of their general, whose gilded armor with its brilliant trappings was to bring him many hard blows a few months later.
This was simply idiotic; one might as well have no armor on at all in battle as to have it only on his legs.
Pre-World War II surplus armor plate came to be the preferred shielding material.
Sometimes cobalt-60 used as a tracer to measure deterioration of blast furnace walls causes problems in postwar steel, too, so old warship armor is used when possible.
I will draw one out and bring it to my father, and he can tie his armor together with it.
The Dragon-King told him that he had no armor to give him.
A dragon is hollowed out of wood, painted with an armor of scales, and adorned with gold and bright colors.
When he looked around, the waves of the river towered steeply about him like walls, and a palace was visible, in which sat a man wearing armor and a helmet.
Men who had fought in the wars with Moroni were fastening on their armor as they ran, and women pulled children by the hand.
Finally with trembling fingers she fastened the armor on his stripling limbs, kissed him, and let him go.
First he adjusted the breast plate, and then fastened the heavy armor that shielded the vital organs.
Like rats in a trap, surrounded on all sides, they struggled with ferocious courage, clanging their cimeters on the Nephite armor and in return being frightfully mangled.
And the archangel's armoris a tolerably thin gauze robe," said Francis.
These extraordinary men, clad in armor damascened by their vices, these intellects environed by cold and brilliant analysis, seemed so far greater in his eyes than the grave and earnest members of the brotherhood.
Nay, it was Love grown blind and dazed with excess of light, Striving and striving in vain to mingle Earth and Heaven, Helpless and powerless against the invincible armorbright By the dread archangel given.
Again the horn wailed its warning of the arch-priest's approach, whereat a stalwart hoplite in green painted armor clanked in, saluted stiffly and waited for Hero Giles' instructions.
Inside, seated at a table, he had an impression of perhaps ten or fifteen scarred and angry-looking veteran nobles whose green cloaks and bejeweled armor revealed their high rank.
The veins stood out in great blue cords on his forehead, for the weight of the armor could not have been inconsiderable.
Save for helmet, armor and brief black kilts, they were quite naked.
The hoplites, standing about, turned their helmeted heads and stared uneasily, their brazen armor glowing dully with each movement.
Between the outer armor and turret sufficient space is left for a man to enter, in order to make repairs when necessary.
For closing the embrasure, Commandant Mougin provides the armor with a disk, c, of heavy rolled iron, which contains two symmetrical apertures.
Armor plate composed of this latter has been submitted to several tests, which appear to show that a thickness of 18 inches will serve as a sufficient barrier to the shots of any gun that an enemy can conveniently bring into the field.
The conical embrasure traverses this cushion by means of a cast-steel piece firmly bolted to the caisson, and applied to the armor through the intermedium of a leaden ring.
The first of these consists in placing each gun under a masonry vault, which is covered with earth on all sides except the one that contains the embrasure, this side being covered with armor plate.
The rectangular armor plate of rolled iron rests against an elastic cushion of sand compactly rammed into an iron plate caisson.
