Little crowds of citizens who had nothing to do, which is the most miserable of vocations in such a crisis, gathered to look at armoured motor-cars which had come in from the front with bullet dents, which gave them the atmosphere of battle.
Then below, into a compartment between the side of the ship and the armoured barbette which protects the delicate machinery for feeding shells and powder from the magazine deep below the water to the guns.
For Lawrence had noted that, where the stones lay baking in the sun, innumerable lizards were glancing about, their grey and sometimes green armoured skins glistening in the brilliant sunshine, and sending off flashes every time they moved.
The mere rolling down of stones would not do much mischief, even if they could be rolled down effectively, which is not usually the case; and in hand-to-hand encounters the tribespeople were no match for the armoured Greeks.
Part of the Armoured Car Division of the Petrograd garrism stationed in the Winter Palace.
Around dimly squatted the monstrous shapes of the armoured cars.
Late in the afternoon several Bolshevik armoured cars cruised around the Palace Square, and Soviet soldiers tried unsuccessfully to parley with the yunkers….
Soviet troops surrounded the building and opened fire, two armoured cars cruising back and forth with machine guns raking it.
Five or six armoured cars, belonging to the disbanded British Armoured Car Division, were in their hands.
They were talking and laughing, when all of a sudden, from the armoured train in which Kerensky himself was riding, somebody saw the automobile and fired a cannon.
As we reached the Nevsky again another armoured car came around the corner, and a man poked his head out of the turret-top.
The number of casualties has not been established yet, but it is larger on the part of the counter-revolutionary troops, who experienced great losses through one of our armoured cars.
The brunnoviki were the Armoured Car troops, the key to the situation; whoever controlled the brunnoviki controlled the city.
Our armoured cars rushed in among the ranks of the enemy.
As we looked, suddenly an armoured automobile appeared around the corner of the Mikhailovsky, its guns sluing this way and that.
A dun herd of armoured cars stood under the trees in the court-yard, engines going.
The enemy had brought up armoured trains, mounted with cannon.
The Telephone Exchange held out until afternoon, when a Bolshevik armoured car appeared, and the sailors stormed the place.
The great red building of the General Staff was unusually animated, several armoured automobiles ranked before the door, and motors full of officers were coming and going.
Armoured cable is made by winding steel strips over the insulated conductors, the latter being permanently retained inside the steel casing.
Where a conduit system cannot be conveniently installed, armoured cable is used.
The metal of all conduits, and the sheathing of steel armoured cables should be effectually and permanently grounded.
Armoured cable is manufactured in long lengths, the actual lengths being determined by convenience in handling.
The two officers made their way between the sliding carriage of the huge Krupp gun and the armoured wall of the casemate.
Shells from the Turkish defences were ricochetting all around the British warships or expending themselves harmlessly against the armoured plating.
He felt as much at home on that frail craft, the plating of which was a little thicker than cardboard, as he did behind a heavy-armoured casemate of the Hammerer.
Yet she kept up a heavy fire with unabated violence, while, to relieve the pressure of the Turkish batteries, two armouredcruisers closed and directed their attention upon the hostile guns.
At intervals there were large recesses converted into armoured casemates, each containing a 9-inch Krupp gun of a pattern of the early 'nineties.
With a grating, tearing sound the engine tore its way past, but, unhappily, the armoured car and truck behind it parted their couplings, and could not be got past the obstruction.
On November 5 the armoured train carried two companies of the Dublin Fusiliers close to Colenso, when the enemy was sighted.
Unfortunately the derailed armoured car and truck blocked the line and had to be removed.
Reinforcements were telegraphed for to Kimberley, and a couple of companies of North Lancashires with two armoured trains were sent up the line.
That bridge had been entirely destroyed by the Boers, and culverts on the line two miles to the south of the river had been blown up, thereby rendering it impossible for the armoured train with Lord Methuen's column to approach.
This day the armoured train had a brush with the Boers, in which three officers and men were killed or wounded.
The armoured train arrived while they were actually at work destroying the line and temporarily drove them back.
And I strove with mine armoured hands that I choke the Man, and surely I made it to suffer great trouble; yet, I could not harm it in the life.
And I slipt from the great hands of the Man, as it did try to take me by the head; and I hit the Man with mine armoured fist, and put a great power and skill to the blow.
Then there dawned the day when the Royal Naval Air Service armoured motor-cars dashed into action, grappling wire entanglements, and sped back, with the Turkish shells bursting after them from the guns on Achi Baba as they retired.
Nearly every gun had been put out of action, and whole gun's crews had been incinerated inside the armoured shield.
Then, by means of a steel cable a thousand feet or more in length, it lowers a small wire cage just large enough to contain a man and a supply of bombs, this cage being sufficiently armoured so that it is proof against rifle-bullets.
The German officers whom I questioned on the subject after the occupation told me that the fire of the armoured train caused them no serious concern and did comparatively little damage.
No small part in the defence of the city was played by the much- talked-about armoured train, which was built under the supervision of Lieutenant-Commander Littlejohn in the yards of the Antwerp Engineering Company at Hoboken.
When our big grey machine hove in sight they not unnaturally took us for another armoured car and prepared to give us a warm reception.
The armoured motor cars of the Canadians (bottom).
On the railways naval guns are placed on armoured trains, which dash along the line and harass the enemy.
Armoured motor cars are sometimes provided with machine guns, but these belong to the infantry, and not to the artillery.
From sixteen battleships his force had fallen to fourteen; his armoured cruiser squadron was reduced from eight ships to seven.
About this time the Kronprinz Wilhelm’s speed seemed markedly to decline, and the big armoured cruiser gained upon her rapidly, spouting shell from all her guns that would bear.
Two of the four ocean-going destroyers with the cruisers at once started in pursuit, and the armoured cruiser Lincoln followed in support.
The seven armoured cruisers and the ten big destroyers now steamed well out into the North Sea, going full speed to get upon the German line of retreat from Lerwick, before moving up along it on the Shetlands.
The four German armoured cruisers of the second division turned within 1500 yards of the head of the British line, firing torpedoes and delivering and receiving a terrific shell fire.
The seven armoured cruisers were moored in the St. Margaret’s Hope Anchorage.
For patrol work the Admiral had nothing but his armouredcruisers and the little launches carried in his warships, which were practically useless for the work of meeting destroyers.
Already there were concentrated at that point eleven battleships of the Devonport and Portsmouth reserve squadrons, seven armoured cruisers, and fifty torpedo vessels of all kinds.
He dreamt of swift armoured aeroplanes swooping down upon the flying airship, and sending it reeling earthward, the men screaming.
The first news of the Boer War had been the wrecking of a British armoured train near Kimberley.
As the Admiral had said, the Yakumo was a very fine ship; she was indeed one of the finest armoured cruisers which Japan at that time possessed.
The fifth shell fired by our battleships struck the Russian battleship Retvisan, while another fell aboard the Sevastopol, exploding on her armoured deck.
These will be followed, at a distance of three miles, by our six armoured cruisers, in the wake of which will follow the four battleships, with the remaining cruisers and the destroyers bringing up the rear.
May, and the six ships of the Japanese armoured cruiser division were steaming northward in line abreast, when the Tokiwa, which was the easternmost ship, reported smoke low down on the eastern horizon.
Accordingly, the Idzumo led her five armouredsisters in that direction, at a speed of fifteen knots.
Before we crossed the boundary General Erasmus had addressed us and told us the news of our first victory--the taking of an armoured train at Kraaipan; at that time we still made a fuss about such a trifle.
Towards afternoon an armoured train came from Pretoria, and reinforcements arrived from Johannesburg and scattered our left wing over the valley.
Maggie reached the security of the room beyond the passage, her shoulders bent a little as though she expected to near at every instant the crashing collapse of the armoured men.
A world of comfort and reassurance, of homeliness and kindliness, without parrots and fierce-eyed cats and swaying pictures of armoured men--a world of urbanity and light and space.
They had no secondary batteries--but they were so well armoured that these were not necessary, except for purposes of offence.
Big sparsely-armoured cruisers, like the unfortunate Good Hope, which did not steam faster than smaller ones, and which carried but a poor armament considering her size and cost, cannot be considered a good investment.
No one liked the unprotected secondary batteries, and thought of the well-armoured Devastation and her sisters.
Each turret stands on a species of armoured tower, going right down to thearmoured deck, and is itself made of 13-1/2-inch armour.
The two first-named ships were armouredcruisers of large size, but not too well gunned for their displacement.
These were entirely unprotected except from fire coming from ahead or astern, from which they were covered by armoured bulkheads reaching across the ship immediately behind each barbette.
With the former object in view she has a broad water-line belt of the finest and strongest 13-1/2-inch armour procurable, which is supplemented by an armoured deck of considerable thickness.
Guinness's Brewery have made three splendid armoured cars by putting great long boilers six feet in diameter on to their large motor lorries.
On this the armoured train and a squadron of the Protectorate Regiment went out to support the pickets and drove the Boers before them.
The armoured train, painted green and tied round with scrub, stood unperceived among the clumps of bushes which surrounded the town.
For this purpose an armoured train was despatched only three days after the expiration of the ultimatum to the point four hundred miles south of Bulawayo, where the frontiers of the Transvaal and of Bechuanaland join.
Two armoured trains from the north and the south closed in upon him as he passed, Plumer still thundered in his rear, and a small column under Crabbe came pressing from the south.
At the end of that time two armoured trains came up with reinforcements and the enemy continued his trek to the eastward.
On October 12th, the day after the declaration of war, an armoured train conveying two 7-pounders for the Mafeking defences was derailed and captured by a Boer raiding party at Kraaipan, a place forty miles south of their destination.
After our experience thearmoured train may steam out of military history.
On November 15th an armoured train was despatched from Estcourt to see what was going on up the line.
The advance had been on the line of the Cape Town to Kimberley Railway, and the damage done to it by the Boers had been repaired to the extent of permitting an armoured train with a naval gun to accompany the troops.
These little forts were dotted along the railways at points not more than 2000 yards apart, and when supplemented by a system of armoured trains they made it no easy matter for the Boers to tamper with or to cross the lines.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "armoured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
