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Example sentences for "armoury"

Lexicographically close words:
armourer; armourers; armouries; armouring; armours; armpit; armpits; arms; armure; army
  1. King Stephen, from the horse armoury in the Tower, or the fellow that rides armed at my Lord Mayor's show?

  2. Marguerite sat with her eyes closed, bringing the whole armoury of her will power to bear her up outwardly now.

  3. Her armoury consisted of her presence of mind, her cool courage, her self-control; she used all these weapons for his sake, though at times she felt as if the strain on her nerves would snap the thread of life in her.

  4. The ferocities of outward nature appeared with all their force in man, and renewed their power with the fine armoury of his intelligence.

  5. Take possession of it in peace, for thou wilt require it, for a great service thou must render to him in whose armoury thou wilt find it; for with it thou wilt destroy a mighty sorcerer and giant, who has worked him much woe.

  6. After thy victory over the Sylant, hang up the sword in thy armoury amongst the other swords there, and at the appointed time fate will give it into the hands destined wield it.

  7. There is a degree of irritation in such troubles which adds a whole armoury of small knife-cuts to intensify the agony of the evil from which we suffer.

  8. It was their sole armoury of expressions, their only organ of thought.

  9. For language is the armoury of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests.

  10. As he passed the armoury of the black militia, they were still drilling under the command of Gus.

  11. Your absence from home to-night will be doubly dangerous for what will be done here at this negro armoury under my command.

  12. The First Lieutenant of the Guards assumed command and held the full company in their armoury under arms day and night.

  13. Irony has ceased to be a potent weapon in the armoury of poets and prosateurs.

  14. There is relief in the Trinity College episodes; humour of a saturnine kind in the artistic armoury of Mr. Joyce.

  15. The Armoury will be rebuilt and refurnished.

  16. How must the spectators have gazed on the bright procession, as from window, and roof, and turret, the Armoury blazed out upon it!

  17. But Melanthius, the goatherd, crept up to the armoury and brought down there from twelve helmets and shields, and spears as many.

  18. So he fetched from the armoury four shields and four helmets and eight spear.

  19. Then said Telemachus to Eurycleia, the nurse, "Shut up the women in their chambers, till I have put away in the armoury the weapons of my father, for the smoke in the hall hath made them dim.

  20. It was all over; I had bid my sister, her husband, and my nephews adieu.

  21. I would like to know what he's doing now," said Agathe; "just go and speak to him.

  22. I saw plainly enough just now that he didn't believe what I told him.

  23. Be obliging enough to take my place for a moment, and give me yours in this room; I will leave my door open, he will see that I am alone, and his suspicions will vanish.

  24. Yes, I was sure that I knew her, but I could not tell who she was; I had known so many that I might be pardoned for confusing them in my memory; and then, I caught only a few detached words.

  25. This vol-au-vent is delicious, and so is this filet sauté, with madeira and truffles.

  26. And the young woman has shown her preference for you; that also is very easy to see: moreover, no one should claim to cut you out.

  27. It was quite a little procession; everyone took the hand of his favorite and descended the stairs, laughing heartily over the evening's entertainment.

  28. Again, when the Armoury of the Tower was destroyed, the barrels of the muskets were found reduced to the most fantastic shapes, and some of the largest pieces of ordnance were doubled up.

  29. They are now transferred by water to the Armoury at the Tower, ready for service in the field.

  30. Hayes, belonging to the 9th Regiment, each presented at Southtown Armoury with a medal for long service and good conduct.

  31. Then he would hear doors being slammed upstairs; and a profound silence would fall upon the whole house, upon his hotel appropriated, haunted by those insolently outspoken men provided with a whole armoury of weapons in their trunks.

  32. He stole away from the door, staggering, the warm trickle running down his neck, to find out what had become of the governor and to provide himself with a firearm from the armoury in the trunks.

  33. It is a singular fact that this short passage has been made the chief armoury of the disciples of gastronomic, and also of interior Christianity.

  34. They are not in any other canonical gospel, and the First Gospel of the Infancy is the great armoury of Buddhist legends.

  35. Perhaps it is your finger that pains you too much,' says she, looking round her armoury for a weapon of offence, and rather cleverly hitting upon this one.

  36. Lily, with more dreadful questions, more terrible invitations to draw out of her armoury of torments?

  37. In an unhappy star I therefore from my armoury have drawn those tools of war That day, when, for great Hector's sake, to amiable Troy: I came to lead the Trojan bands.

  38. A letter that was brought hither to-night by a man who swam the moat, and whom I have ordered to be detained in the armoury tower.

  39. Ercole accepted the hint, meek as a lamb, and leaving the fool behind him on the steps, he went softly up, and approached the armoury tower.

  40. Ercole's eyes were wide at the news, and he might have gone the length of interposing a question, when Gonzaga curtly bade him go to the armoury tower, and bring thence the soldier and the man Gonzaga had left in his care.

  41. This way," said Gonzaga, leading the man towards the armoury tower, where a lanthorn was burning.

  42. Peppe had seen Messer Gonzaga repair to the armoury tower.

  43. It is, however, in the inexhaustible armoury of quibble and objection which the law of evidence supplies him with that the generous advocate must feel the greatest amount of embarrassment and repugnance.

  44. From the windows of the armoury is a view of the palace-gardens.

  45. It can be matched only in the Royal Armoury of Madrid.

  46. Suddenly, without reason, he became certain that she and he were there in the armoury alone together.

  47. Warm your hands at the blaze, Miss Nevers, and I'll find the armoury keys.

  48. And, beside him, she walked into the armoury of the famous Desboro collection.

  49. I want the cases in the wing rooms and the stuff in the armoury cleaned up, because I expect a Mr. Nevers to come here and recatalogue the entire collection next week.

  50. As they walked back to the armoury together, she was trying to think it out; and she concluded that she might dare be toward him as unconcernedly friendly as he would ever think of being toward her.

  51. He heard the preliminary click of the armoury clock, indicating five minutes' grace before the hour struck.

  52. So they slowly crossed the armoury and traversed the hallway, where she left him for a moment and ran up stairs to her room.

  53. Are there any in the armoury that will fit me, Jim?

  54. It was only when telephoning to Silverwood he learned by chance from Mrs. Quant that Jacqueline had been at the house every day as usual, busy in the armoury with the work that took her there.

  55. The light in the armoury was growing a little dim.

  56. Sissly's men have arrived and are raising a racket in the armoury with hammer and saw.

  57. But Desboro still lingered at the armoury door, looking back.

  58. The noise of the chase died away in the interior of the main house; the armoury became very still under the flood of pale winter sunshine.

  59. War was declared against thought, backed by the whole armoury of oppression.

  60. In it too was preserved a very rich armoury collected by him, which is mentioned with admiration by Scotti in his published travels, and which afterwards passed to the grand-ducal family of Tuscany.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "armoury" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.