Colonel Esmond (he in scarlet and the breastplate yonder) married my grandmother, who was almost old enough to be his.
Tis a brave castle," said the armourer, again looking at the towers of Kinfauns, "and the breastplate and target of the bonny course of the Tay.
But Henry had no sort of inclination to indulge his vanity and kept hammering away at a breastplate which was lying upon his anvil as if he were not aware of his visitor's presence.
Leviticus struggled with his nature, while his little eyes rolled slowly, and his plaited breastplate rose and fell.
No ship have I known so nobly dight with weapons of war and weeds of battle, with breastplate and blade: on his bosom lay a heaped hoard that hence should go far o'er the flood with him floating away.
In heat-waves burned that board {34d} to the boss, and the breastplatefailed to shelter at all the spear-thane young.
His breastplate broad and bright of hues, woven by hand, should the waters try; well could it ward the warrior's body that battle should break on his breast in vain nor harm his heart by the hand of a foe.
My sword and helmet, breastplate and board, for us both shall serve!
But fire in this fight I must fear me now, and poisonous breath; so I bring with me breastplate and board.
Abbot; "it is the spiritual armour of my calling, and, as such, beseems me as well as breastplateand baldric becomes your own bosom.
You are like a polished corslet of steel; it shines more gaudily, but it is not a whit softer--nay, it is five times harder than a Glasgow breastplate of hammered iron.
Didst never hear of the shield of faith, and helmet of salvation, and breastplate of righteousness?
The breastplate was composed of folded cloth, in which were lodged twelve precious stones, in four rows of three, each stone containing the name of one of the tribes.
But the significance of the whole was concentrated in the inscription upon his mitre, 'Holiness to the Lord,' and in those others upon his breastplate and his shoulder.
They are our armour--'Put on the breastplate of faith .
I said that the names on the breastplate of judgment expressed the acquittal and acceptance of Israel.
And Aaron shall bear the names of the Children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the Holy Place.
He asked if it were needful to bring, when he should go, His breastplate and his helmet, and any followers, too?
Soon they made them bucklers, bright and painted fair; In making showy saddles the workmen were not idle; With gold both red and shining the breastplate was bedecked, as was the bridle.
The fully-armed man of the latter half of the 14th century seems to have worn a rounded breastplate and a back-plate over his chain hawberk.
The passages in Homer which describe it as a breastplate are regarded by Reichel's school as later interpolations.
The earliest pistols were merely shorter handguns, modified for mounted men, and provided with a straight stock which was held against the breastplate (poitrinal or petronel).
A few days after the King had tried on his breastplate I met him on a back staircase.
This breastplatewas tried; it resisted all thrusts of the dagger, and several balls were turned aside by it.
The very stones in thebreastplate have each, according to the Rabbis, their mystical signification.
In this breastplate also, according to Gregory, the names of the twelve patriarchs are commanded to be carefully inscribed.
The pot of incense, the holy tabernacle, the ark of the covenant, the holy miter, and the holy breastplate are also employed as emblems, along with the lambskin and the sword pointing to a naked heart.
As for instance, The breastplate of judgment, on which were engraved the names of the children of Israel, its exact point of perfection was to be a right four square.
A helmet on his head doth stand, A breastplate on his heart: A shield also is in his hand, That blunteth every dart.
Then you shall see him wearing the breastplate of judgment, and with all your names written upon his heart.
And he put the breastplateupon him; also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.
Then the Roman General drove the point of his spear with all his force through his breastplate up to the handle.
Her white lower robe was girdled with the black belt which supported the sheath of Teja's dagger; but she had refused a breastplate on account of its weight.
The May sun played on the breastplate and helmet of the colonel, so that when at a distance he was gleaming among the willows it seemed that another sun was pushing along the road.
The sardius mentioned in the Bible as forming one of the stones of the High Priest's breastplate was undoubtedly a carnelian.
By taking advantage of the colors of the different layers, colored objects were made, such as one which shows the head of a warrior in red, his helmet green and breastplate yellow.
But at last they emerged into the one light spot and there saw the breastplate and the box.
There was a breastplate as well, and an iron-bound box which she had never been able to move or open.
Beneath he was clad in armor (a present from the Earl), new and polished till it shone with dazzling brightness, the breastplate covered with a juppon of white satin, embroidered with silver.
Gascoyne had just removed Myles's breastplate and gorget, when Sir James Lee burst into the pavilion.
His drawings of the breastplate and topu were lithographed for Bollaert’s Antiquarian Researches in Peru, p.
A golden breastplate and topu, a golden leaf with a long stalk, four specimens of golden fruit, and a girdle of gold were found near Cuzco in 1852, and sent to the late General Echenique, then President of Peru.
The breastplate was 5-3/10 inches in diameter, and had four narrow slits for suspending it round the neck.
Jonathan's trespass was made know by the stones in the breastplate of the high priest.
It appeared that, while the other jewels in his breastplate gleamed bright, the stone representing the tribe of Judah was dim.
Upon both the onyx stones, upon the shoulder and the twelve stones on the breastplate there were names engraven.
The High Priest in His garments of Beauty and Glory had upon his shoulders two onyx stones, and upon his breast a breastplate with twelve stones.
That was the last story the King's Son told from Maravaun's book, "The Breastplate of Instruction.
Maravaun wanted to relate to him fables from "The Breastplate of Instruction" but the King's Son did not hear a word that Maravaun said.
Fedelma asked the King's Son to tell her another story, and thereupon he told her the second story in "The Breastplate of Instruction.
And thou shalt put in the breastplateof judgment the Urim and the Thummim.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "breastplate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
