How gorgeous is the standard in the sun," said Gerard; "and how brave are the leaders with velvet and feathers, and steel breastplates like glassy mirrors!
The room flaring with torches, the glittering breastplates of the archers, their bronzed faces, the white cheeks of the bound thieves, and the bleeding giant, whose dead body these hard men left lying there in its own gore.
There were men with torches, and breastplatesgleaming red.
And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron: and the noise of their wings was as the noise of chariots and many horses running to battle.
And they that sat on them had breastplates of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone.
Over their mail shirts and gold-inlaid breastplates the emirs wore velvet vests and long khalats of crimson or gold satin, lined with white silk, fastened with gold buttons, trimmed with silver thread at the collars and cuffs and hems.
At the doorways and around the edges of the room stood warriors of the halkha, the sultan's bodyguard, their steel helmets and breastplates inlaid with gold, their tunics bright yellow.
They were short and swarthy, wearing red and black breastplates of lacquered leather and round steel helmets polished to a dazzling finish, topped with spikes.
The Spaniards suffered greatly from the heat, for the sun beat upon their iron breastplates and quilted cotton doublets with most uncomfortable fury.
How gorgeous is the standard in the sun," said Gerard "and how brave are the leaders with velvet and feathers, and steel breastplates like glassy mirrors!
They covered all the pillars and walls; nay, the shields and breastplates were even spread over the entire ceiling.
He ordered the breastplates to be put on the horses, and, thus arrayed in order of battle, our forces charged the enemy with cries of "Santiago!
Insubres celebrated a triumph and in it conveyed the foremost captives clad in armor up to the Capitol, making jests upon them because he had heard that they had sworn not to remove their breastplatesbefore they had ascended the Capitol.
There we now must leave them: for her were many breastplates hacked to pieces.
Let every one be busy, and let the youths be hastened; At once lead out the horses; helmets and breastplates must with straps be fastened.
When with the Norman foemen soon the fight did thicken, Sharply from their weapons and from their breastplates fiery sparks were stricken.
Some were said to have concealed their wealth by having sword hilts and breastplates made of solid gold.
Several of our churches still retain the arms of the heroes who lie buried beneath them, but occasionally it is not the actual armour but sham, counterfeit helmets and breastplates made for the funeral procession and hung over the monument.
Yes," said the girl, "Es-sat came to my cave and I struck him down with my golden breastplates and escaped.
Slipping it over her own shoulder she quickly adjusted her breastplates and keeping a watchful glance upon the figure of the fallen chief, backed from the room.
As she gathered up her breastplates Es-sat rounded the table and moved quickly toward her.
He did not venture outside a protecting circle of weapons, having selected his six hundred most valiant men in whose midst he passed his time day and night; these did not once put off their breastplates until they reached Rome.
They wear breastplates of gold to prevent the blood of the animals they kill soiling their fine coats.
The Chief Contractor thought that these breastplates must be eggs, and, as you see, these soldiers are just eggs with legs.
The ominous clang of blades against helmets and breastplates was heard to the other side of the river.
And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
At each door were stationed four warriors, wearing breastplates of gold, and standing motionless, with drawn blades, while above the entrances the brazen sign of the deity was invariably suspended by a chain.
In a moment two stalwart men, evidently officers, wearing breastplatesof beaten gold, advanced and eagerly scrutinised the cylinder.
And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, havingbreastplates as of fire, and of hyacinth, and of brimstone.
And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses rushing to war.
It will be remembered that Cyrus put a stop to the old style of fighting at long range, and by arming men and horses with breastplates and giving each trooper a short spear he taught them to fight at close quarters.
But early on the morrow Cyrus offered sacrifice, and meanwhile the rest of the army took their breakfast, and after the libation they armed themselves, a great and goodly company in bright tunics and splendid breastplates and shining helmets.
And, before two houses were passed, twenty horsemen galloped down the main street in the direction of Taunton; their swords gleaming in the bright sun, and their breastplates flashing like the saucepans in the kitchens of the good housewives.
Their bullet pouches were well filled, their breastplates were newly polished, and the sun gleamed from their shining helmets and steel weapons.
It was a hot day--the 25th of May--and the warriors were much oppressed by their heavy armor breastplates and the weight of their ponderous flintlocks.
It hardly seemed possible that scenes of dreadful carnage would soon be enacted in the midst of this quiet beauty, but silently and cautiously the men with iron breastplates surrounded the circular stockade.
So, with glances of suspicion and distrust, the Indians entered the church where was the Governor, surrounded by soldiers in slouch hats with broad brims, long swords, iron breastplates and unwieldy guns.
They saw the glint upon the steel breastplatesof the English, and so took to their heels.
Eight complete heads and two broken ones were recovered, together with arms, legs, bodies with quilted cotton breastplates and maxtlis, elaborate headdresses, and various objects held in the hands of the figures.
It would appear that these thick woven or plaited cotton breastplates were fortified with salt.
Chroniclers allude to shining breastplates long before there is the slightest appearance of them in illustrations, though from the time that surcoats were worn over the armour it becomes difficult to see what is beneath.
The sound of bullets on breastplates and helmets and epaulettes is like a shower of hailstones upon a sheet of metal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "breastplates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
