It shall stand as a buckler between me and Mr. Wilding.
Intrepid, her terror all vanished now that there was the need for courage, Ruth confronted him, barring his passage, a buckler to her palsied brother.
They carry this buckler to camp, taking care to keep it hidden from all eyes.
Then they cover a buckler with concentric circles of down, representing another kind of bush upon which the insect lays its eggs when it has become adult.
Like a true baron King Marsile rides forth Upon his steed Gaignon, and spurs him on Against Bevum, of Belne and Digun lord, His buckler cleaves, his hauberk with a blow Shatters, and lays him dead upon the field.
One laced the helm, another held the lance: A third the shiningbuckler did advance.
The second bore the buckler of his knight, 270 The third of cornel-wood a spear upright, Headed with piercing steel, and polish'd bright.
The Persians, and Lydians, and the Libyans were thy soldiers in thy army: they hung up the buckler and the helmet in thee for thy ornament.
Every word of God is fire tried: he is a bucklerto them that hope in him.
And he had greaves of brass on his legs, and a buckler of brass covered his shoulders.
Thy daughters that are in the field, he shall kill with the sword: and he shall compass thee with forts, and shall cast up a mount round about: and he shall lift up the buckler against thee.
De Thou has recorded, that an attempt was made to engage him to assassinate Gaspar de Coligni, the famous admiral of France, and the buckler of the Huguenot cause.
The blacksmith gripped the swash-buckler by the neck and threw him flat upon the ground.
Hearing the fame of the master, a rude artisan, who desired to have a buckler painted, perhaps because he was going to do watch and ward in some castle, marched at once to the workshop of Giotto, with one bearing the shield behind him.
However it be, no man before ever brought me a buckler to paint; yet here is this simple fellow who brings me his shield, and bids me paint his arms upon it as though he were of the royal family of France.
I am not so strong as you," continued Robin; "that helmet and sword and buckler would be my undoing on the uncertain footing amidstream, to say nothing of your holy flesh and bones.
As he sat him down, the cloak fell apart disclosing a sword and buckler as stout as Robin's own.
Then with sword and buckler girded at his side he made a goodly show.
Ilga sharply, "you stand between Mr. Buckler and the light.
Mr. Bucklerin truth only stayed there on compulsion," replied Marston.
How comes it," she asked sternly, "that Mr. Buckler enters unannounced?
With that she turned a little on one side, and Marston resumed: "That proves how little Mr. Buckler is acquainted with Lady Tracy.
I believe," she exclaimed in a mock excitement, "that Mr. Buckler is going to make me a present of a superb cockatoo.
If that were the whole business, one would hear less concerning Mr. Buckler from her rapturous lips.
Mr. Buckler has come to offer you no present, but to take his leave for good and all.
Mr. Buckler is very welcome," she said quietly, and it struck me that there was some hint of disappointment in her tone, and maybe a touch of weariness.
It is Mr. Buckler's carriage, and Mr. Buckler rides within it.
For my sister has been abroad all this year, and Mr. Buckler in the same case until this year.
Nay, were thy son as good as mine, And of some books he could but read, With sword and buckler by his side, To see how he could save his head.
He put on his back a good plate-jack, And on his head a cap of steel, With sword and buckler by his side; O gin he did not become them well!
They give so much a head to see the fight, which was with cutting swords and a kind of bucklerfor defence.
The great prevalence of this sign originated in the so-called sword and buckler play, once so common in England.
I go without sword or buckler from this dishonored field, and what Scot, my public or private enemy, will dare to strike the unguarded head of William Wallace?
Wherefore he was constrained to take his bucklerand go, and was dismissed; and so, not knowing his measure, he had his measure taken.
The buckler coming, that would-be gentleman begins to look at it and says to Giotto, 'What filthy mess is this that thou hast painted for me?
The officers, having heard the pleadings, which Giotto made much the better, judged that the other should take his buckler so painted, and should give six lire to Giotto, since he was in the right.
The king threw off his robes, grasped buckler and lance, and rode forth to awe the stranger with the presence of majesty itself.
His face was bronzed by time; he was arrayed in ancient Spanish armor, with buckler and lance, and stood immovable as a statue.
Blade and buckler together, though far off the heather, The Hielan's, the Hielan's were all at my back!
Happily he had a hard head, too, and though the blow staggered him, he had the sense left to hold out as a peace-offering and buckler the talisman he had prepared.
Count the old men, too, for they who have no strength to swing the sabre, serve as buckler for the active fighters.
I shall try How deep your inspiration lies hid in ye, And whether your brave spirit have a buckler To keep this arrow off, I'll make you smoke else.
Untill about the twelfe or thirteenth yeere of Queene Elizabeth the auncient English fight of sword and buckler was onely had in use: the bucklers then being but a foote broad, with a pike of foure or five inches long.
Mr. Strutt has given more correct copies of the man with the buckler in his Manners and customs of the inhabitants of England, vol.
To convey to the reader a complete idea of a sword-and-buckler man of Shakspeare's time, the following print of a young Englishman is exhibited.
The mode of wearing the buckler at the back may be seen in the cut p.
From the mouth of Siegfried burst the gushing blood; Soon he again sprung forward; straight snatch'd the hero good The spear that through his buckler she just had hurl'd amain, And sent it at its mistress in thunder back again.
Said he, "off with the buckler and give it me to bear; Now, what I shall advise thee, mark with thy closest care.
That the hand of a woman the noblest knight should slay, That e'er struck stroke in battle, or everbuckler bore!
It came upon the buckler massy, broad, and new, That in his hand unshaken, the son of Sieglind bore.
As thong to that huge buckler a gorgeous band there lay; Precious stones beset it as green as grass in May; With varying hues it glitter'd against the glittering gold.
A sword and buckler were put into his hands, and he was tied by one leg to the stone; yet, if he succeeded in slaying or defeating six chosen Mexican warriors, he was released and sent back in safety to his own country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buckler" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
