And firste march'd forthe the Galloway men, Of the antiente Picts they sprange; Theyr speares all soe brighte and bucklers strong For manye myles yrang.
Nowe bucklers rang 'gainst swordes and speares, And arrows dimn'd the playne; And manye a warrioure laye fulle lowe, And manye a chiefe was slayne.
Twice ten battalions the king arrayed: Helmets shone, with their gems displayed, Bucklers and braided hauberks bound, Seven thousand trumpets the onset sound; Dread was the clangor afar to hear.
Against the sun their harness shone; From helm and hauberk glanced the rays, And their painted bucklers seemed all ablaze.
Their ashen lances the flames enfold, And their bucklers in to the knobs of gold; Grated the steel of helm and mail.
Three red frocks had they, and three red mantles: three red bucklers they bore, and three red spears were in their hands: three red steeds they bestrode, and three red heads of hair were on them.
Their bucklers are in fragments flung, Their hauberks rent, their girths unstrung; With saddles turned, they earthward rolled.
Bright spears in the hands of heroes flashed above the helmets, that clave the shining bucklers in twain.
Bright were the breastplates and the helmet, and the bucklers fair and massy.
They hurled their spears so mightily from their hands, that they pierced through the strongbucklers to the bright harness, and the shafts flew high in the air.
Bucklers formerly had long spikes in their centre.
Their bucklers are designed in the form of marguerites or marigolds; the A under the right hand figure is Alpha, whence we may perhaps equate this saint with Alpha, the consort of Noah.
The vociferation used upon these occasions is uncouth and harsh, at intervals interrupted by the application of their bucklers to their mouths, and by the repercussion bursting out with redoubled force.
Men really strong prefer in such moments to be rather the popular ministers of the nation than the bucklers of the king.
The others hastily buckled on their breastplates, caught up their bucklers and helmets, and joined their comrades.
Leave your bucklersand javelins behind you, but take your swords.
The number of killed on either side was small, for the bucklers and helmets defended the vital points.
Arrows hissed through the air, lances crossed, and the rapid blows of sabres and swords resounded from the bucklers and steel casques.
In vain the bravest exposed themselves to the greatest dangers to prevent the destruction of the wooden towers and the rams; they fell, buried under the ruins, and the flames consumed even their bucklers and vestments.
Lay their spears and bucklers bright By the warriors' sides aright; Many a day the three before me On their linked bucklers bore me.
They launch their spears; then hand to hand they meet, The trembling soil resounds beneath their feet: Their bucklers clash; thick blows descend from high, And flakes of fire from their hard helmets fly.
From the mighty host came a volume of sound like the murmur of a wind-swept sea, while the morning sunlight was reflected from acres of shining bucklers and a forest of tossing spears.
Spanish bucklers were interposed too late, and, as Montezuma fell, a frenzied yell of triumph arose from the multitude.
But they agreed, and Kit Smallbones with them, that there could be no harm in going into the open space of Cheapside and playing out a match with bucklers between Giles and Wat Ball, a draper's prentice who had challenged him.
The bucklerswere huge shields, and the weapons were wooden swords.
The swash-bucklers doubtless brought prize-money home, but it did not all come from France--that is pretty certain.
It was otherwise with the roistering swash-bucklers who came back in that glorious autumn.
The streamers at the head of their lances fluttered on the breeze, while their painted and gilded bucklers dangled from the pommels of their saddles.
In the way of trophies, the axes, bucklers and pikes of the leudes, who ran away out of fear for the devil, are stacked up at the four corners of the superb heap of booty.
A most manly wit Margaret, it will not hurt a woman: and so I pray thee call Beatrice, I giue thee the bucklers Mar.
An hundred lovely hands assail The bucklers of the monarch's mail, And busy labour'd to unhasp Rivet of steel and iron clasp.
Say, shall the Lusian race forsake their king, Where spears infuriate on the bucklers ring!
These bucklers are unknown to the natives of Esmeralda, but they told us of the danger incurred when the fruit ripens and falls from a height of fifty or sixty feet.
They launch their spears; then hand to hand they meet; The trembling soil resounds beneath their feet; Their bucklers clash; thick blows descend from high, And flakes of fire from their hard helmets fly.
No, my brave friends, no, you are running too fast; I have done a sufficiently brilliant deed to shut the mouth of all enemies, so long as one of the bucklers of Pylos remains.
When bucklers were hung up as trophies, it was usual to detach the ring or brace, so as to render them useless for warlike purposes.
The skirmish begins, the hollow bucklers clash against each other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bucklers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
