A detachment of cavalry was at hand; their casques and dark-blue mantles gave them a crusading air.
Mounted upon chargers caparisoned in iron, their own iron casques hid their faces; cuirassed in iron and gloved in iron, they wore leggings of iron, and bucklers of the same metal.
The distance between them becomes so small that they are able to see one another's armor, casques and lances, glistening in the sun.
The casques were the first pieces that came to view.
Their swords were girt on, and the casques added last of all.
Meanwhile, with Lentulus and Cassius, the clients of your houses being armed beneath their togas with swords and breast-plates, and casques ready to be donned, I will make sure of Cicero and the rest.
And all that day, another day: Thin husks I had known as men, Dry casques of departed locusts speaking a shell of speech .
Five thousand pilgrims and more went along seven by seven in close ranks, casques on their heads, cudgels of green wood in their hands.
Most difficult of all it was to take off the casques of those who had thrust them down as far as their necks, and now were shaking their heads, but without making them fall, no more than green plums.
The baron's heart was gay when he saw the long line ofcasques and lances.
Their casques adorn'd with laurel wreaths they wear, Each brandishing aloft a cornel spear.
Ten blacksmiths' hammers beating upon ten anvils could not produce the deafening sound produced by Lodbrog's mace falling, falling again, rising only to fall again and again upon the casques and the armors of the soldiers.
The tops of the casques of the soldiers who still dare sustain the contest with him, barely reach his belt.
Some sink to the earth, crushed under the thundering blows, without uttering a sound: their skulls are ground into pulp within their casques like nuts in their shells; others roll to the ground emitting shrieks of pain and rage.
Their heads were protected by casques made either of wood or of the skins of wild animals, and sometimes richly decorated with metal and with precious stones, surmounted by the brilliant plumage of the tropical birds.
At length two figures mounted the marble steps, leading to the Tuscan colonnade, and were thus brought clearly into view, above the crested casques of the soldiery.
What scene more awfully monumental than Salamanca, where, long after the great battle, the ground, strewn with fragments of casques and cuirasses, was still white with the skeletons of those who fell?
My good sword cleaves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Idonea and Avice clasped on the casques of their lovers, and were gallantly repaid.
At dusk a company of dragoons, big helmeted men on big horses, trotted by, their blue mantles and mediaevalcasques giving them the air of crusaders.
They all wore khaki and brown shrapnel casques bearing the trumpet insignia of the French sharpshooter.
He saw from far Plancenoit the scintillating casquesof Blücher's Prussians.
Nature evidently intended you to damage casques and armour rather than to repair them.
Casques and the heads beneath them were cleft like egg-shells under the terrible blows; but the gaps thus made in the ranks were at once filled from behind, and for hours the struggle continued with unabated vigour on both sides.
We even agreed that the colour of the bare rock casques fronting the glare of the sun, and which were aligned against the lucent blue beyond, were of a purplish brown.
As will be seen from the various sketches of the profile, the summit of the range is broken up into many sharp triangular casques or narrow saddle-shaped ridges.
The blaze illumined the lake far round, and, shining on the casques of cavaliers and the plumes of Tlascalans, disclosed the whole line of the army, stretched along the calzada.
It is not improbable that some of these casques were formed in part of leather.
Similar banded casques occur in the Bayeux tapestry, in the pictures of the Painted Chamber at Westminster, and in other monuments.
Heraldic bearings do in fact appear on the casques of several figures previously to 1300.
We shall have to don our casques and cuirasses, and await you, lance in hand, mounted on our battle horses!
The days are past when the great nobles come to feasts in plumed casquesand chain armour, as knights ready to mount and ride as the trumpet note sounds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "casques" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
