Don Alonso was the last survivor, without horse and almost without armor, his corselet unlaced and his bosom gashed with wounds.
Thus the exultation of the victors was dashed with melancholy, and many a knight was seen lamenting over the helmet or corselet of some loved companion-in-arms.
It struck the shield of Paris, pierced it through, and passing through both corselet and tunic, would have bruised the side of Paris, but he shrank aside, and so was wounded not.
It struck him, indeed, and passed through the belt and through the corselet and through the girdle, and pierced the skin.
Besides the shield, he also made a corselet brighter than fire, and a great helmet with a crest of gold, and greaves of tin.
And thereon he hung, for a trophy to Mars, the arms of King Mezentius, the crest dripping with blood, and the headless spears, and the corselet pierced in twelve places.
Suppose the Bee stung behind the corselet and paralysed.
I have seen them penetrate, with a crackling of broken armour, the corselet of the Acridians, which offers a far greater resistance.
No, the stroke of the lancet is not forced upon it mechanically: the assassin scorns the large defect in the corselet and prefers the place under the chin, for eminently logical reasons which we will now attempt to unravel.
There remains only the joint between the corselet and the abdomen.
The moon, piercing the tissue of fleecy clouds, silvered the dewdrop on the corselet of the Roman sentinel, and tipped the dark waters of Volturnus with wavy, tremulous light.
But money was scarce and, consequently, all the things which only money could buy, so that a gown was a possession, and a corselet or a good sword a treasure.
Never was Mesa so hard pressed; never were helm and corselet so nearly useless; never gave up the ghost so many of the veteran Tlascalans.
Sergius' head-piece was gone, but he glanced at his own corselet and then at Decius.
Equipped almost wholly as a soldier, he wore a jacket of iron mail and a corselet of steel.
Upon my faith, the casque kept dropping on my nose, the corselet took the breath from me, the sword encumbered my legs.
I will do it; but will wear the corselet and buckle on my sword.
Within the week the friar made two visits to my house and each time when he left, beneath his outer robe, he wore a corselet and carried a heavy short sword and helmet.
Either one of you looks as strong as a bull and with that habit in the ditch, a helmet on your head, wearing corselet and sword you might pass as a soldier.
While arguing with him we edged towards the gate and turning quickly started to open it, whereupon he thrust at me with his lance, but my corselet turned it aside.
This at least gives a reminiscence of what the former city must have been when it was girded in its corselet of stone.
Then how do you manage to make thecorselet well proportioned if it is to fit an ill-proportioned body?
Pistias, by which you contrive that the corselet should cover the parts of the person which need protection, and at the same time leave free play to the arms and hands.
Or, "how do you make a well-proportioned corselet fit an ill- proportioned body?
You mean (Socrates continued) that it is not the exactly-modelled corselet which fits, but that which does not gall the wearer in the using?
I most distinctly do (he answered), take my word for it: no use in a corselet without that.
But with the dawn he arose; in the twilight Alden beheld him Put on his corselet of steel, and all the rest of his armor, Buckle about his waist his trusty blade of Damascus, Take from the corner his musket, and so stride out of the chamber.
The corselet of the latter rattled beneath his long black robe with the shiver that ran through his whole frame.
But at his best, in the field, clad in corselet and headpiece, and covered with a buckler, he had thought him an ugly and unwelcome visitor.
They draw the bowstring along by the forehead about opposite the right ear, thereby charging the arrow with such an impetus as to kill whoever stands in the way, shield and corseletalike having no power to check its force.
For the Eruli have neither helmet nor corselet nor any other protective armour, except a shield and a thick jacket, which they gird about them before they enter a struggle.
Tis time to leave the books in dust, And oil the unusèd armour's rust, Removing from the wall The corselet of the hall.
Saving a thin corselet of steel beneath his doublet, he wore no armor; and as his antagonist was, outwardly at least, entirely unprotected, a single stroke of the heavy weapons would likely decide the matter.
Yet they were glad to be admitted to the service of one who wore the Boar and they donned corselet and casquetel with eagerness and haste--as willing now to fight against the Cistercian as, an hour since, they were ready to defend him.
He was not in armor, except for a light corseletof steel, and already he had been more than once slightly wounded.
Illustration: Part of a British gold corselet found at Mold.
But the pike coming in contact with the edge of his corselet had not penetrated, and Claude recovered it quickly, and levelled it in waiting for the next comer.
A black corselet with shoulder pieces, and a feathered steel cap raised Basterga's huge stature almost to the gigantic.
The clarion sound and clang of corselet and buckler were heard from many a hamlet of the soul, and many a knight was arming for the fight behind the encamped stars.
I will put on my head piece and corselet one day, and you shall hew at me, allowing me my broadsword to parry and pay back?
Some day I shall have to put on the salad and corselet myself, for this strife is ruining France; and if the Duke of Orleans will not let his noble cousin of Burgundy save the country, all good men must join to force him.
In the 47th chapter of the same book, Herodotus describes a corseletsent by Aahmes (or Amasis) II.
She crept home and looked at her father's corselet and sword wonderingly.
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