While the Count Fernan Gonzalez was yet ill of his wounds in his capital, and when his soldiers had scarce laid by their cuirasses and hung up their shields and lances, there was a fresh alarm of war.
No armour seemed proof against his trenchant blade; lances, helmets, and cuirasses flew in shivers beneath its strokes.
Profound silence prevailed in the Christian army; the black cuirasses of the Crusaders seeming to darken the horizon, whilst sixty thousand swords gleamed out from amidst clouds of dust.
Several had large pistols also; and the corselets or cuirasses of some were heard to clank, as they seated themselves to partake in this act of devotion.
He could forgive a stout able-bodied sectary or nonconformist, who enforced his doctrines in the field by downright blows on the casques and cuirasses of himself and other Cavaliers.
Some years after Waterloo certain historical cuirasses were taken from their repose in the Tower of London, and adapted for service by the Life Guards and the Horse Guards.
For parade purposes, the Prussian Gardes du Corps and other corps wear cuirasses of richly decorated leather.
Emperor was then a victim of frequent attacks of gout, and replaced uncomfortable cuirasses by such as were easier.
We find that the great Queen in the year 1500 owned several cuirasses of Milan plates, covered with gold, which she doubtless wore to defend herself from attacks like that at Velez-Malaga.
Cuirasses are also shown made of overlapping plates of metal (Fig.
The Spearmen or heavily-armed troops were accoutred in cuirasses of bronze scales overlapping, and supported on the shoulders by straps; or else in short tunics of heavily-quilted material with bronze plates sewn on in a pattern.
Around their sovereign scornful stand In triple rank a numerous band; Cuirasses bright of iron Their bodies stout environ.
The besieged distinguished in the dark crowd of soldiers the cuirasses of certain horsemen which shone like plates of gold.
On the winding red road shone like a rivulet of sparks the cuirasses of a group of horsemen approaching cautiously on a trot, as if exploring the way.
He saw onlycuirasses of metal; those made of leather had disappeared.
The bluish glint of the moon filtered through an opening in the cupola of his tent, shimmering upon the cuirasses which in the darkness shone like phosphorescent fishes.
At the great Peace Conference held outside the Sung capital in 546, the Ts'u escort was detected wearing cuirasses underneath their clothing.
We saw two boats put off from each, filled with men wearing the leather hats and steel cuirasses of the Spanish soldiery.
The Flemings, united with the Champenois, put the Mussulman cavalry and infantry to flight, pursued them out of the camp, and returned loaded with the bucklers and cuirasses they had taken from their enemies.
Some were armed with lances and shields; others, with cimeters and battle-axes, and with polished cuirassesthat flashed in the moonbeams.
Soon the road was illumined by a number of torches, thanks to which the duchess and Mayneville could see cuirasses and swords shining.
Take these to the magazine," said Poulain, handing the cuirasses to a soldier.
Yes; do you not remember that they brought several cuirasses and casques here, according to your reverence's orders?
Did you notice what beautiful cuirasses and arquebuses there were among them?
Carbineers, withcuirasses and helmets polished like mirrors, lay without boots and stockings in wheelbarrows, to which a peasant had harnessed himself with his dog, and thus transported the heroes.
There the cavalry must have been engaged; at least I there saw a great number of French cuirasses lying about.
To make this taunt more evident, several of the Gomeres displayed themselves upon the battlements arrayed in the helmets and cuirasses of some of the cavaliers slain or captured on that occasion.
The armories of his castles were supplied with helms and cuirasses and weapons of all kinds, ready burnished for use; and his stables were filled with hardy steeds that could stand a mountain-scamper.
He arrived at a moment of imminent peril, when the party was assailed by fifty Moors armed with cuirasses and lances, who were on the point of thrusting them from the walls.
The casques and the cuirasses of the leudes of Chram were seen glistening in the light of the conflagration; they were running hither and thither in a joint effort with the men of Neroweg to save the horses and mules from the burning stables.
Their tufted casques, their polished and brilliant cuirasses and greaves glittered in the sun.
A Regiment of Cuirassiers, whose Cuirasses were wash'd with Silver, and Helmets tufted with red and white Plumes.
A Regiment of Cuirassiers, having their Cuirasses gilt, with white and straw-colour'd Plumes on their Helmets.
The loss of armies, the destruction of cities, and the dishonor of the Roman name, ineffectually solicited the successors of Gratian to restore the helmets and the cuirasses of the infantry.
The blossom and flower of all the Persian nobles rode there,--their purple mantles flying with the wild motion, their bronze cuirasses black in the gathering twilight, their bearded faces dark and square beneath their gilded helmets.
The latter were covered with cuirasses of mail, so that the snout of the wild boar should not harm them, and that they might be able to encounter the terrible animal with impunity.
On his right was the Louvre, dark and motionless, but full of strange and ominous sounds; soldiers on the drawbridge came and went, and helmets and cuirasses glittered in the moonlight.
Some might be seen carrying an axe, a lance, a club, and two swords all at once; others bristled with darts like porcupines, and their arms stood out from their cuirasses in sheets of horn or iron plates.
The confused heap of pikes, helmets, cuirasses and swords turned round about, widening out and closing in with elastic contractions.
Then at the first words of reproach the cowards fell into a passion; they showed them from a distance their own swords and cuirasses and invited them with abuse to come and take them.
They threw off their cuirasses that the sword-points might be thrust in the more quickly.
These were the cuirasses of the Clinabarians in the Punic camp; then in the neighbourhood they distinguished other and more numerous lights, for the armies of the Mercenaries, now blended together, extended over a great space.
They had stopped up the holes in their cuirasses with the shoulder-blades of quadrupeds, and replaced their brass cothurni with worn sandals.
No helmet prevented a head struck by the edges of the Crusaders' swords from being wounded; and they found the stitching of their so-called impenetrable cuirasses too fragile.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cuirasses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
