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Example sentences for "full armour"

  • In the midst of this conversation the door opened, and a stranger entered in full armour.

  • With these words, the monk flung off his robes, and stood before them dressed in full armour.

  • She was clad in full armour, and looked as haughty and as beautiful as Freya, when she led the Valkyrs of old to the battles of the heroes.

  • When half way across, three horsemen in full armour passed by, and seeing him began to taunt him and ask him where he was going.

  • On her left is a knight in full armour, with drawn sword, and from whose costume we can have little hesitation in assigning the work to the early part of the fourteenth century.

  • Roxburghshire to the Abbey of Melros, the knight is represented on horseback in full armour, with a flattened helmet with nasal and a kite-shaped shield.

  • The knight is in full armour, but crowned with a chaplet of flowers, and his feet resting on a lion; while the lady's feet are supported by a dog.

  • Roslin Chapel has a curious example of an incised monumental slab, representing a knight in full armour.

  • It is as bad for earthen pots to knock against brass ones, as it is for a yeoman in a leathern jerkin to stand up against a knight in full armour.

  • Behind them stood ten chosen followers, all of whom, as well as their chiefs, were encased in full armour.

  • By this time Aylmer, seeing that his followers could make no effectual reply to the arrow fire, had ordered all, save the leaders in full armour, to lie down behind the parapet.

  • Every man now left his horses in charge of his charioteer to hold them in readiness by the trench, while he went into battle on foot clad in full armour, and a mighty uproar rose on high into the dawning.

  • Thus spoke Polydamas and his saying pleased Hector, who sprang in full armour to the ground, and all the other Trojans, when they saw him do so, also left their chariots.

  • Thus did Sancho soliloquise on the day of their departure, as Don Quixote, who had the night before taken leave of the duke and duchess, coming out made his appearance at an early hour in full armour in the courtyard of the castle.

  • The waiting and excited throng in the hall made way for him, as the great war-lord and acknowledged favourite of the powerful Archbishop went clanking through among them clad in full armour, paying not the slightest heed to their salutations.

  • Rodolph, now in full armour, commanded a body of men who stood on the battlements with axes on their shoulders, ready to spring forward when ladders were planted.

  • There the Dauphin, in full armour, awaited his rival’s approach.

  • There is a story told that, when Queen Marie’s gentle chiding had failed to rouse her desponding consort, Queen Yolande appeared before him clothed in full armour, and demanded why the King of France skulked in his castle!

  • To their astonishment, they found him in full armour, although he was obliged, while standing, to support himself on his sword.

  • And he found the heroes watching in full armour in the haven of Hyllus, near the city; and out he spake the whole message; and each hero's heart rejoiced; for the word that he spake was welcome.

  • The cavalry are more distinctly shown than in the picture before us, as being men-at-arms in full armour, with lances.

  • William and Mary, officers still wore breastplates, and military leaders were sometimes painted in full armour, though it may be doubted whether they ever actually wore it.

  • In a few minutes Sinclair, who was the heaviest and strongest of the esquires, rode out into the courtyard in full armour.

  • Do you put on a suit of full armour, Sinclair, and we will ride out to the course beyond the castle.

  • In the centre of the room stands a gigantic fellow in full armour, with a sword on his thigh and a beam in his right hand.

  • We passed out at the gate of the city and stopped at a sentry-box, in which was found a skeleton in full armour—a soldier who had died at his post!

  • Lars came in full armour to stand by Ned, and gaze at the woodlands, the cultivated fields, and the homesteads on either bank.

  • The command of the king is that every man shall land in full armour.

  • Vebba himself was very well mounted, and he was riding around, in full armour, giving orders to his men.

  • Here Sir Robert Gaiton, in full armour, with fifty stout men-at-arms, were awaiting them.

  • At the appointed hour in the morning they clad themselves in full armour, and when they went down they found the merchant's wife and daughter were already afoot, and these fastened the scarves over their shoulders.

  • The knight was in full armour; Edgar and Albert were in body armour with steel caps.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "full armour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    full activity; full assembly; full cargo; full confidence; full crop; full face; full flower; full grown; full half; full hour; full liberty; full noble; full operation; full page; full report; full share; full song; full stomach; full suit; full view; full vigour; full year; fully aware; more years; swift water; touch with