Female with the gorget smaller and tinged with red and grey, and the rest of the plumage greyer.
Ring Ouzel is hardly an appropriate name for this bird; for in reality it does not wear a ring round its neck, but a white gorget on its breast, the contrast between which and its black plumage is very striking.
Mayhap 'twould put the blessed ants to sleep, and keep them from crawling beneath my gorget .
Clear eyed and iron nerved indeed were these Scot archers; men who could pick you out with unerring nicety the crevice between gorget and helm, or the joint between pauldron and breast-plate.
My little arms went round his neck and tightened there convulsively until the steel rim of his gorget bit into them.
He wore a buff-coat, under which no doubt there would be a shirt of mail; his gorget and wristlets were of polished steel, and his headgear was a steel cap under a cover of peach-coloured velvet.
At the first flash after leaving the tree trunk he was nowhere to be seen, but a second revealed him lying on the ground, with four shaggy beasts bending over him and tearing fiercely at his gorget and breast-armour.
Help me to loosen his gorget and ease him of his body mail," said Malise, at last.
When the twenty-sixth line is reached he puts the necklace upon the neck of the Xo´-ḳa so that the gorget hangs upon his breast.
The white shell gorgetwhich a man wears as a pendant on his necklace is also a symbol of the life-giving sun.
Its excretory duct opens, beside that of the acid gland, at the enlarged base of the gorget of the sting (fig.
The gorget being articulated, the head could also be raised or lowered a little, but not enough to make this form of joint very desirable, and a looser kind was soon substituted.
At noon my wife and I walked to the Old Exchange, and there she bought her a white whisk [A gorget or neckerchief worn by women at this time.
A woman's neck whisk is used both plain and laced, and is called of most a gorget or falling whisk, because it falleth about the shoulders.
The gorget of the throat is emerald green, with a cloud of delicate crimson in the centre.
Illustration] Our feathered dot is gorgeous with his metallic green upper parts, bordered on the tail with purplish black, his white or grayish under parts, and his gorget of purple which gleams in bright, varying tints in the sun.
He closely resembles our common ruby-throated humming-bird, whose gorget is intense crimson instead of purple, and who does not venture into the Rocky Mountain region, but dwells exclusively in the eastern part of North America.
See you this knight now, hisgorget loosed off--" "O messire!
By the middle of May his banded throat, with its double gorget of black and white, has become distended like a jargonelle pear, the rich glossy-black plumes at the back long and hackle-like.
Shell gorget with engraving of a curious human figure.
In the first place the carving has been made upon one of the so-called "gorget stones," than which no class of Indian relics have been more puzzling to archaeologists.
He stopped and picked it up; it was the larger piece of the fractured "gorget stone," in fig.
Bernard Hansell, the discoverer of the Lenape Stone, states that he found the carved gorget (fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gorget" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
