The greaves were of bronze or brass, with a lining of leather or felt, and reached above the knees.
The main dependence of the legion was on the infantry, which wore heavy armor consisting of helmet, breastplate, greaves on the right leg, and on the left arm a buckler, four feet in length and two and a half in width.
The moated wall and battle-ship may fail, But safe shall justice prove; Stronger than greaves of brass or iron mail The panoply of love.
And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.
King Offa has the distinction of greaves and knee-pieces: the mailing of a portion of his coif differs from the rest of the suits, probably from carelessness of the artist only.
No greaves or any plate armour, on the other hand, appear on the sepulchral monument, executed about twenty years later, over the remains of Don Rodrigo de Lauria, son of the famous Admiral.
The greaves are ornamented with floral devices and écussons, and are strapped on to chausses of mail.
The legs are protected by greavesof plate armour, with ornamental lengths up the middle.
But they are described as being worn on the chausses or stockings of mail, and may not impossibly have been greaves or defences of plate after the Roman pattern.
Greaves and genouillères are worn with the chausses.
In the South of Europe the greaves were already become of a highly ornamental character, as we may see from the sculpture of Gulielmus de Balmis (1289), from a bas-relief in the Annunziata at Florence.
Inoculated with the Cow-pox by Mr Greaves in the Autumn of 1800.
Was inoculated in Autumn 1798 by Mr Greaves of Clayton.
Here they were soon engaged on a subject which seemed to excite Greaves to the highest pitch, and elicit from him sundry ejaculations of surprise mixed with anger.
Nicholas was unable to give any definite information upon the matter; as the authorities of the organization in the United States were very reticent regarding it, and Greaves himself appeared but little better informed.
Greaves had kept his faith--the stranger was the deserter!
Scarcely had the conviction seized upon him, when Greaves motioned him to draw nearer.
So brief was the interview, that it was not observed by any individual in the garrison; and so quickly did Greaves return to the canteen, that his absence was scarcely noticed.
When Greavesreturned to The Harp, he found O'Brien in a state of great excitement.
He wondered if old Greaves, in his glass look-out, was watching them--old Greaves saw pretty much everything that went on in the upper fort.
He felt delighted to think that old Greaves had seen him in company of this lovely widow.
Commander Greaves and John Manton were also present, grouped at the end of the room, near the window whence the dawn crept in.
Wilson," he calls with quiet sternness, "Mr. Greaves is speaking to you.
Mr. Greaves sits down at the officers' desk, near the hall entrance.
The rotunda door opens noisily, and the doctor enters, accompanied by Deputy Warden Greaves and Assistant Deputy Hopkins.
Greaves wakes with a start, and gazes stupidly about; presently, noticing the trusty with the large cuspidor, and spurts a long jet at it.
With tremulous anxiety Johnny begs the Deputy Warden to tell him how much longer he will remain in the dungeon, but Greaves curtly commands silence, applying a vile epithet to the boy.
First on his legs he set the fair greaves fitted with silver ankle-pieces, and next he donned the cuirass about his breast.
Therefore now come I a suppliant unto thy knees, if haply thou be willing to give my short-lived son shield and helmet, and goodly greaves fitted with ankle-pieces, and cuirass.
The last two nights they were in England Mrs Greaves and Rachel spent in our home, and I drove down and saw them off at the station.
It will be years more before they are married, for old Mr Greaves won't give his consent.
Mrs Greaves was certainly very silent, but I liked her.
I wondered what the girl would be like; a young edition of Mrs Greaves might be pretty, but there was an expression on mother's face which made me uncertain.
I was perfectly certain Mrs Greaves had taken a fancy to me before she said, "I should like to introduce my daughter to you," and sent a message upstairs by the servant.
Mr Greaves has had a sudden stroke--" We all stood up quickly, all save poor Vere, who has to be still whatever happens.
All the while poor Mrs Greaves sat like a mute at a funeral, hanging her head and never saying so much as "Bo!
Mrs Greaves and Rachel came home after the New Year and set to work at once to break up the old home.
Mrs Greaves and Rachel had been sweet to us, but they had one invalid on their hands already, and we could not help feeling that we gave a great deal of trouble.
Mr Greaves died the very night of his seizure, and immediately after his funeral Mrs Greaves collapsed and has been an invalid ever since.
She'll have a surprise one of these days when he meets the right girl, and bids Rachel Greaves a fond farewell!
This was the time of which the father of the Greaves boys had spoken to Whistler--the days when Mrs. Booth used to come with Turner to the waterside and he would row them over to Battersea.
In the morning he sent for the brothers Greaves to help him.
Whistler and the Greaves boys were up and down the river at all hours of the day and night and in all weathers, painting and sketching, they under his tuition, or gathering impressions and studying effects of light and shadow.
The average protein content of the wheat of the United States is a little more than 12 per cent; Stewart and Greaves found an average of 16.
Stewart and Greaves examined a large number of wheats grown on the dry-farms of Utah and found that the average per cent of water in the common bread varieties was 8.
They were clad in doublets and trousers, with steel caps, breast plates and greaves upon their legs.
In front of them all sits a warrior white, with breastplate and greaves of hard steel; As the paddles flash keenly, he gazes serenely, and smiles as the warriors wheel.
The Sieur de Champlain, in armored breast plate and with greaves and arquebus, soon came into a clearing, where he viewed a strong, log fortification.
And he made a strong helmet to go on the head and shining greaves to wear on the ankles.
If they speak of huge shields only because they are conservative archaeologists, then, on the other hand, they speak of corslets and greaves because they are also reckless innovators.
The theory of critics is that late poets introduced the bronze corslets and greaves with which they were familiar into the poems, but scrupulously abstained from alluding to the equally familiar small shields.
They pleased the critical warriors, on the other hand, by introducing the corslets and greaves which every military man of their late age possessed.
The three spies put on no corslets, as far as we can affirm, their object being to remain inconspicuous and unburdened with glittering bronze greaves and corslets.
Then why does he scout tradition in the matter of greaves and corslets, while he sometimes actually goes behind tradition to find Mycenaean things unknown to the original poets?
They did follow it as to chariots and shields; as to corslets and greaves they reversed it.
In the midst of these disastrous circumstances, news arrived that her son Greaveshad lost his life in a sea engagement with the enemy; and these tidings almost instantly deprived her of reason.
The history of Sir Launcelot Greaves was a theme which effectually fixed the attention of Aurelia, distracted as her ideas must have been by the circumstances of her present situation.
Sir Everhard Greaves did not seem to be very well pleased with the conduct of his son at London.
Such an instance of repeated ingratitude and brutal ferocity divested Mr. Greaves of his temper and forbearance.
I have heard Mr. Greaves ridicule them for their vanity and awkward imitation; and therefore, I believe, he avoided all concerns with them, even when they endeavoured to engage his attention.
Apart from this, Sir Launcelot Greavesis interesting historically as ending Smollett's comparatively long silence in novel-writing after the publication of Fathom in 1753.
You have lived," said she, "to see my obligations to Sir Launcelot Greavesaccumulated in such a manner, that a whole life spent in acknowledgment will scarce suffice to demonstrate a due sense of his goodness.
It is conjectured that the bronze used in the construction of the greaves resembled in some respects the hardened brass or “latten” of the mediæval ages, and that they were carefully moulded to the limbs of the wearer.
The greaves now appear without straps behind, and were retained in their place solely by the elasticity of the metal; they are represented as adhering closely to the limb, and were probably moulded from casts taken direct from the wearer.
Greaves and vambraces of leather strengthened with splints of iron, with thick leather gauntlets and shoes, guarded the limbs, while a skull-cap with banded camail or a thick leather gorget depending, protected the head and neck.
A pair of Greek greaves are preserved in Case 24, Tower of London, which are probably of the Heroic Age, as they are furnished with rings for the attachment of fastening straps.
As a rule greaveswere not worn, the limbs being entirely unprotected.
The weight of his greaves righted him while he was in the air.
The Imperator tore off his greaves and helmet, caught his general's cloak in his teeth, that it might not fall as a trophy to the foe, and sprang down into the waves; it was all done in a twinkling.
Pernier at Gortyna, where a big Northerner with round shield and greaves threatens a tiny Minoan or Mycenæan, crouching behind his figure-of-eight shield.
First he girded his goodly greaves about his legs, making them fast with ankle- clasps of silver; and about his chest he set the breastplate which Cinyras had once given him as a guest-gift.
First he greaved his legs with greaves of good make, and fitted with ancle-clasps of silver; after this he donned the cuirass of the son of Aeacus, richly inlaid and studded.
He made a helmet, close fitting to the brow, and richly worked, with a golden plume overhanging it; and he made greaves also of beaten tin.
First he put on the goodly greaves fitted with ancle-clasps, and next he did on the breastplate about his chest.
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