One had a headpiece damascened beyond price swinging at his shoulders, another flaunted trappings of silver, a third had a jewelled hilt, a fourth a bunch of clinking cups or a swollen belt.
Next to the headpiece the most urgent necessity was to protect the breast against the direct shock of the lance, and for this a rigid defence was of the utmost importance.
The sallad was a relatively dangerous headpiece in tourneys on foot, and a large-visored bassinet is often mentioned as being retained in use for this purpose down to the sixteenth century.
This picturesque headpiece is the one so frequently represented by Albert Duerer, and was favoured for a longer time in Germany than elsewhere, many of the Germans in the picture of the meeting of Maximilian and Henry VIII.
In a bequest of William Langford, 1411, is a headpiece covered with red velvet, and actual specimens so covered are not unknown.
It is decorated with some engraved bands or borders, while the fine headpiece to it is Italian, bearing the marks of the celebrated Missaglias of Milan.
It was the headpiece of the Gothic armour, such as that of the Warwick effigy, though monuments of this date almost always leave the head bare.
Over his doublet of rusty black he had clapped a yet rustier back and breast; on his bushy hair rode a headpiece many sizes too small; by his side was an old broadsword, and over his shoulder a pike.
His glance had rested for a moment upon the battered headpiece and ancient rusty breastplate with which Master Jeremy Sparrow was bedight.
The Governor, headpiece in hand, stepped forward; the other swept off his Spanish hat; both bowed profoundly.
At the firing and the shouting West had rushed from the room, followed by his fellow Councilors, and now the Governor clapped on his headpiece and called to his men to bring his back-and-breast.
Illustration: headpiece to Kid] *KID* Kid was one of those little boys who seemed to have grown up on the streets of the big city where he lived.
Illustration: headpiece to Dinah Cat and the Witch] *DINAH CAT AND THE WITCH* Once upon a time there was a little girl named Betty.
Illustration: headpiece to The Star and the Lily] *THE STAR AND THE LILY* Once there bloomed in a garden a beautiful white lily, on a long stalk so tall that she towered over all the flowers that bloomed near her.
A reduced copy, with some variations, is placed as the headpiece of an Epistle to Alexander Pope, Esq.
A lion and companion unicorn, concealed by the pillar, was originally an headpiece to that excellent old ballad, beginning with "The fierce lyon of faire Englonde Didde swallowe the lillie of France.
The young merchant's sedulous application is well hinted at by an headpiece to the London Almanac, "Industry taking time by the forelock.
Another method of making up a pack with the pack cloth, common among Canadian voyageurs, is as follows: Spread the cloth upon the ground, and lay the tump line across it, the headpiece near one end and the thongs a foot from the sides.
The Eskimo hunter binds his pack with sealskin thongs, and manipulates a single thong in such a manner as not only to secure the pack but to form arm loops and headpiece as well.
Outfitters sometimes attach a headpiece to their pack harness--that is to say the harness is provided with both shoulder loops and tump line head strap.
With the headpiece resting high up upon the forehead the pack should hang with its bottom no lower than the hips.
Her head was bare; for she often gave her headpiece to her page to carry for her, and in the evenings did not always replace it by any other covering.
As a headpiece to this chapter we give a very fine example of a cassette, or strong box, of the time of Louis XIV.
The Heppelwhite settee illustrated as the headpiece to this chapter shows the delicate fluting in the woodwork, and the elaborated turned legs which were beginning to be fashionable at the close of the eighteenth century.
The illustration of a portion of a cornice of carved pinewood appearing as the headpieceto this chapter shows this tendency.
The portrait of Madame Recamier, by David, which is in the Louvre, given as headpiece to this chapter, shows the severe style of furniture in use at the zenith of the Empire period.
He carried a gleaming headpiece from which the blue feather of the Douglas fell over his arm half-way to the ground.
The red man began to beat Sholto about the headpiece right heartily with his staff, which exercise made a great ringing noise, though naturally, the skull cap being the work of Malise MacKim, little harm ensued to the head enclosed therein.
With coats of mail very few are furnished, and hardly upon any is seen a headpiece or helmet.
It is made out of two pieces of bamboo,[3] dried over the fire into the desired shape, and is held together by two slender strips of rattan running around and stitched to the edges of the headpiece proper.
The headpiece is fitted with a corresponding screw, which can be attached or removed by one-eighth of a turn.
At the sides of the headpiece are two hooks, H, over which pass the cords connecting the heavy lead weights of 40 lbs.
On one side of him sat old Johnston, who was busy in trimming the feathers of some arrows to his liking; and on the other Hordle John, who lay with his great limbs all asprawl, and his headpiece balanced upon his uplifted foot.
The bow-man pulled back the bolt of the door, and thrust out the headpiece at the end of the bow.
He had a steel headpiece and his hands were crossed upon the hilt of his sword in front, and his face, excessively picturesque with its grizzly moustache, was a tantalising sight for me!
I have chosen, as there is not to be a model till next Monday week, a beautiful headpiece of elaborate design on whose surface the red drapery near it is reflected.
Not finding it he said, "Clearly the pagan to whose measure this famous headpiece was first forged must have had a very large head; but the worst of it is half of it is wanting.
When Sancho heard him call the basin a headpiece he was unable to restrain his laughter, but remembering his master's wrath he checked himself in the midst of it.
Not if he's got your headpiece on him," he replied, giving me another clap on the shoulder.
But Chisholm, who was a sharp fellow, with a good headpiece on him, suddenly spoke.
Seizing the document he threw it and the headpiece on the floor, and declared that his intention was to become king of China, and that the Chinese government should learn how little it had to do with the sovereignty of Japan.
The Chinese emperor accordingly dispatched another envoy to Japan carrying a gold seal and a headpiece specially manufactured for the purpose.
I was gardener to our captain's father--the colonel, you know; and that fellow with his headpiece on wrong was gardener to his father as hit our officer.
Then, backing his horse, he allowed the party to pass on, while he resumed his place, hanging the steel headpiece to his saddle-bow by the strap and chain.
Here, Samson, give this prisoner a decentheadpiece while he is with us.
Mr. Temple readjusted the headpiece and swung about to the transmitter.
Listen here," he said, and clapped the headpieceover Mr. Temple's ears.
Morales sat with his back turned, the headpiece clamped over his ears.
With nervous haste Frank pulled the headpiece from the other and clamped it on his head.
Holding the headpiece to his ear, he set his lips to the telephone instrument and called: "Jack, Jack, you there?
At the conclusion of Bob's recital, he walked over to a headpiece and put it on.
But before he could proceed, Frank's glance caught the light flashing in the signal bulb, and he leaped to the headpiece and microphone with a glad cry.
But Dave took up a headpiece and began adjusting the tuner knob.
With a cry, Frank leaped from his chair, seized a headpiece and put it on.
Within, soft rubber-faced cushions had interlocked; the body would fasten to the headpiece in the same way.
And suddenly with a blow fiercely strong and swiftly keen, Sir Owen cut the fastenings of the strange knight's helm, so that the headpiece came off.
The Whig papers generally at this time adopted for a headpiece a snake broken into parts representing the several colonies, with the motto, "Unite or Die.
