The gas shells were bursting outside the windows; but I thought it safe to take off my helmet after a few minutes; my eyes watered a good deal, that was all.
One piece of shrapnel hit me on the head, but, fortunately, I had my steel helmet on my head; so I was all right.
At that moment One of the minor nobles, who was also favorable to her, observed that herhelmet had no plume.
Bowing low over his saddle, he took his own plume from his helmet and fastened it to hers.
At the back of the chantry hung the king's indented helmet (in all probability the one worn at Agincourt), his shield, and his saddle.
He wore now a sort of helmet with a plume of feathers in it, and a slashed dress; and he knelt down and opened the mouth of the sack.
He called to me and we ran after it through Deadman's Court; we couldn't see which way we were going, so we knocked our heads together, and my helmet fell off.
His bared head rests upon his helmet and his feet upon a griffin and a muzzled bear, and the Garter is on his left leg.
The Apostle is very free in his comparisons; faith is now a shield, and now a breastplate; the breastplate in one passage is faith and love, and in another righteousness; but the helmet is always the same.
Defn: Wearing a helmet; furnished with or having a helmet or helmet- shaped part; galeate.
Defn: A light scarf wound around a hat orhelmet to protect the head from the sun.
That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc.
Defn: The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest.
Defn: That part of a helmetwhich is intended for the admission of air, -- sometimes in the visor.
Submarine armor, a waterproof dress of strong material, having a helmet into which air for breathing is pumped through a tube leading from above the surface to enable a diver to remain under water.
Armor) Defn: Part of a helmetprojecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
And be your oriflamme to-day the helmetof Navarre.
Tilting helmet, a helmet of large size and unusual weight and strength, worn at tilts.
Defn: Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised.
Chrysomelidæ, as the potato beetle and helmet beetle.
Defn: The representation of a helmet over shields or coats of arms, denoting gradations of rank by modifications of form.
This was sometimes fixed, and sometimes moved freely upon the helmet and could be raised like the beaver.
A cap of defense; especially, an open one, as distinguished from the closed helmet of the Middle Ages.
Both helmet and body-plates were of the finest Milan steel, richly inlaid with silver and with gold, and carved all over in rare and curious devices.
The stout-hearted man went forward, hard under helmet till he stood by the dais.
Then doffed he the iron coat of mail and his helmet from his head, and gave his sword bedecked, the choicest of weapons, to a thane that was serving, and bade him to hold ready his armour.
And over the Atheling, there on the bench was easily seen the towering helmet and the ringed byrny, the glorious spear.
The hard helmet dight with gold shall be deprived of gold plate.
Then the most noble thane refreshed his blood-stained and famous Lord, his dear and friendly Prince with water, with his own hands, and loosened the helmet for the battle-sated warrior.
Then in his soul under helmet is he stricken with bitter shaft.
And no one heeded the helmet nor the broad shield when terror seized upon them.
Then was loosed quickly from that valiant man both helmet and shield.
So that many an heirloom [25] could not hurt fiercely the helmet that was hardened by being plunged in cold water when the shield-warrior should attack the angry one.
The war-helmet was shattered, and the Ancient of the Swedes fell prone, all sword-pale.
Nor could Wulf the bold son of Wanred give back a blow to the old churl, for Ongentheow had formerly cut his helmet in two, so that he, stained with blood, fell prone perforce to the ground.
I had a hand to hand fight with a Belgian when another one from behind hit me with his rifle on the head with such force that it drove my head into the helmet up to my ears.
She says he asked her for her blessing and she lightly touched the helmet covered with khaki and gave it him.
She wore a German helmet above the wild hair which blew in wisps about her death-white face, and it seemed like a vision of hell as she passed shrieking with the laughter of insanity.
Whatever the shape or design of the helmet or dress, Siebe's principle is the one in universal use to-day.
The concrete blocks were then lowered and placed in position by helmet divers.
The telephone instruments in the helmet consist of one or more loud-sounding receivers placed either in the crown of the helmet, or one on each side in close proximity to the diver's ears.
Bell divers are naturally limited to the area which their bell for the time being covers, whereas helmet divers can be distributed over different parts of a contract and work entirely independently of one another.
The helmet diver is indispensable in connexion with harbour and dock construction, bridge-building, pearl and sponge fishing, wreck raising and the recovery of sunken cargo and treasure.
This is due not only to the heavier cost of the latter, but more particularly to the greater mobility of the helmet diver.
A buzzer is sometimes fixed in the helmet to call the diver's attention when the attendant wishes to speak, but as a rule the voice is transmitted so loudly that this device is unnecessary.
The small eyes at the top of the helmet are for securing the diver's air pipe and life line in position and preventing them from swaying.
This dress consisted of a metal helmet and shoulder-plate attached to a watertight jacket, under which, fitting more closely to the body, were worn trousers, or rather a combination suit reaching to the armpits.
The helmet is connected to the chambers by tubes, and the oxygen cylinder is similarly connected to the chambers.
Since, however, the bullet-proof helmet is worn officially nowadays there seems no reason whatever why the bullet-proof waistcoat should not be adopted officially too.
Arrived there they could inflate their jackets by blowing into them, open the window of the helmet and float upon the surface in comparative safety until rescued.
When the air hose is cut, that helmet valve closes automatically.
Get that helmet screwed on, now," he snapped, seeing that Bob had connected the air hose.
With a sob of relief, he caught the flicker of the copper helmet in the water, and finally got the limp form to the surface.
The air in his helmet seemed to poison him, his throat and lungs were on fire, and he knew that he was bleeding at the nose.
Bob was just completing his task, and Jerry had opened the front window of his helmet for a parting injunction.
It was no task to pull up the quartermaster until the heavy copper helmet rose to the landing.
Bob, you stand by while I help Jerry get his helmet on, then get the pump goin' while I slide him over the edge of the platform.
Then Borden helped him into the huge copper helmet and screwed it on fast, while Dailey and Birch went to the pumps and began to turn the two handles.
Then he grinned, with a sigh of relief; of course Bob would have had to quit work in order to get the body of Jerry over the landing, and unscrew his helmet so that air might reach him.
Borden went on paying out the lines, and gradually the flicker of the copper helmet died away and merged with the green of the water.
With that he closed his helmet and seized the kris, waved a hand at the pumping men, and calmly stepped off the landing while Borden paid out the air hose and lifelines.
Pulling Mart in was a hard matter, but it was finally accomplished, and Bob fell on the helmet and unscrewed it with trembling hands.
At one side lay the figure of Jerry, still in diving dress but with helmet removed.
In haste I run for other arms and missiles, for helmet and shield.
And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.
The eye that watched for the gleams of lance or helmet from the hostile frontier, the ear that listened for the groaning of wheels, made the high-road itself, with its relations to centres so remote, into a manual of patriotic duty.
He then lifted his sword from the floor, took off his helmet in token of submission, and, going to the barbican, gave up his sword to Locksley, whom he met by the way.
This was a most unexpected piece of good fortune, and he was able to borrow a helmet from another friend and so return to the fight, which continued for a while by moonlight.
Under the helmet a smaller close-fitting steel cap was often worn.
As he raised his hand to the brim of his weather-worn helmet a well-known voice exclaimed: "Cheer oh!
The air-space between the double thickness of the sun-helmet possessed sufficient buoyancy to bring him to the surface, after being twice taken down by the whirlpool.
The Moor availed himself of the moment, and before Aguilar had time to recover, the scymitar of his foe had cleft through the helmet of Don Alonso, and sunk deep into the brain.
His helmet had given way, and rolled to some distance on the plain.
On his burnished helmet he wore a profusion of white and sable feathers, and on his lance streamed a pennon of the same colours.
Peredur attacked the sorceress, and struck her upon the head with his sword, so that he flattened her helmet and her head-piece like a dish upon her head.
And the Knight gave Gwalchmai a blow that turned his helmet from off his face, so that the Knight knew that it was Gwalchmai.
Upon the head of the knight was a bright helmet of yellow laton, with sparkling stones of crystal in it, and at the crest of the helmet was the figure of a griffin, with a stone of many virtues in its head.
A golden helmet was upon the head of the knight, wherein were set sapphire-stones of great virtue.
A detachment marched along the central aisle, with cuirass and iron helmetadded to their brilliant plumage of every-day wear, and lined up by the papal throne.
I burst out laughing and ran on deck, to find the men mustered ready, and Mr Brooke standing there in sun helmet and gaiters, looking as unlike a naval officer as he could be.
The inner door began to open, and Pop reached up and gave his helmet the practiced twisting jerk which removed it.
When he took off his helmetthe bell clanged incessantly.
The stern chieftain spake not, but, as he stooped to raise the child, a single tear, falling between the bars of his helmet upon the upturned face of the wondering boy, told of the agony within.
At the altar of Mars, surrounded by a vast throng of citizens, soldiery, and chief estates of the realm, stands Hamilcar; his helmet down conceals his features from the crowd.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "helmet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
