We painted the shield and new-crested the morion the first year of my prenticeship, when the Earl of Richmond, the late King Harry of blessed memory, had newly landed at Milford Haven.
He has a beauteous Spanish leathern coat, and a belt with silver bosses--and a morion that Phil Smallbones saith to be of Milan, but I say it is French.
He fixed them up as well as he could, and then saw that they had something wanting, for instead of a proper helmet they had only a morion or headpiece, like a steel bonnet without any visor.
This his industry supplied, for he made a visor for his helmet by patching and pasting certain papers together, and this pasteboard fitted to the morion gave it all the appearance of a real helmet.
His armour being scoured, his morion transformed into a helmet, his horse named, and himself furnished with a new name, he considered that now he wanted nothing but a lady on whom he might bestow his service and affection.
In 1625, the morion was discarded in favour of a jaunty felt hat with feathers, but subsequently the morion was again worn with the addition of cheek-pieces.
Mary the morion and the cabasset helmet became almost universal for the pikemen, being in many cases richly etched in vertical bands or covered with arabesques.
A morion could be worn with these suits; it was an oval helmet with a high crest like a comb, and a brim which was peaked both before and behind (Fig.
In the street men stirred and lanthorns gleamed fitfully, whilst ever and anon a face surmounted by a morion would be pressed against the leaded panes of the window.
His head was uncovered, and on the table at his side stood the morion he had doffed.
To his side sprang the 'tzin: in his ear a war-cry, on his morion a blow, and under the gun he died.
XXXII When good Sir Dietrich noted how with each swashing stroke The furious Lord of Trony a Hunnish morion broke, On to a bench straight leapt he, to see the knights of Rhine.
Sharp-cutting blades they brandish'd as in close fight they strove, And shiver'd many a buckler, and many a morion clove.
XX As faint and exhausted from the house he sprang, What redoubled sword-strokes on his morion rang!
Mr Morion was nothing if not obstinate, and now that the fiat had gone forth that the stranger was to be admitted, enter he must at all costs.
I told you that Milne was coming down with a Mr Littlewood, who is thinking of renting Craig-Morion for a time.
But fate was not so cruel; for assuredly, with all the good-will in the world and disregard of appearances, Miss Elizabeth Morion could never have succeeded in scaling the entrance.
For, as a rule, any invitation to Mr Morion was either politely put aside or accepted on such general terms as to leave but vague probability of his ever availing himself of it.
Her daughter would thank you for saying so," Ryder Morion replied.
Half-unconsciously Frances had passed through the lodge gates which Mr Morionopened for her, thus making her way home across the park, till they reached the usual short cut to Fir Cottage, where he came to a halt.
Look at her, George," on which Mr Morion condescended to turn in his daughter's direction.
Mr Morion was silent, but still his gaze, as well as that of his companion, was fixed on the Laurel Walk, now almost dark.
Horace's utmost tact was employed to propitiate Mr Morion in various ways.
For half a minute she felt tempted to relate to her their conversation with the vicar, but on second thought she decided that it was better to avoid the always sore subject of the Craig-Morion inheritance.
We are terribly stay-at-home people, you see, and Craig-Morion seems a sort of earthly Paradise to us!
Then they carefully unfastened the morion and steel corselet, took off the heavy boots, and the coat of buff leather soaked in blood; and the Bishop supplied some soft underlinen from his own stock with which to dress the wounds.
Without waiting for his much-needed drink of water, Gilbert snatched up a morion that lay at his feet, clapped it upon his bare head, unsheathed his sword, and ran out to join in the fray.
But instead of of helping the hotly pressed knight, he cleft his morion by a dastard stroke from behind, and but for the thickly plated steel, would have thus ended his life upon the spot.
Peal upon peal came the ringing of steel, as sabres crashed down through morion and gorget, or sword crossed with scimitar, in unending clang.
We saw one of the officers take off his morion and throw it into the air with a shout of joy.
The sun behind him glinted on the visor of his morion from the shadow of which his eyes gleamed darkly.
He took off his morion and mopped the sweat from his brow.
Look at that fellow with the pike on his shoulder; neither his morion nor his corslet has known sand and the rubbing-stick since his great ancestor was drowned with Pharaoh; and 'twas then his harness got so rusty, depend on it.
I were in, I'd split your morion for you," said the knight, enraged at the cool nonchalance of the Hainaulter.
Circassia's king cried Roland dread) "Thy morion for this man let me entreat, Till I have driven such folly from his head; For never with like madness did I meet.
He, where the treasure fell, descends the brink Of that swift stream, and seeks the morion lost.
Academy there was an altar to Zeus Kataibates who was also called Morios: [Greek: estin ho te tou kataibatou Dios bomos on kai Morion kalousen ton ekei morion para to tes Athenas hieron hidrymenon].
See how exquisitely the morion is decorated with these lions' heads in gold for cheek pieces, and these bands of gold damascene over the skull-piece, that meet to form Minerva's face above the brow!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "morion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
