They are extremely defensive and well made, with every piece more or less fluted, except the greaves, which are usually perfectly plain.
Three actual and perfectly unique specimens of these, belonging to Sir Noel Paton, show that they were not laid upon or over the mail, but replaced it, as represented in monumental effigies.
It is perfectly plain except for some slight fluting on the mittened gauntlets, made to look as if fingered, and on the square-toed sollerets.
In a few minutes the Indian sat down again, and for sometime remained perfectly quiet.
She cautioned her son to remain perfectly quiet, and not to utter another word.
But more beautiful to me thy sword with its curve of lightning like the outspread wings of the divine bird of Vishnu, perfectly poised in the angry red light of the sunset.
Then take away your hands and silently put up with your defeat, my heart, and think it your good fortune to sit perfectly still where you are placed.
The music filled the mighty building, and rang in a hundred echoes from column to column and from the tiles of the floor to the perfectly joined stones of the vaulted roof.
And let us be perfectlyfrank about the cigarette problem that troubles so many of us.
You'll find that it's all perfectly okay with Security.
I assure you, non-Americans are perfectly capable of preserving a secret.
She repeated the same words frequently-remained perfectly in her senses and calm, and died about eleven at night.
Rysbrach has perfectly mended the Ganymede and the model, which to me seemed irrecoverably smashed.
I trust the summer willperfectly re-establish you.
I delight in the style of the neutrality maker(708)-his neutralities and his English arc perfectly of a piece.
I have but just room to tell you that the King is perfectly well, and that the Pretender's son was sent from Spain as soon as he arrived there.
But I will say no more of him; I will punish him sufficiently, if sufficiently there be, by telling him you are perfectly well: you are, are you not?
He lay there at my feet, perfectly still, blinking up at me with red-rimmed eyes.
Isn't it perfectlywonderful that the priest of one religion never believes the miracles told by the priest of another?
I am perfectly willing that He should make the invisible, if they want Him to.
These gentlemen are in great fear for the future of our most holy and perfectly authenticated religion, and have, like faithful watchmen from the walls and towers of Zion, hastened to give the alarm.
The unit of government is family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous.
They were perfectly willing to make brick if Pharaoh would furnish the straw.
Nature knows perfectly well what she is about, and if you go a-fooling with her you may get into trouble.
It is admitted that no unconverted brain can see the least of sense in this doctrine; that it is abhorrent to all who have not been the recipients of a "new heart;" that only the perfectly good can justify the perfectly infamous.
He lived in the reign of Constantine, and said that the tracks of Pharaoh's chariots could be seen--perfectly preserved in the sands of the Red sea.
Undoubtedly there are many cases ofperfectly justifiable suicide--cases in which not to end life would be a mistake, sometimes almost a crime.
A remnant of old mortality drunk, bloated, and half-asleep," is better than a perfectly sober defender of human slavery.
And yet if he and the congregation would come together and be perfectly honest, they would all admit they didn't believe anything of it.
We will never be perfectly civilized until we do away with crime and criminals.
Finding that these people are so kind and liberal, we ordered our men to treat them with the greatest respect, and not to throng round their fires, so that they now agree perfectly well together.
It is perfectly transparent, and continues its bluish cast for half a mile down the Missouri, notwithstanding the rapidity of the river.
Its name is derived from the perfectly round, smooth, black stones that line its bed and shores.
They called it "a weasel, perfectly white except at the extremity of the tail, which was black.
Travelling is indeed comparatively pleasant, as well as more rapid, the snow being hard and coarse, without a crust, and perfectly hard enough to prevent the horses sinking more than two or three inches.
Cut-nose and Twisted-hair seem now perfectly reconciled, for they both slept in the house of the latter.
Among other marks of it, we noticed in one of the houses an old woman perfectly blind, and who, we were told, had lived more than a hundred winters.
They did not eat any of them perfectly raw, but the entrails had very little cooking; the fawns were boiled whole, and the hide, hair, and entrails all consumed.
The dryness and purity of the air roused the admiration of the explorers, who noticed that the woodwork of the cases of their instruments shrank, and the joints opened, although the wood was old and perfectly seasoned.
On the rose-bushes we also saw a quantity of the hair of a buffalo, which had become perfectly white by exposure and resembled the wool of the sheep, except that it was much finer and more soft and silky.
The boat, though much injured, was repaired by ten o'clock so as to be perfectly fit for service; but we were obliged to remain during the day till the articles were sufficiently dry to be reloaded.
I never met with a Woman so perfectly to my taste; and I won't believe it form'd you so, on purpose to tantalize me.
Because she could not have the conscience to exact those attentions that a Pretty Wife expects; or, if she should, her resentments would be perfectly easy to me, nobody would undertake to revenge her cause.
But when the offscouring of society, the reptiles that we could have trodden under foot, may rail at and scorn us with impunity, how doubly bitter, how perfectly insupportable must it be!
As if in compassion to his personal deformity, Nature had endowed him with a degree of sentiment and refinement perfectly at war with his habits and pursuits.
Burrell seemed perfectly satisfied with the permission he had obtained, and left Sir Robert in the library, expressing his determination to speak to Mistress Cecil on the subject that evening.
It was now perfectly hollow, and afforded a free passage; two enormous props had been found necessary, to prevent its making a last resting-place of the earth it had for ages triumphantly protected.
Presently Crisp stretched his awkward length from out its usual coil, and trotted to the door, slowly wagging his apology for tail, as if perfectly conscious of the honour of Blanche's visit.
It is perfectly useless," he said, "attempting to curb these boy heroes!
Jim knew why--and also knowingperfectly well that tears would mean the deepest shame, he talked on without requiring any response.
As for the Hermit, he was perfectly content with anything Norah did and had no idea of objecting.
For a moment he lay perfectly still, listening intently, and peering the while into the darkness which encompassed him.
Mama Faquita, being herself a full- blooded negress, was of course perfectly well aware of these peculiarities in the nature of her audience; and she played upon them as a skilled musician does upon a sensitively responsive instrument.
But although the port authorities were perfectly polite, Singleton thought--or was it only a case of a guilty conscience?
We are one of the oldest and most influential families in Cuba; and the Spaniards know perfectly well that to meddle with us would be to make a very serious mistake.
To be perfectly frank with you, I cannot conceive why you should desire a private interview with me, unless--how shall I put it?
This should be a perfectly ideal place; just sufficient water, a lee to shelter under, and very little likelihood of being disturbed at our work.
To be perfectly frank with you, I do not believe that you have the slightest shadow of foundation or excuse for your suspicions of Senor Montijo and his family.
The next instant there arose a perfectly hair-raising clatter and clash of metal down in the engine-room, and the engines abruptly ceased to revolve!
It is perfectly safe to say that parents will make no mistake by observing the requirement of the Levitical teaching upon this subject.
An entire renunciation of all conjugal privileges is, however, only perfectly just and proper when it meets with the mutual consent of both husband and wife.
She had difficulty of breathing all day, even when sitting perfectly still.
We see throughout (I THINK) that Elizabeth has not, and never bad, a mind perfectly sane.
She has a very sweet voice; rather hesitates in choosing her expressions, but when chosen they seem without an effort admirable, and just befitting the occasion; there is nothing overstrained, but perfectly simple.
Smith and Elder distinctly stated in their letter that they did not share in such "belief," the sisters were impatient till they had shown its utter groundlessness, and set themselves perfectly straight.
Indeed, she was so much in the habit of doing so, that people, who live quite away on the edge of the common, knew her perfectly well.
Mr. Wilson seemed perfectly satisfied, and said all was right.
He was perfectly conscious till the last agony came on.
And, with every appearance of the satisfaction of the man whose conscience is perfectly at ease, Mr. Townsend sat down to the discussion of his morning meal.
But, after all, these were all mistakes which a perfectly innocent man, of his constitution, in his position, might have made.
Never was there such a travelling-costume; and although it suited perfectly the frail and delicate beauty of the wearer, it ill accorded with the dingy "conveniency" in which we journeyed.
And on those shelves hundreds of human heads, perfectly preserved, stared at the startled watchers with emotionless eyes, as they had stared for only the gods knew how many months and years.
He saw the slots now, in the floor where the jaws had lain, perfectly camouflaged.
Anybody with a fair understanding of Latin and a full understanding of epigram, who reads the last couplet here, will know that Scaliger was perfectly qualified to pronounce a judgment in the matter.
He knows perfectly well how his book is likely to be taken.
There have been editors who would have answered, 'Presumptuous moneybag, I suppose I paid fully for my dinner with my company, and I am perfectly free to criticise you as you deserve.
Both statements are perfectly correct; only our Saviour adhered to the day fixed by the original institution, while the priests and lawyers followed the rule established by the Sanhedrim, which threw the festival a day after its proper time.
It is now a small chapel, perfectly modern, and whitewashed like a Turkish sepulchre.
But when we are called upon to surrender our belief to the legends invented by men whose ignorance is the best apology we can urge for their superstition, a certain degree of disgust and indignation is perfectly justifiable.
And every classical scholar is perfectly aware that in the language of pagan antiquity a poet and a prophet were synonymous appellations.
The monks of Bethlehem are perfectlyconvinced that it was in allusion to this guarded treasure, so valuable in Palestine, that Solomon called his beloved spouse a "sealed fountain.
But this anecdote, although perfectly consistent with truth, does not justify all the inferences which have been drawn from it.
Its sides, however, are perfectly smooth, like the coated pyramids of Sahara and Dashour, and not graduated by stages like those of Dijzeh in lower Egypt.
Helen stood perfectly still, except for the toe of one of her boots, which was tapping a tattoo on the boards.
But now he is perfectly satisfied that it is what he calls an A 1 job, and looks at his limb with the prideful interest of a man who has acquired a rare and precious work of art.
There is a lot of packing to do, and that poor silly Susie is perfectly useless, since she heard we were going.
An abominable fog began to come up, rolling before a dreadful wind, and I moistened more handkerchiefs, since it was perfectly evident to me that no small boat would ever return to land in such a blow.
He promised, and said I was perfectly wonderful, and that he was the happiest man in the world.
I am the only one who is carrying nothing and is perfectly useless.
I don't know where I am, but I am perfectly happy, since some one knows the way.
It is going to be perfectly delicious, and you will have to wait a moment.
I have no doubt that what you say isperfectly true, but we could never do without him now.
I know perfectly well that he takes a great deal more interest in the fisherman we went to see.
Grant was perfectly right in trying to chase you away.
In a moment, however, my recollections were perfectly clear.
His manners are perfectly civil and courteous, showing that he has been accustomed to move among nice people.
From conversations with the fishermen I had gathered the impression that Mr. Barnett was a perfectly fearless man on land and water, and I had imagined an individual cast in a rather heroic mold.
He noted with a man's pleasure the perfectly fitting tailor-made traveling costume, the beautifully arranged hair, the delightful Parisian hat.
Her features might have been chiseled by a sculptor, they were so perfectly symmetrical, so accurately proportioned.
Wanaha gave a triumphant glance into Rosebud's laughing face and went to a cupboard, also made of packing cases, and brought forth a pair of moose-hide moccasins, perfectly beaded and trimmed with black fox fur.
They were, however, tracked by Batman's company, who opened a friendly conference, and were perfectly understood.
The reports in disparagement of Wilmot originated in the freedom of his address--perfectly innocent in itself, but liable to misconstruction.
Some species occur abundantly in situations which are perfectly dry for at least six months of the year, and seem, like many snails, to have the power of sustaining life for a long period in a dormant state.
On another occasion a friend of his had to assure the landlord that he was a perfectly honest man, and he need not be afraid of him, although he did come from Van Diemen's Land.
The appeal of Mr. Gellibrand to the profession perfectly vindicated his conduct.
Lord Stanley had ruled that, choosing to assume relations disqualifying them to vote with the governor, they were perfectly free to do so; but having done so, they could not retain their employment.
You know it's very hard to get a good man to go to the Tropics, but Morton has seemed perfectly contented.
To say the least, it was excessively careless of him, for he knows perfectly well that we always carry it in the morocco hand-bag, and never allow it out of our sight.
The substitution of Causation for logical sequence, as implicated in the hypothetical judgment of Relation, is perfectly scandalous; and still more scandalous is substitution of Reciprocity or Action and Reaction for Disjunction.
Now what really ruined Aristotelianism was the heliocentric astronomy, as Bruno perfectly saw; and ignorance of this left Bacon after all in the bonds of medieval philosophy.
To reward one of his passive agents and to punish another would be grossly unjust and at the same time perfectly useless.
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