I should have remembered how generously you offered to shield me, even before I had convinced you of my innocence, and I continue to listen to your counsels with gratitude.
It is hoisted into a place fitted for it, outside of the lower hull, but within the impenetrable shield of the upper one.
Over this they constructed a sloping shield of railroad iron, firmly plaited together, and extending two feet under the water.
Within this is a lining of one-inch iron, acting as a damper to deaden the effects of a concussion when struck by a ball--thus there is a shield of nine inches of iron.
The mailed monster quivered a moment under the fearful concussion, but every ball glanced from her sloping shieldlike the wooden arrows of the Indian from the hide of the crocodile.
This is one of those commonplaces by which men love to shieldthemselves from the labor of painstaking observation.
I do not wish to enlarge upon the circumstances of your behavior, because your brother, my old friend, has come forward to shield you from the consequences.
Who then will protect thy mother, Be her shield in times of danger?
It's fortunate that Montani is a gentleman, anxious to shield and protect you.
You will infallibly gather laurels if you add to these the spear of sarcasm and the shield of nonchalance.
Annesley's simpleshield spoke of the Conquest; but all paled before the banner of the house of Hauteville, for it indicated an alliance with royalty.
His shield and his vases would at least be evidence to his posterity of the splendour and the taste of their imprudent ancestor; but he observed the other items with less satisfaction.
At the end of the room, under a canopy and upon a throne, the shield and vases lately executed for his Grace now appeared.
The centre of the English army was pierced, but the formation was too dense to be shattered by a charge of pikemen, however furiously made, and the long pikes were broken upon shield and hauberk, or shivered by blow of sword and axe.
I trust they will do well, and that God will be their shield and guide; I have no doubt He will, for I have read something in the Bible to that effect.
At every point where the law draws the shield of its mercy around the accused, in thought it seemed made for one or another of my friends, and, mentally, I found myself defending one after the other of them.
He had kept his children at school and paid their way despite the iron fortune that had hedged him about, and he was working to shield them from all the sorrows possible, without the aid of the Saint who had gone to heaven.
Locking the shields together formed a rampart which it was not easy to break; in bad weather the concave shield seems to have served the purpose of our umbrella; in sea-fights the vanquished often escaped by swimming ashore on their shields.
The shield was long and light, commonly of wood and leather, but for the chiefs, ornamented with brass, with silver, and even with gold.
The helmet and the shield were the only defensive articles of dress; nor do they seem to have had trappings for their horses.
At line 2258 Lumsden translates:-- The mail that bite of sword O’er clashing shieldin fight withstood must follow its dead lord.
Fell the foe andshield the Weder-Geat Lord’s life.
Yet neither his virtues nor his services could shield him from the malice of his enemies, and he was condemned on a false accusation of treason.
His discoveries were of importance to the French, but neither his services nor his virtues could shield him against the fury of the mob.
A league of friendship referred to the Roman senate assembled in the temple of Concord, on behalf of the Jews, who had sent three ambassadors with a shield of gold as a mark of confederacy.
It professes to shield the slave from such treatment alone, as would either lay him aside from labor, or injure his health, and thus lessen his value as a working animal, making him a damaged article in the market.
It took it out of its former category of municipal law and local life, adopted it as a national institution, spread around it the broad and sufficient shield of national law, and thus gave to slavery a national existence.
It is dangerous for the sovereign power of a State to license immorality; to hold the shield of its protection over anything that is not "legal in a moral view.
It is dangerous for the sovereign power of a State to license immorality; to hold the shield of its protection over any thing that is not "legal in a moral view.
It took it out of its former category of municipal law and local life; adopted it as a national institution, spread around it the broad and sufficient shield of national law, and thus gave to slavery a national existence.
The skeleton is laid out at full length, generally with the head towards the west or north, a spear at one side and a sword and shield obliquely across the middle.
Say, can I shield yon host from death, from sin, Taking them up into my breast, like God?
That night sad women on the sea sands toiled, Drawing from wreck and ruin, beam or plank To shield their babes.
And pray, sir, who are you, that I should shieldyou from annoyance?
To order or advise the thing done; to influence efficaciously its doing; to assist in the deed or to profit knowingly thereby, to shield criminally the culprit, etc.
Therefore the payment of a just debt may be deferred In order to shield from want parents, wife, children, brothers or sisters.
I would paint the Red Lion on my shield if I had only my blood.
He has lifted the only shield I cannot break, the shield of an impenetrable pomposity.
Ross put his stubborn defiance into words, more as a shield against his own wavering.
No, perhaps I can only attract their attention, break through the force shield so the rest may attack.
Perhaps it has a shield as part of it; perhaps those from the stars have their own protection.
A wall of fish--sea life herded in there as a shield .
And neither will I have aught of you, though you seem to me a young St. Michael with lance of honor and shield of strength.
If you begin to shield yourself behind what the great souls have done, that, too, is mirage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shield" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
