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Example sentences for "visor"

Lexicographically close words:
visitors; visits; visitt; visive; viso; visored; visors; visse; vissi; vist
  1. He stopped and raised the visor of his helmet in order to pull out the arrow.

  2. Montgomery, captain in the Scotch Guard; when the shock was so violent that a splinter from Montgomery's lance penetrated the king's eye through the broken visor of his helmet.

  3. Gertrude recognized the good-natured profile under the long cap; Paddy McGraw lifted his visor as she advanced and with a happy laugh greeted him.

  4. On the opposite side she could see the engineer, padded snug in a blouse, his head bullet-tight under a cap, the long visor hanging beak-like over his nose.

  5. The duke's visor was up, and he coloured highly; but without waiting for reply, I turned my rein, and rode away.

  6. Twice during this morning I have seen him raise the visor of his casque with the muzzle of his pistol, and I warned him of the event.

  7. Vance replaces the visor on his flight helmet, we will escort him to my office for a very brief and undoubtedly very illuminating interview.

  8. Strolling back toward the entry hatch, he quickly detached the reflecting outer visor that was designed to drop down over the front of his flight helmet.

  9. You're not--" She stared as he lifted the visor of his flight helmet.

  10. There was no reflecting visor on his helmet now to hide his face.

  11. With his left hand Androv peeled back his helmet visor and kissed Eva.

  12. But instead of hitting a kobun, he caught one of the Mino Industries pilots, visor up, directly in the face.

  13. He was speaking through his upraised helmet visor as he eased himself into the right-hand G-seat.

  14. Never does he lay aside his arms nor lift the visor of his helmet after victory nor take part in the feast nor yield himself to slumber.

  15. A kind of open helmet, without visor or beaver, and somewhat resembling a hat.

  16. It was the rule that after the contest each champion was to ride the whole length of the lists, with his visor raised and his face uncovered, that it might be known who had done well or ill.

  17. In a tournament it was the rule only to strike at the face or the chest, both well protected by the visor and the breastplate, and to cease at once if the adversary raised the visor of his helmet.

  18. The terrible struggle lasted for some time, until Bayard struck his foe on the visor with his poignard and cried: "Don Alonzo, recognise your fault and cry for mercy to God.

  19. As he looked around, the first object that he saw the sunrays strike was the nose of the squire of the Grove, protruding out of the opened visor of his helmet.

  20. At once the unknown knight held his lance over his visor and threatened him with death unless he confessed to being vanquished and acknowledged that he would abide by the conditions of the combat.

  21. But the helmet was only partially complete, for it lacked a beaver and a visor to protect his face, so SeƱor Quesada constructed these from pasteboard and painted them to resemble the armor as closely as possible.

  22. Besides the bellows visor, and one puffed out to give breathing space and fluted, the visor was at times embossed into the form of a grotesque face with mustachios.

  23. The armet is of fine form, with the visor thrown into the series of peaks and ridges common to fluted armour, and known to collectors as the bellows shape.

  24. The other, for man and horse, is equally complete and ornamented with brass bands, the sallad with visor and mentonniere being of fine form and contemporary.

  25. The visor is usually thrown into three or four horizontal peaks or ridges, often with the underhung look believed to have been introduced in compliment to the House of Hapsburgh.

  26. The form represented has the addition of articulated pieces behind and a double visor moving on pivots at the sides, which make it a near approach to a closed helmet.

  27. A second and possibly earlier example has the visor thrown into horizontal ridges and a small bavier.

  28. The tuilles are flexible and pointed, formed of narrow horizontal plates; the shoulder-plates are bossed into lions' heads; and the armet has a double visor without bavier.

  29. The visor works on pivots, the occularium is a slit above it, and the bavier is a separate piece fastened by straps at the back.

  30. It was frequently furnished with a visor to let down.

  31. Being readily removed, the visor was only worn in action, and is thus rarely represented in effigies and brasses.

  32. The visor is of one piece, and works on a pivot, but in a few of the early specimens the pin and hinge arrangement of the older Italian examples is preserved, rendering it removable.

  33. Open the visor of that Blue Knight, Wamba, who seems the chief of these villains.

  34. That brim still comes low enough to hide your hair rather well, and the sun visor helps too.

  35. The visor was of dark, transparent plastic set in the front of the hat brim, and it added somewhat to the depth of Biff's tan.

  36. Marengo surveyed them gloomily from under a driving-cap visor huge as a sugar-scoop.

  37. On a faded red shield above the visor was the word "Foreman.

  38. When he jogged past the judges' stand to get position, elbows on his knees and shoulders hunched up, the glare that he levelled on Bickford from under his scoop visor was absolutely demoniac.

  39. Though one visor fell off another still remained to cover his natural countenance.

  40. As Strong hurried across the street his eyes shone with anticipation from under the visor of a cheap cap that had replaced the jaunty derby.

  41. Doth it become one so to speak the message of his King, with visor down, Sir Knight, to the bride whom his Majesty would honor?

  42. He raised his visor and each man saw his leader's face as the face of a conqueror.

  43. He himself had been enabled to strike one or two sweeping strokes, always aiming at the same place, the juncture of the visor with the helmet.

  44. I'd rather have a light coat of mail and a steel cap than heavy armor and a helmet which would press me down, and a visor through which I could scarce see.

  45. His coat was buttoned to the throat, his cap-visor pulled low over his eyes, his pistol hand hanging straight down at his side, his gaze never wavering from me.

  46. The sun sank lower into the western sky, causing Caton to draw down his fatigue cap until its glazed visor almost completely hid his eyes.

  47. So clear were the shaded lines I was able to trace his gun, and even the peculiar turn-up to the visor of his forage-cap.

  48. The shaft sang an ever lowering song, as it flew, falling fairly against the bars of the visor with an impact that rang back to them, palpably penetrating an interstice of the helmet, for it hung there in plain sight.

  49. You have a double tongue within your mask, And would afford my speechless visor half.

  50. Adolar enters in black armour with visor down.

  51. He threw the visor right up and motioned to Zaidie to do the same.

  52. The first thing Redgrave did was to raise the visor of his helmet and taste the air of the new world.

  53. He snapped the visor down and clasped it in its place.

  54. From the depths of the strangely elongated visor came, not an angry exclamation, but a veritable roar.

  55. The visor was raised, and I tried to discover what prevented it from being lowered.

  56. The visor gave way, the gorget-piece also, and my uncle's head issued from durance, red as a poppy.

  57. That Visor is an arrant knave, on my knowledge.

  58. I beseech you, sir, to countenance William Visor of Woncot against Clement Perkes o' th' hill.

  59. In less than five minutes they had thus revealed to me their characters, and in less than five minutes I had buckled on a breast-plate of steely indifference, and let down a visor of impassible austerity.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "visor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aegis; armor; camouflage; canopy; disguise; goggles; incognito; mask; masque; masquerade; mummery; peak; shade; shades; sunglasses; visor