"Armour" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Perhaps, after long experience and much suffering, the individuality may become secure, and the armour no longer necessary, but this is a bitter process. Most people become extinct, and ...
— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird
... David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail. And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he essayed to go. But David said unto Saul, "I cannot go with these; for I have ...
— Journeys Through Bookland - Volume Four • Charles H. Sylvester
... following descriptive title: "An editor in a small way, after pretending a great deal about his correspondents, is here supposed to have received a letter." A second skit shows us a critic examining a picture representing "the death of A Beckett, Archbishop of Cant." A figure in armour, with its vizor down (obviously intended for the artist) is depicted in the act of cutting at the "archbishop" with a sword, the blade of which is inscribed "debts due." His first blow has severed the mitre labelled "assumption," and the pastoral staff, inscribed ...
— English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. - How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. • Graham Everitt
... to do," he said; "that armour to prepare—the plan of campaign to consider, you know. Good-night, then, ...
— The Mystery Of The Boule Cabinet - A Detective Story • Burton Egbert Stevenson
... Him with the golden Armour, whose whole Army you blew away with a single Puff, like Leaves before the Wind, and Feathers ...
— Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) • Lawrence Echard
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