"Morion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... breastplate glitters bright, A morion speeds its flashes wroth, A rondelle from a hand of might Drops ...
— Enamels and Cameos and other Poems • Theophile Gautier
... beguiles.— Yet I hover always nigh, Bid thee think,—and bid thee sigh; Yet I goad thy rankling breast;— Never, never, shalt thou rest. What avails thy bossy shield? What the guard thy gauntlets yield? What the morion on thy brow? Or the hauberk's rings below? If to live in anguish fear, Danger always threatening near: Lift on high thy biting mace, See him glaring in thy face; Turn—yet meet him, madd'ning fly, Curse thy coward soul, and die. Not upon the field of ...
— Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 • Edward Ziegler Davis
... of May, he wrote to Sonoy, begging him to hold himself in readiness, as all was prepared within the city. At the same time, he requested the governor to send him forthwith a "morion and a buckler of proof;" for, he intended to see the matter fairly through. Sonoy answered encouragingly, and sent him the armor, as directed. On the 28th of May, Bardez, with four confederates, went to the council-room, to remonstrate with the senate concerning ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... Castilians would be useless. Consequently, they became like mad dogs; and they preferred death to enduring the conditions of the conqueror. But so many fell that death had to fulfil its duty, namely, to inspire them with fear. They wounded Don Juan with a stone, but not very dangerously, as his morion received the blow. Although he fell, he arose cured, and with renewed courage, by calling on the Holy Child, who gave the Spaniards the victory, and, with it, the islands for a second time. Truly, had so good an outcome not befallen the Spaniards ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXIV, 1630-34 • Various |
