breastplate

How To Use breastplate In A Sentence

• Your breastplate is in the shape of a spread-winged eagle, with bright yellow gems for its eyes.
• As he did so the big man quickly grabbed his arms and the woman stripped his armour breastplate away, and he was frogmarched towards a small crag.
• He noticed a peculiar weight on his chest and looked down to see a breastplate forged from bone.
• He donned the mail breastplate and leggings, and put on a pair of steel gauntlets and boots.
• A breastplate of darkness hid all the windows except one.
• Odd shaped horses may require a breastplate to help the saddle stay in place.
• Some of the belles, and indeed some of the women whose beauty is a thing of the past, wear a breastplate of beadwork, which is further decorated with a fringe of reindeer teeth that has a most ghastly effect -- they look so much like human teeth. Schwatka's Search
• To the west were the red-coats of the Royal Marines, and from the Union Club to the embouchure of Whitehall swept the glittering, massive curve of the 1st Life Guards -- gigantic men mounted on gigantic chargers, steel-breastplated, steel-helmeted, steel-caparisoned, a great war-sword of steel ready to the hand of the powers that be. CORONATION DAY
• It is Mr. Roe's opinion that the defensive armour on the quarter jacks dates from the first half of the fifteenth century, the plain oviform breastplates and basinets, as well as the continuation of the tassets round the hips, being very characteristic features of this period. Vanishing England
• For winters this war-gear Weohstan kept, breastplate and board, till his bairn had grown earlship to earn as the old sire did: then he gave him, mid Geats, the gear of battle, portion huge, when he passed from life, fared aged forth. Beowulf