How To Use Greave In A Sentence
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Pushing forth, he jabbed the head of the weapon into the greaves of the incoming phalanx.
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Greaves achieves considerable intensity on this tiny scale through his mastery of infinitely subtle tonal gradations, often in black and brown or gray hues that evoke the palette of old photographs.
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Hargreaves says there are new ways of delivering water and sewerage services to increase efficiencies.
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An amphitheater with crescentic tumuli as seatings, by Hargreaves Associates.
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A strong defensive partnership between Ellie Hargreaves and Annabel Graham at the back prevented any goals being conceded during the morning.
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Lane however had their own batting aces and the Park bowlers struggled as S Hargreaves made 69 and Oliver Halliday 53.
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Greaves should be reinstalled as Minister for Culture.
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The Lykians furnished fifty ships; and they were wearers of corslets and greaves, and had bows of cornel-wood and arrows of reeds without feathers and javelins and a goat-skin hanging over their shoulders, and about their heads felt caps wreathed round with feathers; also they had daggers and falchions. 1074 The Lykians were formerly called Termilai, being originally of Crete, and they got their later name from Lycos the son of Pandion, an Athenian.
The History of Herodotus
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We had them rocking at one point, with Tom Greaves scoring a goal that lifted us.
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Hargreaves is the MP who got into trouble with his party's chief whip for opposing the tax reform.
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Often called the "People's Tree," this year's tree is an 85-foot blue spruce from the two million-acre Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona.
Capitol Christmas tree arrives on the Hill
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Women have a particularly bad deal in the cancer stakes, according to Greaves.
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They've found three pieces so far, a breastplate, a greave, and a belt.
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Yes, I thought; it was as Achilles 'heir that he must have seen himself; inheritor of the ancient laws, which say a man lives by his pride and shall defend it to the death: Harmodios son of Proxenos son of Harmodios, and so on back to some well-greaved Achaian at Troy.
The Praise Singer
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Mixing up his jabs to the face and hooks to the body, Arthur poured on the pressure, and in the fifth it was just a question of how many more rounds O'Connell would let the undoubtedly game Greaves continue.
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He had bronze greaves on his legs in case someone tried to take him out from underneath.
Christianity Today
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At the opposite end of the scale of cinematic classicism is the offbeat Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, William Greaves's meta-film from 1968, now released on DVD by Criterion along with its modern companion, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½.
GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 12/17.
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The discovery also includes silver cups, greaves (armour worn on the shins), bronze objects, ceramic dishes and weapons.
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Weeping, the well-greaved Achaeans turned-off with headlong speed to the shore of the much-resounding sea, since they were being massacred at the hands of the relentless man Telephus.
Languagehat.com: CLASSICAL GOLDMINE.
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There were the floating, pale - grey clouds; and the immitigable tree; the implacable tree with its greaved silver bark.
The Waves
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Tony Hargreaves, presiding, congratulated Simms on a glowing report by the probation service.
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The summer of 1984 and the Miners Strike witnessed some of its most violent scenes as battle lines were drawn between the police and pickets at the Orgreave coking plant near Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
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He had laced leather boots with polished rounded calves, like greaves.
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‘I'm my own event planner,’ Hargreaves says of his regular Sunday football gatherings, barbecues and pool parties.
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Yesterday she spoke with Health Minister Damian Greaves who directed her to the hospital administrator.
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Hargreaves has a funny notion of relaxation - the foursome used their free time to build their own recording studio.
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An armed figure with Corinthian helmet, cuirass, and greaves, and holding a spear and round shield, runs with a very wide stride behind each chariot.
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It was a theme developed by England World Cup medal-winner Jimmy Greaves, who declared, Beckham will not be remembered as an England great.
Posh & Becks
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It was Boxing Day afternoon, and the third psychiatric session that week which had been attended by Hargreave.
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Hargreaves is the MP who got into trouble with his party's chief whip for opposing the tax reform.
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Tony Hargreaves, presiding, congratulated Simms on a glowing report by the probation service.
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The first solution to this bottleneck appeared around 1765 when James Hargreaves, a carpenter by trade, invented his cotton-spinning jenny.
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Tweets about super-injunction footballer spike after attempts to gag Twitter Premiership footballer sues Twitter after details of super-injunction were published Max Clifford: Ryan Giggs 'affair' may never have come out without injunction Mr Men Google doodles celebrate 76th birthday of creator Roger Hargreaves
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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In 1767, James Hargreaves, a Oswaldtwistle weaver, put East Lancashire on the map when he invented the Spinning Jenny, which was also used to spin wool.
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We see Penelope waking up alone in a bed filled with discarded gauntlets, greaves and breastplates.
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[Page 164] 'Tarena; but for "greaves," wearing no leg-armor themselves, they had no synonym.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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They soon increased their lead when Matthew Cox dispossessed his opposite winger on the half way line and outpaced the cover in a thrilling run to the line. Hargreaves again converted.
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Each hoplite was a proud citizen who could afford to equip himself with a bronze helmet, a thick breastplate, greaves to protect the legs, and an iron-tipped spear eight to ten feet long used for thrusting, not throwing.
Alexander the Great
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There were the floating, pale - grey clouds; and the immitigable tree; the implacable tree with its greaved silver bark.
The Waves
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Greaves, a goal-scorer of legendary prowess, is one of the greatest footballers ever to grace the English game.
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Hargreaves is the MP who got into trouble with his party's chief whip for opposing the tax reform.
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Instead, I wish good luck to the club that once harboured my second favourite player outside George Best, England's greatest marksman, Jimmy Greaves.
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Instead of calf-length greaves, both these types wore leg-protectors that came well above the knee.
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And when for beautiful he says “endowed with beautiful cheeks,” and for well armed he says “well greaved.”
Essays and Miscellanies
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Hargreaves is the MP who got into trouble with his party's chief whip for opposing the tax reform.
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In contrast Mr. Hargreaves' general stores was in a tiny cottage - again the front room had been adapted.
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He stood his ground throughout his challenging line of duty, which included the Battle of Orgreave, when police clashed with strikers on picket lines at the British Steel coking plant.
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The hoplite was protected by a helmet, a shield, and a breastplate, with leg protection in the form of greaves.
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The helmet, and the "coiffe" beneath it, protected the head; the "ventail" of linked meshes was worn across the lower part of the face, and was attached on each side of the neck to the "coiffe", so that it protected the throat; the greaves covered the legs.
Four Arthurian Romances
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Na Hargreaves i tapae tana whakahe ki nga pirihimana i muri i te kitenga i a Chicken e whakahaware ana te waha, e hurorirori ana, me etahi atu kuri e rua e pera ana ano hoki, mai i te Ra Tapu.
New Zealand Herald - Top Stories
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The flavour of his cross-questioning comes across in the notes kept by Hargreaves: ‘It's bad to kill.’
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Written in a spidery script was Hargreave's communique.
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The confrontation, dubbed by some ‘the last English civil war’ began in a field near the Orgreave coking plant and culminated in a charge by mounted police through the village of Orgreave.
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Hargreaves is the MP who got into trouble with his party's chief whip for opposing the tax reform.
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The helmet, and the "coiffe" beneath it, protected the head; the "ventail" of linked meshes was worn across the lower part of the face, and was attached on each side of the neck to the "coiffe", so that it protected the throat; the greaves covered the legs.
Four Arthurian Romances
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Hargreaves and party promptly set about the most obvious vertical weakness.
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Still more captivating are Greaves' architectural structures, a dozen in all, installed at the four corners of the site.
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Instead, I wish good luck to the club that once harboured my second favourite player outside George Best, England's greatest marksman, Jimmy Greaves.
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His armor consisted of a pair of bracers, a pair of greaves, and a chain shirt, all made out of the same black material.
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England fans used to jeer him, but Owen Hargreaves silenced his critics at the World Cup and is now turning his thoughts to a Premiership career
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Hargreaves plays the ball into Pizarro on the edge of the Celtic box.
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Archeologists also discovered a second bronze sword with a bone handle, a bronze and iron dagger, a pair of greaves armoured plates, an arrowhead, a spear point, a golden kylix or wine cup and a bronze boiler in the grave.
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One month later, Fred Hargreave and Jack demonstrated positive inhalation tests in three of these workers.
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Hargreaves was allegedly driven out of Lancashire and developed his jennies in Nottingham.
'The Industrial Revolutionaries'
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On arrival PC Hargreaves was met by relatives who told him the doors were locked.
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Thus, they usually spend a day removing all the bulky portions of their armor, retaining only critical greaves, cuisses, and jambeau.
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Equally large claws burst forth from his greaves, and a serpentine tail snaked forth from the small of his back.
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Hearing that Hargreaves had touched up the woman's face as well, he sent for the picture and found that the face had indeed been retouched.
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Hargreaves is down injured after taking a hefty kick in the knee.
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But when the sun was wending to the time of the loosing of cattle, then at last the Cicones drave in the Achaeans and overcame them, and six of my goodly-greaved company perished from each ship: but the remnant of us escaped death and destiny.
Book IX
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Luin was clad in battle armor, with a breastplate, greaves, bracers and side armor - his arms were bare.
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The well-greaved grillus" bounds twenty feet at a spring, and having thighs as thick as
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
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After that he turned to Autumn and found that she had already pulled out a set of ring-mail, complete with greaves and bracers.
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Then you lace up the greaves to protect your ankles.
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But the ram for me alone my goodly-greaved company chose out, in the dividing of the sheep, and on the shore I offered him up to Zeus, even to the son of Cronos, who dwells in the dark clouds, and is lord of all, and I burnt the slices of the thighs.
Book IX
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They fastened their breastplates, in war, over their smocks, and had other armour covering the lower parts of the body, and leg armour called "greaves"; while the great shield which guarded the whole body from throat to ankles was carried by a broad belt slung round the neck.
Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of cities
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Goat-thigh to greaved-thigh, made one cause with the free and the bold! '
Graded Poetry: Seventh Year
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The island's first motor bus accident is believed to have occurred on Friday, October 11 1907, just after 5:30 p.m. when Jane Anne Greaves, 55, was knocked down and her foot fractured by a bus as she was walking along Baxter's Road.
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He was at the infamous Orgreave coking plant near Sheffield during a particularly ugly confrontation, and narrowly avoided being badly hurt at Woolley pit near Wakefield.
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(An amphitheater with crescentic tumuli as seatings, by Hargreaves Associates.)
Agro Park
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The well-greaved Greek, you already know, is deep in the confidences of Minerva; the hairy Trojan, on the contrary, is protected by the Lady Venus.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
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Each hoplite was a proud citizen who could afford to equip himself with a bronze helmet, a thick breastplate, greaves to protect the legs, and an iron-tipped spear eight to ten feet long used for thrusting, not throwing.
Alexander the Great
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His legs were positioned in a wide war stance, his body battle-ready, with a bronze cuirass and greaves.
Blood Trinity
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Buses carrying miners were given a free run to Orgreave, a British Steel coking plant, whereas on previous occasions when they were going to picket the buses were stopped.
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Treasures and trophies lined the walls in large unruly piles: crowns of gold; glittering jewels; goblets and chalices; swords and shields; bronze helmets and greaves.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS
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In Caesar's time they seem to have been distinguished by armoured greaves protecting the shins and a deep plated belt.
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Hundreds of maces, axes, daggers, swords, knives, and even a few pistols hung on the walls, as well as a collection of different kinds of armor, from greaves worn to protect the shins to full suits of chain mail.
Clockwork Angel
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Hargreaves is a clever and ambitious politician.
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An armed figure with Corinthian helmet, cuirass, and greaves, and holding a spear and round shield, runs with a very wide stride behind each chariot.
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Hargreave was considerably older than her, and in a position of advanced responsibility.
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The question of whether proper names of people and places have a rightful place in a dictionary is probably an obsolete one: their presence was formerly justified on the grounds that as "words" they are far more frequent than many of the "legitimate" words, like elytron, greave, or mithridatism.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 3
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The legs of Achilles and of Thersites would share the same fate in them, and both would in modern London be as well entitled to the epithet of "well-trousered," as the former alone was to that of 'well-greaved' before Troy.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
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A team led by Jane Greaves at the University of St Andrews in Scotland reckons that the clump is a planet in its very early years of formation -– at no more than 100,000 years old, it is much younger than the previous record holder for the youngest planet, which was less than 10 million years old.
Growing Up 520 Light Years Away - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
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Beside the shield he makes a breastplate, a helmet, greaves and ankle straps, to protect Achilles' tender heels.
