The hauberk was a complete covering of double chain mail. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Chivalry] Reference
These days I will more often call a hauberk a mail shirt or a gambeson a quilted tunic. From Wordnik.com. [Archaic terminology in historical fiction] Reference
Mail armor, of which the hauberk is a species, and which derived its name from maille, a French word for MESH, was of two kinds. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Chivalry] Reference
His shield he breaks, dismails the hauberk linked. From Wordnik.com. [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference
Breaks his good shield, his hauberk white unmails. From Wordnik.com. [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference
Th 'embroider'd hauberk, through the body, through. From Wordnik.com. [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference
That his good shield was pierced, his hauberk rent. From Wordnik.com. [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference
The hauberk cuts in twain, drives through the heart. From Wordnik.com. [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference
My hauberk is in pieces, and my body sorely wounded. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
The armourer gestured for him to remove the hauberk. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Breaks down his shield -- the hauberk rends, and thrusts. From Wordnik.com. [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference
Hagen, however, smote him through his well-wrought hauberk. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
Amalric draped the hauberk across the armourer's workbench. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
At the dispersion of the Museum, the hauberk was purchased by. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849] Reference
And King Atli's banner-bearer through shield and hauberk smote. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
And sheared the cloudy helm-crest and rents in his hauberk won. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
The hauberk was burdensome, and the helm weighed upon his head. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
The man had on a hauberk, with layers of leather padding beneath. From Wordnik.com. [Ascendance]
'What is this?' asked Perceval, and pulled the skirt of the hauberk. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
He was wearing his gambeson over his tunic, but had yet to don his hauberk. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
At the moment of battle he puts his hauberk on the wrong way: another bad omen. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
Sabin took the hauberk from her and draped it across the top of Gerbert's coffer. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Finished with his hauberk, Sabin set it to one side, but only to fetch his shield. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Melias through his hauberk and through the left side, and he fell to the earth nigh dead. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
'The patrol went well?' she asked as he bent over and she tugged the hauberk over his head. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Her cloak of light wool now weighed like a hauberk as the rain saturated through the fibres. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
'Her father would burst his hauberk at the notion of such a match and it would scarcely suit me. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
He spied Hildebrand in his blood-red hauberk, and asked him tidings, as his fears did prompt him. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
Sabin donned the quilted undertunic and with Strongfist's aid struggled into the Saracen hauberk. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
So Rabadash, by the time he encountered Edmund at the gate, had a hole in the back of his hauberk. From Wordnik.com. [The Horse And His Boy]
These were the galleys of Inishtore, that rode upon the seven seas for a king's son with a hauberk of gold. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Red was he with the blood of his enemies, red was his hauberk, red his arms, red his shoulders, aye, and the neck of his horse. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
His face was like the clay, but he had a firm lip, and he was buckling a hauberk with a steady hand as the men fell under arms. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
'Methought that none might pierce through the hauberk of a knight, and I sorrow that I have slain him, not thinking what I did.'. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
This represents a knight in a hauberk of mail covered by a surcoat, and drawing his sword slightly out of its sheath, pendent on his left. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
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