Posidonius writes, that Fabius was called the buckler. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
A lance or spear; improperly rendered "buckler" in the. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
In Ps. 91: 4 "buckler" is properly a roundel appropriated to archers or slingers. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Beneath his buckler, shunn'd the threat'ning blow. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid English] Reference
And three bull hides which round the buckler fold. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid English] Reference
Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 29: Lamentations of Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Rushed on, crushed 'gainst his heart the buckler, rent. From Wordnik.com. [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference
Sword and buckler by his side, Tweedle, tweedle, twino. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
Blade and buckler together, though far off the heather. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
On helmet and buckler poured floods of sulphurous fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Counts of Gruyère] Reference
Prepare ye the shield and buckler, and go forth to battle. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
This will strike the buckler of Cleonymus full in the centre. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
No, no, he will get nothing, even though he gave me his buckler. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
I am so happy, so delighted at not having to carry my buckler any more. From Wordnik.com. [Peace] Reference
Where is the breastplate, the buckler, that this wretch has not pledged?. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
Fasten the strappings to the buckler; personally I shall carry the knapsack. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
May it not be the case that the buckler served as model for the circular disk?. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886] Reference
“Fear not, Abraham, I am thy buckler;” that is, thy protection and defence. From Wordnik.com. [The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4.] Reference
They do not join hands, and every one carries on his head his arms and his buckler. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference
And he had greaves of brass on his legs, and a buckler of brass covered his shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 09: 1 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
"Upon the left arm was a buckler bearing five white plums arranged in form of a cross.". From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference
Gamelyn, "come a little nearer, and I will teach you how to play with staff and buckler.". From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
About fifty years ago, serious men took to fighting with rapiers, and the buckler fell away. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
For buckler, they had the fog-making shield, spun and woven of the floating clouds and spray. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest] Reference
Aristophanes incessantly rallies him for his cowardice; he had cast away his buckler in a fight. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
Elegant men showed what taste, or sense of poetic beauty, was in them by the fashion of their buckler. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
Egypt as the similarity in name might lead one to believe, but in Thrace, that he had cast away his buckler. From Wordnik.com. [Peace] Reference
"A new chivalry was born," says a chronicler of town gossip, "and paladins were anxious to act as a buckler.". From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
But laughter paralyzed me, and besides, what could a poor little woman do against a soldier, even with a buckler?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But let us go in; I am very certain, that being the son of such a father, you will never forget this song of the buckler. From Wordnik.com. [Peace] Reference
His name was Acacius, and he was styled the buckler and refuge of that country for his universal charity and episcopal zeal. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
But the same gentle spirit pervaded other orders of adventurers -- men of the sword and buckler, as well as of the stole and surplice. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
Yet old Mr. Stowe, good chronicler, can recollect when every gentleman had his buckler; and at length every serving man and city dandy. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
The Persians, and Lydians, and the Libyans were thy soldiers in thy army: they hung up the buckler and the helmet in thee for thy ornament. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 31: Ezechiel The Challoner Revision] Reference
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