He knees with his poleyn, kicks out with his greave. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Cyril, a particularly adept greave maker, worked there. From Wordnik.com. [The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber] Reference
Close proximity of olive branch and greave (peace and war). From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
Stancil had recovered a gauntlet and uncovered part of a greave. From Wordnik.com. [The White Rose]
The narrator chooses to let his son greave by rescuing a baby pumpkin. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
He wore one greave, an arm protector, and a carved, rectangular shield. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
Aydrian smirked at him, then kicked at the assistant, who was stubbornly trying to come back and fit the greave once more. From Wordnik.com. [Ascendance]
The arm itself,164 it seems to us, will better be protected by a piece like a greave stretched over it than bound up with the corselet. From Wordnik.com. [On Horsemanship] Reference
The black man dropped to one knee and sent a wild cut that thundered against the Baron's calf, smashing his greave to shards and knocking him to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Ironhand's Daughter]
This is a greave concern of the Nepali People's Right Forum on UWB. From Wordnik.com. [United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal] Reference
And a greave turns out to be a kind of leg-armor worn by Roman soldiers. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1] Reference
Thank you Sister it is cousin not cuzzin, I will greave for you and your family. From Wordnik.com. [Examiner California Headlines] Reference
I listened to the golden tinkle on the greave plates; when he had finished I replied. From Wordnik.com. [The King in Yellow] Reference
He, Hawberk, had negotiated for and secured the greave, and now the suit was complete. From Wordnik.com. [The King in Yellow] Reference
Use these cords to attach kneepads to cuisse and greave pieces as shown on facing page. From Wordnik.com. [Reader's Digest] Reference
I was right about sexlineatus, but wrong about Cnemidophorus: it means ` greave-bearing. '. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1] Reference
They therefore represented the greave pictorially, and made of it an ideographic hieroglyph. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference
"Did you continue the search so persistently without any certainty of the greave being still in existence?". From Wordnik.com. [The King in Yellow] Reference
People who tell othe rpeope how to greave are generally considered assholes — except in GOP politics, apparently. From Wordnik.com. [Lean Left » Blog Archive » Behave Yourselves] Reference
You need to cut out of the insulation two cuisse pieces to cover the thighs and two greave pieces to cover the shins. From Wordnik.com. [Reader's Digest] Reference
One of them must have gnawed on my ankle some, between the greave and the heel-plate, but he couldn't quite get through. From Wordnik.com. [Spacehounds of IPC] Reference
This was the missing greave of a famous suit which a client of his had traced to a little shop in Paris on the Quai d'Orsay. From Wordnik.com. [The King in Yellow] Reference
The arm itself, (7) it seems to us, will better be protected by a piece like a greave stretched over it than bound up with the corselet. From Wordnik.com. [On Horsemanship] Reference
Comfort those who still greave. From Wordnik.com. [9/11] Reference
“Attach it the way you would a greave.”. From Wordnik.com. [The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber] Reference
The steel greave I wore crumpled like paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons of Chaos]
I stooped, tightened a greave, and answered. From Wordnik.com. [Virginity] Reference
One glanced off the greave on Led's left leg. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Wing]
Egyptian hieroglyph for a Greek greave 164. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference
Then thundryng dyd upon hys greave alyghte. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
The brazen breastplate and the silver greave. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor] Reference
Smote, and err'd not, his greave beneath his knee. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper] Reference
30-inch elastic cord through top of each cuisse piece and each greave piece. From Wordnik.com. [Reader's Digest] Reference
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