The cataphract and armiger were given more honorable deaths. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
One of the guests seated before me was a cataphract named Sire Vafra, a follower of King Corvus. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
In the morning a cataphract from Ardor had the audacity to stare at Sire Galan as he marched along. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
November 11 is the memorial of St. Martin de Tours, who was a cataphract in the Imperial Roman Army. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-09] Reference
He said Sire Galan had spoken up when this cataphract eyed him, saying he wondered why he gazed so discourteously. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
On the Seleucid left the Capadocian cavalry pinned the cataphracts while the Greek cavalry swept away the light cavalry and wheeled into the cataphract flank. From Wordnik.com. [Camp Cromwell 01/12/08] Reference
The Parthians at Carrhae were the only ones of the battles I've researched who wanted a pitched battle because they had the superior cavalry, the heavy cataphract élite. From Wordnik.com. [The Dawn Stag, by Jules Watson. Book review] Reference
What is Evropean cataphract condition bride services?. From Wordnik.com. [Article directories Celibataire Urbaine] Reference
Learnedly, we garden furniture benches the please to cataphract punishing recitalist for any zapata scarp with the stammel of a bhutan ciconiidae methamphetamine. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
It was certainly how the Romans saw themselves, SPQR emblazoned on the eagles preceding the legions, long after the Senate had been deprived of any real authority and the citizenry had been reduced to cataphract-fodder and the dole. From Wordnik.com. [Dyspeptic Mutterings] Reference
Spiller said, “We didn’t lose one, not one cataphract.”. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
Then Sire Galan made remarks about the cataphract’s horse and his horse’s lineage. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
I knew that fellow; he was named Trave, and he was one of Mai’s varlets, or rather he served her cataphract. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
It was a cataphract’s saddle, with a high pommel and cantle, and the two of us fit as snugly as an armored man. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
I marveled to see green again, and unfamiliar kinds of trees with foliage like ferns, or topknots that reminded me of plumes on a cataphract’s helmet. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
But Flammakin seemed ordinary enough, dithering on about two men she was seeing behind her cataphract’s back, and which of them she should run off with now that her Wolf was getting tiresome. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
As a precaution against the elephants Matho instituted a corps of cataphract cavalry, men and horses being hidden beneath cuirasses of hippopotamus skin bristling with nails; and to protect the horses’ hoofs boots of plaited esparto-grass were made for them. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
Mai’s cataphract, Sire Ferocious. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
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