They have another kind of corslet, made like the corsets of our ladies, of splinters of hard wood interlaced with nettle twine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific] Reference

Thro 'shield and corslet forc'd th' impetuous way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid English] Reference

The hand-woven corslet which could cover his body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference

His corslet pierc'd, and reach'd his heart at last.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid English] Reference

When he clad in his corslet had equipped him for battle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference

Bilbo had a corslet of mithril-rings that Thorin gave him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fellowship of the Ring]

Curtius, where they ran up and struck at him as he lay in his corslet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

Gabriel in the figure of a horseman dressed in a corslet and covered with dust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

The silver corslet shimmered before his eyes like the light upon a rippling sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fellowship of the Ring]

He sighed a moment, as was visible, in spite of gorget and corslet, and then added.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

Ivanhoe, as thou well knowest, is unable to bear his corslet, and Richard is in a foreign prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ivanhoe] Reference

But there I look for hot destructive fire, for blast and venom; therefore I have upon me shield and corslet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Middle Ages 500-1000] Reference

Presently a man wearing a corslet and waving a sword dyed red with blood appeared at the window of the sick-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [For The Admiral] Reference

It covered a corslet, which had once been of polished steel, fairly gilded, but was now somewhat injured with rust.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abbot] Reference

Where are they now, those fine lads in corslet and morgensterne, who played havoc with the casks in the Regenwalde cellar?.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

Then the king sat upon a seat before his doors, and Éowyn knelt before him and received from him a sword and a fair corslet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

Beowulf received a gold-embroidered banner, a magnificent sword, helmet, and corslet, a goblet of gold, and eight fleet steeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference

The evening sunshine fell upon their pennons of crimson, gold and blue, it gleamed upon helmet and corslet, upon lance and shield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference

Then he catches and throws his great spear; the spear flies grinding through the brass of Maeon's shield, and breaks through corslet and through breast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

With ice for his corslet, and rock for his shield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces] Reference

"On the trenches already," answered Sexwolf, buckling his corslet of hide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

With delicate care he cuts through the iron and lightly removes the corslet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference

He happened however to have on his horseman's corslet, so that he was distressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis] Reference

'My life is such and such shall be that none such arrow shall pierce my corslet.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Queen Crowned] Reference

But an arrow which pierced his corslet brought him to the ground, fainting with loss of blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest] Reference

The husband alone has the right of severing this corslet, which he does, on the nuptial night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction] Reference

Flammock, and saluted the slumbering and prostrate warder with two kicks, which made his corslet clatter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Betrothed] Reference

But at him Antiphus, of the varied corslet, the son of Priam, took aim through the crowd with a sharp spear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference

On the head there is the helmet, the back is shielded by a corslet, and even the limbs are covered with greaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference

With the added suggestion of her goggles it reminded her pupil of the polished shell or corslet of a horrid beetle.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Maisie Knew] Reference

He shall be to you more a corslet of proof than all the virtue that your life may borrow from the precepts of Diana.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Queen Crowned] Reference

As her eyes fall upon the corslet, cut from her body with a sword, the sight smites upon her saddeningly, as a symbol.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference

His squadrons in iron corslet and morion, and armed with lances, carbines, and sabres, stretched across from the water to the downs.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

He had a feather in his bonnet, and I saw a steel corslet gleam under his cloak, when some one held up a lanthorn to examine me the better.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of the Wolf; a romance] Reference