She wore dark leggings and silver greaves over riding boots.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk Eternal]

Dark greaves appeared beyond fallen, fire-blackened timbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Swordbearer]

Hawkins also happened to have a small supply of stale greaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference

One of the straps on my greaves came off as I was armoring up.    From Wordnik.com.  [roland Diary Entry] Reference

On the ground are the breast-plate, the greaves and the helmet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

He was armed in cuirass and greaves, a thing he had insisted on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral Games]

Putting aside the greaves, he stood, and she ran into his embrace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Silver Bow]

They were also provided with greaves and helmets, and at the girdle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anabasis] Reference

Rody Kickham had greaves in his number and a hamper in the refectory.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference

Some act as beaters, wearing leathern aprons and greaves -- such as the.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference

The other wore a ceremonial breastplate of steel and greaves of leather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brothers Majere]

Argurios strapped on his greaves and then donned his breastplate and kilt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Silver Bow]

They were clad in steel, with tapering greaves, helmets and shoul - der-pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bane of The Black Sword]

They had been carved with care, even down to the leather kilts and bronze greaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

He had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a gorget of brass between his shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of the Old Testament] Reference

But the greaves and metal-studded kilt could have been made for the slender Spartan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

Elric found that the breastplate and greaves fitted him perfectly, as did the helmet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortress of the Pearl]

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

Mantegna has her armoured, with greaves to the knee and spiked cups on her breastplate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario Readers Third Book] Reference

The troops of the line wore greaves on the legs and heavy iron-bound sandals on the feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference

There were greaves, a bronze-studded leather kilt and a short dagger with a curved blade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

Then there were soldiers in armor, their ceremonial greaves shining in the morning sunlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shield of Thunder]

And they all had brass helmets and purple tunics, and greaves, and their shields uncovered14.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anabasis] Reference

Hall lay unmoving in the middle of the floor, his legs and arms fastened in greaves of permallium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stutterer] Reference

Boots linked to greaves ran to mid-thigh, and iron-studded wrist guards laced into leather gloves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witches' Brew]

I strapped on my lion-guard and clipped my greaves, and put on a white quilted tunic, for the air was frosty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King Must Die]

A subsection was devoted to armor, which included woven metal clodftg as well as helmets, greaves, and gauntlets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Centaur Aisle]

His armor was complete -- shirt of mail, shenti extending half-way to the knees, greaves of brass and mailed shoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

Turning back to his armor, he finished burnishing the greaves and then the bronze disks on the old leather war kilt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Silver Bow]

They ran past him, their hard metal greaves glinting in the torchlight, their heavily sandaled feet noisy on the timbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shield of Thunder]

He, eager for battle, had already clasped on the greaves of gold right and left, and scorning delay, brandishes his spear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

The barbel took the gentles as freely as worms, and greaves as freely as gentles, but I noticed that the fish were smaller.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference

The third class had the same armor as the second, excepting that they could not wear greaves for the protection of their legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference

Now they had on corselets or cuirasses, helmets, even greaves if they owned them, and their round shields hung at their backs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Boy]

Everything he got turned out to be the right size, but he couldn't see himself in hauberk and greaves, nor in a filmy nightgown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sky Is Falling] Reference

'Well,' quoth sir Ralph, 'I am content: but then take heed to me, for I am sore hurt, my hosen and my greaves are full of blood,'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference