He was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The Romans, however, generally preferred heavy-armed troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

Many of the allies fell, and of the Athenian heavy-armed about.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

Lacedaemonian heavy-armed infantry levies amounted to six thousand men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellenica] Reference

Before the three are even seated, a heavy-armed serving woman stands there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Engineer]

A good heavy-armed soldier, in ancient Greece, had half the pay of his captain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference

Mede, in the front of which latter were posted most of the heavy-armed cavalry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

Aeneas in Homer; or as the heavy-armed Spartans also did at the battle of Plataea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laches, or Courage] Reference

There came several bodies of heavy-armed foot, all mercenaries, under the ensigns of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of the Books] Reference

His heavy-armed, when all mustered, amounted to nearly two thousand, and he had three hundred.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

He could see it plainly now — squarish, heavy-armed, heavy-backed, some straps at the top and sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Tragedy] Reference

The amount of the fine was two thousand minae, two for each heavy-armed soldier, as the law prescribes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

When ship strikes ship, refuse to separate until you have swept the enemy's heavy-armed from their decks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

A fortnight later we fell in with a Spanish eighty-gun ship, a large frigate and a heavy-armed store ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

Not long afterwards the Corinthians sent five hundred heavy-armed, some of them from Corinth itself, others who were.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

A legion included about three thousand heavy-armed footmen, twelve hundred light infantry, and three hundred horsemen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Lyncestian heavy-armed troops began to advance from the hill, and forming a junction with their cavalry, offered battle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

At the end of the summer, a little before this time, a reinforcement of nine hundred heavy-armed, under the command of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

By his devices he suspended stones and heavy-armed soldiers in the air whom he would let down suddenly and soon draw up again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference

Suavi fighting on foot, the Huns with bows, the Alani drawing up a battle-line of heavy-armed and the Heruli of light-armed warriors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Origin and Deeds of the Goths] Reference

Caesar after assigning the fugitives to the care of his cavalry himself with his heavy-armed force turned his attention to the others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).] Reference

As they were heavy-armed men, fighting from higher ground, and in a kind of frenzy, through despair, contending with them was not easy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).] Reference

Here the heavy-armed Greek soldiers, with their long spears, huge shields, and powerful swords, easily overcame the enormous masses of the enemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

They brought to bear against the wall an engine much higher than the fortification and carrying heavy-armed soldiers, some visible, some concealed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference

A remedy for this state of things may be found in the practice of generals who combine a proper contingent of light-armed troops with cavalry and heavy-armed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics] Reference

But now you have a larger fleet; this turns the balance in your favour; and you will fight close to a friendly shore under the protection of heavy-armed troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

But Wotton, heavy-armed, and slow of foot, began to slack his course, when his lover Bentley appeared, returning laden with the spoils of the two sleeping Ancients.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of the Books] Reference

He was told to touch at Argos, and there to summon and take on board a force of heavy-armed which the Argives, being allies of the Athenians, were bound to furnish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

The latter classes, however, were partially relieved from taxation; but in war they were required to do duty, the one as cavalry, and the other as heavy-armed infantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

These were the ancient Achaean inhabitants, living in towns and villages, and managing their own affairs, paying tribute, and serving in the army as heavy-armed soldiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellenica] Reference

When his messenger arrived they were more resolved than ever, and sent forward two thousand two hundred heavy-armed and six hundred horse, allowing the greater number to return.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

There arrived successively 1200 well-armed Ætolians, 400 heavy-armed men from Amplussa, and a detachment of Phocians, who, with the citizens of Delphi, formed a body of 4000 men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference

But the paths were beset; the Amphilochians were lightly-armed, and in their own country which they knew, while their enemies were heavy-armed and the country was strange to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

Iphicrates in a scolding way who he was, as he seemed neither a heavy-armed soldier, nor a bowman, nor a targeteer, and he replied, "I am the person who rule and make use of all these.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference

Sparta, he collected a force of seventeen hundred heavy-armed infantry, and in the summer following the disaster at Sphacteria, turned his steps northward, and arrived without mishap at the borders of Thessaly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Thucydides] Reference

Thus driven into a corner, Nicias answered, with great reluctance, that the number of triremes must be not less than one hundred, with five thousand heavy-armed infantry, and slingers and bow-men in proportion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Thucydides] Reference