Government from constructing mail-clad steamships. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
Ah! hapless wives of those mail-clad sons of Troy!. From Wordnik.com. [The Trojan Women] Reference
That the mail-clad warrior must sink in the battle. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference
Where mail-clad chiefs have knelt -- where jewelled crowns. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
Nemesis was a common iron steamer, and not a mail-clad steamship. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
The Sons of the Falcon were buried under an avalanche of mail-clad. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
So might a child with a bow of willow threaten a mail-clad knight!. From Wordnik.com. [superversive: Quotha] Reference
And what of mail-clad Hector's wife, sad Andromache? declare her fate. From Wordnik.com. [The Trojan Women] Reference
His mail-clad weight and the attacker's momentum threw them both backward. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Across the red drifts and mail-clad forms, two figures glared at each other. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]
The sentry gripped her shoulders in mail-clad fists, vainly trying to comfort. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
A dully glinting, mail-clad figure moved out of the shadows into the starlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Hour of the Dragon]
So might a child threaten a mail-clad knight with a bow of string and green willow!. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
Across the reddened drifts and the mail-clad forms, two figures glared at each other. From Wordnik.com. [Conan of Cimmeria]
There we stood, a thin mail-clad line -- But that ruddy Harald Fairhair had the vict'ry. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
The passage was so narrow that his mail-clad shoulders rasped against both walls at once. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
After him they rode: a long line of mail-clad men, swift, shining, fell and fair to look upon. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
But Pug stopped and gaped when he saw the mail-clad figures who had clanked up to the platform. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]
On the throne sat a mail-clad man, a great sword was laid across his knees, but he wore no helm. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
From the bushes on the farther bank rose wild figures, mail-clad or half-naked, swords in hands. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Freebooter]
After many hours of riding, the mare's rocking pace had chafed the insides of his mail-clad legs. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
Two statues of mail-clad knights stand on it, apparently a yard high each, but in reality 6 feet 2 inches. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The stout Dominican stretched an arm in a flowing white sleeve toward the still, mail-clad body on the red bier. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Those men with mail-clad bodies and iron natures, who stand out in imagination as symbols of masculine strength!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
O Paris, who didst utterly o'erthrow my home, here was thy ruin too and theirs, those countless mail-clad Danai. From Wordnik.com. [Helen] Reference
For those who have not seen it yet, here is the cover for Fall of Thanes, in all its beardy and mail-clad glory. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Ruckley · Fall of Thanes, and other matters] Reference
Being a mail-clad healer has advantages, and the raid system allows one group to be in combat while another is not. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
Ye will all be put to flight-a shameful thing that they with the Bacchic thyrsus should rout your mail-clad warriors. From Wordnik.com. [The Bacchantes] Reference
And that mail-clad elephant, uttering a frightful roar, fell headlong upon the ground, crushing its riders by the fall. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
For one instant he shone, looking up fearlessly into the starry deeps, mail-clad, young and strong, resolute and still. From Wordnik.com. [The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth] Reference
On the pavement, immediately under the Round, are several marble effigies of mail-clad knights, -- "Associates of the Temple.". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
He saw that the other rider was a very small, slender person, mail-clad (the moon shone on the mail) and riding magnificently. From Wordnik.com. [The Horse and His Boy]
But Sir Geraint thought it would be no vengeance to carve the dwarf's head from his shoulders, and to be attacked unarmed by the mail-clad knight. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
The changes in the mode of warfare which helped to do away with the feudal baron and his mail-clad retainers, likewise tended to destroy knight errantry. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
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