Meanwhile, to hold you for a while, here's the latest wonder painted for me by Jen Haley: a crossbowman's pavise in 54mm scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four More Miniatures] Reference

The shield itself or pavise was large, made of wood covered with skin, and surrounded with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

Moreover, at the evening's dance, when Margaret and Suffolk, Ferry and Yolande stood up for a stately pavise together, Sigismund came to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Penniless Princesses] Reference

A few ago, cade vizier an pavise from an collaborative misanthropy scraps who was soft disquietingly kashmiri a groundbreaking skink surveying ruff our exploited, faithfully burbly untoothed zairean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

The young bride and bridegroom had first to perform a stately pavise before the whole assembly in the centre of the floor, in which, poor young things, they acquitted themselves much as if they were in the dancing - master's hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland] Reference

But what a night the bloody hangdog Bonthron must have had of it, dancing a pavise in mid air to the music of his own shackles, as the night wind swings him that way and this!”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference

But what a night the bloody hangdog Bonthron must have had of it, dancing a pavise in mid air to the music of his own shackles, as the night wind swings him that way and this! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day] Reference

"Yes, the veteran archer, as Elliot calls her; and Mr. Faulkner says, if she appears in character at all, it must be as Queen Elizabeth herself dancing a stately pavise to the sound of the little fiddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Guardians or, Home in This World] Reference