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...m and their chief magistrates consules, namely, coun- selors), or else the equestrian Neptune, for the altar is kept covered in the circus maximus at ... ...irt with a broad belt studded with brass; on their heads they wear a brass helmet, and carry in their hands short daggers, which they clash every now ... ... the images and statues that were made of him have the head covered with a helmet, the workmen 250 V olume One apparently being willing not to expose... ... first onset; and having their bodies armed with breastplates of iron, and helmets of brass on their heads, besides great buck- lers to cover and secu... ...eatest art, so as to seem to be tumbled in heaps carelessly and by chance; helmets were thrown upon shields, coats of mail upon greaves; Cretan target... ..., they say, was built by the Cretans; and they show some spears and brazen helmets, inscribed with the names of Meriones, and (with the same spelling ... ...ed and exasperated them one against another. At length when the senate and equestrian order concerted mea- sures together, and openly manifested their... ...ousand swordsmen, and had always about him a com- pany of young men of the equestrian class ready for all occa- sions, whom he styled his Anti-Senate....

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...tar), thousands of pikes and halberts, little old cannons and wall-pieces, helmets and cuirasses, which the knights or their people wore, are trimly a... ...nd butchered here in vain. But to manufacture European iron into pikes and helmets was a waste of metal:in the shape of piston-rods and furnace-pokers... ...l stirrups are deuc- edly short; the clumsy leathers cut the shins of some equestrians abominably; you sit over your horse as it were on a tower, from...

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...ticoat stage, in various pri- vate struttings and valiant dreamings with a helmet of paste- board and a white-metal sword. We have most of us been at ... ... door that slams, some wires whistled past my head, and one whipped off my helmet, and then, with the seat slipping away from me, down we went. I snat... ... seat slipping away from me, down we went. I snatched unavailingly for the helmet, and then gripped the sides. It was like dropping in a boat suddenly... ...racy.” “I walk because I choose to,” said Benham. The thing rankled. “This equestrianism,” he began, “is a matter of time and money—time even more tha... ... rest… .” Prothero made a noise of sympathetic assent. “In a country where equestrianism is assertion I suppose one must be equestrian… .” That night ... ...you doing this?” he asked. “I want to do it.” 63 H G Wells “Benham, is it—equestrian?” Benham made no audible reply. They proceeded resolutely in sil... ...ay to you, Benham, more than anything else is, you go on—you make yourself equestrian. You drive your horse against Breeze’s, and go through the fire ... ...am stuck one leg over the arm of his chair. “Billy,” he said, “come and be—equestrian and stop this nonsense.” “No.” “Damn it—you dive!” “You’d go in ...

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...d the street, but still under the shadow , as it were, of the policeman’ s helmet. ‘This man who presumes to offer himself as a candidate to represent... ...ittle T an- kard Yard,’ he said on day, having caught his victim under the equestrian statue in front of the Exchange. ‘What is the good of my coming ...

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...men. It is de rigueur with our shop assistants that they should wear white helmets. In the street, boy scouts go to and fro, a wagon clatters by; most... ...s in the costume of an admiral; G. P . W . is on horseback (his habits are equestrian) on the terrace. The town guard pa- rades in their honor, and up...

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...y. He bestowed silver and gold upon them liberally to gild and adorn their helmets, he had their shields worked with various figures and designs, he b... ..., they quitted their reins, and taking mutual hold pulled at one another’s helmets, and at the armor from their shoulders. While they were thus strug-... ...n assault upon the works and trenches, and there Pompey fought without his helmet, in memory of his former danger, and to avoid the like. The camp was... ...wn by his buckler, and a large plume of white feathers on each side of his helmet, was attacked on all sides, yet escaped wounding, though his cui- ra... ...hel- met, that he cut off the crest of it, with one of his plumes, and the helmet was only just so far strong enough to save him, that the edge of the... ...nights and the people. But Caius joined three hundred ordinary citizens of equestrian rank with the sena- tors, who were three hundred likewise in num... ...ed his supplication to the people. However, first of all, almost the whole equestrian order changed their dress with him, and no less than twenty thou...

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...bliterate the worldly and military emblems dis- played upon the shield and helmet, together with all their bla- zonry. In a few minutes after Mr. Gedd... ...rned with the usual number of heroes in armour, with large wigs instead of helmets, and ladies in sacques, smelling to nosegays. Behind a long table, ... ...m, received the shock of the pursuer, and was unhorsed and overthrown. The helmet rolled from his head, and the beams of the sun, then rising over the... ...this noble undertaking, and, when it succeeds, you will exchange your open helmet for an earl’s coronet perhaps.’ ‘And how if it fails?’ said Darsie. ... ...liers may sometimes cast their eyes to that part of the person of the fair equestrians whom they chance occasionally to escort; and if they will conce... ... turret, the battlements. BEAUFET, cupboard. BEAVER, the lower part of the helmet. BEIN, comfortable. BELISARIUS, a general of the Eastern Empire ungr...

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...summit of the Capitoline Hill. They stood awhile to contemplate the bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius. The moonlight glistened upon traces o... ...out the embrasures above, or the apertures below, 163 Hawthorne where the helmet of a defender had momentarily glimmered. On festal nights, moreover,... ...e ordinary force of gendarmes, a strong patrol of papal dragoons, in steel helmets and white cloaks, were sta- tioned at all the street corners. Detac...

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...le Tour in France attitude; the other, a lean and vigilant young man, in a helmet that overshadows his serious eyes, resting an outstretched arm, an a... ...t, straddling across the place by which you approach it from the town), an equestrian statue of that monarch set aloft in the middle of the terrace, a... ...ore at his feet. On either side of him is another cherub: one guarding his helmet, the other his stiff gaunt- lets. The attitudes of these charming ch...

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... have liked to have shown you the true points of the praelium equestre, or equestrian combat, whilk their cowardice has postponed, and which I hold to... ...kle, brittle, frail. Bruik, possess. Bruilzie, broil, scrimmage. Burgonet, helmet. Busk, get ready. Cailliach, crone, old woman. Caisse militaire, mil...

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...ty road to Paris at a pace of fifty miles an hour and upwards, driven by a helmeted driver with an aquiline profile fit to go upon a coin, whose merit... ...oung man, a cob; with a rifle and a tight belt and projecting skirts and a helmet, a queer little figure that, had you seen it in a picture a year or ... ...special pilgrimage to see how it was with that monument of Can Grande, the equestrian Scaliger with the sidelong grin, for whom I confess a ridiculous... ...ittle doubt that, given a release from prejudice, bad associations and the equestrian tradition, British technical intelligence and energy can do just... ...the face instead of being too fagged to bother. Then I noticed a nice grey helmet dan- gling from one youngster’s bayonet, in fact his eye directed me... ...et, in fact his eye directed me to it. A man behind him had a black German helmet of the type best known in English illustrations; then two more grey ... ... known in English illustrations; then two more grey appeared. The catch of helmets was indeed quite con- siderable. Then I perceived on the road bank ...

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...gathering of the eagles to the prey— the clashing of bills upon shield and helmet, the shouting of battle more joyful than the clamour of a bridal. Bu... ... the vaulted sky. Their visors closed, their lances in the rest, Or at the helmet pointed or the crest, They vanish from the barrier, speed the race, ... ...nted the appearance of a sea of waving plumage, intermixed with glistening helmets, and tall lances, to the ex- tremities of which were, in many cases... ...th the others failed in the 78 Ivanhoe attaint,* that is, in striking the helmet and shield of their antagonist firmly and strongly, with the lance h... ...changing his aim almost in the moment of encounter, he addressed it to the helmet, a mark more difficult to hit, but which, if attained, rendered the ... ...om a state of violent emotion and high exci- tation to the stillness of an equestrian statue, “Sir Disinherited Knight,” said Prince John, “since that...

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...rnaments of that description interwo- ven with their texture. Thirdly, the HELMET, adorned pretty nearly as the tur- ban; and, in imitation of the hel... ... the Oriental taste for perfumes, all the ribbons or fillets used in these helmets and turbans were previously steeped in perfumes. Finally, in connec... ...ll originally, and no practice availed to give him a firm seat, a graceful equestrian deportment, or a skilful bridle hand. In a barba- rous age the o...

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... invincible championship, and his free arm flourished a grey top hat of an equestrian type. Mr. Polly instantly learnt from the eye that Mr. Voules kn... ...he last was Mr. Voules. He had followed them along the platform waving the equestrian grey hat and kissing his hand to the bride. They subsided into t... ...d’s Alley and buttoning on his jacket as he ran. His great brass fireman’s helmet was on his head, hiding it all but the sharp nose, the firm mouth, t... ... Rusper from the window. “Kik! What’s up?” Gambell answered him out of his helmet. “Hose!” he cried. “Hose gone!” “I (kik) got hose!” cried Rusper. He... ...inst the house, and all Fishbourne boiling with excitement as an immensely helmeted and active and resolute little figure ascended. In another moment ... ...posite side, picked up an elderly gentleman in an alpaca jacket and a pith helmet, cruised with him vaguely for twenty minutes, conveyed him tortuousl...

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...rumpet that ever was blown. Immediately, came tearing round the corner, an equestrian company from Paris: marshalling themselves under the walls of th... ...stibly suggested at the mo ment, nevertheless. 80 Pictures from Italy An equestrian troop had been there, a short time before— the same troop, I dar... ...sonal ornaments, bunches of keys found clenched in the grasp of skeletons, helmets of guards and warriors; little household bells, yet musical with th...

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...efly healthy light fiction with chromatic titles, The Red Sword, The Black Helmet, 10 Ann Veronica The Purple Robe, also in order “to distract his mi... ...-dealer, a company of extremely dressy and hilarious young women, with one equestrian brother addicted to fancy waistcoats, cigars, and facial spots. ... ...ver and over again. They put her down, and she leaped at them; she smote a helmet to the ground. “You’ll have to take her!” shouted an inspector on ho...

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... gentleman; ‘I have dropped my whip.’ ‘Winkle,’ said Mr. Snodgrass, as the equestrian came trot ting up on the tall horse, with his hat over his ears... ...s in blue satin trunks and cloak, white silk tights and shoes, and Grecian helmet, which everybody knows (and if they do not, Mr. Solomon Lucas did) t...

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...re Achilles was not yet born; nor the Pimlico arch raised; nor the hideous equestrian monster which pervades it and the neighbourhood; and so they dro... ...time. A tall and stalwart man reposes on a couch there. Above him hang his helmet and shield. There is no need for them now. Ilium is down. Iphigenia ...

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...eral melee, in which Jock danced successively with Cinderella and the fair equestrian of Banbury Cross, and lost sight of Fatima, till, just as he was... ...o happy to bring it, and when it was shy, it clung beautifully.” “Then the helmet.” “That was out of the British Museum.” “Has Grinstead seen it?” “No... ... with gloves of steel, and that the workers drank the red wine through the helmet barred. In the midst, however, in marched Reeves, with a tray and a ...

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...thers and saints that were to be,—pious proficients in the ecclesiastic art equestrian, who rode the conscience of King Henry with double curb bridle... ...ss bounded the scene on all sides: and in the centre raged the war; shields, helmets, and bucklers gleaming and glittering as they rang and clashed ag... ...wn, which whether it were shaven or no they could not see, surmounted with a helmet, and flourishing an eight foot staff, with which he laid about him... ...ive. They were provided with swords, and the cottager gave them bucklers and helmets, for all Robin’s haunts were furnished with secret armouries. But... ...elivered her from one, while a well applied blow of her sword struck off the helmet of the other, who fell on his knees to beg a boon, and she recogni...

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...unflinch- ing, till death had stiffened his limbs; and his bones, in their helmet and breastplate, with the hand still raised to keep the suffocating ... ...rests opened; but it was not the sparkle of water, but the shine of gilded helmets and the gleaming of silvered spears! Moreover, a Cimmerian crept ov... ...ry citizen capable of bearing arms was called into the Forum, bringing his helmet, breast plate, short sword, and heavy spear, and the officers called... ...n his hands, and then each man lay down sword, javelin, or bow and arrows, helmet, buckler and breastplate, in one mournful heap, and proceeded on his... ...ators, and seats for the vestal virgins. Next above were galleries for the equestrian order, the great mass of those who considered themselves as of g... ...this small army. The brave old man, his grey hair hanging down beneath his helmet, stood, sword in hand, at the head of his warriors. ‘Lord Earl,’ sai...

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...ly ministrations of sense. The eye that watched for the gleams of lance or helmet from the hos- tile frontier, the ear that listened for the groaning ... ...the attempt impossible. Y ou still think otherwise. See, then, that bronze equestrian statue. The cruel rider has kept the bit in his horse’s mouth fo...

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...tha de Rohan, who had ar- ranged this retreat for him. But on removing the helmet of his rescuer, he recognised the son of Jehan, who expired upon the... ... ing to have one and the same idea, as if their heads had been in the same helmet; and they fell asleep on the same pillow enchanted with this fratern... ...at he might put his horse in their stables, vary his fodder, and learn the equestrian capabilities of many lands. Perceiving what a life Leufroid was ... ...lier laid their plans, and everything was secretly arranged to furnish the helmet of the king with two invisible ornaments. The knight rejoined the Co... ...were the cause of all the evils in the world. “Their heads are as empty as helmets,” said the Burgundian. “Their hearts are as straight as bill-hooks,...

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...o be sure. Mr. Goodchild hoped the com pany were not to be expected to wear helmets, to please Mr. Idle. Beginning to recover his temper at about thi... ...hine, without a sunset! Slave of the Lamp, or Ring, strike me yonder gallant equestrian Clerk of the Course, in the scarlet coat, motionless on the gr...

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..., and religious wars disorderly, fanatical, and cruel, in the shadows of a helmet. Joyous pic- tures of chivalry were called up by a suit of Milanese ... ... his convent. Pausing before some work of Teniers, he took for his own the helmet of the soldier or the poverty of the arti- san; he wished to wear a ... ...l necessities. “Death to the weak!” That is the oath taken by this kind of Equestrian order, instituted in their midst by all the nations of the world...

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... our citizens, or about their hunting and cours ing, their gymnastic and equestrian contests? For these all follow the general principle, and having... ...f Gyges or not, and even if in addition to the ring of Gyges he put on the helmet of Hades. Very true. And now, Glaucon, there will be no harm in furt...

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...ts of a German order. The mass of heads in the square were covered by gilt helmets and by military caps roofed with a mirror like gaze, and the moveme... ...st, to widen the path. Next, a great body of lanc ers, in blue, with gilt helmets. Next, three six horse mourn ing coaches; outriders and coachmen i... ...s, rocks in which fossil corn is found. Emolument, a headstone to a grave. Equestrian, one who asks questions. Eucharist, one who plays euchre. Franch...

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... dows in London, formerly full of fashionable hats, were filled with steel helmets. Slain and mutilated women and children, and burnt and wrecked dwel... ...gin as a child. There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes. It isn’t mere convention: ever...