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A balance of qualities has therefore to be struck, and this perfect equipoise has by no means been as yet attained. Every year we might say every month witnesses the birth of some new type of armour-plated war-ship, built in every case at an enormous cost.
Then she resolved, from her great devotion, to take the soldier on his weak side, and she tickled him so with her fondling that he romped very well with her, although he was armour-plated ready for battle; but when the game was over he still refused to let her go into the street and although she tried to get herself a passport sealed by some of the handsomest, believing them more gallant: neither the archers, men-at-arms, nor others, dared open for her the smallest entrance of the house.
He swung it through the air two or three times with all his force. Such a blow would strike a human enemy dead; was this thing so heavily armour-plated as to be proof against a similar stroke? With one idea came another. These bones might be further utilized, they might be splintered and sharpened into daggers. No sooner thought of than carried out.
If this be considered as a point of inferiority in the armour-plated American species, we must remember that while beetles and grasshoppers have as many as six legs apiece, man, the head and crown of things, is content to scramble through life ungracefully with no more than two.
Jamrach, who called my attention to some armadillos, huge armour-plated animals, very curious, but somehow not attractive as pets; one could not fondle a thing composed of metal plates, shaped like a pig, with a tendency to roll itself up into a ball on the slightest provocation, and even Mr.
This ship had evidently been stricken silent in the midst of a perfect drama of activity, for I saw not one of her crew of sixty-two who was not busy, except one boy. I found her a good-sized thing of 500 odd tons, ship-rigged, with auxiliary engine of seventy horse-power, and pretty heavily armour-plated round the bows.
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