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Protected by their armour and long shields from the blows of their enemies' scimitars and daggers, their long, cross handled swords fell with irresistible force on turbaned head and coat-of-mail, and, maintaining regular order and advancing like a wall of steel along the deck, they drove the Moslems before them, and the combat would soon have terminated had not a shout been raised by one of the overseers of the slaves.
It was no diminution of this part of his character that he was wary in his conduct, and that, after he was declared Protector, he wore a coat-of-mail concealed beneath his dress. Less caution than he made use of, in the place he held, and surrounded as he was by secret and open enemies, would have deserved the name of negligence.
He stuffs handkerchiefs into his pockets, and you find them again like stones." "All the same, he's a good young man," stammers the waddling street cleanser, brandishing her broom-bereaved hands at random, and shaking over her swollen and many-storied boots a skirt weighted round the hem by a coat-of-mail of dry mud.
Soon his eyes closed, too, and, after an hour's sound sleep, he woke without being roused and called for his holiday attire, his helmet, and the gilt coat-of-mail he wore at great festivals or in the presence of Egypt's king.
"Is that also a phantom, there yonder in the golden scales?" inquired Heimbert, smiling; but Zelinda looked very grave and replied, "Oh, no! that is the Dervish himself, and his having put on this coat-of-mail, which has been rendered invulnerable by dragon's blood, is a proof that by his magic he has become aware of our intention."
Display whatever strength and courage thou hast, for the foe came on his own feet up to his grave": I perceived that the youth's bow and arrows had dropped from his hands, and that a tremor had fallen upon his limbs: It is not he that can split a hair with a coat-of-mail cleaving arrow that is able to withstand an assault from the formidable: No alternative was left us but that of surrendering our arms, accoutrements, and clothes, and escaping with our lives.
The important thing was to possess a stylish hat and to preserve a fur coat, a necklace of pearls, emeralds, diamonds, all the honorable and glorious coat-of-mail in which she wished to die. Her glance appeared to pity the ignorance of the sailor in venturing to propose such absurdities to her. "It is impossible, Ulysses.... Take me with you! On the sea is where I shall be safest.
I looked upon myself as another Judith; I gathered myself up, my knife in my hand, and when I saw him near me, stretching out his arms to find his victim, then, with the last cry of agony and despair, I struck him in the middle of his breast. "The miserable villain! He had foreseen all. His breast was covered with a coat-of-mail; the knife was bent against it.
"But, Stephen, what have you got for the boy? I would not be a true woman if I was not curious." "And you are the very truest woman " "Stephen, I will not have any more foolishness. Tell me at once what have you got for Charles?" "Two small gifts: a coat-of-mail so fine in the links that you could hold it in your two hands no! not in your two hands, they are only large enough to hold my heart.
How can we guard him in the dark? The mask, Stephen: whose was it? where did it come from? Tell me for the boy's sake." "I cannot, Ursula. Dearest heart, I cannot." Lifting from the table the napkin in which the mask had been wrapped, Villon shook it out, holding it up much as La Mothe had held the coat-of-mail. Then he threw it on the table, spreading it flat.
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