Citations:armour

English citations of armour

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1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
There also sat a man at a little distance from the door, at a table-side, with a book and his inkhorn before him, to take the name of him that should enter therein; he saw also, that in the doorway stood many men in armour to keep it, being resolved to do the men that would enter what hurt and mischief they could.

But he considered again that he had no armour for his back; and therefore thought that to turn the back to him might give him the greater advantage with ease to pierce him with his darts.

These three villains set upon me, and I beginning, like a Christian, to resist, they gave but a call, and in came their master. I would, as the saying is, have given my life for a penny, but that, as God would have it, I was clothed with armour of proof.

1966, S. C. Gogia, The Fight for Peace:
The enemy was surprised to see the tanks on the horizon over the dry paddy fields dancing with ripe ears of rice. […] Meanwhile the phalanx of the armours had moved to a place further north.
2011, Lloyd Clark, The Battle of the Tanks: Kursk, 1943, Open Road + Grove/Atlantic (→ISBN)
If the Fourth Panzer Army could overcome Major General A.L. Getman's 6th Tank Corps south of Oboyan, it could then focus […] between 60 and 100 panzers, with Tigers at the point and panzergrenadiers following, moved […] As anti-tank guns were quickly destroyed by the armours' guns, the tanks were assailed by teams which used magnetic mines and Molotov cocktails.