Citations:armour
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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.
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[edit]- 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.