And right now, speaking of armour-plate lining, I could drink the both of you down when you were at your prime. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The smile was pure armour-plate, more a rictus of concentration than a signal of inner delight. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This veneer was as impenetrable as ten-inch armour-plate to such friends, whom, because of shekels or position, he wished to retain. ❋ Unknown (1993)
No shield could protect us against that -- whether it was made of ice, or the best armour-plate steel. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1986)
He wrongly identified the ship as the DEUTSCHLAND, but the mistake was one of academic importance only: he rightly identified it as a German pocket battleship or battle-cruiser, 26,000-ton leviathans with 13-inch armour-plate and nine-inch and twelve 5.9 guns capable of delivering a 8,000-pound broadside in reply to his own puny 400 - and his light 100-pound shells could never hope to penetrate that massive armour anyway. ❋ MacLean, Alistair, 1922- (1985)
Arnold smiled back at her, and she saw recognition leap through the armour-plate of his ecclesiasticism. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)
This desperate course is taken and described -- the air grows thick and dark with broken breech, flying tube, and disrupted armour-plate, and when all was over -- ❋ M. H. Spielmann (N/A)
Under such conditions, He trained and with His own hand fostered a number of souls who would stand as a mighty fortress protecting the Cause, and as armour-plate for the Ark of the Covenant. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
From the finest steel all sorts of things were made, ranging from the smallest needle or steel pen up to the largest-sized gun or armour-plate. ❋ Robert Naylor (N/A)
When the lights had been put out, Lawrence saw for the first time that during dinner the solid cubes of steel, the size of the windows, had noiselessly rolled back, leaving a square aperture or passage-way through the six-foot thickness of the armour-plate, and forming a sort of _loggia_ into which they stepped. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
And we know, further, that our security is not to be found in aircraft, or in guns, or in armour-plate, but in the spirit of the men of the British Services-their courage, their endurance, and, above all, their rugged determination to discharge their duty to the people of their race and Empire. ❋ Unknown (1940)
Besides, I'd like to take off this armour-plate of mine and get comfortable. ❋ Edna Ferber (1926)
"I was talking to Mr. Montague about the armour-plate frauds," he added, when the other had drawn up a chair. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)
She was clad in a robe of royal purple trimmed with silver, and girdled about with an armour-plate of gems. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)
The existence of arsenals in which rifles, explosives, and other material of war can be made are obviously necessary, and no nation could safely see such essential industries depart from these shores on the ground that we could more economically make something else to exchange for rifles, guns, ammunition, and armour-plate made elsewhere. ❋ Strachey, John St Loe (1922)
But when we got into our sleeping-bags, if we were fortunate, we became warm enough during the night to thaw this ice: part remained in our clothes, part passed into the skins of our sleeping-bags, and soon both were sheets of armour-plate. ❋ Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922)
Yet the strong horse was winded by the burden he bore, a mighty figure, deep-chested, amply shouldered, an ideal cavalier for the days when youths rode out in armour-plate to seek adventures and when men of fifty still lifted the lance to run a "friendly" course or two in the lists. ❋ Max Brand (1918)
The position of the Quebec Nationalists is that they are quite willing to cover Nova Scotia with armour-plate and to fill the St. Lawrence with mines, but they have never shown us what possible use those defences could be to protect the property or the life of a Canadian, say, in Mexico. ❋ Unknown (1913)
Its action is comparable to that of the shell which perforates an armour-plate by the momentum of a force it did not create. ❋ Unknown (1913)
