One, who had searched near Telades, had found the cheek-piece of a soldier's helmet. ❋ Jordan, Robert (1986)
Full length stock with small cheek-piece and flattened at muzzle for shooting from a rest. ❋ Henry W. Shoemaker (N/A)
German silver figure of deer inlaid on cheek-piece. ❋ Henry W. Shoemaker (N/A)
Then he prayed to the daughter of mighty Zeus, and straightway swung his long spear aloft and hurled it, and smote Eupeithes through his casque with the cheek-piece of bronze. ❋ Homer (1909)
Al stopped her by the simple method of reaching out his left hand and catching Snake by the cheek-piece of the bridle. ❋ B. M. Bower (1905)
If the animal shows unwillingness to approach the mounting-block, the man should hold the off cheek-piece of the headstall of the bridle with his right hand, and, with the flat of his left hand, prevent the horse from swinging his hind quarters out. ❋ Alice M. Hayes (1873)
His armour was lavishly adorned with gold: from the cheek-piece of his helmet, from his ❋ Thomas Hodgkin (1872)
Then a thought struck Nic, and he bent down as if to reach the cheek-piece of the bit, and slipped a shilling into the man's hand. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
She might have survived the strict purity of all things, the deck lines whiter than Parian marble, the bulwarks brighter than the cheek-piece of ❋ Unknown (1862)
More often it had, in lieu of this effectual but cumbrous guard, a mere lappet or cheek-piece, consisting of a plate of metal, attached to the rim, which descended over the ears in the form of a half-oval or semicircle. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)
Experts are piecing together what they believe are parts from several splendidly decorated helmets, including what appears to be a cheek-piece with a frieze of running animals. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As when some woman of Meonia or Caria strains purple dye on to a piece of ivory that is to be the cheek-piece of a horse, and is to be laid up in a treasure house — many a knight is fain to bear it, but the king keeps it as an ornament of which both horse and driver may be proud — even so, O Menelaus, were your shapely thighs and your legs down to your fair ancles stained with blood. ❋ Unknown (1898)
As when some woman of Maionia or Karia staineth ivory with purple, to make a cheek-piece for horses, and it is laid up in the treasure chamber, and many a horseman prayeth for it to wear; but it is laid up to be a king's boast, alike an adornment for his horse and a glory for his charioteer; even in such wise, Menelaos, were thy shapely thighs stained with blood and thy legs and thy fair ankles beneath. ❋ 750? BC-650? BC Homer (1882)
As when some woman of Meonia or Caria strains purple dye on to a piece of ivory that is to be the cheek-piece of a horse, and is to be laid up in a treasure house -- many a knight is fain to bear it, but the king keeps it as an ornament of which both horse and driver may be proud -- even so, O Menelaus, were your shapely thighs and your legs down to your fair ancles stained with blood. ❋ 750? BC-650? BC Homer (1868)
She might have survived the strict purity of all things, the deck lines whiter than Parian marble, the bulwarks brighter than the cheek-piece of a grate, the breeches of the guns like goodly gold, and not a whisker of a rope’s end curling the wrong way, if only she could have espied a swab, or a bucket, or a flake of holy-stone, or any indicament of labor done. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
