I would give the best habergeon I ever wrought, that the difficulty in truth rested with me, for there were then the better chance of its being removed. ❋ Unknown (2008)
“Jilbáb” either habergeon (mail-coat) or the buff-jacket worn under it. ❋ Unknown (2006)
As he was thus, behold, the merchant-woman with whom he had taken refuge came up to him and giving him a habergeon and a helmet, a spear, a sword and a gilded girdle, bade him don them and seat himself on the settle after which she left him, for fear of the troops. ❋ Unknown (2006)
And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend. ❋ Unknown (2006)
And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I was taught that it might contribute to a reading that if outward appearance reflects inward being, as was the prof's theory of medieval lit clothing a bismotered habergeon might indicate an inward uncleanliness or sinfulness, and that he's on pilgrimage because of it. ❋ Heo (2006)
Then he dressed his shield, and drew out his sword, and Bors smote him so hard that it went through his shield and habergeon on the left shoulder. ❋ Unknown (2003)
At the tip of the steel wedge Conan roared his heathen battle-cry and swung his great sword in glittering arcs that made naught of steel burgonet or mail habergeon. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2003)
And there was a hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend. ❋ Unknown (1999)
And there shall be a hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent. ❋ Unknown (1999)
In panoply of ancient kings, in chainéd rings he armoured him; his shining shield was scored with runes to ward all wounds and harm from him; his bow was made of dragon-horn, his arrows shorn of ebony, of silver was his habergeon, his scabbard of chalcedony; his sword of steel was valiant, of adamant his helmet tall, an eagle-plume upon his crest, upon his breast an emerald. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1965)
Also that such as had goods woorth in value from 40. pounds to 25. of the same monie, should at the least haue in his house for his furniture an habergeon, a cap of stéele, a speare, and a sword, or bowe and arrowes. ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
And herewith taking on other of the knights by the habergeon, he floong him from him with such violence, that he had almost throwne him downe to the ground. ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
