All of them slept with their dirks, but generally left swords, pistols, and the round leather shields called targes in small, neat heaps near the edge of the campsite. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Remember to make you practice as real as possible by life size targes and tree stands, practice practice practice, and when your in the stand eliminate all the variables. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This lead to the implementation of protective barriers/barricades around U.S. military and civilian targes overseas and here in the States. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Police coming towards me, with a posse of men with swords and targes; 341 whereat I took fright and seeing a ruined Hammam hid myself there. ❋ Unknown (2006)
From all we had heard, General MacDonald had managed to assemble only a small quantity of muskets and powder; most of his troops were armed with broadswords and targes. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)
Before the great, lofty, wide door were ranged in two crescents several Baluch and Persian mercenaries, armed with curved swords and targes of rhinoceros hide. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)
They carried long, slender spears and small round targes. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The sun glanced off the metal of swords and I muskets, the brass studding of targes-and off the red-gold of Jamie's hair, flying in the breeze as he wiped a hand across his face, flushed and sweating from the exercise, laughing at one of Murtagh's deadpan remarks. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)
"Thirty cavalry up there wi 'Simon, then fifty wi' broadswords and targes-those will be the men from the local Watch-and then the cottars, wi 'everything from scythes to hammers at their belts, and there's ninety of those." ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)
All around me was a collective exhalation, and the clank of falling swords and targes. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)
I didn't much fancy moving around a Scottish baronial hall in total darkness, the risk of bringing down a suit of armour with a resounding metallic crash or impaling oneself on targes, claymores or a royal set of antlers must be high. ❋ MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 (1966)
As both were armed with targes made of wood and studded with brass, the combat was more remarkable for noise and clatter than for serious damage. ❋ Samuel Rutherford Crockett (N/A)
They took upon them two equally-matched shields for feats, and their eight-edged targes for feats, and their eight small darts, and their eight straightswords with ornaments of walrus-tooth and their eight lesser, ivoried spears which flew from them and to them like bees [LL. fo.84b.] on a day of fine weather. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
With shields, with lances, with targes, and with knightly armour he has a hundred ships filled and laden. ❋ De Troyes Chr��tien (N/A)
Grands blancs, petits blancs, targes, liards à laigle, every description of small coin, were now showered upon her. ❋ Unknown (1917)
They with their spears on their round targes strike; ❋ Anonymous (1909)
They obeyed, leaped from their horses, and protecting themselves with their targes, fought in front of the standards. ❋ Unknown (1905)
When all the performances were ended and the bronze targes had been put on board the ships, the rest of the spoils were collected into enormous heaps. ❋ Unknown (1905)
They had claymores and targes, and the most muskets. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
