A passage such as this one is much more interested in setting up Elkin's signature lyric rhythms and, in this case, doling out strange and, in context, goofy words -- "vambrace and cuisee and greave" -- than in establishing Elkin's ability to dispense "some lovely little selection of words." ❋ Unknown (2009)
Betting the knight, his money on the armor, the intricate chain mail like wire net or metal scrim, being's effulgent Maginot line, his stake on the weighted mace and plate mittens, on the hinged couters and poleyns, on vambrace and cuisee and greave, banging the breast-plate and all the jewelry of battle for timbre and pitch like a jerk slamming doors and kicking tires in a used car lot. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I can't help but it sounds like the author of that article has a few sour grapes to eat and never read a Fantasy book before, or he would not stumble over words like merlon and vambrace. ❋ Adam Whitehead (2009)
I think the interviewer is writing for people who don't know what a merlon or a vambrace are. ❋ Adam Whitehead (2009)
Now it nicked him in the shoulder where the vambrace was buckled to the corselet; now it bored a shrewd hole under the light brissart, and blood followed; now, with fatal dexterity, it darted through the visor, and came back to the recover deeply tinged with blood. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The oilskin cloth fell by the wayside as he tucked one vambrace under his arm, struggling to force his bleeding left hand into the mesh gauntlet of the other. ❋ Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- (2003)
I saw even Joscelin smile, and raise one hand in salute, steel vambrace flashing. ❋ Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- (2003)
Yet on this opposite hemisphere, a glance at instruments on his vambrace confirmed the findings made by the robot. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1991)
Talons like ivory knives bit into the leather of Tarma's vambrace; the wings fanned the air for a heartbeat more, then the bird settled on Tarma's forearm, regal and gilded. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1988)
Pain raced up her arm and blood sprang out where the talons pierced her, for she had no vambrace such as Tarma wore. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1988)
She was still en deshabille, while the Battlemaster, summoned from the arena, wore a light practice cuirass with vambrace and pauldron for his unshielded right arm and shoulder. ❋ May, Julian, 1931- (1981)
And he held the bright-burnished vambrace that was upon his arm before her cold tips, and behold! ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954)
Sir Thomas Percy met with little better success, for his shield was split, his vambrace torn and he himself wounded slightly in the side. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1902)
At these words the cordelier's hand leaped up from his breast, his crucifix dagger glittered bright, he tore his frock from D'Aulon's grip, leaving a rag of it in his hand, and smote, aiming at the squire where the gorget joins the vambrace. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
His quarrel was no matter for fisticuffs; so, being attired in helmet, vambrace rere-brace, gauntlets, and greaves out of the armoury, where many such suits were stored, I met him in a certain quiet court behind the castle, where quarrels were usually voided. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
A good time they continued this exercise, and then cast themselves in a ring, dauncing in such severall Postures, and singing and yelling out such hellish notes and screeches: being strangely painted, every one his quiver of arrowes, and at his backe a club: on his arme a Fox or an Otters skinne, or some such matter for his vambrace: their heads and shoulders painted red, with oyle and Pocones mingled together, which ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)