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Sentence Examples
In a military sense, European feudalism rested on a symbiotic relationship between armoured man-at-arms, war-horse, and castle.
The unprecedented protection that plate armour gave the man-at-arms did not come without tactical, as well as economic, cost.
Armourers were making gloves with individually jointed fingers, and shoulder defenses had become particularly sophisticated, permitting the man-at-arms full freedom to wield sword, lance, or mace with a minimum of exposure.
Examples from Classical Literature
He was about to go and knock, pretending to be a man-at-arms with a message.
For my Captain had his notion of rank and place, as a man-at-arms should have.
Meanwhile Cecchino had become a man-at-arms of the Duke, who had taken him to Rome.
In a word, he was transformed from the penman into the captain and man-at-arms.
Meanwhile he snatched the only one at hand from the man-at-arms that carried it.
When properly supported by other arms, they proved themselves capable of meeting both the man-at-arms and the pikeman.
Every man-at-arms is one of its fingers, and there are thousands of them.
He was in one her physician, her spiritual director, her man-at-arms.
He was about to reply when a man-at-arms entered and whispered to Ugolini.
It would never have sorted with my inclinations to have turned man-at-arms.
The man-at-arms had dropped his wineskin in surprise and was staring at what was happening to his comrade.
Hast surely never seen a man-at-arms, that thou shouldst stare so?
But not a wooden-headed man-at-arms but looked down upon him.
He was a very valiant man, but at the battle of Brignais he was spitted through the body by a Hainault man-at-arms.
A man-at-arms lounged out of the guardhouse to inquire our business.
