ring mail

Example Sentences

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Only my ring mail byrnie they could not take from me, as they feared to untie my arms.

From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

The effigy is clad in a shirt of ring mail, above which is a loose garment, girded at the waist.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

All the men in King Harald’s ship, except the berserks, were clad in coats of ring mail, and wore foreign helmets, and most of them had white shields.

From Erling the Bold by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Brave and handsome they looked as they sat upon their chargers with their swords hanging at their sides and the sun shining on their burnished bronze helmets and coats of ring mail.

From Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age by Leighton, Robert

In the stable a great cuirass extended over the manger and a corselet of ring mail served as a chute through which the boy threw down clover to the colts.

From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Noyes, George Rapall