ring mail
Example Sentences
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Both of them wore ring mail of the best.
From Havelok the Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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 Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
No better were they than the other two suits, for all three were of good Sussex ring mail as to the byrnies,x while the boar-crested helms were of hammered steel.
From A Thane of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
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 George Rapall Noyes
