Sentence examples for armoured by from inspiring English sources

Oblivious to the results of his actions, he is "impregnably armoured by his good intentions and his ignorance".

Hunt came east in mid 19th-century, on a religio-ideological quest, and armoured by a distaste for all things eastern.

A certain detached curiosity, combined with an instinctive reticence, generously armoured by modest amiability, seems to be the key to Smiley.

The peduncle contains the ovaries and some musculature; it may or may not be armoured by calcareous plates, as in Pollicipes and Lepas, respectively.

Peggy represents this coming of the proper 60s too, of course, settling into her new post as junior copywriter, armoured by foreknowledge, it almost seems, against the spite of her male colleagues, laughing their foolish heads off.

The teacher Mr Fonseka is reclusive, armoured by his books and burning a bit of hemp rope for nostalgia's sake; Mr Daniels has a huge garden of medicinal and poisonous plants in the bottom of the ship; Max Mazappa, aka Sunny Meadows, is the jazz savant musician "on the skids" who attracts Miss Lasqueti but leaves the ship at Port Said.

Scelidosaurus was lightly armoured, protected by long horizontal rows of keeled oval scutes, that stretched along the neck, back and tail.

In September 1914, the U-boat threat to capital ships was demonstrated by successful attacks on British cruisers, including the sinking of three elderly British armoured cruisers by the German submarine in less than an hour.

In Spain earlier this year, hostile headlines centred on a €480,000 ($670,000) armoured Audi bought by the president of the western region of Galicia (who already had three other limousines).

They were met by armoured vehicles by the dozen and row upon row of body-armour-clad, riot-shield-bearing, faceless-under-visor riot cops.

Less heavily armoured was the protected cruiser, the engines and magazines of which were shielded by an armoured deck, but which lacked an armour belt.