My foe was ancient, fearless and fierce, clad in a coat of mail -- plastron, keel and scutes.
On the rocks and under them are found Littorinidae (periwinkles), Turbinidae (turban shells), and limpets, as well as the Chitonidae (pill bug, or coat of mail shells).
For the Frankish weapon of defence is this coat of mail, ring plaited into ring, and the iron fabric is such excellent iron that it repels arrows and keeps the wearer's skin unhurt.
One contestant drew the short straw with "byrnie" (a coat of mail), "neurohypophysis" (the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland) and "ikat" (a Malay word referring to a textile dyeing technique).
In the Biblical story of David and Goliath, David initially put on a coat of mail and a brass helmet and girded himself with a sword: he prepared to wage a conventional battle of swords against Goliath.
I have a waxed canvas jacket that is like a coat of mail now but in a year will be as pliant as tissue.
Valhalla has spear-shafts for rafters, a roof thatched with shields, coats of mail are strewn over its benches, a wolf hangs in front of its west doors, and an eagle hovers above it.
In August 1584 (or 1585) Kuchum attacked and destroyed a small party of Cossacks led by Yermak, who, fighting his way to the boats, was drowned in the Irtysh, apparently by the weight of the coat of chain mail sent to him by the tsar.
Hope: Lord Rothermere will agree to ban on whole list of words and phrases (among them "ageing", "succession", "ailing", "living in the past", "20th-century", "losing the plot", "heir apparent", "Ides of March", "men in white coats", "unstoppable success of Mail Online", "Martin", "Geordie" and "Sunday") in the office, the papers, online.
The coat, which Court Journal called "a veritable suit of mail," was said to protect against thorn, bramble, burrs, fish hooks, heather, tornadoes, monsoons, typhoons, dust, and rheumatism.
"'A veritable suit of mail' is how one magazine would describe the gabardine coat," reads an entry in online fashion resource, Voguepedia.
