Sentence examples for round shield from inspiring English sources

He wore an elaborate feathered headdress and brandished a round shield and a turquoise snake.

Another wrote: "I used my round shield to push back the crowd, which was 15 people deep".

The Greek hoplite, the heavy-armed infantryman who manned the phalanx, was equipped with a round shield, a heavy corselet of leather and metal, greaves (shin armour), an 8-foot pike for thrusting, and a 2-foot double-edged sword.

After walking seventy-five yards, we reached the front of the mole: a round shield with twenty-seven cutteach each weighing three hundred and twenty pounds, pressed against the rock face, obscuring it completely.

The change was to a block system of fighting, in which infantry soldiers equipped with heavy armour, or hopla (including helmet, breastplate, greaves, sword, spear, and a round shield attached to the left arm by a strap), fought, at least during part of an engagement, in something like coherent formation, each man's sword arm being guarded by the shield of the man on his right.

On one hip she wore a coiled whip, across her back a round shield of steel and copper.

Tacitus states that the Goths at this time were distinguished by their round shields, their short swords, and their obedience toward their kings.

A finger of sandy road snakes round, shielding the harbour from the Atlantic where the waves pound blue or grey throughout the year.

The Scythian gold figures of semirecumbent stags, measuring some 12 inches (30.5 cm) in length, are outstanding; they were probably used as the central ornaments for the round shields carried by many Scythian fighters.

Other previously unpublished images from the hoard, also on foil fragments, show figures remarkably like modern comic book images of Martians – they are in fact protecting their heads with small round shields.

You see squadrons of officers dressed in strange medieval battle dress with helmets and visors, round shields and overalls, ensuring anonymity and invulnerability, run after the cavalry and begin truncheoning pickets who have been slow to escape.