| Robert Southey - 1812 - 588 pages
...sharp stone-arrow-head would hang. Others, of higher office, were array 'd In feathery breast-plates of more gorgeous hue Than the gay plumage of the mountain, cock, Than the pheasant's glittering pride. Butwhat were these. Or what the thin gold hauberk, when oppos d To arms like ours in battle ? What... | |
| Robert Southey - 1839 - 840 pages
...sharp stone arrow-head would hang. Others, of higher office, were array'd In feathery breastplates of more gorgeous hue Than the gay plumage of the mountain cock, Or pheasant's glittering pride. But what were these, Or what the thin gold hauberk, when opposed To... | |
| William Hickling Prescott - 1844 - 352 pages
...the whiteness of new-fallen snow-" " Others, of higher office, were arrayed In feathery breastplates, of more gorgeous hue Than the gay plumage of the mountain cock, Than the pheasant's glittering pride. But what were these, Or what the thin gold hauberk, when opposed To arms like ours in battle ?" Madoc,... | |
| 1844 - 772 pages
...plates of gold or silver, and the surcoat of gorgeous feather-work, — " The feathery breastplates, of more gorgeous hue Than the gay plumage of the mountain cock, Than the pheasant's glittering pride," — rendered the battle array of the Mexicans as imposing in panoply, as it was powerful in numbers.... | |
| William Hickling Prescott - Mexico - 1844 - 348 pages
...new-fallen snow." " Others, of higher office, were arrayed In feathery breastplates, of more gorgeous hoe Than the gay plumage of the mountain cock, Than the pheasant's glittering pride. But what were these, Or what the thin gold hauberk, wheu opposed To arms like ours in battle ?" Madoc,... | |
| English literature - 1846 - 860 pages
...the whiteness of new fallen snow. Others, of higher office, were arrayed In feathery breast-plates, of more gorgeous hue Than the gay plumage of the mountain cock. Than the pheasant's glittering pride. But what were these, Or what the thin gold hauberk, when opposed To arme like ours in battle ?' The... | |
| Literature - 1865 - 740 pages
...the armorial ensigns of the state. " Others of higher office were arrayed In feathery breast-plates of more gorgeous hue Than the gay plumage of the mountain cock, Or pheasant's glittering pride. The golden glitterance, and the feather mail Mora gay than glittering... | |
| Traits, William White Cooper - 1861 - 404 pages
...the armorial ensigns of the state. " Others of higher office were arrayed In feathery breastplates of more gorgeous hue Than the gay plumage of the mountain cock, Or pheasant's glittering pride. The golden glitterance, and the feather mail More gay than glittering... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - Aztecs - 1884 - 280 pages
...which repelled "the light missiles of Indian warfare," and over it a richlycoloured surcoat of woven feathers — " Of more gorgeous hue Than the gay plumage...mountain cock, Than the pheasant's glittering pride." Their helmets, of wood or silver, wrought like the head of some wild animal, bore a variegated plume,... | |
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