"Coat of mail" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... been a Christian man and a mass-deacon by consecration, but he had thrown off his faith and become God's dastard, and now worshipped heathen fiends, and he was of all men most skilled in sorcery. He had that coat of mail on which no steel would bite. He was both tall and strong, and had such long locks that he tucked them under his belt. His ...
— Njal's Saga • Unknown Icelanders
... lay their hands on. This was, however, as nothing to that which followed. Hongi and Hinaki had become reconciled on the ship, but a new act of aggression soon called for reprisals, and at the head of an immense naval armament Hongi set out for the waters of the Waitemata. Clad in his helmet and coat of mail, he declaimed his wrongs before his enemy's stockade at Mokoia, and was only saved by his armour from sudden death by a treacherous bullet. Hinaki would grant no satisfaction; a general assault ...
— A History of the English Church in New Zealand • Henry Thomas Purchas
... "Perhaps you think his coat of mail was as bright as the ashes you are always poking about, and sifting, ...
— East of the Sun and West of the Moon - Old Tales from the North • Peter Christen Asbjornsen
... were fearless heroes? Yes! But pray, why should that frighten me? I know you seek your fame on distant shores, In manly combat with all doughty warriors; But I have neither sword nor coat of mail, Then ...
— Early Plays - Catiline, The Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans • Henrik Ibsen
... you had better go on, They may try the same trick upon you." "No, no," said the snail, with his hard coat of mail, "I don't care a rush ...
— Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad • Various
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