"Suit of armour" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a right suit of armour; a sword, gold-hilted, apt for striking; no one that ever saw it ...
— Gods and Fighting Men • Lady I. A. Gregory
... through the gold curtain, had now returned, and was placing on a pedestal a small china figure of delicate workmanship. It was the figure of a warrior in a suit of armour advancing with raised spear upon an adversary. A thrill permeated Archie's frame. Parker had not been mistaken. This was undoubtedly the companion-figure to the redoubtable Pongo. The two were identical. Even from where he sat Archie could detect on the features ...
— Indiscretions of Archie • P. G. Wodehouse
... they were amazed at His Highness desiring to surrender, in pursuance of the advice of men who had never donned a suit of armour for the sake of experiencing the trouble it would involve, a place so commodious and important {120} as Goa, which had been acquired at the cost ...
— Rulers of India: Albuquerque • Henry Morse Stephens
... "The halberdier. I never noticed him particularly. I remember he thought he was only a suit of armour. ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry
... he. "Just because a man happens to be spotted. If my regiment got its deserts, every Jack man would walk about in a suit of armour made of Victoria Crosses. Give me some ...
— The Red Planet • William J. Locke
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