armour-bearer
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A single confidant and companion was all that he thought of—his armour-bearer, or aide-de-camp.
From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by Blaikie, William Garden
For this reason, if for no other, you may be sure I do not regret having lost the honour of being armour-bearer to the Bishop of Exeter in the Hampden strife.
From Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 by Ornsby, Robert
On the chariot is enthroned Faust as Plutus the God of Money, and behind him as groom or armour-bearer sits Mephisto, an emaciated hollow-eyed apparition denoting Avarice.
From The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' by Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard)
Might he not work that day by Jonathan and his armour-bearer, and, after all, only produce a new chapter in that history which had already shown so many wonderful interpositions?
From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by Blaikie, William Garden
E'en so some snowy swan, or timorous hare Jove's armour-bearer, swooping from the sky, Grips in his talons, and aloft doth bear.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
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