armour-bearer
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 Robert Ornsby
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 William Garden Blaikie
David, being only an armour-bearer at fifteen dollars a week, found heartbreak in it all for him.
From In Our Town by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger
Nubta: Lady, his armour-bearer brought us word,— At moonset, not before.
From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Henry Van Dyke
I understand—I understand," said Stair, with a certain fierce determination in his eye, "you shall have no cause to regret that you have chosen me as your squire and armour-bearer.
From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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