armour-bearer
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Down swoops Jove's armour-bearer, and on high With taloned claws hath trussed him.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
David, being only an armour-bearer at fifteen dollars a week, found heartbreak in it all for him.
From In Our Town by Gruger, Frederic Rodrigo
She took back the weapons and target she had given to the armour-bearer, and stepped over the side of the litter to the ground.
From The Lost Continent by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright
The messenger answered, he had none but one man, who had been his armour-bearer, and was staying with him without the town.
From Old English Chronicles by Various
When Jehovah had given him a favourable sign, and he had reconnoitred the camp of the Midianites, together with his armour-bearer Phurah, he determined to attack them in the night.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Duncker, Max
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