armour-bearer
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Then he changes the fashion of his countenance, and becomes aged Butes, armour-bearer of old to Dardanian Anchises, and the faithful porter of his threshold; thereafter his lord gave him for Ascanius' attendant.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
It was no wonder, then, that the king, for a time at least, loved the boy with his bright face and sunny hair, and wanted to keep him as his armour-bearer.
From David the Shepherd Boy by Steedman, Amy
In the house of Saul David was trusted and honoured before the other warriors; he was his armour-bearer and the chief of a troop of 1000 men.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Duncker, Max
The assembly was not yet dismissed when, lo! his armour-bearer proclaimed what had happened.
From St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh by Lawlor, Hugh Jackson
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
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