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No flaunting plumes nor brandished lances, but stern purpose in the turn of the crestless helmet, visible victory in the drawing back of the prepared right arm behind the steady point.

From Modern Painters Volume II (of V) by Ruskin, John

Anchotia means crestless, the crested porcupine being called Chotia-dumsi.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage

Like the Colosseum, it is the crestless trunk of its former self.

From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

Upon his head he placed his bull's-hide helmet, coneless, crestless, which is called cataityx, 348 and protects the heads of blooming youths.

From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois

To Diomede, who at the fleet had left300 His own, the dauntless Thrasymedes gave His shield and sword two-edged, and on his head Placed, crestless, unadorn'd, his bull-skin casque.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William