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Its stupidity, greaved with arrogance, filled with energy, renders it immune to debate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their legs seem not to have been greaved, but encased in a loose trouser, which hung about the ankles and embarrassed the feet, if by any chance the horseman was forced to dismount.

From The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by Rawlinson, George

That line of Homer keeps coming to your lips: Small blame to Trojan or to greaved Achaean, if such happiness as this was to be the reward of their toils and sufferings.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)

He was helmeted and greaved and had a line of purple about the hem of his short tunic.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

This was Stumps, one of the professionals, who was not quite so much like a Minerva, though he, too, was prodigiously greaved.

From The Fixed Period by Trollope, Anthony