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Meanings of round shields in English

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Usage of round shields in English
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Four carried large round shields, their fronts covered in canvas slips.
Orb Sceptre Throne
2
Above the painting hang the round shields of the Persians, captured that day.
Julian
3
A dozen mounted spearmen tailed her, their round shields gleaming in the sun.
A feast for crows
4
He and Eustace took curved Calormene swords and little round shields.
Last battle
5
He reinforced them with eight hundred others armed with round shields and Roman swords.
Salammbo
6
Kind and trustworthy pins they were to hide their points beneath smooth round shields.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
7
Little spangles of light were reflected from swords, spears, round shields, and burnished helmets.
Welsh Fairy Tales
8
The round shields slung on their left arms were black and showed no crest.
Forge of Darkness
9
Thus armed, they advanced, bearing in their hands round shields, stout and light for fighting.
Four Arthurian Romances
10
Would they therefore sing of things familiar-ofiron weapons, small round shields, hoplites, and cavalry?
Homer and His Age
11
Their large round shields were made of skins stretched over woven wicker and painted with skulls.
A clash of kings
12
Maikar made another bow, and both fabricated tough round shields with double plies of the boar's hide.
The Hot Swamp
13
Gay-hued tapestries covered the sides, along which rows of round shields overlapped each other like bright painted scales.
The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days
14
Their weapons were bows and arrows, and a few short carbines, and most of them had round shields.
Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountai...
15
Hanno trotted past, admiring the Libyans' massive round shields, which were even larger than those used by the Greeks.
The road to rome: a forgotten legion chronicle
16
They too wore the white diamonded cloaks, but they bore large round shields protecting them from knee to shoulder.
Act of will
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