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- noun Plural form of
armor-bearer .
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Examples
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Black students are continually asked to be the sole armor-bearers of Dr. King's dream, to walk boldly and proudly into diversity, embracing its benefits and setbacks with smiling dignity.
Jarrett L. Carter: Burden of Diversity Yields Benefit of Attention for HBCUs Jarrett L. Carter 2011
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Black students are continually asked to be the sole armor-bearers of Dr. King's dream, to walk boldly and proudly into diversity, embracing its benefits and setbacks with smiling dignity.
Jarrett L. Carter: Burden of Diversity Yields Benefit of Attention for HBCUs Jarrett L. Carter 2011
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Black students are continually asked to be the sole armor-bearers of Dr. King's dream, to walk boldly and proudly into diversity, embracing its benefits and setbacks with smiling dignity.
Jarrett L. Carter: Burden of Diversity Yields Benefit of Attention for HBCUs Jarrett L. Carter 2011
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Black students are continually asked to be the sole armor-bearers of Dr. King's dream, to walk boldly and proudly into diversity, embracing its benefits and setbacks with smiling dignity.
Jarrett L. Carter: Burden of Diversity Yields Benefit of Attention for HBCUs Jarrett L. Carter 2011
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Black students are continually asked to be the sole armor-bearers of Dr. King's dream, to walk boldly and proudly into diversity, embracing its benefits and setbacks with smiling dignity.
Jarrett L. Carter: Burden of Diversity Yields Benefit of Attention for HBCUs Jarrett L. Carter 2011
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Black students are continually asked to be the sole armor-bearers of Dr. King's dream, to walk boldly and proudly into diversity, embracing its benefits and setbacks with smiling dignity.
Jarrett L. Carter: Burden of Diversity Yields Benefit of Attention for HBCUs Jarrett L. Carter 2011
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Oh, perhaps Mark might now reconsider calling Electrical Engineers “lickspittles”, “shychophants”, or “armor-bearers”.
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Oh, perhaps Mark might now reconsider calling Electrical Engineers “lickspittles”, “shychophants”, or “armor-bearers”.
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Absalom sought safety in flight, but in trying to ride hurriedly through the wild tangle his head caught in the branches of a great oak, and before he could extricate himself, Joab had found him and thrust him through the heart; then Joab's ten armor-bearers encompassed the unfortunate victim and finished the deadly work.
My Three Days in Gilead Elmer Ulysses Hoenshel
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I started out to do more, feeling that you all were my armor-bearers.
Progressive Missions in the South and Addresses; With Illustrations and Sketches of Missionary Workers and Ministers and Bishops' Wives Sara J. Duncan 1906
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