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Examples
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But Bell and Freyt could see through his armourplate of self-control.
Spoor of the Antis Voltz, William 1976
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In the instant while my screen was forming I noticed a shimmering red glow of light just inside the closed armourplate doors of the viewing chamber.
Blue System Scheer, Karl 1976
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I guided Rhodan to the nearby open airlock and we all took shelter behind the armourplate door.
Blue System Scheer, Karl 1976
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Nor did they deviate from my course as we came through the last armourplate hatch door at a depth of 2,000 meters.
Blue System Scheer, Karl 1976
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The access hatches of the Finmark were made of such strong armourplate that nothing less than a thermo-cannon could blast them open.
Enemy in the Dark Mahr, Kurt 1975
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They were early, and their hostess, a handsome, heavily built woman with corsets like armourplate under her exquisite gown, and a blonde bang covering her forehead, came forward with her daughter to meet them.
Harriet and the Piper Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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But inside -- you must have heard of it -- is the famous steel door, three inches thick, made of armourplate.
The Silent Bullet 1908
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Just as England beat the Boers by concentration camps and not by arms, by money and not by men, so she seeks to-day to erect an armourplate barrier around the one European people she fears to meet in the field, and to turn all Central Europe into a vast concentration camp.
The Crime Against Europe A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 Roger Casement 1890
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