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- noun Plural form of
buckler .
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Examples
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V. ii.l7 (327,4) [I give thee the bucklers] I suppose that _to give the bucklers_ is, _to yield_, or _to lay by all thoughts of defence_, so _clipeum abjicere_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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I saw wonders without number or count, amongst others a fish like a cow which bringeth forth its young and suckleth them like human beings; and of its skin bucklers are made. 36 There were eke fishes like asses and camels37 and tortoises twenty cubits wide. 38
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After fifteen hundred years of constitutional study as to methods of raising on the bucklers, which is the operation of operations, the English People, surely pretty well skilled in it by this time, has raised -- the remarkable individual now addressing you.
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
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On the 4th of January we landed with 30 men, well armed with arquebuses, pikes, long-bows, cross-bows, partizans, long swords, and swords and bucklers, meaning to seek for elephants.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784
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The Iroquoits finds themselves plagued, ffor the ffrench had a kind of bucklers and shelters.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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Blinking eyes the size of bucklers, the snake lunged past the lance and snapped down on the charr—or tried to.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Blinking eyes the size of bucklers, the snake lunged past the lance and snapped down on the charr—or tried to.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Blinking eyes the size of bucklers, the snake lunged past the lance and snapped down on the charr—or tried to.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Blinking eyes the size of bucklers, the snake lunged past the lance and snapped down on the charr—or tried to.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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I think this kind of approach favours character driven, rather than plot-centric story-lines; The Secret War books, for instance, are very plot-centric, episodic swash-bucklers and are “Big Books” all the way to the end…
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010
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