metal-plated

They wore needle-nosed cowboy boots that were metal-plated around the heels and toes, jeans that were stiff with grit and road grime, and shirts whose sleeves were razored off at the armpits.

Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

They wore needle-nosed cowboy boots that were metal-plated around the heels and toes, jeans that were stiff with grit and road grime, and shirts whose sleeves were razored off at the armpits.

Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

I really love how his thighbands? have a special gap to allow even more metal-plated musculature to burgeon forth.

Marvel's Superstars of Tomorrow (Circa 1993) Brian Hughes 2009

They wore needle-nosed cowboy boots that were metal-plated around the heels and toes, jeans that were stiff with grit and road grime, and shirts whose sleeves were razored off at the armpits.

Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

Marking the page for sonnet number forty-three, from which Isabel had paraphrased her inscription, was a small metal-plated photograph known as a tintype.

The Haunting Tarr, Hope 2007

His squire, a gangly, dark-haired boy with a tuft of fuzz where a Knight™s long moustache would one day grow, finished buckling Holger™s greaves about his shins, then turned to strap spurs onto his master™s metal-plated boots.

Chosen Of The Gods Pierson, Chris 2001

The glare was reduced to triangular bright spots cast in kaleidoscope across the metal-plated bulk of the mechanism.

Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

Through the doorway came a guard-a huge and metal-plated manifestation of the night.

Mercadian Masques Lebaron, Francis 1999

During former president P W Botha's era of "total onslaught", thick metal-plated concrete pillars were erected at the main entrance to the president's office at Tuynhuys to prevent suicidal car-bombers.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

The crystal plates along the ceiling were lighter now, and there were more flashes along the metal-plated walls.

The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998