buckler

Example Sentences

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And so the England team is made up of bit-part players and stolid pros rather than swashers, bucklers and dashing leading men.

From BBC

My style has always been sword-and-board, and while the Dual Swordsman comes equipped with a buckler, I prefer to learn this new style of fighting.

From Forbes

There were two other persons, however, who followed the same course--men with swords by their side, and bucklers on their shoulder, and a snake embroidered on the mourning habits that they wore.

From Project Gutenberg

Approaching, they found that it was their commander, buckler on shoulder and sword in hand, but so weak with hunger and fatigue that he could not utter a word.

From Project Gutenberg

In the old days those exemptions, those rights, those privileges, wherein our ancestors gloried, and gloried well, were given to them because they were the buckler of France.

From Project Gutenberg