Shields Sentence Examples

The eyes are hidden by shields of the skin.

Swords, helmets and coats of mail, he says, were seldom to be seen; in general they were armed only with huge shields, unwieldy spears and darts.

Here again he appears to be thinking of the western tribes; for elsewhere he states that some of the eastern peoples were armed with short swords and round shields - which probably were of comparatively small size, like those used in later times.

The shields of arms are for the dukes of f iilich and Berg, counts of Ravensberg, and for the electors of Bavaria.

The badge has an elaborate design; it consists of a star of purple, red, yellow, gold and silver rays, on which are displayed old Japanese weapons, banners and shields in various coloured enamels, the whole surmounted by a golden kite with outstretched wings.

He was elected to the state House of Representatives, from which he immediately resigned to become a candidate for United States senator from Illinois, to succeed James Shields, a Democrat; but five opposition members, of Democratic antecedents, refused to vote for Lincoln (on the second ballot he received 47 votes-50 being necessary to elect) and he turned the votes which he controlled over to Lyman Trumbull, who was opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and thus secured the defeat of Joel Aldrich Matteson (1808-1883), who favoured this act and who on the eighth ballot had received 47 votes to 35 for Trumbull and 15 for Lincoln.

They brought with them iron, which they used for their long swords and for their cutting implements; the costume of both sexes was distinct from that of the Pelasgians; they used round shields with a central boss instead of the 8-shaped or rectangular shields of the latter; they fastened their garments with brooches, and burned their dead instead of burying them as did the Pelasgians.

It is connected with North Shields and Tynemouth by steam ferries.

The town was founded by the convent of Durham about the middle of the 13th century, but on account of the complaints of the burgesses of Newcastle an order was made in 1258, stipulating that no ships should be laden or unladen at Shields, and that no "shoars" or quays should be built there.

It also has but one horn, and mainly differs from the foregoing in being smaller, and having less prominent " shields."

The graves at Hallstatt were partly inhumation partly cremation; they contained swords, daggers, spears, javelins, axes, helmets, bosses and plates of shields and hauberks, brooches, various forms of jewelry, amber and glass beads, many of the objects being decorated with animals and geometrical designs.

The shields were round as in the early Iron Age of north Italy (see Villanova).

Sea-going vessels can navigate up to Blaydon, and collieries and large manufacturing towns line the banks - Newburn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Wallsend and North Shields on the Northumberland side; Gateshead, Jarrow and South Shields on the Durham side, with many lesser centres, forming continuous lines of factories and shipbuilding yards.

These men have no visible means of maintenance, and no visible occupation except that of lounging up and down with their swords and shields, like the ancient Highlanders, whom in many respects they much resemble."

By introducing perforated shields of ebonite between the electrodes, so that the full current-density was only attained at the centres of the jets, these ill effects could be prevented.

The skin affords the material for the best shields.

Railways.-The first ordinary roads deserving the name of highways were made about 1660, and canal-building began in 1 Newcastle, North Shields, South Shields.

Blyth was included with North Shields till 1897.

On ladies' seals the owner is often gracefully depicted standing and holding flower or bird, or with shields of arms. After the 14th century, the figures of ladies, other than queens, vanish from seals.

Thus, an average below 4.4 is quoted for Rochdale, Halifax, Huddersfield, Yarmouth, Bradford and Stockport, while the average for London was 7.93, and for Gateshead, Newcastle-uponTyne and South Shields, in the northern industrial district of the Tyne, and for Devonport, the average exceeded 8.

Serving all ports and coast stations from Hull to Berwick, also Carlisle, &c. Owning extensive docks at Hull, Middlesbrough, South Shields, the Hartlepools, Blyth, &c.

They belong chiefly to North Shields, Hull, Grimsby, Yarmouth and Lowestoft.

The coastwise carrying trade is also important, the bulk being shared about equally by Sunderland, Newcastle, South Shields and Cardiff, while Liverpool has also a large share.

The knives, spears and shields of native workmanship frequently show both ingenuity and skill, alike in design and execution.

A simultaneous invasion of Walachia by a large Turkish and Tatar host was successfully defeated; victorious sultan from massacring the prisoners and adding to the tribute a yearly contribution of 3000 javelins and 4000 shields.

According to the common story, she offered to betray the citadel, if the Sabines would give her what they wore on their left arms, meaning their bracelets; instead of this, keeping to the letter of their promise, they threw their shields upon her and crushed her to death.

Tarpeia herself is a local divinity, the manner of whose death was suggested by the tumulus or shields on the spot devoted to her cult, a crime being invented to account for the supposed punishment.

Amongst the more conspicuous secular buildings in the street may be mentioned the Town and County Bank, the Music Hall, with sitting accommodation for 2000 persons, the Trinity Hall of the incorporated trades (originating in various years between 1398 and 1527, and having charitable funds for poor members, widows and orphans), containing some portraits by George Jamesone, a noteworthy set of carved oak chairs, dating from 1574, and the shields of the crafts with quaint inscriptions; the office of the Aberdeen Free Press, one of the most influential papers in the north of Scotland; the Palace Hotel; the office of the Northern Assurance Company, and the National Bank of Scotland.

On the flat panelled ceiling of the nave are the heraldic shields of the princes, noblemen and bishops who shared in its erection, and the great west window contains modern painted glass of excellent colour and design.

Papuan weapons are the bow and arrow (in the Fly River region, the north and north-east coasts); a beheading knife of a sharp segment of bamboo; a shafted stone club - rayed, disk shaped or ball-headed (in use all over the island); spears of various forms, pointed and barbed; the spear-thrower (on the Finsch coast); and hardwood clubs and shields, widely differing in pattern and ornamentation with the district of their manufacture.

The shields were of two kinds.

But round shields, smaller in size, were also commonly employed.

These are distinguished by circular huts with domed or conical roofs; clothing of skin or leather; occasional chipping or extraction of lower incisors; spears as the principal weapons, bows, where found, with a sinew cord, shields of hide or leather; religion, ancestor-worship with belief in the power of the magicians as rain-makers.

Here the cylindrical type of hut prevails; clothing is of skin or leather but is very scanty; iron ornaments are worn in profusion; arrows are not feathered; shields of hide, spears with leather sheaths are found and also fighting bracelets.

The first noteworthy trotting hackney stallion, of the modern type, was a horse foaled about 1755, and known as the Schales, Shields or Shales horse, and most of the recognized hackneys of to-day trace back to him.

While not large, the Immortal underworld was separated by several different domains, two of which – Hell and Death's domain - were contained within shields no one could enter.  At least, no normal Immortal or demon could enter.  As a creature of both worlds, Rhyn could enter Hell, and he'd found by visiting Gabe that he was able to enter Death's domain, too.

Guards lined the walls, the symbol of Tiyan's Springs prominent on their shields even from the distance.

On 30th May 2005, Michael Shields, now 19, was arrested in Bulgaria for an attack on a local barman.

Dominic Smith works with live streaming in Micro Psychic, linking a clairvoyant in the northern seaside town of South Shields to the ICA.

Meanwhile, fellow Aussie Adam Shields overcame a badly broken collarbone to end the season on a 7.01 average.

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Hannah Shields won the ladies ' event last year and, to judge from the senior cross-country on Saturday, is in flying form.

Other scholars have suggested that they are sun disks, as there was not enough freeboard for shields if the boat was paddled.

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Now we know that anyone offering steve Gibson shields up as their primary product must get the word out.

A similar clasp knife handle from South Shields Roman fort, made in ivory, depicts a gladiator with rectangular shield standing en garde.

Masai handicrafts (shields, beads, lances, carved gourds) are available everywhere that tourists roam.

Examples of such technologies include heat shields, water filtration systems, and the famous zero-gravity space pen.

The subject matter of these ends is substantially heraldic with Arms on waisted shields with rolled top corners typical of 16th century heraldry.

The difference between someone who is vulnerable and someone who appears indestructible is the latter's ability to construct inner shields.

At South Shields HE damaged the river jetty and offices in the dock area.

They are attracted by the Gothic imagery, the images of Teutonic knights in shining armor, of swords and daggers and shields.

The joke going around college was, " what do you call the shields lass in the white shell suit?

Shields made of water or wax can be used to absorb neutrons.

Neutron High energy neutron High energy neutrons can penetrate thick lead shields.

In Larry's Party Carol Shields presents an ironic Odyssey through the life of modern man, from the late seventies through to 1997.

Where body armor is limited in both coverage and availability then shields would usually predominate as the primary form of personal protection.

The notion that the shields were " provided simply for decoration " is too utterly ridiculous to even bother going to the effort to.

The aseismic nature of the continental mantle and the lower crustal seismicity beneath some shields are probably related to their water contents.

The heraldic shields at the first floor level indicate the marriage lines of the Ramsden family.

Two spearmen, spears down, have round shields, whilst three spearmen throwing, have oval shields.

We'd had mass pickets before but we'd only had police with riot shields - nothing nasty.

We wear head guards and gum shields for safety.

A house in South Shields was slightly damaged by shrapnel.

Messrs. Emerson, Shields, and Wilkinson were master sinkers working under Mr. Coulson.

To further distinguish the new scooter, an electronic sticker replaced the ink splat / checkered flag on the leg shields.

Will the online rogues gallery launched by pubs in South Shields deter troublemakers?

Our 90-strong team donned burgundy vests and ran, jogged or walked the world famous route from Newcastle to South Shields.

According to Norse mythology, Valhalla was a palace roofed with shields, wherein lived the bravest of the slain Norse warriors.

Dacier, however, and others who adhere to the Christian view of the miracle, admit that the appellation of "Thundering" or "Lightning" (KEpavv000Xos, or KepavvoOpos) was given to the legion because there was a figure of lightning on their shields.

It differs from the adder in having the head entirely covered with scales, shields being absent, and in having the snout somewhat turned up. The term "Asp" (á¼â‚¬ÃÆ’πίÏ‚) seems to, have been employed by Greek and Roman writers, and by writers generally down to comparatively recent times, to designate more than one species of serpent; thus the asp, by means of which Cleopatra is said to have ended her life, and so avoided the disgrace of entering Rome a captive, is now generally supposed to have been the cerastes, or horned viper (Cerastes cornutus), of northern Africa and Arabia, a snake about 15 in.

But the death of Sejanus in 31 set Tiberius free from prejudice against the Jews; and, when Pilate put up the votive shields in Herod's palace at Jerusalem, the four sons of Herod came forward in defence of Jewish principles and he was ordered to remove them.

The trade returns of South Shields are included in the aggregate of the Tyne ports (see Newcastle-Upon-Tyne).

They were being charged by lines with riot shields.

We 'd had mass pickets before but we 'd only had police with riot shields - nothing nasty.

There 's an extra two inches of ground clearance, and the bumpers include protective underbody shields.

Became an apprentice wheelwright in South Shields, befriending the young George Stephenson.

We met Gwyneth Paltrow's son Moses, welcomed Katie Holmes' daughter Suri, and said hello to Brooke Shields' daughter Grier.

Either way, be sure to buy an accessory kit with new shields and tubing to ensure adequate sanitation and effectiveness of the pump if you use a second-hand alternative.

Flails and maces are gruesome looking items with spiked heads on chains for hitting opponents over their shields.

A2 Armory features a nice variety of unique medieval décor like stunning shields, helmets, and complete suits of armor.

They also make custom hand-painted shields which can feature your family crest or any custom design.

Medieval Matters is another great website for unique medieval décor and beautiful armor shields.

They provide medieval replica weaponry, armor, and collectibles includes daggers, spears, axes, shields, and helmets.

Many of the ancient designs depicted buffalo hunts, complete with shields and teepees as well as the buffalo and the hunters riding horses bareback.

They believe that if they look a certain way they will always be recognized, for example, Brooke Shields and Elizabeth Taylor and their full eyebrows.

A good example of how to take sexy pictures is to review the 1981 Calvin Klein jeans ad campaign featuring Brooke Shields.

Some couples, such as Spears and Federline or Brooke Shields and her husband Chris Henchy, will list release one date as their big day but actually get married on a different occasion, faking out the press.

April points out that Cruise had "lost a great deal of public affection when he lashed out at Brooke Shields with his views on postpartum depression."

Woody Allen, Tom Cruise, and Brooke Shields call it their home.

Attacking post-partum depression sufferer Brooke Shields for taking medication to help her depression.

The story goes that Sutherland was chatting up Brooke Shields when designer Jack McCollough accidentally bumped into Shields.

After high school, Cruise got a small part in the film Endless Love, where he worked with Brooke Shields.

The raincoat is waterproof, breathable and features a unique built-in foam visor that cuts glare and shields your guy from sudden downpours.

The plastic component in Trex decking shields the wood from moisture and insect damage, so there's no rotting or splintering.

Some of the earliest graves in Hasltadt, Austria held numerous swords, shields and metal arm bands.

With a narrower brim, it still shields the eyes without being as much of a statement as a wider brimmed Fedora.

Aviator style glasses, cat eyes, oversized shields, and redesigned wayfarers are popular styles that are widely available.

Vistana's Polare® lens system features Dynamic Base Lens Technology, which allows us to eliminate the side shields associated with traditional OveRx products, while maintaining a full range of undistorted peripheral vision.

Since it wraps around your face, it also shields your eyes from the sun at all angles and helps prevent glare that can come from the sun hitting the water.

You can get spectacles, goggles, full face shields, and more.

Look for either goggle-style with side guards, or if you opt for plain shields, make sure they fit close to the face to avoid a finger or racquet jabbing in through the open side.

To defeat Grays with shields, mutate and fire parasites at them.

The shields will come down faster than any other weapon you might use.

Crystal (bright pink) - Removes all adverse status effects from Lex and the letter grid, shields Lex from damage for a turn, and it adds 50% damage to a word.

You have more attacks and additional shields, but you can expect to have to deal with a lot of firepower.

It's too bad I didn't have shields like that.

The game is divided into a series of mini-quests that require you to find Triwizard Shields, which will unlock other areas and give you the opportunity to participate in the Triwizard Tournament.

Find Triwizard Shields to unlock other areas, and have the opportunity to participate in the Triwizard Tournament, an exciting trial of three challenges that only Harry can face alone.

At this point, the shields will not decrease.

Players discover items and use swords, shields, arrows and bombs to explore and defend themselves.

Turning was tight (and you can even drift) and controlling your weapons and shields was easy enough with the default configuration.

Plugging Sonic 2 also had the same effect, complete with additional hidden areas that only Knuckles could reach; these usual contained ring bonuses or special items such as shields.

Bombs, boomerangs, swords and shields are his staple, but a Gust Jar and Picori Stick are two new items that stir things up quite a bit.

Use the fierce attack (triangle) to break the shields of armored enemies.

But to make the playing field even, you have opportunities to gather jewels which increase your ships shields and turbo capabilities.

The foreskin of the penis safeguards the sensitivity of the glans and shields it from irritation by urine, feces, and foreign materials.

To prevent disease transmission during CPR, face masks and face shields are available to prevent direct contact during rescue breathing.

Large circular shields can obstruct an intensely sucking baby's nasal passages.

Tom recently put himself in the center of a media debate after suggesting actress Brooke Shields's popularity had declined as the result of her use of the antidepressant Paxil following the birth of her daughter.

With most shirts ranging from $36-42, you can model yourself after the likes of Trista Sutter, Tina Fey, and Brooke Shields, just a few of the celebrities who have been seen in these tees.

Children’s imaginations transform the noodles into floatation devices, space age weapons, protective shields – the inspired possibilities of a child’s mind are endless.

There are also two knights decked out with armor, shields and swords to help defend the fortress, which has hidden staircases, a working front gate and a big boulder to roll down stairs and keep intruders at bay.

Glass lamp shields turn a simple candle into an elegantly shaded centerpiece.

Wealthy nobility adorned themselves in jewels such as crowns, rings, large necklaces, hats, powdered wig, small wrist purses, jeweled swords, and shields.

Girls can dress up in fancy ball gowns while boys can sport fancy metal vests, swords, shields and boots.

The shields on the major trumps beckon you to literally ask, "What does this mean to me?"

Atkins was in The Blue Lagoon with Brooke Shields who was in Freeway with Kiefer Sutherland who was in Phone Booth with Colin Ferrell, who was in Minority Report with Tom Cruise who was in A Few Good Men with...

In 2009, Toyota recalled 110,000 Tundra trucks for major corrosion of the frame and underbody shields.

The dealers are stuck out in front as human shields now.

Klein, already well known for his sexually provocative advertising, particularly one featuring a nearly nude 15 year old Brooke Shields, took that same sexually provocative route for his underwear advertising campaign.

The show has also featured numerous celebrities over the years, from Brooke Shields to Dolly Parton.

The same costume store should have some plastic shields and short swords.

It was in 1996 when Kathy was cast in the Brooke Shields comedy Suddenly Susan in which she started to attract much more attention for her comedic skills.

He is best known for his role in the cult classic movie The Blue Lagoon, which he starred in opposite Brooke Shields in 1980.

This alternate Weir remained in stasis, waking every few hundred years to cycle the ZPMs, conserving power so that the shields would hold until it rose to the surface.

The Daedelus provided the Atlantis Expedition with a link to Earth and a ZPM to power their shields.

The Enterprise did not have energy shields, instead, it relied on polarized plating.

Providing these soldiers with protective equipment includes gear that shields them from chemicals or projectile weapons as well as extreme weather.

They are more comfortable than the other hard hats in history, and you can easily add to them depending on your needs, from face shields to attachments for lamps.

The addition of built-in goggles and face shields also helps.

Special additions, such as the traditional brass eagle, Nomex chin-straps, or kevlar earlaps and face shields are also available.

They even create and hand-paint battle-ready shields for SCA fighters.

I almost died a million times over, and if I didn't know how to enable the shields on the escape pod, I would have burned up in the atmosphere, and if that didn't kill me, then hitting the planet-- He held up a hand, planting it across her mouth when she refused to stop.

The communications and control panels were disabled, but I figured out how to engage the shields.

I was able to re-engage the shields and the thrusters.

While not large, the Immortal underworld was separated by several different domains, two of which – Hell and Death's domain - were contained within shields no one could enter.  At least, no normal Immortal or demon could enter.  As a creature of both worlds, Rhyn could enter Hell, and he'd found by visiting Gabe that he was able to enter Death's domain, too.

With Sydney Young and others he investigated the critical state and properties of liquids and the relationship between their vapour pressures and temperature, and with John Shields he applied measurements of the surface tension of liquids to the determination of their molecular complexity.

The apparatus devised by Ramsay and Shields consisted of a capillary tube, on one end of which was blown a bulb provided with a minute hole.

Of higher rank than the pezetaeri were the royal foot-guards (lavtXucoi inraoriarat), some 3,000 in number, more lightly armed, and distinguished (at any rate at the time of Alexander's death) by silver shields.

In some instances arm-chairs, carved out of the living rock, stand between the doors of the chambers, and the walls above are decorated with the semblance of suspended shields.

There is also a pair of narrow tergal sclerites interposed between the anterior and posterior shields.

The glass tubes, therefore, from which the X-ray bulbs are to be fashioned, must not contain any of these oxides, whereas the glass used for making the funnel-shaped shields, which direct the rays upon the patient and at the same time protect the hands of the operator from the action of the rays, must contain a large proportion of lead.

They disdained the use of helmets and coats of mail, and protected themselves only with, shields.

In consequence of an oracle which had commanded him to marry his daughters to a lion and a boar, he wedded them to Polyneices and Tydeus, two fugitives, clad in the skins of these animals or carrying shields with their figures on them, who claimed his hospitality.

During this peculiar locomotion the numerous broad shields of the belly are of great advantage, as by means of their free edges the snake is enabled to catch and use as points of support the slightest projections of the ground.

The integuments of the head are divided into non-imbricate shields or plates, symmetrically arranged, but not corresponding in size or shape with the underlying cranial bones or having any relation to them.

The small eyes are some- T y p h l o p s bra- times covered by transparent shields.

Acrochordus javanicus has no enlarged ventral shields; the flat, viperish-looking head is covered with small granules, with the eyes and nostrils well on the upper surface.

The species of Bungarus, four in number, are extremely common in India, Burma, and Ceylon, and are distinguished by having only one row of undivided sub-caudal shields.

Each college had the care of twelve sacred shields called ancilia.

These twelve shields (amongst which was the original one) were in charge of the Salii Palatini.

On the next day the procession passed on to another mansio; this continued till the 24th, when the shields were replaced in their sacrarium.

His story has been dramatized by Max Ring, Die Genfer (1850), by Jose Echegaray, La Muerte en los Labios (1880), by Albert Hamann, Servet (1881), and by Prof. Shields, The Reformer of Geneva (1897).

Their arms comprise two short swords, a longer spear, a round shield, and they sometimes wear a coat of mail; a curious feature is their tactics of fighting in a circle of protecting shields.

Playfairii, when shaken with water forms a slight but permanent lather, and on this account is used by the Somali women for cleansing their hair, and by the men to whiten their shields; it is known as meena h¢rma in Bombay, and was formerly used there for the expulsion of the guinea-worm.

Jackson had already fought a winter campaign which ended in his defeat at the hands of General Shields at Kernstown (March 23).

At Kernstown, indeed, Jackson was tactically defeated by the Federals under Shields (March 23, 1862).

The archers shot well and with strong bows, though their arrows were generally tipped only with stone or bone; their shields or targets, mostly round, were of ordinary barbaric forms; the spears or javelins had heads of obsidian or bronze, and were sometimes hurled with a spear-thrower or atlatl, of which pictures and specimens still exist, showing it to be similar in principle to those used by the Australians and Eskimo.

One led due north from York past forts at Catterick Bridge, Piers Bridge, Binchester, Lanchester, Ebchester to the wall and to Scotland, while branches through Chester-le-Street reached the Tyne Bridge (Pons Aelius) at Newcastle and the Tyne mouth at South Shields.

The arms required were probably a sword, helmet, coat of mail and one or two spears and shields.

They were armed in separate companies with bows and arrows, spears, daggers and shields, and the officers carried battle-axes and maces.

Some tribes hung the scalps to their bridles, others to their shields, while some ornamented with them the outer seams of their leggings.

Her hands shook as she manipulated the configuration to arm the shields around it.

The experiments eventually took place at the Harton pit near South Shields in 1854.

Above this comes a row of circular shields, adorned with intricate arabesques, while bands and wreaths of lilies are everywhere scupltured on the windows, balconies, tambours and cornices, adding lightness to the fabric. The whole is raised on a platform 7 ft.

Milchhdfer (Anfdnge der Kunst) had called attention to certain remarkable examples of archaic Greek bronze-work, and the subsequent discovery of the votive bronzes in the cave of Zeus on Mount Ida, and notably the shields with their fine embossed designs, shows that by the 8th century B.C. Cretan technique in metal not only held its own beside imported Cypro-Phoenician work, but was distinctly ahead of that of the rest of Greece (Halbherr, Bronzi del antro di Zeus Ideo).

There is first the preparation of the pile, which is hung round with helmets, shields and coats of mail.

Its exterior shields were disarmed and he'd disabled the communications capability.

Shields were covered with ox-hide and furnished with round sighting-holes above the middle.

Shields (1825-1904), who afterwards entered the Protestant Episcopal Church, republished and urged the adoption of the Book of Common Prayer as amended by the Westminster Divines in the royal commission of 1661; and Henry Van Dyke was prominent in the latter stage of the movement for a liturgy.

Nothing daunted, the two ran back into the bush, and presently returned furnished with shields made of bark, with which to protect themselves from the firearms of the crew.

Thus charged on the silver bend, it makes bad armory and it is worthy of note that, although the grant of it is clearly to the duke and his heirs in fee simple, Howards of all branches descending from the duke bear it in their shields, even though all right to it has long passed from the house to the duke's heirs general, the Stourtons and Petres.

The South Shields inscription, now in the Free Library of the town, was found in the neighbouring Roman camp; it is given in NSI.

Ramsay and Shields suggested that there exists an equation for the surface energy of liquids, analogous to the volume-energy equation of gases, PV = RT.