"Armourer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one expected their lines and curves to do. To these suppositions I would add a few more suggestions regarding the evolution of shape-contemplation out of man's perfunctory and semi-automatic seeing of "Things." The handicraftsman, armourer, weaver, or potter, benefits by his own and his forerunners' practical experience of which shape is the more adapted for use and wear, and which way to set about producing it; his technical skill becomes half automatic, so ...
— The Beautiful - An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics • Vernon Lee
... garments such as Rupert had said that they would require, and in another half hour, after a handsome present to the boatmen, Rupert and Hugh landed, dressed in the costume of a Dutch gentleman and burgher respectively. Their first visit was to an armourer's shop, where Hugh was provided with a sword, in point of temper and make fully equal to that with which he had so reluctantly parted. Then, hiring horses, they journeyed by easy stages to Huy, a town on the Meuse, six leagues above Liege, which Marlborough, again forbidden ...
— The Cornet of Horse - A Tale of Marlborough's Wars • G. A. Henty
... weaver and embroiderer, The ironsmith and armourer, The goldsmith and jeweller, The carpenter and ...
— Val d'Arno • John Ruskin
... gunpowder visage, at once acts as nurse and works as armourer at his little table in a corner, often looking round and saying with a nod of his green-baize cap and an encouraging elevation of his one eyebrow, "Hold up, my boy! Hold up!" There, too, is Mr. Jarndyce many ...
— Bleak House • Charles Dickens
... armourer," the earl said; "we must choose a proper suit for you. I fear that mine would be of little use; but doubtless there are some ...
— Winning His Spurs - A Tale of the Crusades • George Alfred Henty
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