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The Buckler Entoloma.
Foreigners, who were not freemen of the city, might not be innkeepers, and lepers were forbidden to leave their houses under the severest penalties; regulations were made against the rearing of oxen or swine within the city walls, and against the establishment of schools of arms where fencing with the buckler was taught.
Belly without blemish, bulging big, a buckler of taut vellum, no, whiteheaped corn, orient and immortal, standing from everlasting to everlasting.
Wrestling matches, in the different fashions of Cornwall and Devonshire, were seen here and there about the market-place; in one corner, there was a friendly bout at quarterstaff; and-what attracted most interest of all-on the platform of the pillory, already so noted in our pages, two masters of defence were commencing an exhibition with the buckler and broadsword.
How England can get on through four long summer months without its bar-which is its acknowledged refuge in adversity and its only legitimate triumph in prosperity-is beside the question; assuredly that shield and buckler of Britannia are not in present wear.
We have no historical account of it, but may gratefully accept, instead, the prophetic description of Jeremiah:— "Order ye the buckler and the shield, and draw ye near to battle, Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets, Furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
The first and most anterior of these divisions is a shield or buckler which covers the head, the second or middle portion is composed of movable rings covering the trunk ("thorax "), and the third is a shield which covers the tailor "abdomen.
In these curious forms the head and front extremity of the body were protected by a buckler composed of large enamelled plates, more or less firmly united to one another, whilst the hinder end of the body was naked, or was protected with small scales.
In Pterichthys-which, like the preceding, was first brought to light by the labours of Hugh Miller-the whole of the head and the front part of the body were defended by a buckler of firmly-united enamelled plates, whilst the rest of the body was covered with small scales.
A close-fitting mail of flattened cells coats our surface with a panoply of imbricated scales (more than twelve thousand millions), as Harting has computed, as true a defence against our enemies as the buckler of the armadillo or the carapace of the tortoise against theirs.
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