"Casque" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... confidential scribe to Harold. The other wore the garb of a soldier. He was clothed from head to foot in a tight fitting leather suit, upon which were sewn iron rings overlapping each other, and strongly resembling in appearance the chain-armour of later days. His casque, with a curtain of leather similarly covered and affording a protection to the neck, cheeks, and throat, hung from his saddle-bow, and he wore a cap with a long projecting peak, while a cloak was thrown over his shoulders and fell almost ...
— Wulf the Saxon - A Story of the Norman Conquest • G. A. Henty
... Each empty, open casque now seems Like to the helms of heraldries, Save for two strange and livid gleams That issue forth ...
— Enamels and Cameos and other Poems • Theophile Gautier
... that this revenge is poor, Because it steals upon him like a thief: To have ta'en him by the casque in a pitch'd field, Led ...
— The White Devil • John Webster
... the silver sheen Of thy broidered, floating vest Cov'ring half thine ivory breast; Which, O heavens! I should see, But that cruel destiny Has placed a golden cuirass there; Keeping secret what is fair. Like sunbeams in a cloudlet nested Thy locks in knightly casque are rested: O'er which bend four milky plumes Like the gentle lilly's blooms Springing from a costly vase. See with what a stately pace Comes thine alabaster steed; Servant of heroic deed! O'er his loins, his trappings ...
— Poems 1817 • John Keats
... became The brazen shield: whose hand the tough lance whirl'd, And back withdrawn, the virgin wondering prais'd Such strength and skill combin'd: to fit the dart When to the spreading bow his strength he bent, She vow'd that Phoebus in such posture stood His arrows fitting: when, his brazen casque Relinquish'd, all his features shone display'd, As purple-rob'd his snow-white steed he press'd, In painted housings gay, and curb'd his jaws White foaming,—then the lost Nisean maid, Scarcely herself, in frantic rapture ...
— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid
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