Arms & Armor in Medieval & Renaissance Europe 
.... straps. Vertical ridges down the center of breastplates and conically shaped helmets warded off crossbow bolts and
sword blows. The ....
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Chivalry in the Middle Ages
.... The lord, rising, gave him the accolade (ie, on the neck)--three
blows with the flat of the
sword on the neck or shoulder, and sometimes a slap on the cheek ....
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Euripides' Medea and Sophocles' Antigone
.... Haemon who had been engaged to Antigone had taken his
sword and killed himself in grief over .... Great words by men of pride bring greater
blows upon them. ....
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Don Quixote
.... He may be seen as a sort of lottery player, gambling the minor
blows and cuffs .... they by the assumption that true battles were settled by the
sword (Howarth 123ff ....
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Islamic Law and Penology CHAPTER V
.... And, just as "they" punish by the
sword, so will they seek to rule by the
sword. .... Even soldiers and statesmen have more often came to terms than to
blows. ....
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Hannibal's Offensive Policy & Roman Campaign
.... Even after repeated hammer
blows against Roman armies, most of the allies held .... but orgies and gladiatorial combats are the stuff from which
sword-and-sandal ....
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Palaestinian Issue
.... been widely expressed, especially since this problem came to the fore with the eruption of the intifada and the use of "force and
blows" on the .... By the
Sword. ....
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Human Rights Abuses CHAPTER V
.... And, just as "they" punish by the
sword, so will they seek to rule by the
sword. .... Even soldiers and statesmen have more often came to terms than to
blows. ....
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International Difficulties in the Middle East
.... the reserve-heavy US military of the near future will be hard-pressed to land two early knockout
blows at once .... "Superpower Without a
Sword." Foreign Affairs 72 ....
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