"The great house is all agleam with bronze. War has bedecked the whole roof with bright helmets, from which hang wavin…"

"They had their heads armed with a Morion, upon which they had hornes graven, or the representations of birds, or some…"

"Pitifully—under a great soldier’s helmet, a cricket sings"

"The billmen and pikemen wore salades and morions. Steel caps were made to the shape of the head and sometimes called …"

"His Helmet now, shall make a hive for Bees."

"Grabbing a short capstan bar, he fetched me such a clip on top of my brain-bucket as to drive all my senses clear dow…"

"Many a time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill."

"The very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt."

"Edmund Burke, the statesman and orator in England, recounts: He [Haidar] became at length so confident of his force, …"

"Innes Munro, an eyewitness and a captain in the late 73rd or Lord Macleod’s Regiment of Highlanders, records the horr…"