Meaning of helmlet | Babel Free

Definitions

A helmet that covers the face; a small helm.

Examples

“Goggles laid down his pen gently, and elevated the spectacles from his nose till they rested on his forehead, as a knight of old would throw⟳ up the visor of his helmlet– 't was a trick⟳ he had, when he was about saying or doing anything emphatic – a symbolical intimation that he was going to use⟳ some other organ than his eyes.”

“When the wife of a great prince, whose husband was absent at the siege of Troy, was urged by her friends to put⟳ on her royal robes and be cheerful, she answered: “My husband is under the walls of Troy; shall I adorn my hair while he wears a helmlet?”

“It brought back to me the best of the long ago:—the wild garrison life on the plains, when day after day a restless child galloped by an officer's side, among stalwart troopers, and listened to tales of “our people at home,” or to old world stories, when men of our race⟳ wore steel corslets and helmlets, and fought for “St. George and Merrie England;"”

“At your front—in your face⟳—he may strike⟳ you; But he takes not the night for his helmlet, Nor is treachery ever his weapon.”

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