armour-plate

And right now, speaking of armour-plate lining, I could drink the both of you down when you were at your prime.

THE PRINCESS 2010

The smile was pure armour-plate, more a rictus of concentration than a signal of inner delight.

Dogged by Cocaine Accusation, 2007

This veneer was as impenetrable as ten-inch armour-plate to such friends, whom, because of shekels or position, he wished to retain.

THE UNMASKING OF A CAD 1993

No shield could protect us against that -- whether it was made of ice, or the best armour-plate steel.

The Songs of Distant Earth Clarke, Arthur C. 1986

He wrongly identified the ship as the DEUTSCHLAND, but the mistake was one of academic importance only: he rightly identified it as a German pocket battleship or battle-cruiser, 26,000-ton leviathans with 13-inch armour-plate and nine-inch and twelve 5.9 guns capable of delivering a 8,000-pound broadside in reply to his own puny 400 - and his light 100-pound shells could never hope to penetrate that massive armour anyway.

The Lonely Sea MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1985

Arnold smiled back at her, and she saw recognition leap through the armour-plate of his ecclesiasticism.

Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan

This desperate course is taken and described -- the air grows thick and dark with broken breech, flying tube, and disrupted armour-plate, and when all was over --

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

Under such conditions, He trained and with His own hand fostered a number of souls who would stand as a mighty fortress protecting the Cause, and as armour-plate for the Ark of the Covenant.

Bahíyyih Khánum

From the finest steel all sorts of things were made, ranging from the smallest needle or steel pen up to the largest-sized gun or armour-plate.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

When the lights had been put out, Lawrence saw for the first time that during dinner the solid cubes of steel, the size of the windows, had noiselessly rolled back, leaving a square aperture or passage-way through the six-foot thickness of the armour-plate, and forming a sort of _loggia_ into which they stepped.

L.P.M. : the end of the Great War