Every seal has been dotted or crossed on some one of the lines composing it; some seals are coupled with brackets and armatures."
"The Tracer of Lost Persons"
Robert W. Chambers
There were fragments of burned planks and beams; posts to which clung rusted iron-work; armatures of metal twisted by fire; all the remnants of some intricate mechanism destroyed by the flames.
"The Master of the World"
Jules Verne
After Edison had decided this question, Upton made drawings and tables from which the real armatures were wound and connected to the commutator.
"Edison, His Life and Inventions"
Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin