He was armoured by his singleness of purpose.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
Others talked of an armoured train, but armoured trains don't carry 15-inch shells.
"My War Experiences in Two Continents"
Sarah Macnaughtan
And she cried out something in an utter broke voice, and ran unto me, and thrust her two small hands into my charge and keeping, and fell thence into a great sobbing and shaking, so that I was all in trouble to ease her; but did keep a silence and held fast her hands, for I had not on mine armoured gloves.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson