But with a great effort he stood up, and the beaver fell from his helmet, for a lance hit him there, and another hit his left vambrace.
"The White Knight: Tirant lo Blanc"
Joanot Martorell and Marti Johan d'Galba
A good time they continued this exercise, and then cast themselves in a ring, dauncing in such severall Postures, and singing and yelling out such hellish notes and screeches: being strangely painted, every one his quiver of arrowes, and at his backe a club: on his arme a Fox or an Otters skinne, or some such matter for his vambrace: their heads and shoulders painted red, with oyle and Pocones mingled together, which Scarlet like colour made an exceeding handsome shew, his Bow in his hand, and the skinne of a Bird with her wings abroad dryed, tyed on his head, a peece of copper, a white shell, a long feather, with a small rattle growing at the tayles of their snaks tyed to it, or some such like toy.
"Captain John Smith"
Charles Dudley Warner Last Updated: February 22, 2009