The tester and crupper, together with the piser, which probably protected the chest, formed the basis of most horse armour[…]

Her face, helmeted with steely-gray hair, was barely visible at the head of the bed, and her thin, bed-jacketed arms stretched on either side of her on top of the heavy futons, so that she looked like a pharaoh or the top of a marble sarcophagus.

The quicksilver on a mirror may creep.

There is barely enough money, so we will have to make do with what we have.