There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet.

The gardebras here probably implies the whole armour for the arms, consisting of pauldrons, brassarts, elbow-pieces, and vambraces, though there is a gardebras of the more antient kind so formed as to screw on the bridle-arm […]

I am sure that all will join in the wish that Professor Huxley would give an outline of what is known of the antehuman history of the globe.

Your offhandedness is completely inappropriate in such an important situation.