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The baldric was a later belt worn diagonally over the right shoulder down to the waist at the left carrying the sword, and its buckle therefore was as important as that on a Roman soldier ’ s armor.
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During ancient Roman times the balteus ( plural baltei ) was a type of baldric commonly used to suspend a sword.
* In The Fellowship of the Ring, Boromir is described: " On a baldric he wore a great horn tipped with silver that now was laid upon his knees.
This uniform also included a black baldric that was also embroidered with gold.
The all-black was replaced by tan jackets and white pants with a red baldric.
It was generally hung from a baldric under the left arm.
baldric and belt
A baldric ( also baldrick, bawdrick, bauldrick as well as some other, mostly rare or obsolete, variations ) is a belt worn over one shoulder that is typically used to carry a weapon ( usually a sword ) or other implement such as a bugle or drum.
* A Sam Browne belt is a modern invention similar in function to the baldric.
Most commonly, scabbards were worn suspended from a sword belt or shoulder belt ( baldric ).
The length of sabres varied, and most were carried in a scabbard hanging from a shoulder belt known as a baldric or from a waist-mounted sword belt, usually with slings of differing lengths to permit the scabbard to hang below the rider's waist level.
Then comes a higher-ranking soldier, carrying a sword on an untied belt or baldric.
baldric and worn
* In Morris Dancing a baldric is one of a crossed pair of sashes or ribbons, one worn over each shoulder.
* The baldric worn by the Drum Major of the regimental band / pipes and drums
baldric and over
A cavalryman wearing a mail shirt with a baldric over his right shoulder.
There is some limited data from woodcuts and textual fragments that Mongol light horse archers and some Chinese soldiers wore a slung baldric over the shoulder, allowing longer blades to be strapped across the back.
baldric and shoulder
* In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Gawain returns from his battle with the Green Knight wearing the green girdle " obliquely, like a baldric, bound at his side ,/ below his left shoulder, laced in a knot, in betokening the blame he had borne for his fault.
baldric and carrying
It may also have had a carrying strap ( or baldric ) as Thracian peltasts slung their shields on their backs when evading the enemy.
baldric and sword
The harquebusier would have been armed with a doglock carbine, hung from a swivel attached to a baldric, pistols in saddle holsters and a stout, straight-bladed, sword.
baldric and on
* Richard Rahl carries The Sword of Truth on a baldric in Terry Goodkind's epic fantasy series of the same name.
It is often the case that battle honours not carried on the colours ( limited by space and design ) will be emblazoned on drum major's baldric.
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* Benedick, from William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, says " But that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead or hang my bugle in an invisible baldric all women shall pardon me.
* A baldric features prominently in Chapter 4 of Alexandre Dumas, père's The Three Musketeers, in which D ' Artagnan has his nearly-disastrous first encounters with Porthos ( who is wearing one ), Aramis, and Athos.
In The Next Generation episode " Conundrum ", Worf mistakenly believes that the baldric indicates his rank or authority, so he briefly assumes command of the Enterprise.
Jean-Luc Picard admonishes Worf in Star Trek: Insurrection, " Straighten your baldric.
* The baldric of Pallas plays a key part in the Aeneid, leading Aeneas to kill Turnus.
* The costume of the character He-Man from Masters of the Universe includes a baldric.
The bridge crew attempts to gain control of the situation, and Worf — wearing his baldric — assumes because he is decorated that he is the captain of the ship, and assumes command.
He also wears an ornate baldric, similar to a sash, embroidered with the band's crest and the Marine Corps ' battle honors, as well as miniatures of his own medals.
He carries a baldric of knives.
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He was a man, those neighbors testified later, who didn't have a friend in the world.
`` Fred was mighty crude about the way he took in cattle '' his own hired man, Andy Ross, mentioned later.
I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
Twenty minutes later she was at the desk of the Grafin's pension, her tears dried, signing a hotel form and asking for a bath.
( Her account was later confirmed by the Scobee-Frazier Expedition from the University of Manitoba in 1951.
To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.
he became Otto Klemperer's personal assistant at the Cologne Opera, and a year later was promoted to the position of regular conductor.
Seven years later he was asked to become director of the Pittsburgh Symphony.
The state's rights position was formulated by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, but in their later careers as heads of state the two proved themselves better Hamiltonians than Jeffersonians.
Whether in prose or poetry, all of Heidenstam's later work was concerned with Sweden.
and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;
We were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.
`` How about your press conference three days later -- what was the reason for that??
People think the dress in the picture was lengthened by an artist much later on.
Another Indiana observer later commented, `` Perhaps we shall never know how much was spent ( by Hearst ), but if as much money was expended elsewhere as in Indiana a liberal fortune was squandered ''.
A few weeks later the maps were being divided into squares and a position was described as being `` about lots 239, 247 and 272 with pickets forward as far as 196 ''.
At the trial which took place later, the Pomham matter was completely omitted.
it was demonstrated, many critics would later point out, in the length of his novels.
A few days later it was learned that General Howe was planning an attack upon the American camp.
Boniface was later to explain to the English that Robert of Burgundy and Guy De St.-Pol were easy enough to do business with ; ;
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