“The mechanic had laid out two suits of their Martian-made light combat armour, a number of rifles and shotguns, and stacks of ammunition and explosives.“What,” Holden said, “is all this?”“You said to gear up for the drop.”“I meant, like, underwear and toothbrushes.””
“Nowadays you have to go pretty far south in Italy before you encounter the widespread belief that any foreign girl is a whore unless her father and two brothers drive her around in an armoured car.””
“These were staggering gains; the Guards Armoured Division, for example, had travelled some 330 miles from the Noireau area in Normandy in just over four days to enter Brussels””
“There is no armour against fate””
“For every person who was alarmed or startled to see an armoured, paramilitary-looking figure rushing past at astonishing speed, there were ten who were simply annoyed or indignant. "Hey, asshole, go shoot your goddamn sci-fi movie somewhere else!" "Extreme sports is California, dude!" "Fuck you, buddy!" New York.””
“She strutted into the room, armour-plated in white linen, belligerent as a battleship. The bib of her apron, starched rigid as a board, curved against a formidable bosom on which she wore her nursing badges like medals of war.””
James Brown Armour, commonly known as J. B. Armour, was an influential Irish Presbyterian minister whose work significantly impacted the socio-political landscape of Northern Ireland. Born in 1841, he...
“I brought it but to show you. In that placcate was killed Harry Hotspur. I do not say that was the hole that let death in; for men aver that it was a stab in the throat with a coustel, when he was down, that slew him; but the blow that made that bore him to the ground, other wise Shrewsbury field might have gone differently.””