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gantlets

n. (plural of gantlet English)

Usage examples of "gantlets".

With Pelfer's Gantlets, Cowl, and Buskins in our possession, we would shortly be the richest thieves on earth!

If we possessed the Gantlets, Cowl and Buskins of Pelfer the Peerless, then we could shortly make ourselves so rich we could reforest all of Chilia, make even her stoniest ridges green with skorse, have the great trees growing thick as grass even in the high barrens of Magnass-Dryan.

However obscenely rich we shortly grew by means of the great Pelfer's Buskins, Cowl and Gantlets, our outlay in the first instance must be huge.

But it was on this occasion that Nifft heard from Gildmirth a highly particular account of Pelfer the Peerless' tomb, and of the Buskins, Cowl and Gantlets buried there with that arch-thief.

With regard to these Gantlets, the popular conception does not so much err as fall short.

With the Buskins, Cowl and Gantlets, we could break into Mhurdaal's Manse.

I saw my hands, in Pelfer's gantlets, touch the iron gates of Mhurdaal's Manse (all hung with corpses of unsuccessful thieves, still fresh and bleeding though long centuries slain).

The various gantlets cut through scree and rubble were not so much traps for invaders as for defenders!

Devetaki had Tangiru the Grunt land his mightiest warriors on the piled ramps at the sides of the gantlets, where their sheer mass was sufficient to collapse the walls inwards, smothering who or whatever waited in ambush, and effectively blocking any possible future escape route.

An exudation - a spewing out like pus from a boil - from the lower levels of Madmanse, down its ramps and through its gantlets, into the scree and rubble of the bottoms.

And while all such works were in progress to make the cavern liveable if not 'comfortable,' Lord Radu was not remiss in seeing to its defences: Outside, between the natural spurs of the crag, he built awesome death-trap gantlets for would-be invaders.