What is "scale mail"

Usage examples of "scale mail".

But a scale mail-armored elbow drove up into his jaw from below, bone crunched audibly, the scream was cut off as if by an axe, and Bahzell dropped him and reached for another one.

Her scale mail hissed against the massive green torso as she rose.

Here and there one of them licked past a shield and drove through chain or scale mail, and men cursed or shouted in pain.

Langley wore scale mail and a helm, yet in some ways seemed not to wear armor at all.

His cloak looked to have been looted from a dead brigand, his crudely made scale mail had obviously been scrounged from the same source, and his boots and breeches were little better than rags.

The faintly transparent image of a squat, unwashed man, wearing heavy leather leggings and soiled scale mail, appeared next to Fonjara.

The scale mail bagged out around his chest giving him the appearance of a large metal-plated balloon, or, with his pointed helmet, an upside-down top.

He waved to a young man in scale mail of a pattern Marcus did not recognize.

When he reached the forefront of his Horde, he stopped and stood on widespread legs with his fists on his hips: cruel and proud, swart and yellow-eyed, armored in black scale mail and a high-peaked helm, and armed with a great long scimitar.

Two men wore the scale mail of the Maces, Elversult's city guardsmen, and most of the others wore the simple robes of her own church.

For this battle, they abandoned the heavy splint mail and scale mail that men wore into battle in northern climes.

Several pale elves watched her carefullyapparently guards of some kind, dressed in silver-hued scale mail with polearms and swords at their hips.

They were all big men, their chests sheathed most impressively in scale mail.

Kadiya, clad from head to toe in golden scale mail whose luster was barely dimmed by the mud splashed upon it, stepped forward and took her younger sister by the hands.