"Greave" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and, resting his buckler against the pillar of the loom, drew off his golden greave, and there was the scar that the boar dealt with his tusk on the Parnassian hill when Odysseus was ...
— The World's Desire • H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang
... held. One of them must have gnawed on my ankle some, between the greave and the heel-plate, but he couldn't quite get through. 'Sa darn small opening there, too—must have bent my foot 'way around to get in at all. Have to tighten that joint up a little, I guess. I'll bet I've got a black spot and blue spot there the size of my hand—maybe ...
— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith |
