"Salleting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... appalling reply, even more than the sweep of the gigantic sword, before which were riven sallet and mail as the woodman's axe rives the fagot, created amongst the enemy that singular panic, which in those ages often scattered numbers before the arm and the name of one. They recoiled in confusion and ...
— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
