ARMORY in a Sentence

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He had taken for his device: "Never a lawyer," and for his armorial bearings a nightstand in which was visible a square cap.

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 Meanings and Examples of ARMORY
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armory
 n.  arsenal; a place where arms are manufactured
Classic Sentence:
1  In her armory she had other arguments so strong that no answer could be made to them.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 23
2  Had Melanie believed India and Archie, cut her at the reception or even greeted her frigidly, then she could have held her head high and fought back with every weapon in her armory.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
3  , a sword, pale, on an oval shield, like all the Italian armorial bearings, and surmounted by a cardinal's hat; Dantes easily recognized them, Faria had so often drawn them for him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.
4  Letters came, with armorial seals upon them, though of bearings unknown to English heraldry.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXIV. CONCLUSION
5  It bore no emblem of the deceased's birth or quality, for armorial bearings were then a novelty among the Norman chivalry themselves and, were totally unknown to the Saxons.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
6  After her there came out of the house a young lad, very like Piotr, dressed in a coat of grey livery, with white armorial buttons, the servant of Pavel Petrovitch Kirsanov.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  He had taken for his device: "Never a lawyer," and for his armorial bearings a nightstand in which was visible a square cap.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Example Sentence:
1  The adjutant general may designate an officer to be in direct charge of each armory, arsenal, camp, base, or other facility.