#plate

Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#adapted #armor #body #consisting #continued

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. ↗

— David Hume

#contemplates #exists #mind #them #things

The last person I'd date is some rich kid who's had everything handed to her on a plate. Give me a normal girl any day. ↗

— Nick Carter

#date #day #everything #girl #give

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization. ↗

— George Catlin

#away #boundless #civilization #contemplated #forests

'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.' ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#eat #food #forget #give #gonna

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company. ↗

— Carson Daly

#company #had #media #nbc #new

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#improve #learn #less #mind #order

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets. ↗

— Anita Diament

#already #any #before #book #came

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#existence #let us #moral #us

Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion. ↗

— Robert Duncan

#constantly #coupled #earth #erosion #found