They shed their bulky armor like weary warriors just off the battlefield.

Eakins paints him in rumpled trousers and black frock coat, graying, unsteady on his feet, a weary warrior, frail but dignified, leaning awkwardly but pointing firmly toward the parchment sheet.

Three weeks away from his 35th birthday, L. T. has had the look of a weary warrior for several weeks.

Dramatically, too, one could nearly believe in his progress from innocent youth in the first act (no Wagnerian tenor is really credible there, physically or vocally) to weary middle-aged warrior at the end.

It was a vision old as Britain: a weary warrior refreshing himself before returning to the fight.

Even though their views pit them on opposing sides of a political conflict that has torn Venezuelan society, they acknowledged they were weary warriors.

"Fighting in the streets," Aahz gasped in a realistic imitation of a weary warrior.

A weary, white-coated warrior dragging his way toward her after a tough day on the wards would have evoked sympathy from Jocelyn.

Alternative choice for a weary warrior: Wallace Stegner's "Angle of Repose."

You have done the business,' while his weary, bloodstained warriors hoisted their caps on their bayonet points and shouted 'Billy!