Lances

Examples

• Both Knights broke their lances fairly, but Front-de-Boeuf, who lost a stirrup in the encounter, was adjudged to have the disadvantage. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The lever and the pulley, lathe s, picks, saws, hammers, bronze operating-lances, sundials, water-clocks, the gnomon (a vertical pillar for determining the sun's altitude) were in use. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It needs not--send Louis Winkelbrand and a score of thy lances. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The pause in the tournament was still uninterrupted, excepting by the voices of the heralds exclaiming--Love of ladies, splintering of lances! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It were deep pity, said Conrade Mont-Fitchet, to lose to the Order one of its best lances, when the Holy Community most requires the aid of its sons. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The _picadores_, who have stationed themselves near him, commence the attack with their lances, and the bull is thus goaded to fury. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He was met by six or seven men-at-arms, who ran against him with their lances at full career. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I say to thee, priest, contrive some cast of thine art to keep the knaves where they are, until our friends bring up their lances. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Say to him in my name, that our strife is not ended--no, not till we have fought as well with swords as with lances--as well on foot as on horseback. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Trust me, Estoteville alone has strength enough to drive all thy Free Lances into the Humber. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The force was composed largely of cavalry armed with lances. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• More and angrier words would have been exchanged, but the marshals, crossing their lances betwixt them, compelled them to separate. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

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