Lances
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As yet the knights held their long
lances
upright, their bright points glancing to the sun, and the streamers with which they were decorated fluttering over the plumage of the helmets.
More example sentences with word lances
They became highly prized mercenaries, and during one of these battles, they made the first recorded heavy cavalry charge with couched lances, a devastating tactic that soon became standard in medieval warfare.
All Nature was wide awake and stirring, now; long
lances
of sunlight pierced down through the dense foliage far and near, and a few butterflies came fluttering upon the scene.
"Four men," said the landlord, "riding a la jineta, with
lances
and bucklers, and all with black veils, and with them there is a woman in white on a side-saddle, whose face is also veiled, and two attendants on foot."
This was why it was said—For friend no longer is there friend;The reeds turn
lances
now.
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