He carried a great halberd as a wand of office, and his coat and cap matched each other for color and for gold embroidery.
John Lax, the Porter, bearing his halberd of office, marched beside them.
Without a summons from the government Zwingli rode along, a halberdon his shoulder.
Presently a halberd fell across my back, as a reminder, and I knew what it meant.
This affront naturally angered Yoshitsune, and he suddenly kicked Benkei's halberdout of his hand.
The false O Toyo seized a halberd and endeavoured to strike her adversary.
At last Benkei grew weary, and once again Yoshitsune knocked the halberd out of the giant's hand.
His armour was shabby in the extreme, his halberd covered with rust, and his horse was in a very poor condition.
He snatched a halberd from the hands of a yeoman who was standing near by and started toward John and Dorothy.
And at the sally she came out the foremost with her halberd in her hand to pursue the chase.
When Atahualpa knew who he was, he raised thehalberd and gave him a blow which cut off his head.
Having surrounded the place, he took a halberd of gold in his hand, and was accompanied by the two officers of his household who had made the sacrifice.
The soldier brought his halberd to a present-arms and said mockingly-- "I salute your gracious Highness.
Their halberd staves were covered with crimson velvet, fastened with gilt nails, and ornamented with gold tassels.
As I entered the anteroom, the doors of which were open, a gentleman named Bourse, running from the soldiers who pursued him, was pierced by a halberd three paces from me.
Sword, spear, and halberd made short work of them, and two hundred, according to Davila, of the best blood of France soon lay a ghastly pile beneath the windows of the palace.
The manner in which the halberd blades were attached to their shafts is explained by the bronze halberds with bronze shafts--the blade and upper part of the shaft often in one piece--from North Germany and from Sweden.
What may be considered as the developed or normal type of the Irish halberd blade is slightly but distinctly curved, so that they have been called "scythe-shaped.
Irish halberd blades somewhat later than we should care to place them.
The celts from the Ray Collection mentioned above show that the fully developed celt was in use during this period, while the "Birr find" with the halberd shows that the halberd was also known and in use during the full copper period.
The halberd blade can be distinguished from the broad dagger by the shape of the handle, which is curved or indented in the case of the dagger, but straight across in the case of the halberd.
In general appearance these halberd blades from Stendal are closer to the Irish halberds than any of the others which have been found on the Continent, but do not include the curved or scythe-shaped form common to Ireland.
As the copper celts show a gradual transition from stone to metal forms, it seems reasonable to look for the prototypes of the copper halberd among the stone implements of the preceding period.
Yet there was something daunting in the other's pale eye, and though the Viking moved the halberd uneasily on his shoulder, his own glance shifted.
Their leader alone wore a burnished steel helmet, and carried a long halberdover his shoulder.
So he stood still without either crying or moving, with his hands folded together, till Soyce, with a halberd struck him on the head till his brains fell out, and the corpse fell down into the fire.
The scene of his labors was Parthia, and Ethiopia, in which latter country he suffered martyrdom, being slain with a halberd in the city of Nadabah, A.
Then Hrut sprang up in his shirt and linen breeches, and cast over him a grey cloak and took in his hand his gold inlaidhalberd that King Harald had given him.
The jangle of a halberd as its bearer let the butt drop heavily on the stone steps added force to the summons.
And waving his halberd above his head, he beckoned to his followers to advance.
Though little broader than his fellow-Northmen, the man towered up a good span above seven feet in height, and the long-shafted halberd which he bore on his shoulder did not tend to lessen the effect of his giant stature.
The halberd shaft, notched by his sword-edge, broke short off with the force of the blow.
Floki did not strike downwards, but whirled hishalberd with a peculiar backhanded stroke, as erratic as the man's nature.
The man with the halberd in his hand was walking up and down before an adjoining house, bearing the ominous red cross and piteous inscription: "Lord have mercy on us!
Even he could scarcely be said to be present; for, though leaning against the house with his halberd on his shoulder, he was sound asleep at his post, and far away in the land of dreams.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "halberd" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
