Come stand by me, feare nothing: guard with Halberds Adr.
Enter the Coarse of Henrie the sixt with Halberdsto guard it, Lady Anne being the Mourner.
When she came down there were approaching, across the field before the door, six men in scarlet and one in black, having all the six halberds and swords, and one a little banner, but the man in black had a sword only.
He might have died--for, though the King's guard with their torches and halberds were within a bowshot of them, they stirred no limb.
The crowd surged forward, yelling; and the men at the door grounded their halberds sharply on the feet of the front row of spectators.
When Brandon presented himself at the door his entrance was barred, but he quickly pushed aside the halberds and entered.
To prevent this, two guardsmen with halberds were stationed at the door.
One wonders whether anybody had whispered to Hals the news that Velazquez had painted his "Surrender of Breda" with halberdsand lances galore!
The armourer had furbished up the old halberdsof the Company, which, with the banners, are quite significant features.
Before the Austrians had realized that the battle had commenced, the halberds and 'morning-stars' of the Confederates were working havoc in their van.
In the intervals between these onsets the French light troops poured in their missiles, but though the clump of pikes and halberds grew smaller it still remained impenetrable.
O Setsu San and her samurai women beat off the Mito men with their halberds while we clambered aboard.
O Setsu and Kohana and all the other women dropped theirhalberds to follow the example of their mistress.
On the left side of the little king was placed Sir John, in an arm-chair; and behind him were seen Sir Thorstenson, and a body of royal trabants, withhalberds and bucklers.
Dorothy had decked their helmets with silk ribands and green sprigs, and, with their bright halberds in their hands, they stood in a respectful posture, and as immoveable as statues.
Halberds struck men down, swords ran them through, muskets were discharged at them.
Without the sick-chamber two sentries, chilled and drowsy, leaned against a column supporting the low vaulting, their halberds clasped between their folded arms.
They were led on the right wing by the imperial guard, whose huge statures, fair long hair and gleaming halberdsformed a strange contrast to the lighter arms and the more pliant forms of the defenders of Castel San Angelo.
The body-guards flung their halberds on the pavement, and there were plenty of tears and lamentations.
With a deafening noise of clattering steel the military escort led the way, the halberds gleaming like tongues of flame in the torchlight as the men-at-arms lowered them in order to pass through the gates.
The halberds look well, but this search is, above all, a business undertaking.
This is made up of some fourteen or sixteen of the Yeomen of the Guard, who arrive at the place of rendezvous armed withhalberds and swords.
It is recognised that for close combat in the vaults and narrow passages of the building halberds would be a little unwieldy.
Allowing, therefore, some margin on the later side, we should probably be fairly safe in placing the period when the halberds were in use in Ireland at the end of the third and beginning of the second millennium B.
It is possible, however, that the decoration of certain halberds found in Germany may have been influenced by that of the Italian dagger.
Halberds attached to their shafts are also shown on the prehistoric rock-markings in the "Italian Maritime Alps," published by Mr. C.
Irish halberds with the Spanish and German examples, and came to the conclusion that the Irish halberds were later than the Spanish and earlier than the German.
We may therefore conclude that the copper halberds are simply coarse or unrefined copper from similar ores to the copper celts; and that the copper implements found in Ireland may contain up to about ยท5 per cent.
Also, in the case of the halberds, the great rarity of any specimens of bronze blades which can be classified as halberds indicates that the form of implement practically ceased to be used when bronze came into use in Ireland.
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.
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.
Down below there was tramping of heavy feet, as the companies of foot guards took their places, marching across the broad space, in their wrought steel caps and breastplates, carrying their tasselled halberds on their shoulders.
Two tall sentinels with halberds paced silently up and down in the shadow.
Taking advantage of their terror, he struck up their halberds with his sword.
The house stood solitary, and at the door two halberds were bravely stationed, either to assist or repel thieves or murderers.
The halberdswhich have never killed anyone, the state prisons used only to cool the wine.
Soon, big cannons are heard rolling in the courtyard, and forty tall German mercenaries, halberdsat the ready, come and position themselves around the bed chamber.
Walter; "why what have we seen but a boat, and men with scarlet jerkins, and halberds in their hands?
On the contrary, the servants planted their lances and halberds in the snow, and as the night was not entirely dark yet, Jurand saw that the handles somewhat trembled in their hands.
Behind them one could see thehalberds of another detachment of soldiers.
The men with halberds entered first, and were followed by Zbyszko, accompanied by the priest and the clerk of the court.
The captain sent some men to open the way with their halberds and in that manner they reached the knights standing around the scaffold.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "halberds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
