Now, that we should be well provided, I have brought these lances and halberts that ye saw me carry.
In the 15th and 16th centuries the halberts became larger, and the blades were formed in many varieties of shape, often engraved, inlaid, or pierced in open work, and exquisitely finished as works of art.
The Swiss had a mixed armament of pikes and halberts at the battle of Morat in 1476.
In the halberts the axe predominates, as the examples (fig.
On the way to his place of confinement, he encountered Xit, and the friendly dwarf would fain have spoken with him, but he was kept at a distance by the halberts of the guard.
An idea speedily occurred to him : by the help of one of the halberts he contrived to free himself from his bonds, and then clambered up the chimney.
When I came up to the place the halberts were fixed, and Gronow, with a company of the Fusiliers, under arms beside them.
When the service was done I noted the two halberts laid against the pillar of the churchyard gate; and as I had not seen the little weekly pomp of civic dignitaries in our Scotch country towns for some years, I made my father wait.
You should have seen the provost and three bailies going stately away down the sunlit street, and the two town servants strutting in front of them, in red coats and cocked hats, and with the halbertsmost conspicuously shouldered.
Heavy steps of a party of men approached his door; he thought he heard the clatter of swords and halberts on the stone floor of the ante-room.
The judges were present with their armed attendants, the halberts glittered in a corner by the door, and the seats were thronged beyond custom with the array of lawyers.
Watchmen passed close by, clinking their halberts against the ground, and from one of the noble Mansions nigh to us there came the sound of Revelry and of Laughter.
I don't think that we shall be able to make a long defence below, for with their hookedhalberts they will be able to pull out the logs, do what we will.
They are scarce to be called wounds, Sir Count, seeing that they are but flesh cuts from their halberts which we got in the fray below.
Yes, Count, it was built against the door, but when that gave way they pulled it down with halberts until they could climb over it.
This they soon found to be impossible, and began with their halberts to pull them down, and it was not long before they had dislodged sufficient to make a slope up which they could climb.
They divided the fire-arms equally in each party, and so of the halberts and staves.
I pray you, Command the guard to take their halberts in their hands; The ushers should have seen this room perfumed.
What rendered the English bowmen more formidable was, that they carried halberts with them, by which they were enabled, upon occasion, to engage in close fight with the enemy.
And his face flushed with anger, and he said to them, 'I am the King,' and waved their halberts aside and passed in.
But the soldiers who stood on guard dropped theirhalberts across the entrance, and said roughly to him, 'What is thy business in the city?
And when he reached the great portal of the cathedral, the soldiers thrust their halberts out and said, 'What dost thou seek here?
Let the judge and the jury look upon the woman where she sat, with halberts bristling around her, and a tribunal of death that moment waiting to hurl her into eternity; for, guard the dignity of that court as they might, such was its object.
On state occasions, when taking prisoners by water from the Tower to Westminster, and in preceding the Lieutenant to the outward port, we carried Halberts or Partisans with tassels of gold and crimson thread.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "halberts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
