I 'listed at home for a lancer To ride on a horse to my grave.
I can sympathise with the child there, for at the age of nine, in Dublin, I became seized with an intense but short-lived desire to enlist as a trumpeter in a Lancer regiment.
Seeing one day a real live, if diminutive, Lancer trumpeter listening to the band playing in the Castle yard, I ran down and consulted him as to the best means of attaining my desire.
His object was to exchange them for his son, who had been captured by the Russians some fourteen years earlier, had been brought up from childhood among them, and at this time was a lieutenant in a Russian lancer regiment.
The lancer behind me gained on me every moment, and I could hear his horrid laugh as he neared me.
Donald, with a last expiring effort, loaded his musket and shot the lancer dead.
The Red Lancer in the porch told Tods to go away; but Tods knew the Red Lancer and most of the Members of Council personally.
So her lancer rode away into the unknown; and she sat on the edge of her bed, crying, until it was time to go on duty and sit beside the dying in the sick wards.
Nobody has yet been hurt in any of the lancer regiments except one of Rush's men, who got tangled up in the woods and wounded himself with his own lance.
Here and there a deadlancer lay flat in the grass, his scarlet pennon a vivid spot beside him.
They were all tall and powerful men, armed with their immense-sized lances and huge shields; every lancerwas followed by a bowman.
Of our old troops there were missing Leon, Salcedo, Morla, the brave lancer Lares, and several others.
The message was barely delivered when another Lancer rode up and reported the enemy close at hand.
Stevenson was yet speaking when a Lancer was seen approaching at a wild gallop.
Another could her heart engage, Another could her woe assuage By flattery and lover's art-- A lancer captivates her heart!
A lancer her soul dotes upon: Before the altar, lo!
At Hulagur's call the lancer rode up to the waiting Apache, stretched out a booted foot in the heavy stirrup, and held down a hand to bring Travis up behind him riding double.
The shaman called out, but thelancer was already level with the vanished tree, his head half turned on his shoulders to witness the blackened earth where it had stood.
A third, and extremely reluctant, lancer reined his horse through the gate.
The lancer backed his mount against the barrier and gripped his weapon, a stout pike.
Too surprised to let go, the lancer followed his weapon from the saddle.
Moe completely circled the killer, who retired in disgust when another lancer rode into the ring.
It happened to be exactly the place I had wished to find, for at one end of the wall stood the Lancer dummy, whose fame has gone through the camp.
In all the morning's firing only oneLancer had been wounded.
He was everywhere, conspicuous by reason of the lancer with a red flag who followed him to mark his position for his aide-de-camps.
The cause was some story told by a romancing Lancer private after Elandslaagte--that he had stuck prostrate Boers "like pigs.
Ned instantly recovered himself, and fired at the secondlancer who, turning about, galloped away with a wound in his shoulder.
Ned snatched his from the holster, and fired directly into the evil face of a lancer who was about to crash into him.
To my delight this lancer veteran has kept his very uniform--somewhat moth-eaten, but the real original, and he will lend it to me.
In comes an old 17th Lancer sergeant, and I tell him what has been done to my cartoon.
Of course, it isn't there, and the disconsolate Lancer at once repairs to the "smiling" village whence the lady had intended to issue in the carriage.
The ex-Lancer was for the moment standing alone, and Mr. Mallory moved towards him as if to speak.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lancer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
