The following just, reduced to six combatants, three of the red plumes and three of the white, was even yet more spirited than the first tilt, for the former trio couched their lances with the determination to retrieve the day for their party.
And this did his good henchmen perform with all their heart; With the pennons and the lances they nobly played their part, Smiting at some, and others overthrowing in their might.
Bells hung upon the martingales, the knights their bucklers bore At the neck, and carried lances whence flew the flags of war That Alvar Fañez' wisdom to all they might reveal, And in what guise with those ladies he had issued from Castile.
Here with an hundred lances in the rear will I remain, And capture Castejón good store of provender to gain.
They are three hundredlances that each a pennon bear.
Apart from the footsoldiers, and valiant men of war, There were three hundred lances that each a pennon bore.
The strokes of many lances had scarred it furthermore.
Before their breasts the war-shields there have they buckled strong, The lances with the pennons they laid them low along, And they have bowed their faces over the saddlebow, And thereaway to strike them with brave hearts did they go.
Their swords and lances glittered in the air, and in a few moments would have been sheathed in the bodies of their terrified victims.
They advised that the principal towns should be required to erect additional circuses, and to providelances for the combatants, and music for the entertainments, at the charge of the municipalities.
She had succeeded in protecting a seventh, still an infant, with her body, and though the lances which pierced her had passed through its clothes, it had marvellously escaped any injury.
The streams of the River make glad the City of God:’ and all the principal towers were gallantly adorned with the Royal Arms embossed upon them, or displayed in banners upon lances reared above them.
On the night appointed they marched for Calais, in number five hundred lancesand a corresponding number of footmen.
Lances were shivered, and horses and men rolled over, but the German horse was borne down in every direction by the charge of the English chivalry.
Every man sprang into his saddle, and with levelled lances the army bore down the hill against the enemy, while the Captal De Buch forced his way through the struggling ranks of the French to join them.
De Charny ordered them all to dismount and to shorten their lances to pikes five feet in length.
Both parties had dismounted and fought on foot withlances shortened to five feet.
Turning their horses, therefore, and laying their lances in rest, they charged the pursuing French.
Scimitars were drawn, andlances advanced over the ears of Arabian chargers.
Huge quivers were fastened to the front of the chariots, and the soldiers leaned on their lances or on gigantic bows.
The horsemanship so pleased my husband that he longed to bound down into the arena, take a horse, and tilt with their long lances at the rings.
They were met by a counter-charge, the Indians, with lances poised and arrows on the string, coming on swiftly in overwhelming numbers.
Fiery spirals, laced with streaming, darting lances of black and green, flamed inside his bursting eyeballs.
The shore was lined with fierce-faced savages, painted and feathered, armed with bows and arrows, lances and darts and bucklers.
From their point of view they could see the hunters cut out one animal and attack him with their arrows and lanceswithout arousing the fears of the rest.
In their midst, two men held their lances aloft, each spear-point being decorated with the head of an Indian.
In a corner, a Japanese warrior, mailed and plumed, menaced him with a halberd, and a score of lances and khandas and kuttars gave back the unsteady gleam.
He eats five times a day, and lances boils for my hinds to save himself from an apoplexy.
But," said Raoul, "be there not some twenty or thirty Norman lances no farther off than in the town of Stamford?
Angers; "ye cannot cross our moat nor force our gates, and fifty Norman lances are lying hard by.
I count forty and one lances and forty and one shields," said the youth to himself, "but these good friars will tell me that I have seen bulrushes and willow-leaves.
But I will to the Vicomte of Stamford, and ask for fifty lances to join to my own followers, and albeit I may not charge home to Spalding, I can ride to Ey and carry off the Saxon girl before this Hereward takes her.
First went a great troop of horse with lances and long pennants floating from them.
It is not with pikes and lances that faith is made to enter the heart.
Which was destined to prevail in Switzerland--the lances of Austria or the Word of God?
All the lances were upraised, and the agitated soldiers retired with downcast eyes.
Cossack companies, trailing their lances and advancing one after another as if poured out of a sack, dashed gaily across the brook toward the camp.
And at that moment, though the day was still, a light gust of wind blowing over the army slightly stirred the streamers on the lances and the unfolded standards fluttered against their staffs.
Then placed they their shields before their hearts, and lowered their lanceswith the streamers thereon, and bending forward, rode on.
Three hundred lances were they, each with its pendant, and every man at the first charge slew his Moor.
Beyond, the peaks loom up masterfully, sheathing their icy lances in the clouds.
And though we gaze with seeking vision through the shadow into the ultimate blue above, the haze draws its protecting garment thicker, closer about the treasure-house of Nature, and the sun darts amberlances earthward to blind aspiring eyes.
From every little fissure ferns dart their long green lances and feathery fronds, and the rocks are grown over with moss.
It is flanked on all sides by the savage, beetling peaks marshalled in endless ranks like the spears and unsheathed lances of war-gods in their domain midway between earth and heaven.
The lances of these two champions were repeatedly shivered in the attack, but neither was unhorsed; fresh lances were supplied by the esquires, and the sport grew ‘fast and furious.
To escape from the sight almost consoled him when, in the pause after the first courses had been run, Tibble told him and Burgess to return, and send Headley and another workman with a fresh bundle of lances for the afternoon's tilting.
I warrant you the lances cracked and shivered like faggots under old Purkis's bill-hook.
The great Portuguese colony of Brazil, like many of the Spanish colonies, was open to the attacks of buccaneers and of free lances of the seas bearing the flags of various countries of Europe.
Chemiaki with a host of free lances "good companions" and such men as he could get together besieged Moscow.
The Tsar and his son went to an enclosure specially reserved for the torture of their victims, and with their lances prodded those who were not quickly enough dragged to the place of torment.
Didst not carry off the Red Pertolepe 'neath the lancesof his men-at-arms?
And there befell, that day, a mighty shivering of lances and many a knightly deed was wrought.
Swift and sure the column wheeled and with lances couched thundered down upon Black Ivo's reeling flank.
Black Ivo can muster bows and lances by the ten thousand--" "Yet doth Sir Benedict withstand them all, my father!
So saying, he levelled his lance, and a hundred lances sank behind him.
Seven rifles, six lances, and a revolver were secured, but all the lances except two were thrown away almost immediately as useless.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
