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Example sentences for "maces"

Lexicographically close words:
mace; macerate; macerated; macerating; maceration; mach; machan; mache; machen; machete
  1. It would be impossible to enumerate specifically here all the activities of teaching, published writing, training seminars and travels the Maces have shared.

  2. The Indians of that island were armed with bows and slings, and with maces and axes of silver and copper.

  3. Lastly the mayor and bailiffs might have their maces carried before them in the cathedral precincts without disturbance.

  4. King himself a sword which was to be carried before him with the point erect, along with the gold or silver maces borne by the serjeants-at-mace.

  5. And the Rakshasa struck the monkey with his maces and spiked clubs while the monkey struck the Rakshasa with trunks of trees unshorn of their branches.

  6. O lord, all thy foremost Rakshasas fighting with maces and clubs and swords and lances and barbed darts, have been slain.

  7. And that mighty discharge of darts, with numerous maces and clubs incessantly hurled fell upon my car.

  8. And a good preceptor, would unceasingly give them lessons in the wielding of maces and swords and bucklers, in missiles and in the arts of driving cars and of riding horses, being valiant.

  9. But Arjuna who was conversant with the most efficacious weapons, soon checked that shower of maces and darts and broad-swords, and in return began to mangle the limbs of the Gandharvas with his crescent-shaped arrows.

  10. And confined within that arrowy net like birds within a cage, they showered in wrath upon Arjuna maces and darts and broad-swords.

  11. And the king of the Rakshasas appointed many Rakshasa women armed with bearded darts and swords and lances and battle-axes and maces and flaming brands, for guarding her.

  12. And terrified at the wielder of a strong bow, they fled towards the southern quarter, forsaking their maces and spears and swords and clubs and axes.

  13. And Bhima of exceeding strength was deluged with the mighty sanguine rain sprung from the bodies of the Rakshasas with maces and clubs in their hands and flowing on all sides from their persons.

  14. Their weapons and implements, including carved maces or official batons, as they are assumed to be, contribute additional evidence of skill and latent capacity among a primitive race of hunters and cave-dwellers.

  15. A great many had things like battle-maces swinging by their sides, and all these fellows carried a sort of string of big metal balls round their waist.

  16. The things like battle-maces were bomb-throwers, and the metal balls round the men's waists were the bombs.

  17. And at the door of every one they beheld warders terrible with many teeth and tusks, [238] with iron maces in their hands.

  18. When the men with maces had said this to me, I woke up, and lo!

  19. He made the conditions suggested by Sir Hugh, merely adding that the maces must be smooth and not knobbed, as was customary in the better-class combats of that day.

  20. And the king of the Rakshasas appointed many Rakshasa women armed with bearded darts and swords and lances and battle-axes and maces and flaming brands, for guarding her.

  21. And they had also Sataghnis[57] and stout maces steeped in wax.

  22. And thereupon they all, frightened at heart, stood holding in their hands bows and arrows and swords and javelins and axes and maces and clubs.

  23. The cardinals enter the Sixtine chapel vested in their purple cappe: the maces are reversed, as on friday.

  24. The corporation maces are singularly handsome and weighty, and are of silver-gilt.

  25. The maces date from 1696, and were presented by Francis Buller, Esq.

  26. The rector and his beadles, the latter carrying before him their maces of gold and silver.

  27. The city [cabildo] followed, together with the tribunal of the royal official judges, bearing their maces and insignia.

  28. First they fought with their maces until these snapped short at the hilt, but neither fighter was wounded in the least.

  29. In the darkness, which was rent only by the red flashes cast by Kali's rifle, resounded the howls of the men being killed, the hollow blows of the maces against shields and the groans of the wounded.

  30. A greater part of them ran away before they could be reached by the spears and maces of the Wahimas.

  31. Maces began to clatter on shields, krises to glint in sunlight, severed heads of enemies to wave aloft on spears.

  32. Spears, axes, stone and iron maces with ornate hafts bristled in all the long war-canoes, high-prowed and gaudy with flaring colors.

  33. Thenceforth, maces were to be of iron, brass or tin, or staves tipped with latten, and not to bear representations of the royal arms, but the arms or signs of the city using them.

  34. Ten years before the commons of England had petitioned the king (inter alia) not to allow any one to carry maces tipped with silver in city or borough, except the king’s own officers.

  35. All others were to carry maces tipped with copper only (virolez de cuevere), with staves of wood as formerly.

  36. They, too, were led by an Arab, who was followed by two janissaries, with silver maces shining in the sun.

  37. Failure to observe these regulations subjected superior bedels to the loss of their office when the time came for the maces to be resumed.

  38. And they had to give up their maces at the first congregation after Michaelmas, but were eligible for reappointment.

  39. The Mayor had dispensed with the formality of being preceded by the maces and other insignia of the Corporation in attending divine service and taking his seat on the Bench.

  40. And the hostile hosts fiercely assailed each other with maces and swords and scimitars, battle-axes and bearded darts with keen edges and points of excellent temper.

  41. And they began to fight with their bare arms in this way, which were like spiked maces of iron.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.