The spearmen of the thorp did not fail them, and numbered twenty and three all told.
Even so they did, and rode forward, and presently they saw the spearmen that they were somewhat more than their company, and that they were well mounted on black horses and clad in black armour.
When I came away I left the spearmen chanting over him.
The slingers disposed on the hilltops redoubled their efforts, while in the valley, without haste, but also without disorder, the Egyptian spearmen and axemen arranged in four columns moved forward gradually.
He saw his staff, a division of spearmen and axemen under veteran officers, finally slingers, advancing along the cliff leisurely.
Farther was a division of spearmen in blue and red shirts, then a great band of men almost naked, armed with clubs, again slingers and spearmen, behind them a red division with scythes and axes.
Mechanically he reached for his sword to lead on the spearmen awaiting command, but he was restrained by contempt of the enemy.
Once a man actually saw them, and gave notice to one of the royal officials, who brought a company of spearmen and surrounded the cave.
He was journeying, such was his tale, to the court of Charlemagne with a company of spearmen to aid the emperor in the war he was waging with the Moorish king of Spain.
Hannibal waited for the right moment to strike, and as soon as he saw that the Romans had crossed the Trebia, throwing out eight thousand spearmen and slingers to cover his advance, he led out his whole army.
For the Roman spearmen had been on hard service ever since daybreak, and had expended most of their weapons in the engagement with the Numidians, while those weapons which were left had become useless from being long wet.
He proposed therefore to delay the attack, till a resolute band of Kanemboo spearmen should arrive and lead the way.
The Arabs, supported by Barca Gana, and about one hundred spearmen marched instantly to the attack, and carried first that place, and then a smaller town beyond it, killing all who had not time to escape.
The spearmen were in advance, and the axemen were divided into two parties, one on either flank, with an equal number of ropemen.
The spearmen halted when within twenty yards, then turned and fled; this had been agreed upon beforehand.
When I stamp my foot seven thousandspearmen spring from the ground.
The Scots advanced into England, and their spearmen crossed a marsh to attack the English array of knights and archers posted on the slope of Halidon Hill.
Bruce, on the other hand, not only had a small body of horse, which rode down the archers, but he strengthened the defensive position of his spearmen by digging pits in front of his line and covering them with turf.
The effect was overwhelming: a shower of arrows poured upon a single point in the ring of the spearmen soon cleared a gap.
The innovation was thoroughly reasonable, as spearmen on foot would be able to check the fiercest charge of horse, if only the horse could be exposed to a shower of arrows.
A company of spearmenon foot, in neat white dresses and turbans, their spears of silver, rich and massive.
The Saxon spearmen who had guarded the approach to the avenue gathered hurriedly round them.
The spearmen arm'd, and forth the spearmen rush'd, When, woe!
Scipio places his spearmenand Gallic cavalry in front; the Romans and what force of allies he had with him, in reserve.
Then, while his colleague hesitated, he sends his own cavalry, with about a thousand spearmen on foot in their company, to protect the Gallic territory beyond the Trebia.
But Telephus routed the spearmen of the bronze-clad Achaeans and made them embark upon their black ships.
He overlooks the operations from that part of the mound to which the sledge is being dragged, and before him stands his body-guard, a long line of alternate spearmen and archers, resting their arms and shields upon the ground.
Although their weight must have impeded the movements of an armed warrior, the Assyrian spearmen are constantly represented in the bas-reliefs with them.
Archers and spearmenwere hurrying to the assault, whilst others were driving off the captives, and carrying away the idols of the enemy.
All the spearmen had the pointed helmet; but some wore coats of mail and metal greaves, and others a simple tunic, without any covering to their legs.
Now were the foes ready, even as the spearmen knelt, and a chief rode out before them and gave the word to charge, and with a great roar they answered him, spurring their horses and flying down on us.
The two spearmen lay where I thought he had been, and I looked to find him slain also.
So I gave the word, and my spearmen came quickly forward through the viking line, and there stood two deep, setting the butt ends of their spears firmly in the ground at their feet, and lowering the points to meet the horses breast high.
Then two spearmen turned and shouted, and went to drive their weapons into the body of my foe, and I put my shield in the way.
The arrow shafts rattled on the bow staves as Olaf's vikings made ready, and I cried to my spearmen to stand steady, for it seemed as if that thundering charge must sweep the crouching lines like chaff before it.
Now Olaf and my Colchester spearmen would be our guards even to the Surrey hills, for beyond them was not much fear of the Danes, who were advancing from Mercia, northward of the Thames.
The viking line was two deep before us, and Olaf's shieldmen and mine were between us and the rear rank, and my spearmen leant on their weapons behind us again.
Then all at once his face hardened, and he spoke in the sharp tone of command: "Get your spearmen forward--the horsemen are coming first.
Only Prat was gone, while now our whole line was of spearmen and vikings mingled, and the Danish line was in no sort of order, but I thought they prepared for another rush on us.
And in the centre John took his position, leading the guards and spearmen of Belisarius and carrying the general's standard.
And he was followed by many spearmen and many guards as well, men who were capable warriors and thoroughly experienced in the dangers of fighting.
And a third time with almost all the guards and spearmen of Belisarius he took the general's standard and made his attack with much shouting and a great noise.
Sending forward, therefore, the commanders of the foederati,[55] he himself followed with the rest of the force and his own spearmen and guards.
The third legion was drawn up opposite to the left gate of the first cohort, with this difference only, that here the first-rank men were posted in front, and the spearmen in reserve.
The spearmen composed the first line, the first-rank men the second, and the veterans closed the rear.
At the right gate of the first cohort he formed the spearmen of the first legion, placing the first-rank men of the same legion in reserve: Marcus Servilius and Lucius Sulpicius, military tribunes, had the command of these.
And though the King with his thousands had come and gone like a dream, the people of Hereford and Gloucester were now glad enough to welcome the Duke of York with nine hundred spearmen and archers.
The last drop in the bitter cup was drained when at dawn the Saracen spearmen were seen leisurely riding westward on the Astorga road.
His glance rested but a moment on the torrent of Saracen spearmen which was pouring out across the green plain from behind the nearest hill.
From her breast her hosts descended, Spearmen fell upon the billows, From the wings descend a thousand, From the tail, a hundred archers.
The spearmen in the valley of the river were designed to create a diversion and weaken the force available to oppose the principal assault.
A single well-directed volley from the enemy might sweep his little company of riflemen away, and his spearmen would then never get to close quarters.
In ordinary circumstances, indeed, the spearmen might almost be neglected; the striking power was to be measured in rifles alone.
He had no little confidence that, when the time of trial came, his three hundred spearmen would prove every whit as staunch as the dervishes who broke the British square at Abu Klea and threw away their lives by the thousand at Omdurman.
Behind the walls Barney's hundred and twenty riflemen and three times as many spearmen could easily hold their own.
On the following day, when she went to the garden, two tall spearmen guarded the entrance, and as she was about to go in, they crossed their lances over the marble door and silently barred the way.
In a moment the same heavy curtain, from under which Atossa had issued two hours before, was drawn aside, and a double file of spearmen came out upon the balcony, ranging themselves to right and left with well-drilled precision.
He screamed out to you from the crowd in the procession his parting curse on your unfaithfulness and went out--but he nearly killed those two strong spearmen who tried to seize him.
But no man saw the king that day, nor did any know where he was, saving the two spearmen who stood at the door of his chamber.
Darius hated to be always surrounded by guards and slaves, and the terraces and staircases of his dwelling were generally totally deserted,--only small detachments of spearmen guarding jealously the main entrances.
The two spearmen turned quickly upon the man between them, who had uttered the insult against the new queen, and laid hold of him roughly by the shoulders.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spearmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
