Eager to avenge the death of the corporal, an ensign was attacking him with a long spontoon—the spontoon is a combination of pike and axe, now discarded, and employed only in the fleet, but then it was used also in the infantry.
Baptist was unable to reach him in time, but stopping half way, he whirled his weapon, and cast it under the feet of his enemy; he broke a bone, and the ensign immediately dropped the spontoon from his hands.
Lady Emily is to be your nurse, and Spontoon and I your attendants.
I must send Spontoon to see what she is about; he will find her out among the old regimental connexions.
Spontoon shall then attend him; and they shall ride post as far as Huntingdon; and the presence of Spontoon, well known on the road as my servant, will check all disposition to inquiry.
I must send Spontoon to see what she is about; he will find her out among the old regimental connections.
Only a quick thrust of his spontoon into the cliff saved him from falling almost a hundred feet.
Turning short, Lewis plunged into the river to mid-waist and faced about with his spontoon at the bear's nose.
Upon this the two young men came running out; one caught up a partisan from the rack which stood there, the other seized the spontoon of his father.
He answered that Good Friday or the Devils Friday was all the same to him, and that if I did not take myself away, he would fell me to the ground with a spontoon which he had taken up--me and the arquebuse I had my hand on.
Then I said: O Pagolo, my son, did the spontoonthen pierce through your armour?
Springing upon my followers, the one who had the spontoon smote Pagolo the Roman first above the left nipple.
Holding his spontoon ready, but concealed under his coat, he stepped to the side of the door.
With hisspontoon he tested the timbers, and found them so decayed that they almost crumbled at the touch.
Having accomplished so much, he turned, and, using his spontoon as before, he crawled back to the summit of the roof, and made his way rapidly along this to the spot where he had left Balbi.
When Balbi wrote that his walls were hung with pictures of saints, it became a question of conveying the spontoon to him.
Casanova went first, on all fours, and thrusting the point of his spontoon between the joints of the lead sheeting so as to obtain a hold, he crawled slowly upwards.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spontoon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blackjack; club; cudgel; mace; spear; spontaneous
