Lances in a sentence

Once they found a whale, they typically sailed up to it, fastened to it with hand-held harpoons, and killed it either with hand-held lances or (beginning in the late 1850s) fired bomb lances into them from shoulder guns.

This gives sand lances their scientific name, Ammondytes dubius.

But many of the horsemen carried lances and wore uniforms with yellow facings; shouts went up that they must be Spanish allies, the relief of this assumption turning to terror when the cavalry accelerated into a charge.

The picket signs looked like a sea of lances.

They once held fully functional bronze weapons: spears, lances, swords, crossbows, and so forth.

This lances the boil in the eyes of the public and the government.

Piercing screams and cries from women and children filled the air as the horsemen plunged forward with lowered lances.

A popular myth is that Polish cavalry armed with lances charged German tanks during the September 1939 campaign.

Arab warriors had acquired fire lances before year 1280.

Arapaho warriors used a variety of weapons including war-clubs, lances, knives, tomahawks, bows, shotguns, rifles, and pistols.

Before the use of horses the bison were hunted on foot and required hunters to stalk close to the bison, often with a wolf-pelt disguise, then pursue the animals quickly on foot before killing them with arrows or lances.

Both Florence Amherst and the Lances imported breeding stock from the latter two countries.

During the charge, the pikemen held their lances vertically so that this huge mass of wood and iron could block enemy projectiles, lowering their sarissas at the very last moment to strike the enemy lines.

Dvarapala This dvarapala stands guard at Banteay Kdei Dvarapalas are human or demonic temple guardians, generally armed with lances and clubs.

Formations of uhlans and later other types of cavalry used 2 to 3 m lances as their main weapons.

Gallear, 2001: "The Indians were well equipped with hand-to-hand weapons and these included lances, tomahawks, war clubs, knives and war shields were carried for defense.

He talked of rockets, fireworks, fire lances, and other incendiaries, using terms that suggested he derived his knowledge from Chinese sources.

History of Islam (Vol 3) By Akbar Shah Najeebabadi, pg. 330 Ismail's horsemen were ill-equipped with most having wooden stirrups while some had no shields or lances.

In initial cavalry skirmishes in France this antique weapon proved ineffective, German uhlans being "hampered by their long lances and a good many threw them away".

In this competition, two knights charge each other with blunt wooden lances in an effort to break their lance on the opponent's head or body, or unhorse them completely.