7 Metaphors for lance
Glittering lances are the loom, Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's doom, Orkney's woe, and Randver's bane.
And, indeed, "The Free Lance" was a nickname of hers, which she liked rather than disliked.
The lances being broken it was now time for the contest with swords; but the Good Knight had only struck two blows when he broke his own, and sent that of his opponent flying out of his hand.
The lance is a long straight pole, sharp at one end, and hardened afterwards by heat.
Because, dear, our lances are foolish things, picturesque but utterly unsuited to warfare in such a country as this.
I should be glad to believe that the latter theory were the true one; that nothing is created really ugly, that the Fer-de-lance looks an hideous fiend, the Ocelot a beautiful fiend, merely because the outlines of the Ocelot approach more nearly to those which we consider beautiful in a human being: but I confess myself not yet convinced.
The wood-cutter wished to make me a litter; but the soldiers cried, 'Our lances and our arms are the Lion's!'