A small lance-thrust 'neath the gorget, see'st thou, 'twill be healedHa, they charge us againstand firm, pikes!"

So Beltane rode up the glade and wheeling at a distance, came galloping down with levelled lance, and thundered by with the cap fluttering from his lance point.

And his right arm was sleeved in cloth Of tawny lion's hue, And at his lance-head, lifted high, A Turkish pennon flew.

And the white woman prevailed upon our father to make her man-child a Sahib and to let him go to the maktab and madressah-tul-Islam at Kot Ghazi, to learn the clerkly lore that gives no grip to the hand on the sword-hilt and lance-shaft nor to the thighs in the saddle, no skill to the fingers on the reins, no length of sight to the eye, no steadiness to the rifle and the lance, no understanding of the world and men and things.

He was a free-lance writer and artist.

" The officer of lowest rank (now called "lance corporal").

Captain Gillespie was attacked by seven Californians, received three wounds, and saved himself with great difficulty; Captain Gibson received two wounds; Lieutenant Hammond received nine lance wounds in the breast, and many others were severely injured.

It is not necessary to dwell upon the bending woman's head at Oxford, or the torso of the lance-bearer at Vienna.

Then, far away in the column, a red lance pennon swung in a circle, a blue sleeve shot up in salute and adieu.

Free lance photography.

For negligence, they are usually whipped by the overseers with lance-wood switches.

Journalistic vocations; a beginners guide to editorial work, advertising, circulation, free lance writing, publicity, and related fields.

The continental sportsman rides to the chase in a cavalcade, with music and dogs,a kind of small hound or mastiff, and leaving all the honorary part of the contest to them, when the boar is becoming weary, and while beset by the dogs, rides up, and drives his lance home in the beast's back or side.

While Gnaeus with his corps, containing a third of the Roman and all the Spanish troops, lay encamped opposite to Hasdrubal Barcas, the latter had no difficulty in inducing the Spaniards in the Roman army by means of a sum of money to withdrawwhich perhaps to their free- lance ideas of morals did not even seem a breach of fidelity, seeing that they did not pass over to the enemies of their paymaster.

In every deed of arms one thought was in his mindto come within a lance-length of Bothwell.

It is desirable at first to give leaves that are easily matched with the terms, keeping those which need compound words, such as lance-ovate, etc., to come later.

After this came the others according to their order, and for the rest of that day there was such a succession of vigorous fighting that the two judges declared "never had there been finer lance work or contests with the sword."

And those Philadelphians of the 6th Pennsylvania Lancers can give our 8th Lancers a thousand keener points than the ends of their lance blades!"

Twelve thousand Christians crowd the plain, twelve thousand warriors tried, They fire the homes, they reap the corn, upon the vega wide; And the warriors of Molina their furious lances ply, And in their own Arabian tongue they raise the rallying cry.

Fresh fish!' until our boys are crazy to lay a lance butt across their ragged blouses.

Suddenly the stirring music of cavalry trumpets along the road below startled them; they turned swiftly to look out upon a torrent of scarlet pennons and glancing lance pointstroop after troop of dancing horses and blue-clad riders, their flat forage caps set rakishly, bit and spur and sabre hilt glistening, the morning sun flashing golden on the lifted trumpets.

"But for the luck which turned the lance-pole beneath him, every bone he has would have been broken.

Il est toujours en marche, attendu qu'on moleste Bien des infortunés sous voûte céleste, Et qu'on voit dans la nuit bien des mains supplier; Sa lance n'aime pas moisir au râtelier; Sa hache de bataille aisément se décroche; Malheur à l'action mauvaise qui s'approche Trop pres d'Éviradnus, le champion d'acier!

The fall of tropic light on the royal crown of a palm is a truly glorious spectacle, the fervid sun-flood breaking upon the glossy leaves in long lance-rays, like mountain water among boulders.

10 The Italian Merry-Andrews took their place, And quite debauch'd the stage with lewd grimace: Instead of wit and humours, your delight Was there to see two hobby-horses fight; Stout Scaramoucha with rush-lance rode in, And ran a tilt at centaur Arlequin.