You lunched the other day with the colonel of one of your Lancer regiments.

Success in taking the whale was a thing that made itself felt in every fibre of the prosperity of the town; and it was just as natural that the single-minded population of that part of Suffolk should regard the bold and skilful harpooner, or lancer, with favour, as it is for the belle at a watering-place to bestow her smiles on one of the young heroes of Contreras or Churubusco.

infantry, infantryman, private, private soldier, foot soldier; Tommy Atkins^, rank and file, peon, trooper, sepoy^, legionnaire, legionary, cannon fodder, food for powder; officer &c (commander) 745; subaltern, ensign, standard bearer; spearman, pikeman^; spear bearer; halberdier^, lancer; musketeer, carabineer^, rifleman, jager

"As I came down, a lancer dashed at me with lance in rest.

The lancer turned and fled; at that moment a ball passed through my horse on the left side and shattered my right side.

Change his costume a bit, and substitute a slouch hat for his flat-topped lancer's cap, and he might have cantered bodily out of one of Remington's canvases.

Suddenly at a turn three German privates of a lancer regiment faced us.

One day he was an hussar, the next a lancer, and then again in some fancy uniform.

As for the men, it is a waistcoat with a cap and falling collar, if they have a shirt, which is the regulated costume; breeches are not insisted on; the supreme bon ton would be an artilleryman's cap, the frock of an hussar, the pantaloon of a lancer, the boots of a guardsman, in fact the cast-off attire of three or four regiments, or the wardrobe of a field of battle.

The Spaniards soon learned to dread the fiery lancer of Barinas.

The next thing was a single wounded lancer who happened in about four in the morning with the glad tidings that Bosch tanks were advancing on us".

À l'instant le derviche tira sa pierre de sa poche, mais ce fut pour la lancer loin de lui.

The lives of a Bengal Lancer.

The lives of a Bengal Lancer.

Lancer at large.

The lives of a Bengal Lancer.

The lives of a Bengal Lancer.

The lives of a Bengal Lancer.

The lives of a Bengal Lancer.

SEE Boleslavski, Richard. Way of the lancer.

Norma Boleslavski (W) & Helen Woodward (A); 21Dec59; R249873. Way of the lancer, by Richard Boleslavski & Helen Woodward.

Lancer at large.

" An orderly, passing, added: "Come on, lancer.

Beside it, seated on a stool, elbows planted on both knees, face buried in his spread fingers, sat the lancer, apparently asleep.

Then to our people spake the Deliverer, 'Gibeon is high, yet a host may shiver her; Gibeon hath sent to me crying for pity, For the lords of the cities encompass the city With chariot and banner and bowman and lancer,