13 examples of spear-point in sentences

Those infantrymen who use the oblong, hollow, grooved shields are drawn up around the edges, making a rectangular figure; and, facing outward with spear-points projecting, they enclose the rest.

It was the doctrine of our heathen forefathers, when they came hither slaying, plundering, burning, tossing babes on their spear-points.

Varronius strode out to face the leopard, and the lithe beast did not wait to feel the spear-point.

His snarl made Varronius step back another pace or two, neglecting his chance to attack and drive the spear-point home.

The only relics that have been found resembling them are, according to Mr. Worsaae, some flint arrow-heads and spear-points discovered at great depths in the bogs of Denmark.

There they were, upright, tranquil, immense hyacinthstheir spear-points three feet above the water, their feathery streamers drifting six feet below; the broad, waxy leaves floating above their bulbous surface matsthey came on silently under the stars; they vanished under the stars seaward to their death.

But first they sent a herald; for in Tedge's hand, as he lay in the pool, one waxen-leafed banner with a purple spear-point glittered in the sun.

The stars came out one by one till the whole sky shone and quivered as if it had been pricked by a million glittering spear-points.

And as they looked in rapture and in awe, The Spear-point seemed to glow with holy fire And sparkled, turning red like flowing blood.

Sire Edward strode to the window and raised big hands toward the spear-points of the aloof stars.

On one side was a steep hill of sage and aspens, and on the other a black, spear-pointed spruce forest, rising sheer to a bold, blunt peak patched with snow-banks, and bronze and gray in the clear light.

He issued on a small clearing by the edge of the brook, where the grass was a delicate green, each blade pushing up straight as a spear-point from the crumbled earth.

Later, and it streamed in fight When tempest mingled with the fray, And over the spear-point of the shaft I saw the ambiguous lightning play.

13 examples of  spear-point  in sentences