Which preposition to use with lance
he murmured, "O Helen, poor am Ia beggar" "Beltane," she whispered, "an thou wed this lonely maid within the forest, then will I be beggar with thee; but, an thou take to wife the Duchess, then shalt thou be my Duke, lord of me and of Mortain, with her ten thousand lances in thy train.
Then the lower peaks and spires caught the glow, and long lances of light, streaming through many a notch and pass, fell thick on the frozen meadows.
In this pursuit, however, the ranks of the Americans were greatly broken; and as the Mexicans far outnumbered them, they soon afterward made a stand, using their lances with good effect.
"Art less of a dullard than I thought thee," said the stranger, taking back his cap, "though, mark me boy, 'tis another matter to ride against a man fully armed and equipped, lance to lance and shield to shield, than to charge a harmless, ancient leathern cap.
The lance was held fast by the native, and the bear was often mortally wounded by forcing the lance into himself in his struggles to reach his enemy.
On Thracia's hills the Lord of War Has curbed the fury of his car And dropped his thirsty lance at thy command.
dismount from your horse, take off your coat of mail, and your armor; if you hesitate to do so, I will run this lance through your heart."
Upon wresting the lance from the earth, a label was found upon it importing that it was intended for the Queen.
THE LANCE AS A WEAPON
Fearing the two bills, he raised his shield, and struck one of the Englishmen with his lance on the breast, so that the iron passed out at his back.
Say, the next time you expect to get lanced for the big feed tell her you were once in the business and it will save you money.
But before they had time to give him the final blow they were scattered by the rapid charge of Sir Thomas and his men, who quickly rescued Marmion and set him on his horse again; and using their lances against the horses of the Scots, caused many of them to throw their riders, while the rest galloped away.
Julian thrust his lance between his dewlaps.
Hath Sir Benedict many men, my father?" "Alas! a pitiful few, and Black Ivo can muster bows and lances by the ten thousand" "Yet doth Sir Benedict withstand them all, my father!"
He held his lance before him like a rod, and the king's steed ran upon the spear, so that it pierced deeply in his body.
I imagined that if I could strike him with the lance behind the head, and pin him to the ground, I might succeed in capturing him.
They are to fight with three charges of the lance without 'lice'" (meaning in this instance a barrier), "with sharpened point, armed at all points; afterwards twelve charges with the sword, all on horseback.
A stumble of the horse threw him, and as he lay on the ground, unable to move, one of the servants of the company came up and broke the lance across Don Quixote's ribs.
So fair THALESTRIS shook her plumy crest, And bound in rigid mail her jutting breast; 195 Poised her long lance amid the walks of war, And Beauty thunder'd from Bellona's car; Greece arm'd in vain, her captive heroes wove The chains of conquest with the wreaths of love.
While the chivalrous in the arts and in the antiquities of the country have been gallantly breaking their lances around the mouldering walls, the less instructed and the less zealous have regarded the combatants with the same species of wonder as they would have manifested had they been present when the renowned knight of La Mancha tilted against those other wind-mills so ingeniously described by the immortal Cervantes.
"Then Taillefer put his horse to a gallop, charging before all the rest, and struck an Englishman dead, driving his lance below the breast into his body, and stretching him upon the ground.
When he came to land, and perceived the Saracens, he asked what folk they were, and it was told him that they were the Saracens; then he put his lance beneath his arm and his shield in front of him, and would have charged the Saracens, if his mighty men, who were with him, had suffered him.
His eye fell on a lance beside a dead Frenchman, so he swerved his horse to let the other pass, and hopping off cleverly enough, he gripped hold of it.
le Philippe Dont l'ombre immense va du Gange au Pausilippe? Tout n'est-il pas fini quand il a dit: Je veux! N'est-ce pas lui qui tient la victoire aux cheveux? N'est-ce pas lui qui lance en avant cette flotte, Ces vaisseaux effrayants dont il est le pilote Et que la mer charrie ainsi qu'elle le doit?
When Cassius drew his lance out of the wound a quantity of blood and water rushed from it, and flowed over his face and body.