" On this issue the Nationalists broke a lance with the Islamjis, or "clericals," as Tekin Alp prefers to call them.

In his hand the king carried his lance, named Ron.

" "Say you so, boy?" said the stranger, and rising, took from behind a tree a long and heavy lance and thrust it into Beltane's grip; then, drawing his sword, he set it upright in the sward, and upon the hilt he put his cap, saying: "Ride back up the glade, and try an thou canst pick up my cap on thy point, at a gallop."

And from his colt dismounting he laid his lance aside, And greeted all the multitude that filled the plaza wide.

So the Duke laughed and closed his vizor and his laughter boomed hollow within his rusty casque, and, leaping to the saddle, rode to the end of the great tilt-yard, and, wheeling, couched his lance.

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.

Julian thrust his lance between his dewlaps.

He throws his lance of cane, which is filled with sand, so high that it vanishes in the clouds.

"Ha, thou nameless dog!" cried he, brandishing his heavy lance, "be thou serf or noble, art an errant liarso will I slay thee out of hand!"

Sometimes a body of them, fleetly mounted, would gallop up to the skirts of the camp, and try who should hurl his lance farthest within the barriers, having his name inscribed upon it, or a label affixed to it containing some taunting defiance.

He bears not lance or headed spear, for that which once he bore Was shivered into splinters beside Celinda's door.

" The double lines of cavaliers who led the jousting train Threw down upon the open square the spear of idle cane; Then swiftly seized the lance of steel and couching it for fight,

With disdainful glance Each boldly shakes his death-devoting lance, And rushes forward to the dubious fight; Thoughts high and brave their burning souls excite; Now sword to sword; continuous strokes resound, Till glittering fragments strew the dusty ground.

He set his buckler before him, and lowering the lance, hurtled upon his adversary.

They have brought long lances and swords, but you have pointed lances and keen-edged bills; and I do not expect that their arms can stand against yours.

The two masters stood erect on their respective clumsy cleets, each poising his lance, waiting only to get near enough to strike.

You might hear the sound of many trumpets, of bugles, and of horns; and then you might see men ranging themselves in line, lifting their shields, raising their lances, bending their bows, handling their arrows, ready for assault and defence.

" And humbly did the Moor reply, "Do I deserve the blame? Who drops the lance to take the pen, he does a deed of shame.

They have brought long lances and swords, but you have pointed lances and keen-edged bills; and I do not expect that their arms can stand against yours.

The fight was carried on also at the baggage till late in the night, for they had set waggons in the way as a rampart, and from the higher ground kept throwing weapons upon our men, as they came on, and some from between the waggons and the wheels kept darting their lances and javelins from beneath, and wounding our men.

"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.

Here, a turn was taken with the line, and an opportunity to use the lance was waited for.

" "Roger, in thy command I set these fifty lances.

We want not thy lance, since our legions advance Beneath the bless'd banner of Constantine's cross.

And now Sir Benedict lifted aloft his lance, the trumpet sounded, and with ring and tramp he with his six hundred knights and men-at-arms rode forth of the market-square, clattering through the narrow street, thundering over the drawbridge, and, forming in the open, spurred away into the battle.