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Examples
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They tossed in a crate of lumps of iron, broken lance-heads, cinder from the furnaces.
A River So Long 2010
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Lot of war-bonnets and lance-heads, and how hot the sun is, and me with no hat.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Not far in front artillery was thundering away, with smoke wreathing up in the still air, and bodies of cavalry, pandy and irregular, were waiting - I remember a squadron of lancers, in green coats, with lobster-tail helmets and long ribbons trailing from their lance-heads, and a band - native musicians, squealing and droning fit to drown gunfire.
Fiancée 2010
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The entrance to the Chalet is by a little trellised iron door, the uprights of which, ending in lance-heads, show for a few inches above the fence and its hedge.
Modeste Mignon 2007
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For sweeping down the glen came a cloud of grey cavalry on little wiry horses, a cloud which stayed not for the rear of the fugitives, but swept on like a flight of rainbows, with the steel of their lance-heads glittering in the winter sun.
Greenmantle 2005
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It is true, I gave a little ground at first, for a motley jacket does not brook lance-heads, as a steel doublet will.
Ivanhoe 2004
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Ha! The rising sun strikes fire from lance-heads and helmets until I am dazzled.
The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003
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Ha! The rising sun strikes fire from lance-heads and helmets until I am dazzled.
The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003
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They tossed in a crate of lumps of iron, broken lance-heads, cinder from the furnaces.
Brother Cadfael's Penance Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1994
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Ha! The rising sun strikes fire from lance-heads and helmets until I am dazzled.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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