Day after day thus passed, with occasional skirmishes, when, one sunny morning, the sound of trumpets was heard, and the gleam of the spears and banners of an approaching host was seen on the distant hills.
A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest.
The spears and banners of his proud host, now numbering thirty-five thousand, gleamed from all the hills and valleys which surrounded the fortified city.
Far some days I had noticed a good deal of excitement, and many strangers came and went armed with spears and cutlasses, bows and shields.
The latter animal is hunted by men mounted on horseback, who throw their spearsat it, and wound it under the belly.
And the twenty spears should be all fine men on the best horses that they had.
An hour agone, as I looked out of this window, I saw a knight, with a monk and a small company of spears go over Framwell Gate Bridge.
Spears or lances this Bishop had none, his arm being the heavy mace.
And a mile behind, by the cloud of dust that rose, she knew there were men-at-arms, and perceived theirspears above the dust.
The Young Lovell would take with him twenty spearsand the esquire Cressingham to bear the banner, who was a fine man of thirty with good armour of his own.
On the deck stands Olaf the King, Around him whistle and sing The spears that the foemen fling, And the stones they hurl with their hands.
The decks with blood are red, The arrows of death are sped, The ships are filled with the dead, And the spears the champions hurl.
Da Gama and his officers were attacked, while taking the altitude of the sun with an astrolabe, by a party of concealed negroes armed with spears pointed with horn.
It caused an immediate and violent ferment: the women and children were at once sent off: the warriors put on their breastmats and armed themselves with spears and stones.
How long will ye whet spears with eloquence, Fight, and kill beasts dry-handed with sweet words?
There round about standeth the ring of the foe Tossing babes on their spears like the weeds o'er the low.
Sooth to say, neither were the horses big or good, nor the men fit for the work, saving for their hardihood; and their spears were short withal and their bucklers unhandy to wield.
Soon was that storm over, and we saw the Goths tossing up their spears over the slain, and horses running loose and masterless adown over the westward-lying slopes, and a few with their riders still clinging to them.
Strange as it may seem, these weapons of offence are used for little but defence; less as spears than as bucklers they serve the deer in battles with its kind.
They saved its skin with all its spears and hung it in the storehouse.
By my word," said the lad, "I do not know the reason, unless it might be they do not like me to be doing my feats and casting my spears among them.
Then the rider threw three spears at them, and every one came faster than the other.
And those two fought a great fight, till their swords were bent and their spears crumbled away, and they lost their golden shields.
And Bres said he himself was in dread of the thick-handled spears he saw with Sreng, and he asked were all the arms of the Firbolgs of the same sort.
The rider stopped casting his spears on that, and he came to them and bade Conn welcome, and asked him to come to his house.
And nine men would go the length of ten furrows from him and would cast their spears at him at the one time.
Then they put his body on a golden bier, and his spears over it pointed upwards, and they went on till they came to Brugh na Boinne.
And they could not come nearer to one another because of the slingers on Midhir's hill that were answering one another till their spears were as many as a swarm of bees on a day of beauty.
He went out then to the wall of the dun, and he put the shafts of his two spearsunder him, and he rose with a light leap and he came down on the grassy earth outside, and Grania met him there.
There was no one of the Fianna without his fine silken shirt and his soft coat, without bright armour, without shining stones on his head, two spears in his hand, and a shield that brought victory.
And when the king was asleep, they went into the house where the arms were kept, and every lad of them brought away with him a shield and a sword and a helmet and two spears and two greyhound whelps.
As we advanced together through the woods we found the ape-men lying thick, transfixed with spears or arrows.
Instantly a thunderous shout of delight burst from them, and we saw them rise from their seats, waving their paddles and spears madly in the air.
Their spears were soon broken, but the lanzknechts Were unable to withstand the blows of their long, heavy swords; while the horses and riders, armed in complete steel, sustained little injury from their lances.
Ludovic, you will see that your kinsman follow his exercise diligently, for we will havespears breaking one of these days.
How should a high born lady be known from a sunburnt milkmaid, save that spears are broken for the one, and only hazel poles shattered for the other?
But the crew fought so bravely from below with guns and spears and small cannon that the Spaniards were driven back to their own ship.
With cannon and guns and spears the survivors on the Mauritius killed as many Spaniards as possible.
Being wounded was almost as bad as being killed outright, for the spears of the natives were made with nasty barbs which caused very bad wounds.
Their three shields and their spears made a bed for me often.
Spears and parangs flashed in the firelight, and old Unju, who had hitherto remained motionless, stirred uneasily and at last spoke to Patterson in a low voice.
It had all happened so quickly that they had scarcely time to realise their danger, and it was not till a shower of spears had wounded Unju and killed the other two Malays, that Patterson saw they were almost ashore.
Indians there were in sight, running toward them, and brandishing their tomahawks and spears threateningly, at the same time dodging behind various trees as if to confuse the "palefaces.
Indeed, there did not seem to be a minute of the day that one or more dusky sons of the wilderness could not be seen prowling around, armed with spears with which they would adroitly stab any fish that came within reach.
At that a wild shout and charge with levelledspears swept them down the hillside in full rout, and the end had come.
One ran and brought the long line that had noosed me before, but the stone doorway protected me from that; and one or two hurled spears at me, clumsily enough for me to ward them off.
Behind these are eight lacquered tubs, and a number of bowls and lacquer trays, and above are spears with inlaid handles, and fine Kaga and Awata bowls.
Then he bade some of them climb the decking at the further end of the ship, and throw spears at him thence; and he called others to bring up one of the long spears and charge him with that.
On they fled, and the men would gladly have lightened the ship by casting the cargo overboard; but the captain watched the hatches with a sword and two bronze-tipped spears in his hand.
Stay yon witch," cried the Queen to those who guarded them, and in wonder they poised their spears to bar the way to Helen.
There were the old blazons, and the spearsthat had fought below Troy town.
With a light step he went forth like a younger man, taking the two spears in his hand, and the bow upon his back, and he lay down beneath a great rock that looked toward the deep, and there he slept.
Then he halted the host, and at his bidding Rei drove slowly down the wall seeking a place to storm it, and as he drove they shot at the chariot from the wall with spears and slings and arrows.
Some of the spears he avoided; others leaped back from his mail; others stood fast in the altar and in the bodies of the dwarf-gods; while he answered with an arrow that did not miss its aim.
The men whom the captain appointed little liked the task, for the long spears were laid on tressels along the bulwarks, and to reach them and unship them it was needful to come within range of the bow.
But those within the walls shot them with spears and arrows, so that many were slain, and they were rolled back from the wall as a wave is rolled from the cliff.
But the sailors on the further deck threw all their spearsat once, while five men leaped on the deck where the Wanderer stood.
The iron hedge of spearswas well-nigh broken, and now the Wanderer, doing such deeds as had not been known in Khem, stood alone between Meriamun the Queen and the swords that thirsted for her life and the life of Pharaoh.
They shot at him with spears and arrows from behind the shelter of the pillars, but none of these might harm him, for some fell from his mail and some he caught upon his buckler.
Now the Wanderer stood with his back to the bed and a spear's length from it, and in the silken hangings were fixed spears and arrows.
For she disdained to crouch upon the ground as did the other women, but stood upright behind the Wanderer, and heeded not the spears and arrows that dealt death on every hand.
He beckoned and said casually: "Lean your spears against the hull, there.
Thal arranged them in two lines to make a proper military appearance, spears dressed upright and garrison-shields on their left arms.
Men with long, gruesome, glittering spearscame through a doorway.
Spears at that time owned a negro man, and he ordered him to put up the horses and feed them, and his wife to get them supper.
It grows luxuriantly in the richest soils, and shows itself in those desert plains, where nothing else, except a few spears of stinted grass and chaparral can exist.
I saw more than one instance of a man fighting boldly with ten or twelve spears or arrows fixed in his body.
The points of long spears flashed in the sunlight.
And then he saw grinning Saracen-faced demons in hell jabbing him with spears and scimitars.
Drawn up across the plain behind Baibars's yellow banner were dark ranks of Mameluke heavy cavalrymen armed with tall spears and wearing steel chain mail and helmets.
Men-at-arms with spearsand crossbows cursed at him in various Italian dialects, but they opened a path, pushing back the people.
But now, a bright mustering is seen among the myriad white Tartar tents in the Orient; like lines of spears defiling upon some upland plain, the sunbeams thwart the sky.
He whom the spears of many battles could not slay, dies of a grape-stone, beneath the vine-clad bower he built, to shade declining years.
Seed sown by spears but seldom springs; and harvests reaped thereby, are poisoned by the sickle's edge.
You yourselves were precipitated upon a neighboring nation, ere you knew your spears were in your hands.
And if so be, down unto death, whence I came, will I go, like Xenophon retreating on Greece, all Persia brandishing her spears in his rear.
It seems, this soliciting guests, to keep their spears from decaying, by cut and thrust play with their subjects, was a very common thing with their illustrious majesties.
In truth, Braid-Beard declared, that at the time of this war, Dominora couched ten long spears for every short javelin Vivenza could dart; though the javelins were stoutly hurled as the spears.
One of the spears wounded the hidden man, and, seeing the blood trickle down, the soldiers hurried back.
They thrust their spears through the hay and then rode on.
All swore fealty to Gustavus; and he bade them make swords and spears and arrows on their own anvils, while he went on again to rouse the other provinces.
When thespears were thrown, and each man had but one, then the fight was with the u'u, hand to hand and eye to eye.
The wounded were dispatched with war-clubs by the Tai-o-haes, who dipped their spears in the blood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spears" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
