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Seventy-five thousand horsemen armed with long lances came crashing out of the woods.
Soldiers drilled tirelessly, many sporting staves and lances, and many more sporting what just looked like slim, polished wood and metal.
Manager and band sport lacquered pompadours like thick medieval lances and long pointy shoes.
Mounted on their camels, they use dogs to bring their quarry to bay, and sharpened poles as lances.
Water and air are pumped at high pressure through hoses to a manifold to which the flexible hoses, which lead to the lances, are connected.
In the bottom right hand corner can be seen the Cossacks with their red hats and lances.
The weapons unearthed include crossbows, hooks, lances, arrowheads, spears and swords.
Also, both plasma cutters and thermic lances are expensive and take skill to operate properly.
They are pieced together in the workshop using hundreds of small, cigarette-like incendiaries, called lances.
The tools of the trade are drills, hammers, levers, thermic lances, torches and explosives.
Next the picadores, mounted on horseback, gore the bull with lances to weaken him, and the banderilleros stick colored banners into his neck.
We don't see lances with vamplates until the 14th century, so until that point, any spear is a potential lance as well.
There were at least eight guards there, holding weapons from maces to swords to lances.
They're restringing their bows, straightening their arrows, sharpening their lances.
Around me were swords and arrows, lances and spears, weapons of all kinds, even ones I had never seen before.
The Nubian lances were more than double the length of the Roman javelins, and the Romans were outnumbered three to one.
Men of the armies fought with double-edged swords, battle-axes, lances, slings, and weapons of archery.
We see the use of lances with hooks, to unhorse an opponent, but there is little mounted archery, and too much man-to-man sword fighting in small, confused melees.
Below us, on Sultan Ismail Street, government troops thrust lances of tracer fire towards a horde of approaching cadavers.
Every other squadron was armed with lances, from the metal points of which fluttered yellow and white pennons.
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Then, that would give him an opportunity to break lances with mehul and Rossini.
A tunneled, revetted, embrasured and battlemented citadel filled with rusty armor and broken lances.
They wished also to buy swords and lances, but Karlsefni and Snorri forbad it.
The lances used by them were pointed with the teeth of these amphibious animals.
In annulling the Two-penny Act the King crossed lances with the representatives of the people and had come off second best.
Bonnie gear for a king that should be thinking of spears and jacks, lances and honours.
A cheval-de-frise consists of a horizontal piece of timber armed with wooden or iron lances, which project some eight or ten feet.
The legionaries began putting on their armour, fastened the greave protecting the right leg, and took up bucklers and lances.
They rushed on the count and his lances, and began to hamstring the horses.
On the keystone of the gate are two tilting lances in saltier, to which a shield and helmet are suspended.
The water jug, the aspergill, and the atlatl and quiver of lances disappeared from the table.
The earth elves were on foot, in green suits, with acorn cups for helmets and spear grass for lances.
The lances were hurtless, the points being either removed altogether, or covered with broad pieces of wood, called rockets.
The sun shone upon the gems and goldwork of their helmets, upon lances and pennons, upon buckler and embroidered surcoat.
So the real rain was turned on and began to descend in gossamer lances to the mimic flower-beds and gravel walks of the stage.
The desert steeds were spitted like birds on the Frankish lances.
Mixed with these were rusty old whaling lances and harpoons all broken and deformed.
The sun was deepening the gold of its lances, the bees were going home and the birds were flying past less often.
The meridional hoops are covered with lances, white or coloured.
Behind were the little clump of steel-clad horsemen, their lances raised, with long pensils drooping down the oaken shafts.
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