2. Verb. (third-person singular of lance) ¹
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Definition of Lances
1. lance [v] - See also: lance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lances
Literary usage of Lances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Its fighting strength is 12000 rifles, 300 to 450 lances and 72 guns. Its fighting
strength is 3600 lances, 30 rifles and 12 guns. The Army Cprp.t. ..."
2. The Daring Adventures of Kit Carson and Fremont, Among Buffaloes, Grizzlies by John Charles Frémont (1888)
"Let it not be supposed, however, that the rancheros, who carried lances and ...
They handled their lances with strange adroitness, and many were fair shots ..."
3. Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical by Benjamin Rumford, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) (1798)
"FURS and FEATHERS, and all other like Sub/lances, -which, in Air, form •warm
Covering for confining Heat, found, by Experiment, to produce the fame ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"... who had proudly boasted, that if the sky should fall they could uphold it on
their lances. The far greater part were slain or driven into the Danube ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"Omitting from consideration the lowest vertebrata, the sand-lances and lampreys,
which are not fishes, we have remaining a body of animals which pre- PIO. ..."
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