Sentence examples for lance head from inspiring English sources

The common French name fer-de-lance, or "lance head," originally referred to the Martinique lancehead (Bothrops lanceolatus) found on the island of the same name in the West Indies.

As an illustration of such artifacts we are showing a variety of printing blocks and printing type in the display case near the stained glass window, as well as ancient Chinese lance heads near the entrance.

A number of bones, British and Roman coins, lance heads, &c., have been found here at different times.

The two rivals go lance to head at the world finals to determine who will be named the ultimate champion.

Democrats would be a lot better positioned next year if they were seen as donning their armor, mounting their chargers, taking up a lance, and heading full-tilt at Wall Street.

"We hauled up and churned a lance back of his head," the journalist J. Ross Browne wrote in 1846.

British cavalry were armed with a 1908 pattern sword; lancers were armed with a 9.1 feet lance with a steel head mounted on an ash stave.

Early whalers thought that the stuff that spurted out of a sperm whale's head when lanced was its semen.

But after Trump's surprise election, Scaramucci was put on the presidential transition team, where he earned a reputation for lancing with talking heads on television.

Liberals may have wanted Mr Obama to be their champion, but both strategically and by inclination, Mr Obama doesn't belong down in the lists, breaking lances and smashing heads; he's better off up on the podium trying to maintain some sovereign dignity.

After killing him, Lancastrian forces had impaled York's head on a lance and adorned it with a paper crown.