Thesaurus / halberd
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A violent blow drew him from his ecstasy; his hat had been knocked off with the stroke of a soldier's halberd.
BALSAMO, THE MAGICIANALEXANDER DUMASYou have a halberd and I a sword, let us start our wanderings over the world.
THE NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILLGILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe next moment M. de Piles fell, pierced by the halberd of one of the archers of the guard.
HISTORY OF THE RISE OF THE HUGUENOTSHENRY BAIRDHe was endued with a buff jerkin, wore a broad belt and cutlass by his side, and carried a halberd in his hand.
QUENTIN DURWARDSIR WALTER SCOTTThe jangle of a halberd as its bearer let the butt drop heavily on the stone steps added force to the summons.
THE LONG NIGHTSTANLEY WEYMANHe had been regarding with interest a shackled-kneed varlet holding a halberd in his arms as if it had been a fractious bairn.
JOAN OF THE SWORD HANDS(AMUEL) R(UTHERFORD) CROCKETTHe regained his feet, lifted his halberd, and would have brained Roger then and there had not another interposed his pike.
THE GREAT MOGULLOUIS TRACYPartisan, pr′ti-zan, n. a kind of halberd or long-handled weapon, common in the Middle Ages: a soldier armed with such a weapon.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 3 OF 4: N-R)VARIOUSZwingle, silent and collected, like nature before the bursting of the tempest, was there also halberd in hand.
HISTORY OF THE GREAT REFORMATION, VOLUME IVJ. H. MERLE D'AUBIGNEach struck with the sword or with the halberd: at last the soldiers of the Five Cantons were driven back in disorder.
HISTORY OF THE GREAT REFORMATION, VOLUME IVJ. H. MERLE D'AUBIGNWORDS RELATED TO HALBERD
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