spear-carrier

Example Sentences

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“My boyfriend at the time was a sometime spear-carrier at Arena Stage and was auditioning to be one of the agents,” wrote Vicki Boehm.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2020

He had found his level as a journeyman, a spear-carrier, just like thousands before him.

From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2015

In four black years at the Met, he had been all but buried beneath a mountain of spear-carrier costumes.

From Time Magazine Archive

And in days to come, when Siddhartha would become a god, when he would join the glorious, then Govinda wanted to follow him as his friend, his companion, his servant, his spear-carrier, his shadow.

From Siddhartha by Hesse, Hermann

Louis the Goon Engel was a mere walk-on in the piece, a spear-carrier doomed to death.

From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various