spear-carrier
Example Sentences
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After brief theater experience as a spear carrier, he moved to California.
From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2022
He secured a job with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford, where his first recorded role was as a spear carrier in a 1954 production of Othello.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2020
Within six weeks I was performing as a spear carrier in 'Saint Joan' with Siobhan McKenna and rehearsing 'Hamlet.'
From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2011
“Within six weeks I was performing as a spear carrier in ‘Saint Joan’ with Siobhan McKenna and rehearsing ‘Hamlet.’
From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2011
Stopping a super, he asked for Miss Luft’s dressing room; the super, wearing makeup and the costume of an Egyptian spear carrier, pointed.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
